2025 Capitol Tracker

The lawmakers, bills and votes of the 69th Montana Legislature

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Last update: 5:45 AM Apr 27, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Appropriations Committee

205 bills considered
6 awaiting hearing
0 awaiting votes
47 (23%) voted down
167 (81%) voted forward

Members (23)

13 Republicans
👤 Llew Jones (R-Conrad) – Chair
👤 Bill Mercer (R-Billings) – Vice Chair
👤 David Bedey (R-Hamilton) – Vice Chair
👤 Eric Albus (R-Glasgow)
👤 Terry Falk (R-Kalispell)
👤 John Fitzpatrick (R-Anaconda)
👤 Jane Gillette (R-Three Forks)
👤 Brad Barker (R-Red Lodge)
👤 Mike Vinton (R-Billings)
👤 Jerry Schillinger (R-Circle)
👤 Fiona Nave (R-Columbus)
👤 Ken Walsh (R-Twin Bridges)
👤 Anthony Nicastro (R-Billings)
10 Democrats
👤 Mary Caferro (D-Helena) – Vice Chair
👤 Connie Keogh (D-Missoula)
👤 Paul Tuss (D-Havre)
👤 Donavon Hawk (D-Butte)
👤 Debo Powers (D-Whitefish)
👤 Thedis Crowe (D-Browning)
👤 Luke Muszkiewicz (D-Helena)
👤 Eric Matthews (D-Bozeman)
👤 Scott Rosenzweig (D-Bozeman)
👤 Mike Fox (D-Hays)

Committee Bills (205)

🗓 Awaiting hearing (6)

Unscheduled

📋 HB 21: Establish a Montana workforce housing tax credit
Larry Brewster (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 HB 103: Creating a railroad track inspection program
Katie Zolnikov (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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⚪️Senate
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📋 HB 117: Establish criminal justice data warehouse priorities
Amy Regier (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 129: Provide income tax benefit to support emergency response volunteers
Llew Jones (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 HB 864: Authorize transfers and other necessary measure to implement HB 2 section E
David Bedey (R)📃 Bill text
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⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (0)

None at present

🚫 Withdrawn (0)

None at present

🚫 Voted down (47)

✅ Voted forward (167)

📋 HB 1: Feed bill to fund 69th legislative session and prepare for 2027
Llew Jones (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 2: General Appropriations Act
Llew Jones (R)📃 Bill text📰 3 MTFP stories
✅1st Cmte.
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✅Senate
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⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 3: Supplemental Appropriations Bill
Llew Jones (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 4: Appropriations by budget amendment
Llew Jones (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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✅Senate
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⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 5: Long-range building appropriations
John Fitzpatrick (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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About the 2025 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker

This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide Montanans with in-depth, nonpartisan news coverage.

The information presented here is collected from a variety of sources including the Montana Legislature's public roster and its official bill-tracking system. Reporting and web design were done by Jacob Olness and Eric Dietrich. Please contact them at jolness@montanafreepress.org and edietrich@montanafreepress.org with bug reports, questions or suggestions.

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