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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GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Rep. Luke Muszkiewicz, HD 79

Rep. Luke Muszkiewicz

First-session Democrat from Helena
Representing House District 79
Southwest Helena, West Helena Valley

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

Montana Free Press coverage

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Committee assignments

House Appropriations
House Ethics
Joint Appropriations Section A — General Government

Bills sponsored

📋 HJ 28: Interim study to identify and improve access to federal grant opportunities for the state of Montana, tribal governments, and local government entities
1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 260: Revise teacher stipends for national board certification
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 265: Provide Over-BASE levy authority consistent with inflation adopted by the legislature
1st Cmte.
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⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 266: Establish education inflation reconciliation process
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 77%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Democrats is 76%.
🔴 66%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Democrats is 66%.
🔵 97%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Democrats is 95%.
Muszkiewicz has been marked absent or excused for 0 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 79 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

(D) LUKE MUSZKIEWICZ(D) 54%(R) 46%
Won by 7% (484 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(D) LUKE MUSZKIEWICZ(D) 57%(D) 37%
Won by 20% (431 votes)

Governor vote in district, 2024

(D) RYAN BUSSE(D) 51%(R) 46%
Won by 5% (359 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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