Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SB63: Revise law related to the use of motion-tracking devices while hunting
Status: Failed, May 23, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act restricting the use of electronic motion-tracking devices and mechanisms while hunting; amending section 87-6-401, mca; and providing an immediate effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT RESTRICTING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MOTION-TRACKING DEVICES AND MECHANISMS WHILE HUNTING; AMENDING SECTION 87-6-401, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 87-6-401, MCA, is amended to read: "87-6-401. Unlawful use of equipment while hunting. (1) A person may not: (a) hunt or attempt to hunt any game animal or game bird by the aid or with the use of any snare, except as allowed in 87-3-127 and 87-3-128, set gun, projected artificial light, trap, salt lick, or bait; (b) use any recorded or electrically amplified bird or animal calls or sounds or recorded or electrically amplified imitations of bird or animal calls or sounds to hunt wildlife except for predatory animals, wolves, and those birds not protected by state or federal law; (c) while hunting, use any device or mechanism devised to silence, muffle, or minimize the report of any firearm, whether the device or mechanism is operated from or attached to any firearm. This subsection (1)(c) does not prohibit the use of a device or mechanism registered with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives to silence, muffle, or minimize the report of a firearm when hunting wildlife. (d) while hunting or within the same calendar …
Sponsors
- Flowers, Pat (D, 31) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Died in Committee
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
- : (S) Transmitted to House
- : (S) 3rd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading
- : (S) 2nd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading
Votes
- Do Pass (February 19, 2025): 34 yea, 15 nay, passed
- Do Pass (February 18, 2025): 34 yea, 16 nay, passed
Subjects: Fish
Common questions
- What is SB63?
- SB63 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Revise law related to the use of motion-tracking devices while hunting.
- What does SB63 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act restricting the use of electronic motion-tracking devices and mechanisms while hunting; amending section 87-6-401, mca; and providing an immediate effective date.".
- What is the status of SB63?
- Failed as of May 23, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Committee (May 23, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB63?
- Flowers, Pat (D, 31).
- Where is the official record for SB63?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0506
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