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Fish and Game committee concurs on several hunting bills, tables one; mixed roll-call results
Summary
The Montana Senate Fish and Game Committee voted to concur on multiple House bills affecting hunting licenses and equipment, including unanimous approvals and a 9–3 vote on a gray wolf-related equipment bill; one bill was tabled after recorded opposition.
The Senate Fish and Game Committee on a consecutive series of motions on early agenda business on March 1 voted to concur in several House bills affecting hunting policy and practices and tabled one bill after recorded opposition.
The measures the committee moved forward included House Bill 244 (concurred unanimously), House Bill 259 (concurred in as amended, roll-call 9–3), House Bill 307 (unanimous), and House Bill 328 (12–0). The committee also took up House Bill 283 and ultimately voted to table it after several members recorded no votes.
House Bill 244: Committee staff summarized HB 244 as revising hunting-license rules for deployed armed service members to extend the allowable absence from the state from “outside the Continental United States” to “outside the state of Montana.” Committee members voted by voice with proxies recorded; the committee secretary…
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