Workforce Safety & Insurance told the committee it drafted Century Code language to set a $30,000 base annual wage (or actual wages if higher) to compute wage-loss benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer EMS, paid at two-thirds of that base as a non-taxable wage-loss payment.

A legislative committee heard a Montana administrator's overview of a length-of-service award plan and debated a North Dakota draft that would create a volunteer retirement benefit administered by ND PERS, funded in part by charitable-gaming revenues; members asked for fiscal and actuarial estimates and a limited prior-service credit.

Representative Dobrevitch thanks American Foundation for Suicide Prevention volunteers in the House.