# Dennis Lenz

Dennis Lenz is a Republican member of the Montana Senate for district 25.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 25
- Serving since: 2023-01-02
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/0fd1ad64-349c-42d9-ae46-4ff7d3eb9495

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/0fd1ad64-349c-42d9-ae46-4ff7d3eb9495 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Lenz has served since 2023.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.49 (standard error 0.02), from 259 donors and 897 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 69% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 99.5% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 95.1% (85%). 253 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 15 bills: 15 reached committee, 14 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 100.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Montana Senate 96.6%; rank 5 of 10).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 107: Confirm the governor's appointee for the board of dentistry (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR107/
- SR 104: Confirm governor's appointee for director of the department of public health and human services (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR104/
- SR 86: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of medical examiners (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR86/
- SR 33: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of optometry (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR33/
- SR 22: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of medical examiners (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR22/
- SR 20: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of nursing (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR20/
- SR 46: Confirm governor's appointees for board of speech-language pathologists and audiologists (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR46/
- SR 68: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of massage therapy (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR68/
- SR 50: Confirm governor's appointees for board of physical therapy examiners (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR50/
- SR 27: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of nursing home administrators (passed one chamber, 2025-04-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR27/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $30.6K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/7547
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dennis.lenz.37

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/0fd1ad64-349c-42d9-ae46-4ff7d3eb9495