2025 ID Scorecard
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Action Date | Votes | Vote Rating | Categories | Comments |
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| H0032 | Prohibit Mask Mandates | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/05/2025 | 2 | 1 | Civil Liberties |
The bill prohibits government entities from mandating face masks, shields, or other face coverings to prevent or slow the spread of infectious diseases, with the exception of hospitals.
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| H0078 | Electronic Drivers Licenses | Dead | 03/20/2025 | 1 | -1 | Civil Liberties |
The bill creates a system to support electronic driver's licenses and identification cards, creating a potential for privacy violations and government overreach.
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| H0093 | Education Freedom Tax Credit | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 | 2 | 1 | Education |
The bill allows parents to receive a refundable tax credit of up to $5,000 per eligible student (or $7,500 for students with disabilities) for qualified educational expenses.
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| H0098 | Ban Union Payroll Deductions | Dead | 02/13/2025 | 1 | 1 | Education |
The bill restricts the use of taxpayer funds for teacher union activities and does not allow taxpayer funds to be used to deduct union dues from teachers' paychecks.
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| H0135 | Remove Taxpayer Funded Services to Illegal Immigrants | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | 1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill curbs services to illegal immigrants, ensuring that costly taxpayer-funded services like immunizations and prenatal and postnatal care are only given to lawful residents of the United States and Idaho.
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| H0138 | Reigning in Medicaid Expansion | Dead | 02/20/2025 | 1 | 1 | Healthcare |
The bill sets certain preconditions on the expansion of Medicaid, including work requirements for able-bodied people and an enrollment cap of 50,000 people.
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| H0231 | Grocery Tax Cover Bill | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/14/2025 | 2 | 0 | Economy |
This was a vote to pass a bill to keep the Grocery Tax in Idaho, one of only a few states that has a grocery tax, rather than repealing it altogether.
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| H0239 | Parental Rights in Education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 | 3 | 1 | Education |
The bill requires schools to obtain parental permission before providing any instruction related to human sexuality and to allow parents to review instructional materials.
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| H0240 | Free to Speak Bill | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2025 | 2 | 1 | Civil Liberties |
This bill creates comprehensive protections for students' First Amendment rights on higher education campuses, including abolishing so-called 'free speech zones' and allowing students to seek injunctive relief and damages if their First Amendment rights are violated.
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| H0345 | Fiscal Responsibility in Healthcare | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 | 2 | 1 | Healthcare |
The bill requires legislative approval before the Department of Health and Welfare can implement significant changes to the state's Medicaid program including Medicaid expansion limits and work requirements for able-bodied adults.
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| H0364 | Fake DOGE | Dead | 03/11/2025 | 1 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill establishes a government efficiency task force of legislators, but does so by growing the size of government. The Idaho legislature has also shown no commitment to cutting government spending as evidenced by supplementary spending this past year.
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| H0371 | Endowment Fund Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/26/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill provides an additional $86,100 to the Endowment Fund Investment Board (EFIB) instead of giving taxpayers back their money.
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| H0373 | Division of Financial Management Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/25/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill provides an additional $21,100 from the General Fund to be spent on capital outlay for the Division of Financial Management.
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| H0374 | Agricultural Research Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill provides $250,100 in additional spending for the Agricultural Research and Extension Service (ARES) for fiscal year 2026 for 'operating expenditures' and 'personnel costs'.
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| H0376 | Protecting the 2nd Amendment in Public Spaces | Dead | 03/14/2025 | 1 | 1 | Civil Liberties |
The bill removes the ban to concealed carry in public spaces.
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| H0398 | Restrictions on Petitioning Government for Redress | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | -1 | Civil Liberties |
The bill adds new restrictions with fines, fees, and penalties that limit the constitutional right to petition your government.
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| H0445 | Dept of Water Resources Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill allocates $31,097,700 from the General Fund to support department operations, including an increase of four full-time equivalent positions and $30M on 'water projects'
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| H0450 | Fish and Game Wasteful Spending | Dead | 04/01/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
Excessive spending on the Fish and Game Department amounting to $18.985 million.
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| H0451 | Education Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill spends an additional $504,900 on failing public schools while districts hold millions of taxpayer dollars in 'rainy-day' funds that could be used.
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| H0452 | Wasteful 'Digital Learning' Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill spends an additional $3,577,600 on the Idaho Digital Learning Academy
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| H0454 | Division of Teachers Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill transfers an additional $1,630,500 from the General Fund to the Public School Income Fund to support its Division of Teachers.
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| H0455 | Wasteful Spending on Green Agenda | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill appropriates an additional $75 million to the Dept. of Environmental Quality, increasing the 2025 budget by 45%
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| H0465 | Wasteful Education Spending Slush Fund | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill spends an additional $24.6 million in funding to various educational agencies and departments, rather than having separate funding bills for each agency for transparency purposes. Does not specify the express purpose of the additional funding.
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| H0468 | 'Industrial Commission' Wasteful Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/04/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill spends an additional $570,000 to the Industrial Commission on wants rather than needs.
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| HCR004 | Legislator Pay Raise | Dead | 01/24/2025 | 1 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
This resolution would solidify a 22% pay raise for Idaho's state legislators, while allowing legislators to donate their pay raise to a 'Tax Relief Fund' if they choose to. Legislators had the opportunity to vote against a pay raise, but took a cover vote to allow them to donate their pay raises back instead.
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| S1069 | More Wasteful Education Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill spends an additional $15 million and requires school districts and charter schools to establish an extended literacy intervention program.
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| S1108 | $5 Billion Department of Health Spending Spree | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/28/2025 | 2 | -1 | Healthcare |
A massive $5 billion Health and Welfare spending bill coming out to a cost of $2,500 per Idaho resident.
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| S1109 | Billion Dollar Spending Bill | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
Under the guise of economic development, the bill is a $1.4 billion grab bag of further funding to various government agencies including increased benefit costs, personnel spending increases, and contract inflation.
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| S1145 | New Early Literacy Readiness Program | Dead | 03/11/2025 | 1 | -1 | Education |
The bill establishes another education program allowing school districts and public charter schools to divert existing funding to educate the current crop of students.
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| S1147 | Education "Outcomes-based" Funding | Dead | 03/13/2025 | 1 | -1 | Education |
The bill attempts to add more money to the already bloated education budget, but conditions it on educational outcomes. All educational funding should be based on outcomes, not just supplementary spending adding on to already high education spending.
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| S1150 | Excessive Department of Agriculture Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill adds $2.877 million in funding to the 2026 base budget, including $1.05 million in increased employee compensation.
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| S1165 | Increased Behavioral Health Spending | Dead | 03/21/2025 | 2 | -1 | Healthcare |
The bill adds another $261,400 in funding for Substance Abuse Treatment & Prevention, Mental Health Services, and Psychiatric Hospitalization.
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| S1183 | Corporate Free Pass Bill | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 | 2 | -1 | Constitutional Government |
The bill effectively gives electric companies immunity from damages caused by wildfires so long as they have an approved mitigation plan with the state.
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| S1209 | Bloated Higher Ed Bureaucracy | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/14/2025 | 2 | -1 | Education |
The bill spends an additional $3.172 million to the State Board of Education and Regents for the University of Idaho system.
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