HB 484 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise minimum wage laws to provide increases

HB 484 proposed to increase the state's minimum hourly wage from $6.15 to $12.06, affecting many hourly workers and their employers. The bill maintained the existing mechanism for annual cost-of-living adjustments to the minimum wage. It also retained a lower minimum wage of $4 per hour for businesses with annual gross sales of $110,000 or less. If enacted, these provisions would have become effective on July 1, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC1664.pdf → HB0484_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from LC 1664 to HB 484.1 and the sponsor list was expanded to include additional legislators. The substantive policy text regarding minimum wage rates, cost-of-living adjustments, and the $4 minimum wage for small businesses remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 1664 to HB 484.1.

Sponsor list was updated to include additional names (K. Kortum, S. Novak, J. Reavis, L. Muszkiewicz, B. Edwards, J. Isaly, M. Lee, P. Strand, B. Close, P. Elverum, C. Neumann, J. Weber, J. Sooktis, S. Rosenzweig, W. Curdy, M. Dunwell, J. Ellis, E. Matthews, S. Webber, D. Fern, D. Harvey, L. Smith, J. Windy Boy, D. Baum, B. Carter, P. Flowers, D. Hawk, D. Hayman, E. Kerr-Carpenter, S. Morigeau, A. Olsen, C. Pope, D. Joy).

Page headers and footers were updated to reflect the new bill number.

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Amendments

Feb 25, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors