---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding personal eligibility conditions to qualify for unemployment benefits."
description: "EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding personal eligibility conditions to qualify for unemployment benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "H 686"
citation: "Idaho H 686 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES", "EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW", "INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION", "WORKER'S COMPENSATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c4c7886-6d99-4905-84a2-cbdae7b749ea"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0686/"
source_hash: "3bab26615fa0f6318b475ba81805ee94368378d2fad9a7399a97e1531caaa53a"
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 686 (2024) — EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding personal eligibility conditions to qualify for unemployment benefits.

## 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/2024/legislation/H0686.pdf)

## Votes

- Read Third Time in Full – — **57–10** (pass) · lower
- Read third time in full – — **29–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-29** Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** Reported Printed and Referred to Commerce & Human Resources
- **2024-03-06** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 57-10-3AYES – Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Cheatum, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Gallagher, Garner, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kingsley, Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Price, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – Achilles, Berch, Burns, Chew(Schmick), Gannon, Green, Mathias, Necochea, Roberts, RubelAbsent – Alfieri, Cannon, GalavizFloor Sponsor - AndrusTitle apvd - to Senate `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-11** Received from the House passed; filed for first reading
- **2024-03-11** Introduced, read first time; referred to: Commerce & Human Resources `introduction`
- **2024-03-14** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** Read second time; filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-20** Retained on calendar
- **2024-03-21** Read third time in full – PASSED - 29-3-3AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lee, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, ZuiderveldNAYS – Rabe, Semmelroth, WintrowAbsent and excused – Burtenshaw, Lakey, LenneyFloor Sponsor - RicksTitle apvd - to House `passage`
- **2024-03-22** Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Received from the House enrolled/signed by Speaker
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President; returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Returned Signed by the President; Ordered Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Delivered to Governor at 3:51 p.m. on March 25, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Reported Signed by Governor on March 26, 2024 Session Law Chapter 200 Effective: 07/01/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c4c7886-6d99-4905-84a2-cbdae7b749ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).