republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-769.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise labor law relating to computation of meal allowances"
description: "Revise labor law relating to computation of meal allowances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 769"
citation: "Montana HB 769 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Matthews"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-14T19:58:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:33:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7348d2da-5051-4f94-938a-c5d2b64e93c2"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1421?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "6ee9bb4e70aade906ef1d00ef59732dfc1eec997852f4a96cb352f35b915aa48"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
---

# Montana HB 769 (2025) — Revise labor law relating to computation of meal allowances

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0769_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288465)
2. **HB0769_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293945)
3. **HB0769_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294014)
4. **HB0769_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310153)
5. **HB0769_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314634)
6. **HB0769_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315431)
7. **HB0769_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315432)
8. **HB0769_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315433)
9. **HB0769_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287427)
10. **HB0769_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315435)
11. **HB0769_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326178)
12. **HB0769_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327516)
13. **HB0769_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317287)
14. **HB0769_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318087)
15. **HB0769_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318088)
16. **HB0769_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320913)
17. **HB0769_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324370)
18. **HB0769_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325225)
19. **HB0769_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325226)
20. **HB0769_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325227)
21. **HB0769_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315434)
22. **LC1421.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285659)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eric Matthews — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-11-14T19:58:42+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-26T20:42:02+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-16T23:34:13+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-17T22:47:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-17T23:03:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-21T19:43:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T04:54:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T14:08:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T18:08:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T16:44:00+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T20:12:43+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T20:25:34+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-26T17:21:02+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:47+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-28T18:24:04+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T16:49:20+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-04T17:04:04+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-03-04T17:17:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-04T20:41:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T22:17:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:27:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:48:01+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:06:15+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T01:41:29+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-14T22:42:37+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-15T19:19:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T19:09:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T22:14:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-23T00:29:28+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-04-23T01:24:00+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-27T15:01:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:25:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:33:39+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7348d2da-5051-4f94-938a-c5d2b64e93c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).