republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-402.md

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Bill	Provide for case determinations of investigations of reported child abuse or neglect	Provide for case determinations of investigations of reported child abuse or neglect	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	SB 402	Montana SB 402 (2025)	bill	Courts Family Law Minors	enacted	Dennis Lenz	14	37	6	2024-10-04T20:06:07+00:00	2025-05-13T13:37:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3a52dad3-955a-482b-8191-8f6b572e7570	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0481?open_tab=sum	32ef2cd0c7e0dc5e4e148525326457feec991e8d04a4055f1f671a2b320f0c38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 402 (2025) — Provide for case determinations of investigations of reported child abuse or neglect

Version chain

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

1. LC0481.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. SB0402_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. SB0402_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. SB0402_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. SB0402_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. SB0402_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. SB0402_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. SB0402_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. SB0402_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. SB0402_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. SB0402_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. SB0402_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. SB0402_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. SB0402_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 44–5 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 15–5 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 43–7 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 6–5 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 94–6 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 90–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dennis Lenz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-10-04T20:06:07+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-11-25T18:08:02+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-01-10T22:31:12+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2025-02-17T16:59:36+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-02-17T22:49:44+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-02-20T16:33:29+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-02-20T18:34:59+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-02-20T18:52:08+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-02-20T22:55:25+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-02-21T18:05:15+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-02-21T18:11:59+00:00 (S) Introduced
• 2025-02-21T20:13:39+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-21T22:54:09+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety referral-committee
• 2025-02-25T22:20:54+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
• 2025-03-01T04:14:40+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
• 2025-03-01T18:26:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T15:30:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-05T18:29:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-06T15:30:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-06T19:18:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-06T20:25:35+00:00 (S) Transmitted to House
• 2025-03-07T17:16:00+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-29T23:34:44+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-08T17:31:42+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-08T21:22:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-10T22:06:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-11T21:01:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-11T23:45:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-11T23:46:28+00:00 (S) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-13T14:03:30+00:00 (S) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-04-21T22:00:00+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-04-29T22:15:14+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-04-30T16:55:55+00:00 (S) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-08T14:30:00+00:00 (S) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13T13:37:27+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a52dad3-955a-482b-8191-8f6b572e7570. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).