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Committee takes mixed actions: tablings and passes among wildlife bills
Summary
In executive session the House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee tabled HB 847 and HB 930, tabled HB 857, and reported HB 897 and HB 907 do pass (advancing HB 897 and HB 907 to the House). The committee also concurred on Senate bills including SB 148 and SB 235.
After hearings concluded, the committee reconvened for executive action and recorded roll‑call votes and proxy votes for multiple items heard that day:
- HB 847 (grizzly bear staffing): motion to table carried by roll call (committee record shows 15 ayes, 5 no on tabling motion). The committee therefore tabled HB 847.
- HB 857 (a separate bill on leased hunting/fishing lands surcharge): committee acted and later tabled the item in committee procedure (membership vote and proxies recorded in the transcript).
- HB 897 (nonresident WMA shed‑hunting license): committee reported HB 897 do pass (13 ayes, 7 no on roll call) and the bill will advance to the House floor for further consideration.
- HB 930 (allowing towed water sports at night with proposed amendments): following earlier testimony the committee later moved HB 930 to the table during executive action (committee roll call recorded; tabling motion carried and HB 930 did not advance out of committee).
- HB 907 (nonresident landowner preference reform): committee recorded a do‑pass motion (13 ayes, 7 no) and HB 907 advanced to the House floor.
The committee also recorded concurrence votes on Senate measures including SB 148 (allowing certain landowners to designate licenses to persons with developmental or physical disabilities) and SB 235 (qualifications for landowner preference and related amendments); both were concurred in by committee voice‑vote or roll call where recorded.
These executive actions close the committee stage for some bills while sending others to the House floor for debates and potential amendments.
