---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require background checks for certain school employees and volunteers"
description: "Require background checks for certain school employees and volunteers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 745"
citation: "Montana HB 745 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Education - Technical and Trades", "Law Enforcement", "Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Tilleman"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-07T21:58:11+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:22:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be93f562-2345-45cb-9581-924a2ad1414d"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2252?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "7d363b7c6a49190189cabe1ea04cff4f12602d4ccc60d17116073c0dc6174ada"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
---

# Montana HB 745 (2025) — Require background checks for certain school employees and volunteers

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0745_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287553)
2. **HB0745_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292602)
3. **HB0745_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292870)
4. **HB0745_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298534)
5. **HB0745_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315414)
6. **HB0745_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315415)
7. **HB0745_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287212)
8. **HB0745_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315417)
9. **HB0745_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326530)
10. **HB0745_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327676)
11. **HB0745_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317283)
12. **HB0745_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318078)
13. **HB0745_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318079)
14. **HB0745_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320910)
15. **HB0745_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324367)
16. **HB0745_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325210)
17. **HB0745_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325211)
18. **HB0745_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325212)
19. **HB0745_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315416)
20. **LC2252.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286288)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eric Tilleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-12-07T21:58:11+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-09T21:14:12+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-20T18:52:45+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-20T21:27:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-20T22:36:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T03:37:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T18:07:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T20:15:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T22:36:20+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T15:40:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T16:11:44+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T16:14:50+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-25T18:50:01+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T15:21:54+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-03-01T02:21:07+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T21:05:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T21:16:14+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-03T21:18:10+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-03-03T21:19:19+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04T21:49:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T15:35:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T16:06:41+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-06T16:49:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T01:07:16+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-25T20:53:35+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-26T20:59:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T18:19:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:28:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:28:54+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-27T14:44:51+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:23:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:22:51+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be93f562-2345-45cb-9581-924a2ad1414d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).