---
type: "Bill"
title: "COVENANTS NOT TO COMPETE – Amends existing law to provide applicability and to remove a provision regarding rebuttable presumptions."
description: "COVENANTS NOT TO COMPETE – Amends existing law to provide applicability and to remove a provision regarding rebuttable presumptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S 1287"
citation: "Idaho S 1287 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONTRACTS", "EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES", "LABOR", "UNFAIR COMPETITION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7927dd4a-ab93-4973-ba7a-ca1b06cbbaff"
source_url: "http://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2018/legislation/S1287/"
source_hash: "de0ba68f21fbffa9b022ac81b376d8e48347c15e271dedb8e27e000e191b70a7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-id"]
---

# Idaho S 1287 (2018) — COVENANTS NOT TO COMPETE – Amends existing law to provide applicability and to remove a provision regarding rebuttable presumptions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2018/legislation/S1287.pdf)
2. **Engrossment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2018/legislation/S1287E1.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full as amended – — **29–5** (pass) · upper
- Read Third Time in Full – — **54–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-09** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2018-02-12** Reported Printed; referred to Commerce & Human Resources
- **2018-02-23** Reported out of committee; to 14th Order for amendment
- **2018-02-28** Placed in the Committee of the Whole
- **2018-02-28** Reported out without recommendation, as amended
- **2018-02-28** Amendments ordered printed; referred for engrossment
- **2018-02-28** Amendments reported printed
- **2018-02-28** Reported engrossed, filed for first reading, as amended
- **2018-02-28** Read first time as amended, filed for Second Reading
- **2018-03-01** Read second time as amended, filed for Third reading
- **2018-03-05** Read third time in full as amended – PASSED - 29-5-1AYES – Agenbroad, Bayer, Brackett, Buckner-Webb, Burgoyne, Crabtree, Den Hartog, Foreman, Guthrie, Hagedorn, Heider, Johnson, Jordan, Keough, Lakey, Lee, Lodge, Martin, Mortimer, Nonini, Nye, Patrick, Potts, Souza, Stennett, Thayn, Vick, Ward-Engelking, WinderNAYS – Bair, Harris, Hill, Rice, SiddowayAbsent and excused – AnthonFloor Sponsor - GuthrieTitle apvd - to House `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2018-03-06** Read First Time, Held at Desk
- **2018-03-06** Bill Previously Held at Desk, Referred to Business
- **2018-03-14** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading
- **2018-03-16** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar until Monday, March 19, 2018
- **2018-03-19** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
- **2018-03-20** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 54-14-2AYES – Amador, Anderson, Armstrong, Barbieri, Bell, Burtenshaw, Chaney, Cheatham, Chew, Clow, Collins, Dayley, Dixon, Ehardt, Erpelding, Gannon(17), Gannon(5), Gestrin, Giddings, Hanks, Harris, Hartgen, Holtzclaw, Kauffman, Kerby, King, Kingsley, Kloc(Tway), Loertscher, Luker, Malek, Manwaring, McCrostie, Mendive, Miller, Nate, Packer, Perry, Redman, Rubel, Scott, Shepherd, Smith, Stevenson, Syme, Thompson, Toone, VanOrden, Wagoner, Wintrow, Wood, Zito, Zollinger, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – Anderst, Blanksma, Boyle, Crane, DeMordaunt, McDonald, Monks, Moon, Moyle, Palmer, Raybould, Troy, Vander Woude, YoungbloodAbsent – Gibbs, HormanFloor Sponsor - LukerTitle apvd - to Senate `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-20** Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling
- **2018-03-21** Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker
- **2018-03-21** Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate
- **2018-03-22** Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor
- **2018-03-22** Reported delivered to Governor at 10:45 a.m. on 03/22/18
- **2018-03-28** Became law without Governor’s signature on 03/28/18 Session Law Chapter 349 Effective: 07/01/2018 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7927dd4a-ab93-4973-ba7a-ca1b06cbbaff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).