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2025 ID Scorecard

Bill Bill Name Progress Action Date Votes Vote Rating Categories Comments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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'
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.
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.
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
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.
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%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.