We hope you will support or oppose (as appropriate) Idaho Legislature bills we've reviewed for 2025. We've collected the Substack Notes in one convenient place. Updated regularly. Last update 08/12/25
Quick Guide to Staying Involved in 2025 Idaho Legislature
Marathon Exhaustion
The 2025 Idaho Legislative Session began Monday, January 6, 2025 and ended Friday, April 4, 2025. WHEW, what an exhausting marathon it was! We looked at HUNDREDS of bills and commented and wrote legislators about many.
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Look to this page for…
Resources
Selected Bill Recommendations
2A Second Amendment
Crime & Illegal Immigration
Education, Family & DEI
Elections & Election Integrity
Environment, Food & Farms
Free Speech
Health & Heath Freedom
Miscellaneous + Government, State Security, Taxes, Spending & Money
In the future, we plan to use Grok AI (https://grok.com/) to help us tease out the legalese before we read a bill, after we read it, and as a guide when communicating with legislators. We will save the bill's PDF file on our computer, attach it to Grok as input, then use a query such as the following to get a summary:
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Please summarize the attached file. Do not use outside links. Create a summary paragraph, use bold headings, paragraphs and bullets for rest of file.
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📌 AI is NOT a substitute for actually reading and thinking about a bill. Sometimes AI skips important details or gets things dead wrong. So keep your brain engaged when using AI.
2025 Legislative Session Idaho Governor (includes Daily Tracking sheet of bills signed, vetoed, and unsigned. Unsigned bills automatically become law on the indicated date if not vetoed. Governor has 5 days to sign (excluding Sundays) if legislature is in session, 10 days if not.)
Contacting Your Legislators: 08/12/25 Update. Brian Almon has developed a terrific tool called Idaho Insider, which makes contacting your legislators, committees, district representatives, and more an absolute breeze. You simply click a big red button to send emails to a desired group. The tool uses your own email client, places the email addresses in the BCC list, and never goes to a third-party delivery system so is far less likely to be captured in spam filters.
💡Tip: Idaho Insider draws its data from the official Idaho legislature website and should update automatically.
Contacting Your Legislators (the old fashioned way): The Idaho Legislature website makes it fairly easy to find legislator and committee contact info (which includes photos, names, political affiliations, districts, email addresses, phone numbers, and more). This method nowhere near as handy as Idaho Insider, but it’s the “official” way to find information.
💡Tip: Many email systems enable you to create groups of email addresses; simply create a group and enter the individual email addresses for that group. Once you’ve set up a group, you can email the group without having to re-enter individual email addresses. Check your email system’s Help documentation to learn how to set up groups. But, your best bet is simply to use Idaho Insider for most group communication.
Send email to the Idaho Legislature: 03/20/25 update. We’re no longer recommending Email Idaho for sending group emails because a direct email appears to be more effective (we’ve asked Email Idaho how their delivery system works, but have not heard back).
Selected Bill Recommendations
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We’ve been cranking out and sharing our opinions on Idaho bills that are most important to us. We’re opining on bills almost as fast as they are being printed (good idea? bad idea?). Call it “Operation Warp Speed” (OWS) for bills, but let’s hope for better outcomes than OWS gave us.
Please forgive any frenzy-induced errors in our analyses or typing. We’re running as fast as we can. As always, take everything we write with several grains of salt, but know that our intentions are always honorable.
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The following recommendations appear in the order we posted them to Substack Notes.
Note: Bills marked with strikeout text are: bills revised in a later bill with the same name, bills pulled by their sponsor, or bills that were voted down or vetoed. (Some bills may appear in more than one category.)
Click image to view all Idaho 2025 Legislation by Number, Subject, Enacted Legislation, Vetoed Legislation, and Weekly Bill Status. You also can type text into Search box.
04/16/25 — We have updated final status of the bills below (on this page, but not on Substack notes due to limited time). Bills without annotation such as LAW, FAILED, ADOPTED, etc. generally either died in committee or were held in the chair person’s drawer and not heard. We hope you found this list helpful!
Click the image above or go to https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/ for the latest information. Then click various tabs to view legislation by Number, Subject, Enacted Legislation, Vetoed Legislation, and Weekly Bill Status. You also can type text into the Search box to find a bill.
We've heard that some pharmacists do not understand the new Ivermectin Law (S1211), which allows ivermectin sales over the counter, without pharmacist consultation. We've put together a one-page handout to help your pharmacist or store manager.
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See also Substack Note here: https://tinyurl.com/3s64rkcu
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📝 Disclaimer: Information is for educational purposes only. Full disclaimer: https://tinyurl.com/ycha75p5
Stand for Health Freedom: ID! Email Your House Legislators to Protect Medical Freedom (posted 03/18/25): Substack Note with Link to Petition
Almost Final Call to Action asking Governor to Sign (03/20/25): Substack Note
Idaho S1023 - Medical Freedom Act passes the House and Senate in Idaho! Dr. Ryan Cole’s message for all and to Governor Brad Little. Please share far and wide! Substack Note
chd.tv — Media Manipulation of 'Measles Death' + America Needs The Idaho Medical Freedom Act (03/26/25, video 01:17:79): Substack Note
