Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB484: Revise minimum wage laws to provide increases
Status: Failed, May 20, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act removing a $4 minimum wage for certain businesses; amending section 39-3-409, mca; and providing an effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT REMOVING A $4 MINIMUM WAGE FOR CERTAIN BUSINESSES; AMENDING SECTION 39-3-409, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 39-3-409, MCA, is amended to read: "39-3-409. Adoption of minimum wage rates -- exception. (1) The minimum wage, except as provided in subsection (3), must be the greater of either: (a) the minimum hourly wage rate as provided under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)), excluding the value of tips received by the employee and the special provisions for a training wage; or (b) $6.15 $12.06 an hour, excluding the value of tips received by the employee and the special provisions for a training wage. (2) (a) The minimum wage is subject to a cost-of-living adjustment, as provided in subsection (2)(b). (b) No later than September 30 of each year, an adjustment of the wage amount specified in subsection (1) must be made based upon the increase, if any, from August of the preceding year to August of the year in which the calculation is made in the consumer price index, U.S. city average, all urban consumers, for all items, as published by the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor. (c) The wage amount …
Sponsors
- Kortum, Kelly (D, 64) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Died in Process
- : (H) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- : (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- : (H) Fiscal Note Received
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
- : (H) Fiscal Note Requested
Subjects: Wages and Salaries, Labor and Employment
Common questions
- What is HB484?
- HB484 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revise minimum wage laws to provide increases.
- What does HB484 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act removing a $4 minimum wage for certain businesses; amending section 39-3-409, mca; and providing an effective date.".
- What is the status of HB484?
- Failed as of May 20, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Process (May 20, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB484?
- Kortum, Kelly (D, 64).
- Where is the official record for HB484?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1664
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