HB 730 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise parenting laws involving the best interest of a child who is transitioning genders

HB 730 sought to revise state laws concerning the "best interest of a child" in parenting proceedings. The bill would have amended the factors courts consider when determining parenting plans, specifically for children who are transitioning genders. It stipulated that a parent's support for a child's gender transition "must be considered not in the child's best interests" and treated similarly to physical abuse. Conversely, a parent's opposition to a child's gender transition could not be considered as being against the child's best interests. This bill would have directly affected parents involved in child custody and parenting plan decisions.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 25, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025
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LC4084.pdf HB0730_1.pdf · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill was officially renamed from LC 4084 to HB 730 and the sponsor list was added. The substantive legal text regarding parenting factors remains largely unchanged, though minor formatting adjustments were made to the numbering of specific clauses.
TECHNICAL

The bill title was updated from LC 4084 to HB 730.1, and the list of sponsors was added to the header.

Minor formatting changes were applied to the numbering of subsections (k) through (m) and the page headers, but the underlying legal requirements and definitions were not altered.

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Total actions
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Committee
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Amendments
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Mar 3, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Judiciary
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Feb 25, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary
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Feb 25, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
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Photo of Lukas Schubert
Lukas Schubert
RRepublican
MT
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