---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish FWP wildlife highway crossings and accommodation account"
description: "Establish FWP wildlife highway crossings and accommodation account"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 855"
citation: "Montana HB 855 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Fish", "Revenue", "State", "State Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katie Zolnikov"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-29T15:28:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T19:47:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d06ea10f-732c-4571-890e-b870dcf38ff1"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2103?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "463b02fbf7ab88f62d6a2ece935382fefff6ce4c5f8afb16599b0f58e0c50f38"
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 855 (2025) — Establish FWP wildlife highway crossings and accommodation account

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0855_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297615)
2. **HB0855_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297616)
3. **HB0855_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=303699)
4. **HB0855_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306016)
5. **HB0855_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313015)
6. **HB0855_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313016)
7. **HB0855_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296906)
8. **HB0855_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313018)
9. **HB0855_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322564)
10. **HB0855_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322565)
11. **HB0855_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324917)
12. **HB0855_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326485)
13. **HB0855_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313019)
14. **HB0855_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313635)
15. **HB0855_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313636)
16. **HB0855_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315189)
17. **HB0855_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315190)
18. **HB0855_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317255)
19. **HB0855_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320771)
20. **HB0855_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322563)
21. **HB0855_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313017)
22. **LC2103.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294138)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **89–6** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **97–3** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **38–12** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **40–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katie Zolnikov — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-29T15:28:12+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-18T17:27:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-25T18:03:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-03-14T16:21:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-03-18T15:24:05+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-03-18T15:37:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-03-19T14:24:18+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-03-19T14:40:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-03-19T20:39:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-03-20T22:00:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-03-20T22:57:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-03-20T23:27:39+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-03-21T22:09:43+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-03-21T22:10:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-03-21T22:11:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-03-24T15:50:00+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24T19:44:03+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25T21:01:47+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Transportation
- **2025-03-28T20:55:36+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-28T23:16:21+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-29T15:05:33+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-03-29T15:05:46+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-29T15:42:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01T19:46:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-02T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T23:24:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T15:14:08+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-04-03T21:04:04+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03T21:05:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-06T19:12:30+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-04-07T22:38:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-04-08T19:34:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-04-16T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T19:38:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:23:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:24:12+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-19T20:39:25+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:00:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T20:30:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:48:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T19:47:22+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/d06ea10f-732c-4571-890e-b870dcf38ff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).