2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 11:07 PM May 9, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

Senate Natural Resources Committee

86 bills considered
1 awaiting hearing
7 awaiting votes
9 (10%) voted down
72 (84%) voted forward

Members (11)

7 Republicans
👤 Wylie Galt (R-Martinsdale) – Chair
👤 Mike Cuffe (R-Eureka) – Vice Chair
👤 Bruce "Butch" Gillespie (R-Ethridge)
👤 Daniel Zolnikov (R-Billings)
👤 Mark Noland (R-Bigfork)
👤 Barry Usher (R-Laurel)
👤 Sue Vinton (R-Billings)
4 Democrats
👤 Shane Morigeau (D-Missoula) – Vice Chair
👤 Willis Curdy (D-Missoula)
👤 Pat Flowers (D-Belgrade)
👤 Derek Harvey (D-Butte)

Committee Bills (86)

🗓 Awaiting hearing (1)

Unscheduled

📋 SB 186: Provide for expedited processing in district courts of water cases arising under final decrees
Barry Usher (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (7)

📋 SR 18: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of environmental review
Wylie Galt (R)📃 Bill text
❌1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
📋 SR 25: Confirm governor's appointees for the hard-rock mining impact board
Wylie Galt (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
📋 SR 43: Confirm governor's appointees for board of water well contractors
Wylie Galt (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
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📋 SR 77: Confirm governor's appointee for director of the department of environmental quality
Wylie Galt (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
📋 SR 85: Confirm governor's appointee for director of the department of natural resources and conservation
Wylie Galt (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅Senate
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🚫 Withdrawn (0)

None at present

🚫 Voted down (9)

📋 SB 71: Revise natural resource operations fee policy laws
Josh Kassmier (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
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📋 SB 123: Allowing emergency permitting authority during an emergency
Forrest Mandeville (R)📃 Bill text
❌1st Cmte.
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📋 SB 304: Revise Montana lakeshore laws
Dave Fern (D)📃 Bill text
❌1st Cmte.
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📋 SB 349: Declare authority over existing fossil-fuel fired electric generating units
Jeremy Trebas (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note🏛 Legal note
❌1st Cmte.
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📋 SB 381: Provide for Montana’s future homesteading act
Daniel Emrich (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
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✅ Voted forward (72)

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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