Daniel Zolnikov

Thank You

I have worked hard to make Montana the most pro-active technology and privacy rights state in the nation while also successfully passing legislation that covers a variety of topics including energy, property taxes, human trafficking, housing, tourism and more. I appreciate the support I have received throughout the years. 

The House

I was first elected as a Billings Republican Representative to the Montana Legislature in 2013. During my time in the House, I served on and chaired the Energy and Technology Committee where I spent over 6 years updating and implementing energy and technology policy which included preventing the government from obtaining your digital information via electronical devices, GPS location and electronic communications. I created Montana's law enforcement team that focused solely on human trafficking and passed the nation's strongest freedom of the press bill. I successfully updated major utility and energy laws to ensure Montana had a fair, competitive resource procurement process. I also ensured your digital energy utility data was your personal property. I worked hard to ensure all Montanans were guaranteed our freedoms as technology continued to get intertwined in our lives. 

The Senate

After terming out of the House, I was elected to the Montana State Senate and successfully passed a plethora of legislation during the 2023 and 2025 legislative sessions. These bills include the nation's strongest DNA protections that give Montanans ownership of their DNA, the nation's strongest neural data bill that ensures you have ownership of your thoughts and neural data, an omnibus online privacy bill that gives Montanans rights over their online data as well as adds additional protections to children's data, the nation's leading pro-blockchain legislation, legislation that simplifies the process to build transmission lines and pipelines, legislation creating a more taxpayer friendly and functional tax appeal process, legislation that slows the growth of local governments and will lower future property tax increases, legislation that created a new tourism vision for the state of Montana, zoning legislation that allowed for mixed use and multi-family housing in commercially zoned areas as well as single stairwells for apartments, emergency housing options for victims of human trafficking and domestic violence as well as a human trafficking victim recovery program, and much more. 

Thank you for letting me continue to serve the great state of Montana.

- Daniel Zolnikov