republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-249.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 child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication	Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	SB 249	Montana SB 249 (2025)	bill	Courts Evidence Family Law Minors	enacted	Dennis Lenz	16	41	6	2024-10-04T20:16:49+00:00	2025-04-17T20:43:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3a2029f7-2cf5-443d-ba3a-06380d3e9547	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0487?open_tab=sum	6dfa32c84ba11c45b27e44de8aad87f1c33bc43f8f1677eec0035e6db6b6f71a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 249 (2025) — Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication

Version chain

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

1. LC0487.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. SB0249_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. SB0249_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. SB0249_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. SB0249_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. SB0249_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. SB0249_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. SB0249_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. SB0249_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. SB0249_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. SB0249_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. SB0249_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. SB0249_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. SB0249_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. SB0249_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. SB0249_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Concur — 61–38 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 12–9 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 62–38 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dennis Lenz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-10-04T20:16:49+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-11-06T14:12:06+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2024-12-30T22:25:22+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2024-12-30T22:29:57+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2025-01-06T16:04:24+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-01-06T16:04:27+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-01-27T16:56:33+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2025-01-28T15:45:23+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-01-28T18:59:30+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-01-28T21:02:37+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-01-29T00:34:18+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-01-29T15:00:44+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-01-29T20:31:26+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-01-30T23:45:37+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-01-31T15:11:38+00:00 (S) Introduced
• 2025-01-31T20:26:00+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-05T17:25:37+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety referral-committee
• 2025-02-07T00:22:12+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
• 2025-02-14T23:33:49+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
• 2025-02-15T15:21:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
• 2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-02-20T21:46:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-21T21:33:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-21T22:30:01+00:00 (S) Transmitted to House
• 2025-02-22T15:13:33+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-02-22T16:10:30+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-05T22:22:57+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
• 2025-03-18T23:31:40+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
• 2025-03-19T19:35:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
• 2025-03-27T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-27T20:31:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-28T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-28T19:29:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-28T19:30:20+00:00 (S) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-03-30T14:22:34+00:00 (S) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-04-02T18:00:52+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-04-08T14:36:00+00:00 (S) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-08T15:45:31+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-04-16T18:00:00+00:00 (S) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-17T20:43:45+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a2029f7-2cf5-443d-ba3a-06380d3e9547. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).