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Votes at a glance: Key House floor actions from Feb. 27, 2025
Summary
The Idaho House advanced and passed multiple bills on Feb. 27, 2025. This roundup lists major bills taken up on the floor, their outcomes and the recorded tallies where available.
BOISE — During floor sessions on Feb. 27–28, 2025, the Idaho House considered numerous measures. Below are the principal bills the House took action on, with outcomes recorded on the floor.
- House Bill 159 (child-placement language): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 nays, 2 absent/excused. Transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 78 (election-timelines consolidation): Passed; floor remarks referenced a recorded result of 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused. Transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 34 (adds wildland firefighter vehicles to definition of emergency vehicles): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused. Transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 63 (exempts nonprofit animal rescues from sales tax on adoptions/donations): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas. Transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 35 (license plate honoring historical flag motif): Passed; clerk announced passed and transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 76 (parity for out-of-state small brewers): Passed 37 yeas, 31 nays, 2 absent/excused; transmitted to the Senate.
- House Bill 2 75 (consolidation of internet-filtering policies into code): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused.
- House Bill 2 27 (removes embedded form images from UCC code text to allow Secretary of State to update forms): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused.
- House Bill 3 31 (raises cap on charter school facility financing program): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused.
- House Bill 1 50 (property-rights clarification allowing sale of sole-and-separate property in certain circumstances): Passed; clerk announced 68 yeas, 2 absent/excused.
- House Bill 2 80 (pay for legislative pages who are relatives of legislators): Passed; clerk announced 67 yeas, 3 absent/excused.
- House Bill 169 (budget timing for Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind): Passed; clerk announced 67 yeas, 3 absent/excused.
- House Bill 2 64 (single-sex occupancy for prisons, shelters and campus housing): Passed; clerk announced 61 yeas, 9 nays. Transmitted to the Senate.
Several resolutions and memorials also passed or were placed on calendars, including House Resolution 7 and House Concurrent Resolutions 6 and 7. Where floor debate was substantive, separate summaries appear in stand-alone articles.
Why it matters: The session included a mix of administrative cleanups, statutory clarifications, and policy changes with varying budget and operational impacts. Items with recorded roll-call votes are listed with tallies when given on the floor.
