IGNORE (duplicate) MT legislation - outfitters

[Cheesehead]

<Stolen from elsewhere on the interwebs. I’m not a resident of MT but this smells strongly of ‘outfitter welfare’ as they say. See 87-2-511. I could be misunderstanding it. >

You may want to contact the Senate Fish & Game Committee and ask them to oppose this bill. SB143 https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/SB0143.pdf

It's hard to sort through the draft language but from what I gather this would reinstate the guaranteed outfitter licenses that were done away with through a citizens ballot initiative. It looks like this would give 60% of deer and elk permits to people hunting with outfitters. This bill is bad for residents and DIY non-residents.

Here is the contact info for the committee members:

SEN. STEVE HINEBAUCH - SD18
CHAIR
[email protected]
(406) 365-7967
(406) 989-1372

SEN. BOB BROWN - SD7
VICE CHAIR
[email protected]
(406) 242-0141

SEN. TOM JACOBSON - SD11
VICE CHAIR
[email protected]
(406) 868-9814

SEN. MARK BLASDEL - SD4
[email protected]
(406) 261-3269

SEN. JILL COHENOUR - SD 42
[email protected]
(406) 227-1144

SEN. JASON ELLSWORTH (R) - SD43
[email protected]
(406) 360-0009

SEN. PAT FLOWERS (D) - SD32
[email protected]
(406) 580-0035

SEN. GREG HERTZ (R) - SD6
[email protected]
(406) 253-9505

SEN. DAVID HOWARD (R) - SD29
[email protected]
(406) 633-2762

SEN. BOB KEENAN (R) - SD5
[email protected]
(406) 250-4111

SEN. EDIE MCCLAFFERTY (D) - SD38
[email protected]
(406) 490-5873

 

[MThuntr]

Non-resident outfitter license (MT) Bill is up for hearing 2/2/2021 (SB 143)

If you wondered what kind of new bills would be pushed in the current Montana legislature, here is a sample. Reinstating the outfitter license that was done away with by citizens ballot initiative is back. Full text of the bill is at this link - https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/SB0143.pdf...

www.hunttalk.com

another conversation on same topic

 

[Cheesehead]

Got it. Did a skim but missed BF’s post. Ignore this one. Thanks @Mthuntr