# Mike Yakawich

Mike Yakawich is a Republican member of the Montana Senate for district 24.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 24
- Serving since: 2022-04-19
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/3b95ca27-a496-4781-8fda-7d98db846f50

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/3b95ca27-a496-4781-8fda-7d98db846f50 (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

Yakawich voted against the majority of Montana Senate Republicans 279 times; party unity 74%, in the bottom quarter of the Montana Senate (average 85%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.24 (standard error 0.02), from 215 donors and 300 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 31% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 99.7% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 74% (85%). 279 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:

- SB 203: Revise income tax brackets to lower income taxes (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB203/
- SB 370: Generally revise laws related to jury duty (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB370/
- SB 244: Revise laws related to health insurance coverage of behavioral health screening (passed both chambers, 2025-06-18) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB244/
- SB 398: Revise laws related to collections-related actions in municipal court (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB398/
- SB 369: Strengthen suicide prevention efforts in schools (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB369/
- SB 95: Provide funding for suicide prevention (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB95/
- SB 280: Revise domestic violence intervention grant requirements (became law, 2025-04-17) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB280/
- SB 135: Eliminate termination of chemical dependency voucher program (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB135/
- SB 144: Change name of mental health advisory council to behavioral health advisory council (became law, 2025-04-04) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB144/
- SB 113: Revise exemptions related to tow truck lien law (became law, 2025-04-18) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB113/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $43.8K (State Senate Republicans median $28.3K). 89% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/7650
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeyakawich/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeyakawich
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-yakawich-46961676/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/3b95ca27-a496-4781-8fda-7d98db846f50