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. Paul Fielder, HD 14

Rep. Paul Fielder

Third-session Republican from Thompson Falls
Representing House District 14
Noxon, Trout Creek, Thompson Falls, Plains

Fielder previously served in the Montana House in 2021 and 2023.

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Committee assignments

House Taxation - Chair 🪑
House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
House Rules

Bills sponsored

📋 HB 57: Designate quail as upland game bird
1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 95: Revise law related to damage-based muskrat and beaver harvesting
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 96: Create a trapper apprentice program
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 258: Requiring the extension of wolf hunting season
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Reconcil.
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 259: Revise fish and wildlife commission techniques for gray wolf management
1st Cmte.
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Senate
Reconcil.
✴️Gov.
📋 HB 295: Revise laws related to judicial transparency and elections
1st Cmte.
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📋 HB 817: Generally revise laws related to hunting licenses for terminally ill youth.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 81%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Republicans is 88%.
🔴 90%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Republicans is 92%.
🔵 58%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Republicans is 66%.
Fielder has been marked absent or excused for 23 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 14 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) PAUL C FIELDER(R) 75%(D) 25%
Won by 50% (3,423 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) PAUL C FIELDER(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 76%(D) 21%
Won by 56% (3,964 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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