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)
Sen. Carl Glimm, SD 3

Sen. Carl Glimm

Seventh-session Republican from Kila
Representing Senate District 3
Hungry Horse, Central Flathead Valley

Glimm previously served in the Montana Senate in 2021 and 2023, as well as the House in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Montana Free Press coverage

📰 2025 Legislature
State lawmakers vote to renew Medicaid expansion, with one eye on potential federal budget cuts
Feb 27, 2025Mara Silvers
📰 Health Care
Lawmakers in GOP-held Senate signal openness to continuing Medicaid expansion
Feb 12, 2025Mara Silvers
📰 2025 Legislature
Medicaid expansion bills spur hours of testimony in first hearings
Jan 22, 2025Mara Silvers
📰 2025 Legislature
Bed-tax-to-property-tax-relief proposal slammed by tourism advocates
Jan 20, 2025Eric Dietrich

Committee assignments

Senate Finance and Claims - Chair 🪑
Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
Senate Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
Senate Committee on Committees
Senate Rules
Joint Appropriations Section B — Health and Human Services

Bills sponsored

📋 SB 48: Generally revise laws relating to Judicial Standards Commission complaints
1st Cmte.
Senate
House
✴️Gov.
📋 SB 62: Provide for phaseout of Medicaid expansion program
1st Cmte.
Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 90: Redistribute certain state tax revenue to primary residence property tax relief
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 136: Prohibit consent as a defense for physician assisted suicide
1st Cmte.
Senate
House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 436: Generally revise laws relating to exempt wells
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 437: Revise definition of sex in Montana law
1st Cmte.
Senate
House
✴️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 1,931 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 77%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Republicans is 86%.
🔴 87%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Republicans is 89%.
🔵 57%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Republicans is 69%.
Glimm has been marked absent or excused for 3 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 21.0.

SD 3 election results

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

General election vote, 2024

(R) CARL GLIMM(R) 70%(D) 30%
Won by 40% (5,490 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) CARL GLIMM(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 69%(D) 29%
Won by 40% (5,696 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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