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Fish and Game committee clears several hunting bills, advances wolf‑management changes
Summary
The committee concurred on multiple House bills — including HB 244 (service member license change), HB 259 (wolf management as amended), HB 307 (donated licenses to disabled veterans) and HB 328 (senior elk license) — while House Bill 283 (auction vs. lottery for sheep/moose tags) failed and was tabled.
The Montana Senate Fish and Game Committee on an unspecified date handled a batch of concurrence requests and amendments for hunting‑related bills, approving most to move to the floor and rejecting one proposal to change tag allocation methods.
Committee business opened with a unanimous voice concurrence for House Bill 244, which staff described as changing the definition of deployment for deployed armed service members from "outside the Continental United States" to a deployment of at least two months outside the state, a change intended to clarify…
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