# Josh Kassmier

Josh Kassmier is a Republican member of the Montana Senate for district 13.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 13
- Serving since: 2019-01-07
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/92191849-ad4d-479b-9168-582773a9f6bb

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/92191849-ad4d-479b-9168-582773a9f6bb (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

Kassmier voted against the majority of Montana Senate Republicans 483 times; party unity 54%, in the bottom tenth of the Montana Senate (average 85%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.22 (standard error 0.01), from 139 donors and 892 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 30% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 99.1% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 54% (85%). 483 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 450: Provide friend of the court authorization for legislative officers (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB450/
- SB 517: Revise irrigation district commissioner election laws (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB517/
- SB 529: Revise campaign finance laws to limit certain tax-exempt organization contributions (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB529/
- SB 562: Require top two primary for certain offices (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB562/
- SB 81: Revise lease of state lands for underground gas storage (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB81/
- SB 71: Revise natural resource operations fee policy laws (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB71/
- SB 322: Increase business equipment tax exemption (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB322/
- SB 323: Revise individual income tax rates and earned income credit (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB323/
- SB 324: Revise vehicle registration fees and allocate revenue for bridges and victims of crime (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB324/
- SB 321: Provide tax credits for children and child care (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB321/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $54.8K (State Senate Republicans median $28.3K). 84% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/5086
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshKassmierHD27/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/92191849-ad4d-479b-9168-582773a9f6bb