Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Committee Action topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Committee advances several wildlife bills, rejects others in executive action
Summary
The House Fish, Wildlife and Parks committee advanced multiple bills to the floor (including HB107 as amended, HB71, HB222 as amended, HB96, HB176 as amended) and rejected or failed to advance others (e.g., HB101). Several amendments passed on record votes.
During executive action the House Fish, Wildlife and Parks committee considered a slate of bills and amendments. Key outcomes recorded in the hearing transcript are summarized below.
- HB101 (wolf/furbearer licensing bill): Committee roll-call resulted in 8 aye and 12 no; Chair announced HB101 does not advance out of committee.
- HB107 (licensing and permitting requirements for dealers, menageries, etc.): An amendment reducing fur-dealer record retention to one year passed on roll call (16–4). The amended bill then received a unanimous voice vote to do pass; committee chair said HB107 will advance to the floor.
- HB71 (mountain-lion and mountain-sheep licensing changes): Advanced by unanimous voice vote; chair announced HB71 will advance to the floor.
- HB222 (year-round open wolf hunting season with population thresholds): An amendment adjusting population thresholds and adding denning-month language passed on roll call (13–7). The amended bill passed on roll call (12–8) and will advance to the floor.
- HB96 (reviving apprentice trapping/hunter certificates): An amendment clarifying apprenticeship language was approved by voice and the amended bill passed unanimously to the floor.
- HB176 (unlimited wolf hunting quota above a specified population): An amendment circulated and passed (12–8) and the amended bill was advanced to the floor after a 12–8 roll-call vote.
- Motion to table HB101: a subsequent motion to table HB101 failed on a roll call (8–12), leaving the bill in the committee’s pending bucket.
For each roll-call vote the clerk read members’ recorded votes; committee tallies reported in the transcript are reflected above. Committee members debated the merits, and several speakers emphasized that the commission is statutorily charged with setting seasons but that legislators moved to change statutory thresholds and direction because they said commission action to reduce statewide wolf numbers had not produced the outcomes constituents seek.
The committee adjourned after these actions.
