2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 11:07 PM May 31, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

Senate Legislative Administration Committee

24 bills considered
0 awaiting hearing
0 awaiting votes
5 (21%) voted down
19 (79%) voted forward

Members (6)

4 Republicans
👤 Vince Ricci (R-Billings) – Chair
👤 Daniel Emrich (R-Great Falls) – Vice Chair
👤 John Fuller (R-Kalispell)
👤 Daniel Zolnikov (R-Billings)
2 Democrats
👤 Denise Hayman (D-Bozeman) – Vice Chair
👤 Mary Ann Dunwell (D-Helena)

Committee Bills (24)

🗓 Awaiting hearing (0)

Unscheduled

None at present
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⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (0)

None at present

🚫 Withdrawn (0)

None at present

🚫 Voted down (5)

📋 HJ 38: Interim study on bolstering public participation in the session/legislature
Jonathan Karlen (D)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
❌Senate
📋 SB 68: Eliminate the ability of certain committees to meet during a legislative session
Derek Harvey (D)📃 Bill text
❌1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Reconcil.
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 348: Revise special session polling laws
George Nikolakakos (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✅Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 SB 506: Authorize legislators to use e-mail account of choice for electronic communications
Shane Morigeau (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
❌1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Reconcil.
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 674: Revise code commissioner duties to include repealing unconstitutional policies from Montana code
Zooey Zephyr (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
❌Senate
⚪️Reconcil.
⚪️Gov.
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✅ Voted forward (19)

📋 SJ 6: Joint resolution for legislature's consent and approval long-range legislative branch capitol development plan
Sue Vinton (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
✅House
📋 SJ 10: Joint resolution honoring NCSL's 50th anniversary
Barry Usher (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
✅House
📋 SJ 22: Joint resolution to repeal the 17th amendment to the US constitution
Greg Hertz (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
❌Senate
⚪️House
📋 SJ 28: Interim study resolution on the legislature's ethics processes
Pat Flowers (D)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
✅House
📋 HJ 40: Interim study on transferring fiscal note production from executive branch to legislative branch
Katie Sullivan (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✅Senate
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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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