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Senate concurs with state employee pay increases; debate over legislator pay fails
Summary
The Montana Senate concurred with House Bill 13, approving negotiated pay and benefit changes for state employees and per diem adjustments; an amendment to remove a provision tying legislator pay to the average Montana wage failed 12-38.
The Montana Senate voted 37-13 to concur with House Bill 13, a package that implements negotiated pay increases for state employees, adjusts some per diem rates and group benefit contributions, and sets a formula tying future legislative pay to a share of the average Montana wage.
Sponsor Senator Espin said the bill contains “the negotiated settlement with the state employees for the pay raises for the next 2 years,” describing the core wage change as “either a dollar an hour or 2.5 percent, whichever is greater in each of those 2 years.” He also urged colleagues to back the measure, saying, “we are valuable…
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