Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SB291: Revising laws related to workers' compensation definition of wages
Status: Failed, May 23, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising workers' compensation laws to provide that the department of labor and industry shall annually revise its rules defining wages pertaining to lodging; and amending section 39-71-123, mca.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REVISING WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAWS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY SHALL ANNUALLY REVISE ITS RULES DEFINING WAGES PERTAINING TO LODGING; AND AMENDING SECTION 39-71-123, MCA." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 39-71-123, MCA, is amended to read: "39-71-123. Wages defined. (1) "Wages" means all remuneration paid for services performed by an employee for an employer, or income provided for in subsection (1)(d). Wages include the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. The term includes but is not limited to: (a) monetary commissions, bonuses, and remuneration at the regular hourly rate for overtime work, holidays, vacations, and periods of sickness; (b) backpay or any similar pay made for or in regard to previous service by the employee for the employer, other than retirement or pension benefits from a qualified plan; (c) tips or other gratuities received by the employee to the extent that tips or gratuities are documented by the employee to the employer for tax purposes; (d) income or payment in the form of a draw, wage, net profit, or money received or taken by a sole proprietor or partner, regardless of whether the sole proprietor or partner has performed work or provided services for …
Sponsors
- Olsen, Andrea (D, 48) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (S) Died in Process
- : (S) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
- : (S) Tabled in Committee
- : (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- : (S) Fiscal Note Signed
- : (S) Fiscal Note Received
- : (S) Hearing
- : (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- : (S) Referred to Committee
- : (S) 1st Reading
Subjects: Rule Making, Workers' Compensation
Common questions
- What is SB291?
- SB291 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revising laws related to workers' compensation definition of wages.
- What does SB291 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising workers' compensation laws to provide that the department of labor and industry shall annually revise its rules defining wages pertaining to lodging; and amending section 39-71-123, mca.".
- What is the status of SB291?
- Failed as of May 23, 2025. Latest action: (S) Died in Process (May 23, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB291?
- Olsen, Andrea (D, 48).
- Where is the official record for SB291?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0664
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