2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 3:23 AM Apr 27, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Local Government Committee

83 bills considered
1 awaiting hearing
1 awaiting votes
21 (25%) voted down
64 (77%) voted forward

Members (17)

10 Republicans
👤 Larry Brewster (R-Billings) – Chair
👤 Courtenay Sprunger (R-Kalispell) – Vice Chair
👤 Curtis Cochran (R-St Regis)
👤 Linda Reksten (R-Polson)
👤 Steve Gist (R-Cascade)
👤 Kerri Seekins-Crowe (R-Billings)
👤 Greg Overstreet (R-Stevensville)
👤 Marta Bertoglio (R-Clancy)
👤 Sherry Essmann (R-Billings)
👤 Steve Fitzpatrick (R-Great Falls)
7 Democrats
👤 Ed Stafman (D-Bozeman) – Vice Chair
👤 Pete Elverum (D-Helena)
👤 Peter Strand (D-Bozeman)
👤 Marc Lee (D-Butte)
👤 Kelly Kortum (D-Bozeman)
👤 Shelly Fyant (D-Arlee)
👤 Denise Joy (D-Billings)

Committee Bills (83)

🗓 Awaiting hearing (1)

Unscheduled

📋 HB 313: Establish a grant program for aquatic recreational facilities
Paul Tuss (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
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⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (1)

🚫 Withdrawn (0)

None at present

🚫 Voted down (21)

✅ Voted forward (64)

📋 SB 5: Revise compensation for county tax appeal board members
Becky Beard (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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✅House
✅Gov.
📋 SB 10: Extending onsite inspection timelines during state of emergency
Forrest Mandeville (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
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✅Gov.
📋 HJ 30: Study resolution on incentivizing housing density and affordability
Julie Darling (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✴️Senate
📋 HB 34: Revise law to establish permanent disaster resilience fund
Larry Brewster (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 37: Revise property tax information required in preliminary budgets
Greg Oblander (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✅Senate
✅Gov.
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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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