Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SB478: Require higher education institutions to pay medical costs associated with mandated COVID–19 vaccinations
Status: Failed, May 23, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising higher education laws to require certain institutions of higher education to pay medical costs related to required covid-19 vaccinations; providing definitions; and providing an immediate effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REVISING HIGHER EDUCATION LAWS TO REQUIRE CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PAY MEDICAL COSTS RELATED TO REQUIRED COVID-19 VACCINATIONS; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: NEW SECTION. Section 1. Requirement to pay certain medical costs -- definitions. (1) A covered institution shall provide reimbursements to students for medical costs as described in this section. (2) A student seeking payment of medical costs under this section shall submit to the covered institution at which the student is or was enrolled a request for payment containing the following information: (a) a record of covid-19 vaccination, and (ii) certification that the vaccination was acquired in order to comply with requirements of the covered institution for attendance; and (b) certification from a medical provider that, following the vaccination described in subsection (2)(a), the student received a diagnosis of one or more of the following (ii) pericarditis; (iii) thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome; (iv) Guillain-Barre syndrome; or (v) any other disease with a positive association with the covid-19 vaccine that the board of regents of higher education determines to be warranted; and (c) records of the medical costs for the student. (3) For the purposes of this section, the following terms apply: (a) "Covered …
Sponsors
- Manzella, Theresa (R, 44) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (S) Died in Process
- : (S) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
- : (S) Tabled in Committee
- : (S) Hearing
- : (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- : (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- : (S) Fiscal Note Received
- : (S) Referred to Committee
- : (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- : (S) 1st Reading
Subjects: Liability, Education - Post-Secondary, Health, Colleges
Common questions
- What is SB478?
- SB478 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Require higher education institutions to pay medical costs associated with mandated COVID–19 vaccinations.
- What does SB478 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising higher education laws to require certain institutions of higher education to pay medical costs related to required covid-19 vaccinations; providing definitions; and providing an immediate effective date.".
- What is the status of SB478?
- Failed as of May 23, 2025. Latest action: (S) Died in Process (May 23, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB478?
- Manzella, Theresa (R, 44).
- Where is the official record for SB478?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3236
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