republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-175.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require fish, wildlife, and parks to publish a report detailing data on hunting districts"
description: "Require fish, wildlife, and parks to publish a report detailing data on hunting districts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 175"
citation: "Montana HB 175 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fish"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shannon Maness"]
version_count: 24
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:57:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T14:49:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7c0c12a-9380-4dd7-a8e1-74460a4dbb06"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2550?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "de7a4b5c1e824a53813c676e4575a70e7bd38ec33716616a60e0bc06b77ad1c0"
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 175 (2025) — Require fish, wildlife, and parks to publish a report detailing data on hunting districts

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0175_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270746)
2. **HB0175_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271156)
3. **HB0175_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271165)
4. **HB0175_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275212)
5. **HB0175_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276273)
6. **HB0175_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279332)
7. **HB0175_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295065)
8. **HB0175_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298049)
9. **HB0175_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270745)
10. **HB0175_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298048)
11. **HB0175_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298052)
12. **HB0175_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320343)
13. **HB0175_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324196)
14. **HB0175_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326631)
15. **HB0175_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298053)
16. **HB0175_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298576)
17. **HB0175_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298577)
18. **HB0175_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307794)
19. **HB0175_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307795)
20. **HB0175_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307797)
21. **HB0175_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310822)
22. **HB0175_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316764)
23. **HB0175_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298050)
24. **LC2550.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269629)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **97–3** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shannon Maness — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T21:57:49+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-26T21:06:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-26T23:39:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-30T17:48:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-30T20:59:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-31T13:08:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-31T23:39:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-09T16:38:00+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-10T21:02:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-10T21:32:53+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-13T17:01:18+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13T20:15:33+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-20T18:37:22+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-20T21:41:50+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-21T14:46:24+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-22T16:32:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
- **2025-01-31T00:20:32+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T00:45:42+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`
- **2025-02-05T22:02:45+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-06T20:31:40+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-17T18:57:34+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T16:02:02+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-03-18T21:06:30+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`
- **2025-03-21T19:34:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:46:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:46:39+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-26T04:56:38+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`
- **2025-04-07T14:49:55+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/e7c0c12a-9380-4dd7-a8e1-74460a4dbb06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).