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Senate Education Committee concurs on HB 158 and HB 260; HB 262 fails on tie vote
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to concur in House Bill 158 (reemployment of retired teachers) and House Bill 260 (indexing national-board stipend), and rejected House Bill 262 (reading policy statement) after a 7-7 roll call tie; committee later agreed to table HB 262.
The Montana Senate Education Committee on an executive-action roll call agreed to concur in House Bill 158 and House Bill 260 and failed to pass House Bill 262.
House Bill 158, offered by Representative Melissa Nicolaakos, would extend a retired-teacher reemployment window from three years to five years and maintain existing sunset provisions. Committee staff summarized the four‑page bill and noted the only substantive change was allowing retired teachers to teach five years instead of three. A fiscal summary in the record showed $33,182 per year in additional revenue related to the provision; committee members asked whether Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) contributions pause while retirees work and discussed how TRS employer contributions would…
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