2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 9:36 AM Feb 5, 2025
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🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Sen. Daniel Zolnikov, SD 22

Sen. Daniel Zolnikov

Sixth-session Republican from Billings
Representing Senate District 22
North Billings, Shepherd

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

Committee assignments

Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs
Senate Natural Resources
Senate Energy and Telecommunications - Chair 🪑
Senate Committee on Committees
Senate Legislative Administration

Bills sponsored

📋 SB 22: Revise class d motor carrier deadline adjustment laws
1st Cmte.
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📋 SB 23: Increase thresholds for railroad accident reporting requirements
1st Cmte.
Senate
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⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 24: Increase penalties for blocked railroad crossings
1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 51: Revising telecommunications provider registration laws
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 117: Revise government entity limitations on property tax increases
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 118: Generally revise student data laws to enhance privacy
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 163: Generally revise privacy laws related to biometric, genetic, and neural data
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 212: Creating the Right to Compute Act and requiring shutdowns of AI controlled critical infrastructure
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 213: Revise the state building code to allow single stairwells in certain buildings
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 217: Establish work time credit for probationers and parolees
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 152 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 86%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Republicans is 89%.
🔴 95%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Republicans is 92%.
🔵 61%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Republicans is 62%.
Zolnikov has been marked absent or excused for 0 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 0.8.

SD 22 election results

Last in-cycle for Senate election in 2022. House seats are elected every two years, Senate seats every four.

General election vote, 2022

(R) DANIEL ZOLNIKOV(R) 66%(D) 34%
Won by 31% (2,324 votes)

Party primary vote, 2022

(R) DANIEL ZOLNIKOV(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 65%(D) 33%
Won by 32% (3,362 votes)
Senators elected in 2022 were assigned new districts during the 2023 redistricting cycle.

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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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