2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 3:08 PM May 9, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Education Committee

96 bills considered
1 awaiting hearing
2 awaiting votes
17 (18%) voted down
77 (80%) voted forward

Members (15)

9 Republicans
👤 Linda Reksten (R-Polson) – Chair
👤 Randyn Gregg (R-White Sulphur Springs) – Vice Chair
👤 Marta Bertoglio (R-Clancy)
👤 Kerri Seekins-Crowe (R-Billings)
👤 Melissa Nikolakakos (R-Great Falls)
👤 Sherry Essmann (R-Billings)
👤 Greg Overstreet (R-Stevensville)
👤 Lee Deming (R-Laurel)
👤 Eric Tilleman (R-Cascade)
6 Democrats
👤 Melissa Romano (D-Helena) – Vice Chair
👤 Jamie Isaly (D-Bozeman)
👤 Mark Thane (D-Missoula)
👤 Peter Strand (D-Bozeman)
👤 Jennifer Lynch (D-Butte)
👤 Pete Elverum (D-Helena)

Committee Bills (96)

🗓 Awaiting hearing (1)

Unscheduled

📋 HB 405: Increase on-schedule reimbursement rates for school transportation
Mark Thane (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (2)

🚫 Withdrawn (3)

🚫 Voted down (17)

📋 HB 51: Increase MUS-RP supplemental contribution to TRS
Eric Matthews (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 SB 138: Revise education laws related to a teacher's authority to maintain a positive classroom environment
Russ Tempel (R)📃 Bill text
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📋 HB 138: Clarify the duties the superintendent of public instruction and the board of public education.
David Bedey (R)📃 Bill text
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📋 HB 153: Revise laws related to the school funding interim commission.
David Bedey (R)📃 Bill text
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📋 SB 215: Revise the definition of public school system and requirements of school funding formula
Becky Beard (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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✅ Voted forward (77)

📋 SJ 7: Joint resolution to support shooting competition as a collegiate sport
John Fuller (R)📃 Bill text
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📋 HB 15: Implement K-12 Inflation
David Bedey (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 HB 24: Clarify laws related to kindergarten
Melissa Romano (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 HB 28: Clarify timelines and opening procedures for public charter schools
David Bedey (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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📋 HJ 31: Joint resolution honoring educational support professionals
Denise Joy (D)📃 Bill text
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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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