2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 5:44 AM Apr 15, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Rep. Bill Mercer, HD 52

Rep. Bill Mercer

Fourth-session Republican from Billings
Representing House District 52
Northwest Billings

Mercer previously served in the Montana House in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

Montana Free Press coverage

📰 2025 Legislature
Legislature advances bills loosening water quality standards
Apr 8, 2025Amanda Eggert
📰 2025 Legislature
State lawmakers vote to renew Medicaid expansion, with one eye on potential federal budget cuts
Feb 27, 2025Mara Silvers
📰 Health Care
Medicaid expansion bill passes major House vote
Feb 7, 2025Mara Silvers

Committee assignments

House Appropriations
Joint Appropriations Section B — Health and Human Services - Vice-chair

Bills sponsored

📋 HB 100: Generally revise public record laws
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
✴️Reconcil.
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 195: Revise noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 228: Revised requirements for the reporting of actual costs for legislation with projected fiscal impacts
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 253: Mandate disclosure of certain information in public health emergency
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 332: Generally revise youth court laws
1st Cmte.
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Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 342: Revise civil liability laws to provide a statutory duty of care for certain actions
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 523: Providing for disposition of abandoned graveyard lots
1st Cmte.
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Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 532: Generally revise laws related to abuse, neglect, and exploitation of incapacitated persons and vulnerable adults
1st Cmte.
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Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 539: Revise laws related to veto override polls
1st Cmte.
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✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 546: Limit study entities that may request legislation
1st Cmte.
House
✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 83%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Republicans is 88%.
🔴 89%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Republicans is 92%.
🔵 64%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Republicans is 66%.
Mercer has been marked absent or excused for 5 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 52 election results

Last in-cycle for House election in 2024. House seats are elected every two years, Senate seats every four.

General election vote, 2024

(R) BILL MERCER(R) 68%(D) 32%
Won by 35% (2,360 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) BILL MERCER(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 64%(D) 34%
Won by 30% (2,079 votes)

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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