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Senate Fish and Game Committee advances package of hunting and wildlife bills, including revocation measure
Summary
The committee concurred in multiple House bills affecting hunting access, licenses and wildlife management — including HB 763 (block management amendment), HB 817 (free tags for youth with life‑threatening illness), HB 354 (revocation for criminal trespass), HB 145 (nonresident license fee change), HB 242 (AIS fines), HB 554 (wolf post‑delisting management) and HB 648 (predator relocation notification).
The Montana Senate Fish and Game Committee on Tuesday advanced a slate of bills affecting hunting access, license fees and wildlife management, voting to concur in several House measures and passing a reconsidered bill that would impose license revocations for some criminal trespass convictions.
Committee staff summarized each measure before votes. HB 763, which revises block management and the hunting access statute, allows the department to set flat‑rate landowner fees instead of tracking days, permits commission exemptions from day‑tracking and caps some agreements at $25,000 per year. An amendment requiring notification of adjacent landowners, consideration of overlapping public‑access agreements and a mechanism for adjacent leaseholders to support or object was added and approved by voice vote. "The amendment adds adjacent‑landowner notification and clarity around adjacent public…
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