# Katie Zolnikov

Katie Zolnikov is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 44.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 44
- Serving since: 2020-10-13
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/1e48939a-8455-4a22-b545-7a908f2b9462

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1e48939a-8455-4a22-b545-7a908f2b9462 (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

Zolnikov has served since 2020.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.33 (standard error 0.02), from 87 donors and 599 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 46% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.7% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 92.1% (89%). 202 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 1 bills: 1 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 893: Revise lottery state finance laws related to property tax relief (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB893/
- HB 424: Revise taxes for class 17 data center property (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB424/
- HB 270: Revise remedies to MEPA (became law, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB270/
- HB 855: Establish FWP wildlife highway crossings and accommodation account (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB855/
- HB 181: Provide authority for patrol officers to make arrests on capitol complex (became law, 2025-03-04) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB181/
- HB 211: Revise alcohol laws (became law, 2025-04-04) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB211/
- HB 123: Revise alcohol laws relating to self-service (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB123/
- HB 491: Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB491/
- HB 492: Revise municipal zoning laws related to parking requirements (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB492/
- HB 427: Require government to provide certain building code text or citation causing delay or stop (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB427/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $17.3K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 88% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/6846
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katiezolnikov/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1e48939a-8455-4a22-b545-7a908f2b9462