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Bill Generally revise child abuse and neglect laws Generally revise child abuse and neglect laws us/states/mt Montana Legislature 2025 SB 256 Montana SB 256 (2025)
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Dennis Lenz
28 48 8 2024-11-06T22:07:10+00:00 2025-04-17T20:34:53+00:00 openstates ocd-bill/f7403123-2a57-486f-a58e-6d61b10c1e1c https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0925?open_tab=sum e4fbd5523b58e81866061992178b072f0b9cf90857503b9a8214ba9f2731fb1f 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Montana SB 256 (2025) — Generally revise child abuse and neglect laws

Version chain

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

  1. LC0925.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  2. SB0256.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB0256.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB0256_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB0256_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB0256_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  7. SB0256_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  8. SB0256_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  9. SB0256_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  10. SB0256_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  11. SB0256_2(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  12. SB0256_2(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  13. SB0256_2(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  14. SB0256_2(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  15. SB0256_2(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  16. SB0256_2(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  17. SB0256_2(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  18. SB0256_2(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  19. SB0256_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  20. SB0256_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  21. SB0256_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  22. SB0256_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  23. SB0256_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  24. SB0256_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  25. SB0256_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  26. SB0256_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  27. SB0256_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  28. SB0256_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • do_pass — 74 (pass) · upper
  • Do Pass — 2723 (pass) · upper
  • Do Concur — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Do Pass — 3119 (pass) · upper
  • Do Concur — 970 (pass) · lower
  • be_concurred_in_as_amended — 210 (pass) · lower
  • Do Pass — 480 (pass) · upper
  • Do Pass — 471 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Dennis Lenz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-11-06T22:07:10+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
  • 2024-11-07T22:59:54+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
  • 2024-11-27T05:51:02+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
  • 2025-01-09T05:12:19+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
  • 2025-01-17T23:15:12+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
  • 2025-01-29T16:02:45+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
  • 2025-01-29T22:40:54+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
  • 2025-01-30T04:50:54+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
  • 2025-01-30T16:16:16+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
  • 2025-01-31T15:22:46+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
  • 2025-01-31T17:05:30+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
  • 2025-02-03T15:40:15+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
  • 2025-02-03T15:53:10+00:00 (S) Introduced
  • 2025-02-03T20:16:00+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
  • 2025-02-05T17:27:25+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety referral-committee
  • 2025-02-05T20:42:45+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
  • 2025-02-14T23:33:51+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
  • 2025-02-15T15:22:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
  • 2025-02-20T11:15:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
  • 2025-02-20T19:15:32+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Requested
  • 2025-02-20T21:47:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
  • 2025-02-21T11:15:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
  • 2025-02-21T21:19:57+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Received receipt
  • 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
  • 2025-02-22T01:16:37+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Signed
  • 2025-02-22T15:13:31+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-02-22T16:10:30+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
  • 2025-02-24T16:27:23+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Printed
  • 2025-03-05T22:22:56+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
  • 2025-03-18T23:36:29+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Human Services
  • 2025-03-19T19:35:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Human Services
  • 2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
  • 2025-03-24T21:52:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
  • 2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
  • 2025-03-25T19:35:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
  • 2025-03-25T22:00:54+00:00 (H) Returned to Senate with Amendments
  • 2025-03-27T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
  • 2025-03-27T19:27:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading House Amendments Concurred amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2
  • 2025-03-28T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
  • 2025-03-28T21:19:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by House passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-03-28T22:30:28+00:00 (S) Sent to Enrolling
  • 2025-03-30T17:27:30+00:00 (S) Returned from Enrolling
  • 2025-04-02T18:00:52+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
  • 2025-04-08T15:45:31+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-04-08T22:56:08+00:00 (S) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-04-16T18:00:07+00:00 (S) Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-04-17T20:34:53+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7403123-2a57-486f-a58e-6d61b10c1e1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).