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Montana Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB15 | Implement K-12 Inflation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| HB24 | Clarify laws related to kindergarten | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB28 | Clarify timelines and opening procedures for public charter schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| HB118 | Revise the Montana interstate compact on educational opportunities for military children | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/27/2025 |
| HB151 | Revise educational laws pertaining to recruitment and retention and MSDB | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| HB153 | Revise laws related to the school funding interim commission. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/21/2025 |
| HB156 | Revise education funding laws by replacing school district BASE levies with countywide BASE levies | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB158 | Revising working retiree provisions under TRS | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| HB168 | Provide state funding for preschool children with disabilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| HB250 | Generally revise education laws related to out-of-district attendance. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB251 | Generally revise laws related to public charter schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB252 | Create the student and teacher advancement for results and success act (STARS) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| HB255 | Revise online data privacy laws for K-12 pupil records | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| HB260 | Revise teacher stipends for national board certification | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/19/2025 |
| HB262 | Establish state policy on evidence-based reading instruction | Dead | 02/21/2025 |
| HB266 | Establish education inflation reconciliation process | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/04/2025 |
| HB317 | Revise laws regarding Idaho college of osteopathic medicine program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/21/2025 |
| HB338 | Revise laws regarding targeted early numeracy intervention | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/01/2025 |
| HB339 | Fund 6th graders in middle school at high school ANB rates along with 7th and 8th graders | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| HB340 | Establish Montana's BEST program to bolster educator support and training | Vetoed | 04/07/2025 |
| HB343 | Require schools to provide religious instruction released time program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB357 | Provide funding for middle school career and technical education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| HB361 | Provide funding to school districts for English language learners | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| HB364 | Generally revise laws related to immunizations | Dead | 03/19/2025 |
| HB381 | Provide for educational credit for students volunteering in long term care, nursing home, home care, and child care settings | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/04/2025 |
| HB449 | Eliminate statutory reference to the adult basic education fund and its distribution | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| HB462 | Encourage academic excellence through high-quality instructional materials | Vetoed | 03/24/2025 |
| HB471 | Revise education laws related to human sexuality and identity instruction | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 |
| HB499 | Extend the grow your own grant program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| HB509 | Revise the quality educator loan forgiveness program to expand eligibility | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB512 | Require seat belts on newly purchased school buses | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| HB515 | Generally revise laws relating to school facilities consolidating two existing state special revenue accounts | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| HB551 | Eliminate reduced-price copayments for school lunch and breakfast | Vetoed | 04/07/2025 |
| HB553 | Generally revise military higher education act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB557 | Revise education laws related to PIR days and meetings of teacher organizations | Dead | 03/14/2025 |
| HB567 | Revise education laws related to multidistrict agreements | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB573 | Revise transformational learning laws to create a phase II grant program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB591 | Institute the celebrate freedom week in Montana's public schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB599 | Revise student data collection laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB600 | Authorize emergency use of albuterol in a school setting | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB602 | Require school district personnel to inform board of trustees of reductions in force | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB606 | Revise school district reorganization laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB628 | Revise early literacy targeted intervention laws | Vetoed | 03/06/2025 |
| HB631 | Revise student online protection laws related to postsecondary opportunities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 |
| HB663 | Revise education laws related to diversity, equity, and inclusion | Dead | 03/17/2025 |
| HB669 | Revise laws related to educating children receiving in-state inpatient treatment of serious emotional disturbances | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| HB745 | Require background checks for certain school employees and volunteers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB778 | Generally revise laws related to homeschooling | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| HB786 | Revise Montana arts council chair responsibilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| HB823 | Revise laws relating to the state plan committee | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| HB846 | Revising property taxation for certain local government subdivisions | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 |
| HB864 | Authorize transfers and other necessary measure to implement HB 2 section E | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| HB866 | Allow the term "emotional disability" to be used instead of "emotional disturbance" as it relates to special education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 |
| HB869 | Provide for the sudden cardiac arrest prevention in youth sports | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| HJ6 | Joint resolution recognizing the 250th birthday of the United States of America | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| HJ31 | Joint resolution honoring educational support professionals | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 |
| HJ36 | Resolution in support of instruction in reading and writing in cursive | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| HJ51 | Request interim study on special education | Dead | 04/23/2025 |
| HJ58 | Request interim study on increasing impact of school counselors | Dead | 04/24/2025 |
| HJ59 | Request interim study on media literacy | Dead | 04/24/2025 |
| HJ63 | Request interim study on early literacy | Dead | 04/28/2025 |
| SB34 | Clarify laws related to k-12 school districts | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/03/2025 |
| SB35 | Clarify enrollment counts for early literacy jumpstart program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| SB36 | Remove expired contingency language related to generating unit closure | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| SB37 | Clarify calculations for significant enrollment increases | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/07/2025 |
| SB53 | Revise income tax laws to provide conforming changes for prior legislation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| SB59 | Staff Sergeant Arthur J Rambo memorial bridge | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/06/2025 |
| SB116 | Revise the Montana heritage preservation and development commission membership | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/15/2025 |
| SB118 | Generally revise student data laws to enhance privacy | Dead | 01/15/2025 |
| SB138 | Revise education laws related to a teacher's authority to maintain a positive classroom environment | Dead | 01/15/2025 |
| SB159 | Establish subtrust within the coal trust to increase educational tax credits | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| SB177 | Allow community choice school commission to seek public funding | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| SB181 | Generally revise Indian education for all laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| SB182 | Generally revise MT Indian language preservation program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| SB210 | Revise board of regents laws to remove statutory requirement for student regent | Dead | 01/27/2025 |
| SB215 | Revise the definition of public school system and requirements of school funding formula | Dead | 01/28/2025 |
| SB258 | Revise school funding laws to clarify the legislature's authority related to inflationary adjustments | Vetoed | 02/05/2025 |
| SB271 | Remove prohibition on certain compensation for collegiate student-athlete's name/image/likeness | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| SB299 | Revise laws related to enhancing transparency in education | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB350 | Revise participation in extracurricular activities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/19/2025 |
| SB369 | Strengthen suicide prevention efforts in schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| SB396 | Provide requirements for public library resources containing material of a sexual or graphic sexual nature | Dead | 02/21/2025 |
| SB407 | Revise education laws to prohibit certain flags and banners in school and require phrase "In God we trust" displayed in each classroom of a public school | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| SB451 | Revise laws related to public libraries and library services | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SB474 | Require acceptance of religious and personal medical exemptions to required immunizations | Dead | 02/25/2025 |
| SB478 | Require higher education institutions to pay medical costs associated with mandated COVID–19 vaccinations | Dead | 02/25/2025 |
| SB482 | Revise contract laws relating to student athletes | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| SB486 | Revise equal opportunity education savings account funding | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| SB507 | Revise laws related to school and public library standards | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SB521 | Directing DPHHS and OPI to develop a plan to expand mental health education to all schools in the state | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SB525 | Authorize use of school chaplains in school districts and public charter schools | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SB526 | Establish the community health aide provider education grant program | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SJ7 | Joint resolution to support shooting competition as a collegiate sport | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| SJ20 | Joint resolution recognizing the military service of Montanans in World War II | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| SR9 | Confirm governor's appointees for Montana arts council | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/17/2025 |
| SR26 | Confirm governor's appointees for historical society board of trustees | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/15/2025 |
| SR31 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/15/2025 |
| SR32 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/15/2025 |
| SR53 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| SR69 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of regents of higher education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| SR70 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of regents of higher education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| SR71 | Confirm governor's appointee for the board of regents of higher education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| SR108 | Resolution recognizing the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/12/2025 |