---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise hunting license fees to include cranes and swans"
description: "Revise hunting license fees to include cranes and swans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 146"
citation: "Montana HB 146 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fish", "Revenue", "State"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Parry"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-16T20:26:54+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T14:40:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fad5976-4810-4ac2-a953-43dc162a9efe"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1497?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "8f695d727cc8e83772d4d1791271bb47409f83aa20c32940145869d5c1b50e03"
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 146 (2025) — Revise hunting license fees to include cranes and swans

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0146_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270428)
2. **HB0146_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270432)
3. **HB0146_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275172)
4. **HB0146_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276239)
5. **HB0146_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279331)
6. **HB0146_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295064)
7. **HB0146_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298076)
8. **HB0146_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270146)
9. **HB0146_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298075)
10. **HB0146_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298079)
11. **HB0146_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310817)
12. **HB0146_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316760)
13. **HB0146_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320339)
14. **HB0146_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324191)
15. **HB0146_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326219)
16. **HB0146_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327535)
17. **HB0146_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298080)
18. **HB0146_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298564)
19. **HB0146_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298565)
20. **HB0146_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298566)
21. **HB0146_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298567)
22. **HB0146_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307773)
23. **HB0146_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307774)
24. **HB0146_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307775)
25. **HB0146_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298077)
26. **LC1497.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269607)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **40–10** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **32–18** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary Parry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-11-16T20:26:54+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-24T00:04:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-26T21:19:27+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-27T21:12:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-29T21:31:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-30T15:09:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-31T17:12:03+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-08T15:52:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-08T21:06:59+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-08T21:09:12+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-09T19:01:54+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09T20:05:09+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-13T21:43:25+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-14T14:01:06+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-14T20:41:44+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-23T20:55:53+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
- **2025-01-31T00:19:45+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T00:45:41+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T20:27:07+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04T20:25:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T21:46:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T22:02:44+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-06T20:31:19+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-17T18:57:20+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T16:02:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-03-18T20:55:31+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-03-19T21:07:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21T19:22:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:45:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:45:42+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-26T04:37:53+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T22:45:23+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-31T17:30:49+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T14:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T14:40:45+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/9fad5976-4810-4ac2-a953-43dc162a9efe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).