republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2017/sb-159.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Revise laws related to community colleges and bonding	Revise laws related to community colleges and bonding	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2017	SB 159	Montana SB 159 (2017)	bill	Colleges (see also: University System) Local Finance (see also: City Finance; County Finance) Revenue Local	enacted	Mark Blasdel	1	43	6	2016-12-02	2017-05-22	openstates	ocd-bill/da110965-c108-4ed7-954e-b06c5033fcf3	http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20171&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=&P_BILL_NO=&P_BILL_DFT_NO=LC1432&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=	df80455209037de080e19e435473bf9eec0ac2526ef62bf0123c27914bf2df07	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 159 (2017) — Revise laws related to community colleges and bonding

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Concur — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• BE CONCURRED IN — 17–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 45–2 (pass) · legislature
• DO PASS — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 99–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Mark Blasdel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-02 Draft Request Received
• 2017-01-17 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2017-01-18 Draft in Legal Review
• 2017-01-24 Draft in Edit
• 2017-01-24 Draft to Drafter - Edit Review [SMH]
• 2017-01-24 Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2017-01-24 Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2017-01-24 Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
• 2017-01-24 Executive Director Review
• 2017-01-24 Draft in Assembly
• 2017-01-25 Executive Director Final Review
• 2017-01-25 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2017-01-25 Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2017-01-25 Introduced introduction
• 2017-01-25 Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
• 2017-01-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-01-26 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-02-08 Hearing
• 2017-02-13 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed committee-passage
• 2017-02-14 Committee Report--Bill Passed committee-passage
• 2017-02-17 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-02-17 2nd Reading Passed reading-2
• 2017-02-18 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-02-18 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-18 Transmitted to House
• 2017-02-21 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-03-15 Hearing
• 2017-03-15 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
• 2017-03-16 Committee Report--Bill Concurred
• 2017-04-21 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-04-21 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2
• 2017-04-22 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-04-22 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-22 Returned to Senate
• 2017-04-24 Sent to Enrolling
• 2017-04-25 Returned from Enrolling
• 2017-04-26 Printed - Enrolled Version Available
• 2017-05-04 Signed by President
• 2017-05-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-05-17 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-22 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-22 Chapter Number Assigned

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da110965-c108-4ed7-954e-b06c5033fcf3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).