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Article: House, in tie vote, declines to impose tip credit on servers
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- The Billings Gazette
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- February 22, 2007
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HELENA - The House refused on a tie vote Wednesday to change the minimum-wage law that Montana voters overwhelmingly approved last fall.
After two legislators recounted their experiences as waitresses, the House deadlocked on a bill that would have frozen at $6.25 an hour the state minimum wage paid to restaurant servers and other tipped employees. These workers would have been made ineligible for future automatic cost-of-living raises provided in the voter-passed law.
Two Republicans, Reps. Carol Lambert of Broadus and Penny Morgan of Billings, joined 48 Democrats in voting against the bill. One Democrat, Rep. Robin Hamilton of Missoula, part-owner of a restaurant, joined 48 Republicans ...