---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise penalties for criminal trespass while fishing, trapping, hunting, or collecting antlers/sheds/horns"
description: "Revise penalties for criminal trespass while fishing, trapping, hunting, or collecting antlers/sheds/horns"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Montana HB 354 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Fish"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jill Cohenour"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-12-15T15:58:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T17:02:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fe8bdcc-920b-477e-99c7-2b6af6d7bd4a"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3968?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "6784c22c912c3dbb3f8a8ee54070007bf20bc86343d880ca58186a12e12c0f7d"
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 354 (2025) — Revise penalties for criminal trespass while fishing, trapping, hunting, or collecting antlers/sheds/horns

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0354.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284687)
2. **HB0354.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=303003)
3. **HB0354_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277748)
4. **HB0354_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289948)
5. **HB0354_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302518)
6. **HB0354_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306775)
7. **HB0354_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309818)
8. **HB0354_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309820)
9. **HB0354_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277382)
10. **HB0354_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311515)
11. **HB0354_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311516)
12. **HB0354_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317050)
13. **HB0354_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320617)
14. **HB0354_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322117)
15. **HB0354_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322118)
16. **HB0354_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322119)
17. **HB0354_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324811)
18. **HB0354_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327094)
19. **HB0354_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311029)
20. **LC3968.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274139)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **64–36** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **6–5** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **13–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **67–31** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **45–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jill Cohenour — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-15T15:58:21+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-22T23:47:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-23T14:59:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-24T16:56:52+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-26T03:11:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-26T20:55:27+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-28T13:41:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-30T19:22:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-30T20:01:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-31T18:55:49+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31T19:51:25+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03T21:52:58+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
- **2025-02-20T23:20:22+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T22:35:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T21:51:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-28T20:30:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-28T20:40:43+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-04T00:05:04+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21T02:11:28+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-01T23:31:12+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-08T21:10:05+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-09T00:06:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-10T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T23:04:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T22:13:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T22:22:22+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T12:46:43+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T19:00:35+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:33:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T17:02:19+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/5fe8bdcc-920b-477e-99c7-2b6af6d7bd4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).