# Tom France

Tom France is a Democratic member of the Montana House for district 99.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Montana House, district 99
- Serving since: 2021-01-04
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d7ca6eb8-615f-4b3c-8651-3a5f86577f0a

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d7ca6eb8-615f-4b3c-8651-3a5f86577f0a (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

France missed 2.0% of 2,755 roll calls, attendance in the bottom quarter of the Montana House (average 99.2%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.51 (standard error 0.02), from 406 donors and 585 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 67% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 98.0% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 93.7% (89%). 97 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 813: Provide for the agricultural emissions right to repair act (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB813/
- HJ 73: Study resolution on block management funding and participation (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ73/
- HB 559: Revise river usage laws related to commercial fishing, outfitting, and guiding (in committee, 2025-02-21) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB559/
- HB 622: Generally revise protection order laws (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB622/
- HB 372: Revise license fees used for funding of upland game bird enhancement program (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB372/
- HB 857: Establishing a surcharge for hunters and anglers who lease land (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB857/
- HB 560: Establish the Montana hunters and anglers community fund (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB560/
- HB 960: Revise property tax laws to provide for recreational land classification (in committee, 2023-05-03) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB960/
- HB 846: Resident bonus point system for Smith River (became law, 2023-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB846/
- HB 776: Provide for the long-term development of a statewide bike trail (in committee, 2023-05-03) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB776/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $19.5K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 76% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://archive.legmt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/6877
- Campaign site: https://tomfranceforhd94.com
- X: https://x.com/tomfrancemtleg
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tom.france.180
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-france-6711ba8/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d7ca6eb8-615f-4b3c-8651-3a5f86577f0a