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 06/11/25
Quick Guide to Staying Involved in 2025 Idaho Legislature
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
Resources
For in-depth info about what’s happening with the 2025 legislature, please visit Gem State Chronicle or Gem State Substack (Brian Almon). For a summary of important liberty, freedom, and general bills, resolutions, and memorials, see Rep. Heather Scott’s article: Trump Fever! Year End Re-Cap of the 2025 Idaho Legislative Session. Also see the Idaho Bill Trackers & Analysis section of our Idaho Voting Guide.
Idaho Legislative Budget Books (big and scary)
2025 Regular Legislative Session Main page
You’ll find…
Bill Center - text, history, statements of purpose, fiscal notes of legislation
Legislation by Bill Number (Mini-Data)
Legislation By Subject/Topic
Enacted Legislation - bills passed and filed with the Secretary of State
Vetoed Legislation - bills passed by the Legislature and vetoed by the Governor
Ongoing Weekly Bill Status
Key Actions - key pieces of legislation passed during the 2025 legislative session
Calendars and Agendas - House and Senate reading calendars and committee agendas
House and Senate Journals - daily record of the business of the House and Senate
Committee Minutes - minutes of House and Senate standing committees
Administrative Rules Reviewed - state agency rules received during 2024 interim
Administrative Rules Review Books - state agency rules received during interim
Legislative Directory - legislator, state agencies, and legislative staff information
Mini Directory - summary of legislator information
Progress Report - week-to-week comparison and count of prepared legislation
Bill Trackers:
🔥Bill Track 50 (BillTrack50). Sign up for a free account or pay subscription fee for more features. Start Tracking | Substack Note
🔥FastDemocracy. Sign up for a free account or pay subscription fee for more features. Start Tracking | Substack Note
2025 Legislation by Bill Number (minidata)
2025 Legislation passed into Law (click ENACTED LEGISLATION tab)
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.)
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 — especially consider IFF’s spending bill analyses, which we did not cover due to our non-mathematical brain
Chairman’s Drawer — Bills that have been Blocked / Delayed / Held in Drawer by Chairman during the 2025 Session
Idaho Legislature Bill Ratings and Analyses are Flowing (Substack Note)
Gem State Chronicle 2025 Session Snapshot: https://gemstatechronicle.com/session-snapshot/
Secure Idaho: https://www.secureidaho.org/legislative-updates
🤑 Follow the Money 👣
Who could be influencing legislators? Resources & tools
Idaho Legislature: Follow the Money + Transparency in the Idaho Legislature (our opinion, posted 02/24/25)
How a Bill Becomes Law. By Idaho State Legislature.
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 — 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/
☎️📧 Contacting Your Idaho Legislators
(posted 03/20/25)
Send email to the Idaho Legislature: 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).
Contacting Your Legislators: The Idaho Legislature website makes it easy to find legislator and committee contact info (which includes photos, names, political affiliations, districts, email addresses, phone numbers, and more).
House: Members | Leadership | Committees
Group Email - House: housemembers@lso.idaho.gov
Senate: Members | Leadership | Committees
Group Email - Senate: senatemembers@lso.idaho.gov
💡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.
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.)
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.
2A Second Amendment
Crime & Illegal Immigration
MAYBE on S1141 - Public camping ban, statewide (amended, needs another amendment) - LAW
YES on HJR004 - Narcotics, Legislature Authority — Constitutional Amendment - ADOPTED
YES on H0252 - Unauthorized workers, verification (E-Verify)
YES on HJR003 - Illegal drugs, legislature - Constitutional Amendment - REPLACED BY HJR004 - ADOPTED
Education, Family & DEI
NO on S1199 - Idaho parental rights act (amended 03/31/25, but still NO)
NO on S1176 - Pub charter schools, virtual prgms - replaced by almost identical bill S1188
YESDelete amendment on S1142 - Empowering parents program, repeal - Amended so no longer acceptable - LAWNO on SCR105 - Adoption, federal funds, supporting - ADOPTED
YES on H0263 - Animal adoption fees, exempt- Replaced by H0457NO on S1096 - Ed funding, weighted per-student (slightly amended)
YES on HJR001 - Education, compulsory, parents- Constitutional Amendment -FAILED
Elections & Election Integrity
See also Secure Idaho: https://www.secureidaho.org/legislative-updates
MAYBE on H0339 - Accuracy of voter registrations – with reservations (amended) - LAW
YES on H0254 - Ballots, anti-fraud measures- Likely REPLACED by H0310
Environment, Food & Farms
YES on H0404 - Chicken ownership | 03/18/25 Call to Action - FAILED
YES on S1065 - Weather modification | 🔥 Call to Action - Ask Committee to Hear!
NO on S1064 - Cloud seeding | 🔥 Call to Action - Testify! | ⚠️03/10/25 Update: See New Substack Note here
YES on S1026 - Urban ag, livestock, chickens - 🔥 Call to Action - Ask Committee to “Untable”
Free Speech
YES on S1001 - Public expression protection (anti-SLAPP) - LAW
Health & Heath Freedom
YES on S1211 – Ivermectin, consumer purchase | CALL TO ACTION — LAW (notes updated as needed)
YES on H0472 – Medical Freedom— 04/03/25 More craziness going on — can’t keep up. Updated again on 04/04/25.🔥YES on S1210aa - Medical freedom - replaces S1023, H0472 (posted 04/01/25, updated 04/02/25, 04/04/25, 04/05/25) — LAW (read article)
YES on S1189 - Gene therapy, waiver of immunity (posted 03/26/25)
🔥AMEND S1014 - Newborns, required tests (CALL TO ACTION: 03/17/25 Substack Note) - LAW
YES on H0345 - Medicaid, amendments, leg approval (see also YES on H0138 - Medicaid expansion, conditions | Related: Substack Note) - LAW
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NOYES on H0290 - Immunizations, daycare and school | CALL TO ACTION: 03/17/25 Substack Note - LAWOn 04/07/25 and 04/08/25 we learned new info about why H0290 was a good idea.
YES on H0241 - Public health district boards - Similar to replacement bill H0366
🔥NO on H0207 - Emergency medical services, REPLICA Compact - LAW
NO on H0180 - Broadband infrastructure (amended) - LAW
YES on HJR003 - Illegal drugs, legislature - Constitutional Amendment
YES on H0131 - Blood donations, vaccine disclosure— Killed in Senate after passing HouseYES on H0313 - Sudden cardiac arrest education(with reservations)- FAILEDYES on H0138 - Medicaid expansion, conditions (see also YES on H0345 - Medicaid, amendments, leg approval)
YES on S1036 - Human gene therapy, moratorium | Call to action 02/20/25 | Will not be heard (03/13/25)
🔥YES on S1031 - Dist bds of hlth, powers and duties | CALL TO ACTION: 03/17/25 Substack Note — LAW
🔥YES on S1023 - Medical freedom- VETOED— SEE NEW S1210 replacement, which became LAW (above)CALL TO ACTION 03/14/25: Substack Note
CALL TO ACTION 03/17/25: Substack Note
More detailed CALL TO ACTION 03/17/25: Substack Note
Sasha Latypova Call to Action: Substack Note
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
Op-Ed: The Medical Freedom Act. By Idaho GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon
🥹⚕️Don't Let Big Pharma and Big Business Win in Idaho... (03/29/25)
Full Substack Article: 🥹⚕️Don't Let Big Pharma, Big Business, and Big Hospital Win in Idaho... (03/29/25, 03/30/25)
NO on H0060 - Cardiac arrest prevention, training- REPLACED by H0313
Miscellaneous + Government, State Security, Taxes, Spending & Money
See Health & Heath Freedom for Medicaid and Emergency Medical Services bills
YES on HJR006 - Official language, English – Constitutional Amendment - ADOPTED (for upcoming ballot)
NOYES on H0356 - State assets, foreign adversaries - amended by Senate 04/03/25 - LAWYES on H0343 - Boards, compensation, benefits - Likely replaced by H0411, H323, H440
NO on H0301 - State procurement- FAILEDYES on HCR009 - Article V convention, commissioners- FAILEDNO on HCR010 - Article V convention- FAILEDNO on H0078 - Electronic driver's licenses, IDs - FAILED in committee