Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB640: Revising membership in FURS to include airport authority public safety employees
Status: Failed, May 20, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising participation in the firefighters' unified retirement system to include airport authority public safety employees; revising and providing a definition; amending sections 19-13-104 and 19-13-210, mca; and providing an effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REVISING PARTICIPATION IN THE FIREFIGHTERS' UNIFIED RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO INCLUDE AIRPORT AUTHORITY PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES; REVISING AND PROVIDING A DEFINITION; AMENDING SECTIONS 19-13-104 AND 19-13-210, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 19-13-104, MCA, is amended to read: "19-13-104. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply in this chapter: (1) Any reference to "city" or "town" includes those jurisdictions that, before the effective date of a county-municipal consolidation, were incorporated municipalities, subsequent districts created for urban firefighting services, or the entire county included in the county-municipal consolidation. (2) "Compensation" means: (a) for a full-paid firefighter, the remuneration paid from funds controlled by an employer in payment for the member's services before any pretax deductions allowed by state and federal law are made; (b) for a part-paid firefighter employed by a city of the second class: (i) 15% of the regular remuneration, excluding overtime, holiday payments, shift differential payments, compensatory time payments, and payments in lieu of sick leave, paid on July 1 of each year to a newly confirmed, full-paid firefighter of the city that employs the part-paid firefighter; or (ii) if that city does not employ a full-paid firefighter, 15% of the average regular remuneration, …
Sponsors
- Thane, Mark (D, 89) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Died in Process
- : (H) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
- : (H) Motion
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) Rereferred to Committee
- : (H) 2nd Reading
- : (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading
- : (H) Committee Report
- : (H) Fiscal Note Printed
Votes
- Take HB 640 from APH - Thane (March 5, 2025): 50 yea, 48 nay, passed
- Do Pass (March 3, 2025): 79 yea, 20 nay, passed
Subjects: Retirement, Fires and Fire Protection
Common questions
- What is HB640?
- HB640 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revising membership in FURS to include airport authority public safety employees.
- What does HB640 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising participation in the firefighters' unified retirement system to include airport authority public safety employees; revising and providing a definition; amending sections 19-13-104 and 19-13-210, mca; and providing an effective date.".
- What is the status of HB640?
- Failed as of May 20, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Process (May 20, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB640?
- Thane, Mark (D, 89).
- Where is the official record for HB640?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3722
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