2025 Legislative Session
This webpage will be regularly updated with information to assist SAM members in following the 69th Montana Legislative Session.
SAM Legislative Network 2025 Registration: SAMLN25 Registration
Be sure to include your personal email and your cell phone for texting purposes during calls of action.
Decennial Study Information (Starting June 2025)
- School Funding Interim Commission (Legislative committee charged with completing the study.)
- SAM Bulletin Article from May 2
- General Info: What is the Decennial Study? How long will it take? Who is involved?
- HB153 Full Text (Defines the 2025-2027 Decennial Study)
- MCA 20-9-309 (Defines Quality Education)
STARS Act Info - For securing funding in the first year (Action needed by May 15)
- General communication to Superintendents and County Superintendents regarding May 15 Deadline
- Small School (no union, no collective bargaining agreement) Policy 5505
- Option 1: Prerequisite Form
- Option 2: MOU Sample Language
School-Based Behavioral Health Survey (Section B, Joint Appropriations Committee)
Summary of Survey Presented to the Joint Appropriations Committee, Jan 22.
Summary of Survey Results with data from schools on or near Tribal Reservations.
Rob's Legislative Links - (Updated May 30, 2025)
- Session Reports
- Start of Session Bill Summary (Jan. 6)
- SAM Transmittal Report, March 7, 2025
- SAM 2025 Legislative Session, End of Session Wrap-Up Report, May 30
- Final Bill Tracking Report, All SAM Tracked Bills, May 29
- SAM 3Ps List (Bills that passed that will impact Policy, Procedure, Practice), May 30
- Special Education Related Bills
- Talking Points
- Transmittal Information
- General Legislature INFO
- Important Advocacy Dates & Events (Monday meetings, Day of Advocacy)
- Session Calendar
- House Committees
- Senate Committees
- Legislators by School District
- MISC Info
- SAM Legislative Priorities, 2025 Session (Approved at Delegate Assembly in June 2024)
SAMLN25 Meeting Recordings:
- 4-28-25 Meeting
- 4-22-25 Meeting
- 4-14-25 Meeting
- 4-7-25 Meeting
- 3-31-25 Meeting
- Infinite Campus Session Recording META Conference March, 2025
- 3-24-25 Meeting
- 3-17-25 Meeting
- 3-3-25 Meeting
- 2-24-25 Meeting
- 2-18-25 Meeting
- 2-10-25 Meeting
- 2-3-25 Meeting
- 1-13-25 Meeting
- 1-6-25 Meeting
SAM Legislative Network 2023 Webpage (includes Legislative Updates)