Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB360: Establish the child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program
Status: Failed, May 20, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act establishing the child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program; providing eligible uses for which the support payments may be spent; providing a method for distribution of funds; providing definitions; providing an appropriation; and providing an effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CHILD CARE WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION SUPPORT PAYMENT PROGRAM; PROVIDING ELIGIBLE USES FOR WHICH THE SUPPORT PAYMENTS MAY BE SPENT; PROVIDING A METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE." WHEREAS, Montana's early childhood care and education industry provides a service essential to the robust engagement of the broader workforce of the state by making it possible for parents of young children to be employed; and WHEREAS, persistent low wages in child-care jobs have significantly hampered recruitment and retention of the child-care workforce, impacting the sector's ability to provide reliable, safe, and sufficient care to Montana's communities; and WHEREAS, raising prices for child care creates a cost burden on families that leads to parents leaving the workforce. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: NEW SECTION. Section 1. Child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program -- purpose. (1) There is a child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program administered by the department of public health and human services. (2) The purpose of the program is to provide payments to eligible child-care facilities to use the - 1 - Authorized Print Version - HB **** 69th Legislature 2025 HB 360.1 funds to strengthen the ability of …
Sponsors
- Romano, Melissa (D, 80) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Died in Process
- : (H) Missed Deadline for Appropriation Bill Transmittal
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
- : (H) Introduced
- : (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- : (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- : (LC) Draft in Assembly
Subjects: Minors, Appropriations, Labor and Employment
Common questions
- What is HB360?
- HB360 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Establish the child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program.
- What does HB360 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act establishing the child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program; providing eligible uses for which the support payments may be spent; providing a method for distribution of funds; providing definitions; providing an appropriation; and providing an effective date.".
- What is the status of HB360?
- Failed as of May 20, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Process (May 20, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB360?
- Romano, Melissa (D, 80).
- Where is the official record for HB360?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1775
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