diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegression.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegression.scala
index 093aa391dfaa8..1b23576d59bd4 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegression.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/LogisticRegression.scala
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class LogisticRegressionModel (
 
     // Create JSON metadata.
     val metadata = LogisticRegressionModel.Metadata(
-      clazz = this.getClass.getName, version = Exportable.latestVersion)
+      clazz = this.getClass.getName, version = latestVersion)
     val metadataRDD: DataFrame = sc.parallelize(Seq(metadata))
     metadataRDD.toJSON.saveAsTextFile(path + "/metadata")
 
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ class LogisticRegressionModel (
     val dataRDD: DataFrame = sc.parallelize(Seq(data))
     dataRDD.saveAsParquetFile(path + "/data")
   }
+
+  override protected def latestVersion: String = LogisticRegressionModel.latestVersion
+
 }
 
 object LogisticRegressionModel extends Importable[LogisticRegressionModel] {
@@ -176,7 +179,7 @@ object LogisticRegressionModel extends Importable[LogisticRegressionModel] {
       case Row(clazz: String, version: String) =>
         assert(clazz == classOf[LogisticRegressionModel].getName, s"LogisticRegressionModel.load" +
           s" was given model file with metadata specifying a different model class: $clazz")
-        assert(version == Exportable.latestVersion, // only 1 version exists currently
+        assert(version == latestVersion, // only 1 version exists currently
           s"LogisticRegressionModel.load did not recognize model format version: $version")
     }
 
@@ -199,6 +202,8 @@ object LogisticRegressionModel extends Importable[LogisticRegressionModel] {
     lr
   }
 
+  override protected def latestVersion: String = "1.0"
+
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/NaiveBayes.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/NaiveBayes.scala
index fa46b64e80fbf..704bda6b55784 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/NaiveBayes.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/NaiveBayes.scala
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class NaiveBayesModel private[mllib] (
 
     // Create JSON metadata.
     val metadata = NaiveBayesModel.Metadata(
-      clazz = this.getClass.getName, version = Exportable.latestVersion)
+      clazz = this.getClass.getName, version = latestVersion)
     val metadataRDD: DataFrame = sc.parallelize(Seq(metadata))
     metadataRDD.toJSON.saveAsTextFile(path + "/metadata")
 
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ class NaiveBayesModel private[mllib] (
     val dataRDD: DataFrame = sc.parallelize(Seq(data))
     dataRDD.saveAsParquetFile(path + "/data")
   }
+
+  override protected def latestVersion: String = NaiveBayesModel.latestVersion
 }
 
 object NaiveBayesModel extends Importable[NaiveBayesModel] {
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ object NaiveBayesModel extends Importable[NaiveBayesModel] {
       case Row(clazz: String, version: String) =>
         assert(clazz == classOf[NaiveBayesModel].getName, s"NaiveBayesModel.load" +
           s" was given model file with metadata specifying a different model class: $clazz")
-        assert(version == Exportable.latestVersion, // only 1 version exists currently
+        assert(version == latestVersion, // only 1 version exists currently
           s"NaiveBayesModel.load did not recognize model format version: $version")
     }
 
@@ -127,6 +129,8 @@ object NaiveBayesModel extends Importable[NaiveBayesModel] {
     val theta = data.getAs[Seq[Seq[Double]]](2).map(_.toArray).toArray
     new NaiveBayesModel(labels, pi, theta)
   }
+
+  override protected def latestVersion: String = "1.0"
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/modelImportExport.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/modelImportExport.scala
index 06cd822afff5f..66490ca5ad5c1 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/modelImportExport.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/modelImportExport.scala
@@ -49,12 +49,8 @@ trait Exportable {
    */
   def save(sc: SparkContext, path: String): Unit
 
-}
-
-private[mllib] object Exportable {
-
   /** Current version of model import/export format. */
-  val latestVersion: String = "1.0"
+  protected def latestVersion: String
 
 }
 
@@ -78,6 +74,9 @@ trait Importable[Model <: Exportable] {
    */
   def load(sc: SparkContext, path: String): Model
 
+  /** Current version of model import/export format. */
+  protected def latestVersion: String
+
 }
 
 private[mllib] object Importable {