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State Senator
Carl Bjerke
(R) - Idaho
Idaho Senate District 05
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P.O. Box 83720
700 W. Jefferson St.
Boise, ID 83720-0081
Phone: 208-332-1421

Coeur d’Alene Office


Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
Phone: 208-704-0925
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Vote Record By Category
Category Vote Index Total Score
Elections 0
-1
 
Taxes 0
-1
 
Climate 0
-1
 
Education 0
-4
 
Health 12
-6
 
All Bills 7
-13
 
Rated Bill Votes
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Rating Vote Comments
H0040 Amends existing law to exempt certain precious metals from capital gains tax, lower the income tax rate, and exempt certain military benefits from income taxation. Senate Third Reading 03/04/2025 -1 Yea
Reduces state revenue through changes to tax policy.
The Idaho Legislature’s 2025 Income Tax Relief Package Left Middle-Income Families Behind
H0041 Adds to existing law to allow public schools to display only certain flags and banners on school property and to prohibit schools from displaying certain flags and banners. Senate Third Reading 03/05/2025 -1 Yea
Limits student exposure to diverse perspectives and represents legislative overreach into local school control.
Flag Censorship in Schools: HB 41 Fact Sheet
H0059 Adds to existing law to establish the Medical Ethics Defense Act. Senate Third Reading 03/10/2025 -1 Yea
Allows health care providers to refuse services based on religious beliefs, undermining patient access and church–state separation.
Gov. Brad Little signs bill to let Idaho doctors refuse care if it violates beliefs
H0086 Adds to existing law to prohibit laws that require electric vehicle charging stations or parking spaces in any building plan and to provide for preemption of local laws and ordinances. Senate Third Reading 03/05/2025 -1 Yea
Discourages clean energy adoption and removes local government authority.
Idaho Profile State Profile and Energy Estimates
H0093 Adds to existing law to establish the Idaho parental choice tax credit and Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Advance Payment Fund. Senate Third Reading 02/19/2025 -1 Yea
Diverts public funds from public schools to private and religious schools without accountability.
Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Program, Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Pay for Private School Expenses
H0134 Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding breast cancer screening. Senate Third Reading 03/17/2025 1 Yea
Expands funding for enhanced breast cancer screening for individuals at higher risk.
Idaho bill to require coverage of supplemental breast cancer screening to at-risk patients advances
H0243 Amends and repeals existing law to revise provisions regarding daycare licenses. Senate Third Reading 03/14/2025 -1 Yea
Lowers child care quality by increasing child-to-provider ratios and reducing licensing standards.
House widely passes child care facility de-regulation bill
H0290 Amends and repeals existing law to revise provisions regarding immunizations in daycare and schools. Senate Third Reading 03/18/2025 -1 Yea
Rejects evidence-based policies that protect children’s health and safety.
Take Back the Power
H0339 Repeals and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the accuracy of voter registration information. Senate Third Reading 03/31/2025 -1 Yea
Unnecessarily restates constitutional provisions limiting voting to U.S. citizens.
House election bill echoes Idaho voter citizenship laws
H0345 Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide that legislative approval is required for certain state plan amendments and waivers and to provide legislative approval for certain state plan amendments and waivers. Senate Third Reading 03/11/2025 -1 Yea
Shifts Medicaid authority to the Legislature, adds work requirements, and advances privatization.
New law alters Medicaid Expansion program
H0368 Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding medical education programs supported by Idaho state funds. Senate Third Reading 03/26/2025 -1 Yea
Mandates an unnecessary review of the WWAMI program based on unfounded abortion-related concerns.
Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program
H0397 Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding civics instruction. Senate Third Reading 04/01/2025 -1 Yea Trump undertakes a MAGA-centric makeover of US civics education
S1196 Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Commission for Libraries for fiscal year 2026. Senate Third Reading 03/31/2025 -1 Yea
Provides inadequate funding by cutting requested support for digital access and local library grants.
Idaho Commission for Libraries loses $6.3 million federal grant for digital access, braces for more
S1210 Amends existing law to establish the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. Senate Third Reading 04/04/2025 -1 Yea
Restricts private businesses’ ability to protect public health and promotes anti-science policies.
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
SCR102 States findings of the Legislature and authorizes the Legislative Council to establish a committee to complete a study of Idaho's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Third Reading 01/22/2025 -1 Yea
Predetermines conclusions in a prejudicial, anti-science approach to pandemic review.
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