Montana-Employment-Licensing

Montana has no law regulating consideration of criminal record in public or private employment, including the limits on application-stage inquiry by public employers that most other states have adopted.  A criminal conviction may not operate as an “automatic bar” to licensure, but may be grounds for denial or revocation of a license if the conviction relates to the occupation for which the license is sought, and the licensing agency finds, after investigation, that the applicant has not been “sufficiently rehabilitated.”  When a licensing agency denies a license in whole or in part based on conviction, the agency must state its reasons in writing.  An executive pardon removes all legal consequences of a conviction.