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. Eric Albus, HD 28

Rep. Eric Albus

First-session Republican from Glasgow
Representing House District 28
Chester, Chinook, Malta, Opheim

2025 is the first session Albus has served in the Legislature.

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Committee assignments

House Appropriations
Joint Appropriations Section C — Natural Resources and Transportation

Bills sponsored

📋 HB 104: Generally revise power and duties of agents
1st Cmte.
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Gov.
📋 HB 105: Revise laws related to game bird farms
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 106: Revise laws related to shooting preserve requirements
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Reconcil.
Gov.
📋 HB 107: Revising licensing requirements for commercial activities regulated by FWP
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 124: Require bicycles to go opposite the flow of traffic
1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 450: Generally revise bird dog training licensing laws
1st Cmte.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 90%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Republicans is 88%.
🔴 93%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Republicans is 92%.
🔵 68%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Republicans is 66%.
Albus has been marked absent or excused for 18 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 28 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) ERIC ALBUS(R) 77%(D) 23%
Won by 54% (2,893 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) ERIC ALBUS(R) 41%(R) 33%(R) 26%
Won by 7% (205 votes)

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 78%(D) 20%
Won by 57% (3,160 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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