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Votes at a glance: Key bills the Idaho House passed March 28, 2025
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Summary
The House recorded final votes on several bills on March 28, including appropriations, procedural and policy measures; this roundup lists each bill, a brief description and the outcome as reported on the House floor
BOISE, Idaho — During the March 28 floor session the Idaho House recorded votes or advanced multiple bills. Below are the motions and outcomes as reported on the House floor transcript. Where the transcript did not give a clear roll‑call tally, the entry notes that the tally was not specified in the audio record.
- House Bill 4-60 (Vocational Rehabilitation budget): Passed. The transcript reports a roll call of 49 ayes, 20 nays and 1 absent. The bill includes supplemental appropriations and repayment to the federal government as described on the floor and will be transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 4-59 (Department of Labor appropriation adjustments): Passed. Roll recorded in transcript as 68 ayes, 2 absent. The bill shifts funds, reduces 15.58 FTP and provides a $4.8 million cash transfer to correct an accounting error; it also includes $161,000 for IT hardware replacement.
- Senate Bill 11-49 (property process regarding foreign ownership, as amended): Passed. The sponsor described the bill as a process bill setting procedures for Attorney General investigation and possible receivership; the roll call was recorded as 68 ayes, 2 absent.
- House Bill 96 (flag restrictions on government property, as amended in the Senate): Passed. Transcript reports 54 ayes, 13 nays and 3 absent; the bill restricts which flags government entities may fly on government property, listing the U.S. flag, military flags, POW/MIA, official tribal flags, the governmental entity’s own official flag, official flags of other countries for certain occasions and official college/university flags.
- House Bill 2-64 (privacy protections for women in prisons, juvenile facilities, domestic violence centers and university dorms, as amended in the Senate): Passed. Roll call reported as 59 ayes, 9 nays and 2 absent. Sponsors framed the bill as protecting women’s private spaces in specified settings; proponents referenced a recent Ninth Circuit decision addressing K–12 restrooms.
- House Bill 4-61 (Launch program changes and advisory board): Passed. The transcript records passage and transfer to the Senate; portions of the roll‑call lines in the audio were garbled and the precise yes/no tally was not clearly captured in the transcript excerpt provided here. The bill creates an advisory board to set a prioritization matrix for Launch grants and narrows eligibility to prioritize short, in‑demand career pathways and apprenticeships.
- Senate Bill 11-64 (building permitting modernization, as amended): Passed. Sponsors said the bill requires local governments to publish permitting processes and give a 10‑day completeness notice for residential permits and a 20‑day notice for commercial; the transcript records final passage (tally reported on floor as recorded by clerk).
- Senate Bill 11-53 (USS Idaho commemorative license plate): Passed. Sponsor described the plate design and encouraged passage; the roll was recorded and the bill passed the House.
Other items: The House introduced multiple bills for first reading (including HB 4-67, HB 4-68, HB 4-69) and held the remaining third‑reading calendar items to the March 31 calendar as ordered on the floor.
All bills recorded above that passed the House will be transmitted to the Senate for further action; the roundup above summarizes outcomes as they were announced on the House floor transcript.
