republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-866.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	Allow the term "emotional disability" to be used instead of "emotional disturbance" as it relates to special education	Allow the term "emotional disability" to be used instead of "emotional disturbance" as it relates to special education	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 866	Montana HB 866 (2025)	bill	Appropriations Developmental Disabilities Education - K-12	enacted	Melissa Romano	20	38	6	2024-12-10T19:03:26+00:00	2025-05-19T22:20:11+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e7b16e71-7a74-49bd-86e6-21985019451a	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2637?open_tab=sum	d67c33b37c4aa3820786a483a59ba136750a62375a830970498942fbd04c59ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 866 (2025) — Allow the term "emotional disability" to be used instead of "emotional disturbance" as it relates to special education

Version chain

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

1. HB0866_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0866_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0866_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0866_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0866_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0866_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0866_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0866_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0866_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0866_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0866_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0866_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0866_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0866_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0866_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0866_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0866_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0866_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0866_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. LC2637.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• do_pass — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 36–14 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 11–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 60–35 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 61–39 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 29–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Melissa Romano — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-10T19:03:26+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2025-01-16T23:59:32+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-03-19T17:30:03+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-03-19T22:21:08+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-03-21T19:06:01+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-03-21T23:18:35+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-03-22T12:54:26+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-03-24T16:30:10+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-03-25T15:12:53+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-03-25T21:22:13+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-03-26T16:07:03+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-26T19:11:09+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-27T21:53:10+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Education
• 2025-03-28T22:29:56+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Education committee-passage
• 2025-03-29T15:37:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Education committee-passage
• 2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-01T20:39:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-02T15:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-02T23:25:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-03T15:14:09+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-04-03T21:02:27+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-03T21:03:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-04-10T21:48:32+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
• 2025-04-14T19:53:52+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
• 2025-04-15T16:52:23+00:00 (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
• 2025-04-16T01:56:41+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
• 2025-04-16T19:21:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
• 2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-17T22:38:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-18T22:05:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-18T22:05:05+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-24T21:04:46+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-05-02T17:00:20+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-05-06T20:00:07+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T19:34:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-19T22:20:11+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7b16e71-7a74-49bd-86e6-21985019451a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).