Montana 2025 Legislative Session

[Elky Welky]

It’s surprising that you guys spent time behind the scenes contacting reps to support 139 when you were “neutral.”

Montana BHA was neutral. One board member, our past chair @John B. Sullivan III , put his name on a letter in support, along with many other respected conservationists. His views do not reflect the views of the board nor the chapter, and are wholly his own.

 

[SAJ-99]

Indeed. It's been an unexpected pain to have to fend off all of you for being so worked up about us being neutral, while also dealing with all the other bills going on this session. 139 has been one heck of a distraction from other bills trying to take $ from Habitat Montana, gut MEPA, etc. I'm glad our time can be better spent working on the issues we care about.

And we wonder why we are always playing defense.

 

[RandanP]

Indeed. It's been an unexpected pain to have to fend off all of you for being so worked up about us being neutral, while also dealing with all the other bills going on this session. 139 has been one heck of a distraction from other bills trying to take $ from Habitat Montana, gut MEPA, etc. I'm glad our time can be better spent working on the issues we care about.

I haven’t noted any bills besides HB 5 that speak on Habitat MT. What bills deal with that?

 

[Ben Lamb]

I haven’t noted any bills besides HB 5 that speak on Habitat MT. What bills deal with that?

SB 307 reallocates the funding away from Habitat MT and other programs. It has a hearing next week.

There will likely be another bill on this coming soon.

 

[DFS]

And we wonder why we are always playing defense.

It’s a joke this bill was brought and any time was spent on it. I suspect it’s not done.

 

[cgasner1]

House Floor Session

House Floor Session - Video

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If anyone wants a listen also id recommend writing a few thank you letter tonight guys this goes round 2 at 9am tomorrow

 

[Ben Lamb]

House Floor Session

House Floor Session - Video

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If anyone wants a listen also id recommend writing a few thank you letter tonight guys this goes round 2 at 9am tomorrow

Text as well. There will be a motion to reconsider the vote around 10:30 am or so tomorrow morning. Legislators respond to text better than email.