---
type: "Bill"
title: "IDAHO DEPREDATING WILDLIFE APPEALS BOARD – Amends and adds to existing law to establish the Idaho Depredating Wildlife Appeals Board and to exempt the board from open meeting requirements."
description: "IDAHO DEPREDATING WILDLIFE APPEALS BOARD – Amends and adds to existing law to establish the Idaho Depredating Wildlife Appeals Board and to exempt the board from open meeting requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "S 1012"
citation: "Idaho S 1012 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "ANIMALS", "APPEALS", "BOARDS", "FISH and GAME", "GOVERNMENT", "GOVERNOR", "VETERINARY MEDICINE", "WILDLIFE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90795fdf-926e-4781-8960-8b9fb18c2d0d"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/S1012/"
source_hash: "888b6fa5a52b0d4fe7122f1be6b95656b6e6f960ba9710643e1d583d241411ca"
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 1012 (2025) — IDAHO DEPREDATING WILDLIFE APPEALS BOARD – Amends and adds to existing law to establish the Idaho Depredating Wildlife Appeals Board and to exempt the board from open meeting requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/S1012.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full – — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read Third Time in Full – — **65–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2025-01-22** Reported Printed; referred to Resources & Environment
- **2025-02-18** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19** Read second time; filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** Read third time in full – PASSED - 34-0-1AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Blaylock, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Galloway, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Keyser, Kohl, Lakey, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Semmelroth, Shippy, Taylor, Toews, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Wintrow, Woodward, Zito, ZuiderveldNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – RuchtiFloor Sponsor - BurtenshawTitle apvd - to House `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2025-02-25** Read First Time, Referred to Resources & Conservation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 65-3-2AYES – Achilles, Alfieri, Andrus, Barbieri, Beiswenger, Berch, Boyle, Bruce, Burgoyne, Cannon, Church(Caldwell), Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dygert, Egbert, Ehardt, Ehlers, Fuhriman, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Hostetler, Leavitt, Manwaring, Marmon, Mathias, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Pohanka, Price, Rasor, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Sauter, Scott(Scott), Shepherd, Shirts, Skaug, Tanner(13), Tanner(14), Thompson, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – Cayler, Cheatum, HarrisAbsent – Erickson, RubelFloor Sponsor - BoyleTitle apvd - to Senate `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling `enrolled`
- **2025-03-10** Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker
- **2025-03-11** Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-12** Reported delivered to Governor at 4:15 p.m. on 03/11/25 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by Governor on 03/12/25 Session Law Chapter 54 Effective: 07/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90795fdf-926e-4781-8960-8b9fb18c2d0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).