| House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee
Members (20)
Committee Bills (72)
🗓 Awaiting hearing (1)
Unscheduled
| 📋 HB 767: Revise county predator control laws to include goats | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (2)
| 📋 HR 6: Resolution on the protection of November mule deer hunt | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House |
| 📋 HB 356: Allow livestock loss reimbursement for black bear predation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
🚫 Withdrawn (5)
| 📋 HB 133: Require hunter reporting of hunting activity | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 240: Generally revise laws related to digital mapping of and hunting from navigable rivers and islands | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 417: Provide for the Montana Hunters First Act | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 519: Repeal nonresident landowner preference for big game combo licenses | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 559: Revise river usage laws related to commercial fishing, outfitting, and guiding | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
🚫 Voted down (16)
| 📋 SB 63: Revise law related to the use of motion-tracking devices while hunting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 101: Reclassify wolves as furbearers and align existing wolf tagging and furbearer hunting restrictions | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 134: Revise FWP crimestoppers program to allow financial rewards and reward permits | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 216: Allow FW Commission to issue deer and elk hunting licenses to private landowners within the Flathead Indian Reservation | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 270: Revise laws related to antlerless elk licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
✅ Voted forward (49)
| 📋 HB 57: Designate quail as upland game bird | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 71: Revise special license requirements allowing second lion license and removing Tendoy sheep reporting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HJ 73: Study resolution on block management funding and participation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
| 📋 SB 83: Revise law to recognize commission authority to regulate public use of private property under access agreements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 95: Revise law related to damage-based muskrat and beaver harvesting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
About the 2025 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker
This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide Montanans with in-depth, nonpartisan news coverage.
The information presented here is collected from a variety of sources including the Montana Legislature's public roster and its official bill-tracking system. Reporting and web design were done by Jacob Olness and Eric Dietrich. Please contact them at jolness@montanafreepress.org and edietrich@montanafreepress.org with bug reports, questions or suggestions.
Think there's a potential news story to be done about a bill or lawmaker you see here? Tell us at tips@montanafreepress.org.