---
type: "Bill"
title: "OPEN MEETINGS – Amends existing law to provide that the governing board of a public school district, charter district, or public charter school may enter into executive session on a simple roll call majority vote under certain circumstances."
description: "OPEN MEETINGS – Amends existing law to provide that the governing board of a public school district, charter district, or public charter school may enter into executive session on a simple roll call majority vote under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H 150"
citation: "Idaho H 150 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50b34d48-9e7d-4e53-9510-b5e348c5b4d1"
source_url: "http://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2019/legislation/H0150/"
source_hash: "ae1e8107bf714f5bcbe37bf018b1635cdeba9e88a77cd17686f1ae0d9d5918a4"
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 H 150 (2019) — OPEN MEETINGS – Amends existing law to provide that the governing board of a public school district, charter district, or public charter school may enter into executive session on a simple roll call majority vote under certain circumstances.

## 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/2019/legislation/H0150.pdf)

## Votes

- Read Third Time in Full – — **65–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time in full – — **35–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- EDUCATION COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** Reported Printed and Referred to Education
- **2019-02-22** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading
- **2019-02-26** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
- **2019-02-27** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
- **2019-02-28** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
- **2019-03-01** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 65-0-5AYES – Abernathy(Nye), Addis, Amador, Anderson, Anderst, Andrus, Armstrong, Barbieri, Berch, Blanksma, Boyle, Chaney, Chew, Christensen, Clow, Collins, Crane, Davis, Dayley, DeMordaunt, Dixon, Ehardt, Erpelding, Furniss, Gannon, Gestrin, Gibbs, Giddings, Goesling, Green(18), Green(2), Harris, Hartgen, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kauffman, Kerby, Lickley, Marshall, Mason, McCrostie, Mendive, Monks, Moon, Moyle, Nichols, Palmer, Raymond, Ricks, Rubel, Scott, Shepherd, Smith, Syme, Toone, Troy(Maurin), Wagoner, Wintrow, Wisniewski, Wood, Young, Youngblood, Zito, Zollinger, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – NoneAbsent – Ellis, Kingsley, Raybould, Stevenson, Vander WoudeFloor Sponsor - GoeslingTitle apvd - to Senate `reading-3, passage`
- **2019-03-04** Received from the House passed; filed for first reading
- **2019-03-04** Introduced, read first time; referred to: Education `introduction`
- **2019-03-08** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** Read second time; filed for Third Reading
- **2019-03-13** Read third time in full – PASSED - 35-0-0AYES – Agenbroad, Anthon, Bair, Bayer, Brackett, Buckner-Webb, Burgoyne, Burtenshaw, Cheatham, Crabtree, Den Hartog, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Heider, Hill, Johnson, Jordan, Lakey, Lee, Lent, Lodge, Martin, Mortimer, Nelson, Nye, Patrick, Rice, Souza, Stennett, Thayn, Vick, Ward-Engelking, Winder, WoodwardNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – NoneFloor Sponsor - LentTitle apvd - to House `reading-3, passage`
- **2019-03-14** Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate
- **2019-03-18** Received from the House enrolled/signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-18** Signed by President; returned to House
- **2019-03-19** Returned Signed by the President; Ordered Transmitted to Governor
- **2019-03-20** Delivered to Governor at 10:15 a.m. on March 19, 2019
- **2019-03-19** Reported Signed by Governor on March 19, 2019 Session Law Chapter 114 Effective: 07/01/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50b34d48-9e7d-4e53-9510-b5e348c5b4d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).