Idaho Legislature 2025 Bills to Support or Oppose

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 02/22/25

Quick Guide to Staying Involved in 2025 Idaho Legislature

Dear Readers,

02/21/25 If we are unable to evaluate future new bills in depth, we will provide high-level YES/NO recommendations and direct links to bills we consider worthy of attention. These are marked with ℹ️ symbols.

For in-depth info about what’s happening with the 2025 legislature, please visit Gem State Chronicle or Gem State Substack (Brian Almon). Also see the Idaho Bill Trackers & Analysis section of our Idaho Voting Guide.

• Health Freedom & Other Solutions for Idaho & Beyond

• Idaho Legislature Website

• Mini Directory - summary of legislator information

• Bill Trackers:

  • 🔥Bill Track 50 (BillTrack50) — powered by Legiscan — is one of the best US bill trackers on the planet. Sign up for a free account or pay subscription fee for more features. Start Tracking | Substack Note

  • 2025 Legislation by Bill Number (minidata)

  • Idaho Legislature 2025 My Bill Tracker (set up a free account and receive status emails about bills you care about)

  • Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF)

    • 2025 Bill Analyses

    • Idaho Legislature Bill Ratings and Analyses are Flowing (Substack Note)

  • Gem State Chronicle 2025 Session Snapshot: https://gemstatechronicle.com/session-snapshot/

• How To Be an Effective Legislative Advocate. By Dawn Richardson, National Vaccine Information Center (02/12/25, video 50:39, includes transcript)

• How to Testify at the Idaho State Legislature

  • Gem State Chronicle: How to Testify at the Idaho State Legislature. By Brian Almon (12/27/24)

  • Idaho Freedom Foundation — Bill Analyses

  • Idaho Freedom Foundation — Legislature 101:

    • 01/09/25, video 30:05 includes transcript: https://youtu.be/u4eIOmnZUkw?feature=shared

    • 01/08/24, video 56:47 includes transcript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7U3CWo9uew

• Idaho Family Strong Training Videos (under 3 minutes each): https://idahofamilystrong.org/training-videos/

• Send email to the Idaho House, Idaho Senate, Both, or specified House or Senate Committee: https://emailidaho.com/

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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.)

2A Second Amendment

• YES on H0272 - Second amendment financial privacy

• YES on H0048 - Concealed weapons, instruction

• YES on S1008 - Colleges, concealed weapons

• YES on S1009 - Militia, prohibition, repeal

Crime & Illegal Immigration

• YES on H0285 - Terrorist control act

• YES on H0252 - Unauthorized workers, verification

• YES on HJR003 - Illegal drugs, legislature - Constitutional Amendment

• YES on H0135 - Public benefits lawful presence

• YES on S1039 - Immigration enforcement

• YES on H0083 - Immigration, illegal entry

• YES on H0007 - Marijuana possession, fine amount - PASSED

• YES for S1019 - False report, explosives, emergency

• YES on H0011 - Immigration

Education, Family & DEI

• YES on H0263 - Animal adoption fees, exempt

• YES on H0269 - Launch, sunset date

• VOTE YES on H0264 - Privacy of women, facilities

• NO on H0245 - Foster care

• NO on H0239 - Human sexuality, permission

• YES on H0229 - Schools, wireless devices

• NO on H0075 - Public schools, facilities funding

• VOTE NO on S1057 - Child tax credit, preborn child

• NO on H0225 - Mobile device policy fund

• NO on S1096 - Ed funding, weighted per-student

• NO on S1094 - Supplemental school levies

• NO on S1093 - Adult students high school diploma

• NO on S1068 - Parent-supported instruction, funds

• YES on SCR108 - PragerU Kids

• YES on H0190 - Privacy of women, facilities

• NO on H0179 - Education, sexuality, permission

• YES on H0178 - Campuses, free speech

• NO on S1069 - Literacy intervention

• NO on H0093 - Idaho parental choice tax credit - PASSED (House 42 - 28; Senate 20-15)

• YES on S1048 - Higher ed, freedom of inquiry (no DEI)

• NO on H0162 - School Bible reading, required

• YES on HJR001 - Education, compulsory, parents - Constitutional Amendment - FAILED (House 46 - 23 - 1 absent)

• YES on H0096 - Govt entities, flag displays

• YES on H0041 - Flags, public schools

• NO on S1032 - Distraction-free learning policy

• NO on H0164 - Idaho education opportunity program

• NO on S1025 - Empowering parents grant program - FAILED SENATE 6-28-1

• YES on S1007 - School boards, meetings

• NO on S1004 - Sexual orientation, gender identity

Election Integrity

• YES ON S1117 - Initiative petition fiscal note

• YES on H0254 - Ballots, anti-fraud measures

• YES on H0139 - Absentee ballots

• YES on H0114 - Candidates, filling vacancies

• YES on S1049 - Voting, affidavit, repeal

• YES on H0094 - Voting, citizens only

• YES on SJR101 - Initiatives, signatures

• YES on H0085 - Initiative petition, governor, veto

• YES on H0002 - Initiative petition, vote threshold

• YES for H0095 - Ballot identification

Environment, Food & Farms

• NO on H0231 - Food tax credit

• YES on H0191 - Water resource board term limits

• YES on S1065 - Weather modification | 🔥 Call to Action - Ask Committee to Hear!

• YES on S1064 - Cloud seeding | 🔥 Call to Action - Ask Committee to Hear!

• YES on S1063 - Urban ag, small-scale livestock

• YES on S1026 - Urban ag, livestock, chickens

• NO on H0061 - Food tax credit

Free Speech

• YES on S1001 Public expression protection

• YES on H0228 - Public meetings public comment

• YES on H0178 - Campuses, free speech

• YES on S1007 - School boards, meetings

Health & Heath Freedom

• YES on H0241 - Public health district boards

• 🔥NO on H0207 - Emergency medical services, REPLICA Compact

• 🔥NO on H0206 - Emergency medical services

• NO on H0180 - Broadband infrastructure

• YES on H0090 - Public assistance legislative actn

• YES on HJR003 - Illegal drugs, legislature - Constitutional Amendment

• YES on S1059 - Preborn children

• YES on H0131 - Blood donations, vaccine disclosure

• YES on SCR104 – Nuremberg Code

🔥🙏🔥🙏 URGENT - Please SHARE and CALL re: S1036 - Human gene therapy, moratorium 🔥🙏🔥🙏 (posted 02/20/25)

• 🔥YES on S1036 - Human gene therapy, moratorium

• YES on S1038 - World hlth org mandates

• YES on S1031 - Dist bds of hlth, powers and duties

• YES on H0058 - Medicaid expansion, repeal

• YES on H0024 - Alternative Animal Proteins

• YES on HCR005 - Anthony Fauci, state crimes

• YES on S1023 - Medical freedom

• YES on S1022 - Patient medical rights

• YES on H0059 - Medical ethics defense act

• NO on H0060 - Cardiac arrest prevention, training

• YES on SCR102 - COVID-19, study committee - PASSED House & Senate

• YES on S1010 - World health organization, jurisdiction

• YES on H0032 - Mask mandates, prohibition | 🔥 Ask Governor Little to Sign

Miscellaneous + Government, State Security, Taxes, Spending & Money

• YES on H0283 - Governor personnel

• YES on H0263 - Animal adoption fees, exempt

• NO on H0244 - Illegal electronic smoking devices

• YES on H0221 - State assets, foreign adversaries

• YES on H0228 - Public meetings public comment

• 🔥NO on H0206 - Emergency medical services

• YES on HCR009 - Article V convention, commissioners

• NO on HCR010 - Article V convention

• NO on S1077 - Crisis pregnancy centers, abortion

• NO on H0199 - Medical assistance, refugees

• YES on H0190 - Privacy of women, facilities

• NO on H0180 - Broadband infrastructure

• NO on S1072 - Too great for hate license plates

• YES on H0090 - Public assistance legislative actn

• NO on S1071 - Vision health, donations

• YES on H0177 - Gold and silver, legal tender

• YES on H0159 - Child protection, removal

• YES on S1052 - Health and welfare, bureau chiefs

• YES on H0130 - Property tax exemption, hospitals

• YES on H0140 - Daylight saving time exemption

• YES on H0097 - Evac order, voluntary noncompliance

• NO on H0078 - Electronic driver's licenses, IDs

• YES for H0096 - Govt entities, flag displays

• YES on H0045 - Govt entities, flag displays

• NO on H0017 - Wildfire, insurance pool

• YES on H0086 - Electric vehicles, local preemption

• YES on H0018 - Electric vehicles, local preemption