# Marty Murray

Marty Murray is a Democratic member of the Missouri House for district 78.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Missouri House, district 78
- Serving since: 2025-01-08
- Current term: MO 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/f36fd5fa-6d20-43d4-9555-ce4d2d472849

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f36fd5fa-6d20-43d4-9555-ce4d2d472849 (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

Murray has served since 2025.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.61 (standard error 0.06), from 150 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 53% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (MO 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 41 bills: 40 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 67. 12.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Missouri House 32.2%; rank 110 of 150).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 3472: Modifies provisions relating to barber licensure (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3472/
- HB 3369: Prohibits the issuance of permits for construction of data centers for one year in St. Louis (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3369/
- HB 3123: Modifies provisions relating to age for school entry (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3123/
- HB 3122: Requires charter schools to obtain a certificate of need issued by the State board of education in order to be eligible to operate (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3122/
- HB 3099: Modifies provisions relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB3099/
- HB 2954: Creates provisions relating to expungement (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2954/
- HB 2953: Increases the penalty for red light offenses (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2953/
- HB 2955: Authorizes a tax credit for providing services to homeless persons (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HB2955/
- HCR 28: Designates the last week in April each year as "Infertility Awareness Week" (in committee, 2026-04-21) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HCR28/
- HJR 149: Proposes a constitutional amendment that modifies term limits for members of the general assembly (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/mo/bills/2026/HJR149/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $18.3K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 90% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://house.mo.gov/memberdetails.aspx?district=078&year=2025&code=R
- Campaign site: https://martyjoemurray.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MartyMurrayJr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011844456101
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martyjoemurray/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martymurrayjr

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f36fd5fa-6d20-43d4-9555-ce4d2d472849