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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow community choice school commission to seek public funding"
description: "Allow community choice school commission to seek public funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 177"
citation: "Montana SB 177 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Education - School Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sue Vinton"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-21T13:53:10+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T22:14:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d21b3699-1506-405a-9f6b-8f44697a85f9"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0579?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "e1bfa69660e1e932be676f2cdaf19758451a9adcfa0a134b06e8a113edba1ddf"
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 SB 177 (2025) — Allow community choice school commission to seek public funding
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **LC0579.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269378)
2. **SB0177_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272744)
3. **SB0177_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273175)
4. **SB0177_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273176)
5. **SB0177_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275409)
6. **SB0177_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276457)
7. **SB0177_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279864)
8. **SB0177_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300654)
9. **SB0177_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309094)
10. **SB0177_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309096)
11. **SB0177_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272743)
12. **SB0177_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316898)
13. **SB0177_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320473)
14. **SB0177_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321765)
15. **SB0177_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321766)
16. **SB0177_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321767)
17. **SB0177_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324731)
18. **SB0177_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325885)
19. **SB0177_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327376)
20. **SB0177_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310961)
## Votes
- Do Pass — **4010** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **122** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **96** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **5842** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **3811** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **5742** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Sue Vinton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-10-21T13:53:10+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-21T13:53:10+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2024-10-28T15:23:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2024-12-12T16:56:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-12T18:25:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-21T00:36:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-23T18:52:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-23T20:30:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-23T22:49:01+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-20T18:55:56+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-21T16:34:00+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-01-21T16:35:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21T17:36:22+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T20:52:08+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-01-31T01:12:56+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T20:15:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04T20:13:33+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T23:01:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T22:23:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T23:52:43+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-02-07T18:01:03+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T20:12:01+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T17:49:47+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-03-21T23:43:41+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-03-28T23:42:49+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Education
- **2025-03-29T15:39:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Education
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T16:27:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:28:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:29:15+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-13T04:41:33+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:43:07+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:31:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T22:14:20+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/d21b3699-1506-405a-9f6b-8f44697a85f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).