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Bill to create voluntary hunters-and-anglers community fund wins committee support
Summary
House Bill 560 would add an optional donation checkbox on conservation-license purchases to create a grant fund for rural Montana communities; committee voted to advance the bill after testimony from farm, conservation and commerce representatives.
Representative Tom France presented House Bill 560 to create the Montana Hunters and Anglers Community Fund, a voluntary checkoff on conservation-license purchases that would allow sportsmen and sportswomen to donate to small grants for rural communities. "I thought, why don't we try and do that similar effort but out to scale," France said, describing a local example of hunters mailing donations to a high-school band.
The bill would create a board of directors made up of sportsmen, local-government and rural representatives, and limit eligible grant recipients to communities with populations under 7,500.…
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