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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise hunting licenses for deployed armed service members"
+description: "Revise hunting licenses for deployed armed service members"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 244"
+citation: "Montana HB 244 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Fish", "Military Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Steve Gist"]
+version_count: 22
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-08T00:24:51+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-18T19:09:56+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a78d3e6-af85-4366-ac23-1cac544592e3"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2291?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "1748af5afc5178b891f511cc29dd4151d8c8c2e6121897eee30c56aa1e44b53c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
+---
+
+# Montana HB 244 (2025) — Revise hunting licenses for deployed armed service members
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0244_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272411)
+2. **HB0244_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298374)
+3. **HB0244_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302805)
+4. **HB0244_1(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302808)
+5. **HB0244_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275337)
+6. **HB0244_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275888)
+7. **HB0244_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275889)
+8. **HB0244_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275890)
+9. **HB0244_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275891)
+10. **HB0244_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276715)
+11. **HB0244_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280065)
+12. **HB0244_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281712)
+13. **HB0244_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272311)
+14. **HB0244_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316624)
+15. **HB0244_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320216)
+16. **HB0244_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321216)
+17. **HB0244_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321217)
+18. **HB0244_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321218)
+19. **HB0244_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324544)
+20. **HB0244_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326548)
+21. **HB0244_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310681)
+22. **LC2291.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270863)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Steve Gist — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-08T00:24:51+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-01-08T15:11:28+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2025-01-10T15:02:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-10T16:06:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-10T23:07:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-11T17:29:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-12T13:37:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-14T15:06:00+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-15T18:31:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-17T14:30:57+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-17T16:12:53+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17T20:55:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-28T00:50:25+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
+- **2025-02-06T23:06:54+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-07T00:00:52+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-07T20:16:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-11T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-11T20:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-12T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12T21:35:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12T22:19:59+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-13T20:14:37+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21T18:43:19+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-16T18:57:24+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
+- **2025-03-25T20:45:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
+- **2025-03-26T20:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
+- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31T20:42:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T21:34:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T21:34:41+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-03T05:24:40+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-08T15:15:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-17T20:01:47+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-18T19:09:56+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a78d3e6-af85-4366-ac23-1cac544592e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+