HB 449 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Eliminate statutory reference to the adult basic education fund and its distribution

HB 449 is a bill that eliminates the statutory reference to the Adult Basic Education Fund and its distribution within the Montana Code Annotated. It achieves this by repealing section 20-7-712, which outlines this fund and its distribution. This change primarily affects the legal framework governing adult basic education funding in Montana by removing this specific statutory provision, with an effective date of July 1, 2025.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Feb 11, 2025 Signed May 5, 2025
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The bill text has been cleaned up by removing unnecessary quotation marks and extra line breaks at the end of the document. These are purely formatting corrections that do not alter the legal meaning, funding amounts, or effective dates of the act.
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Removed stray quotation marks from the title of the act.

Deleted extra blank lines and the '- END -' marker at the conclusion of the document.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 14, 2025 · House Feb 24, 2025

How they voted

453
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 50
Apr 14, 2025
D Democratic18
15 Yea 2 Nay 1
83% Yea
R Republican32
30 Yea 1 Nay 1
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
43
Key actions
9
Committee
6
May 1, 2025
Signed into law
(H) Signed by Governor
lower
Apr 25, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Signed by President
upper
Apr 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Signed by Speaker
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (45-3-2)
senate
Mar 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Report - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
upper
Mar 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
upper
Mar 3, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
upper
Feb 24, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (94-5-1)
house
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Report - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Dave Bedey
Dave Bedey
RRepublican
MT
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