---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH – Adds to existing law to provide for 24-hour holds for persons with major neurocognitive disorders experiencing an acute crisis."
description: "HEALTH – Adds to existing law to provide for 24-hour holds for persons with major neurocognitive disorders experiencing an acute crisis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "S 1247"
citation: "Idaho S 1247 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "HEALTH AND WELFARE DEPARTMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "MEDICAL", "POLICE", "IDAHO STATE", "SAFETY", "SHERIFFS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5b1a458-927a-4171-a8e1-8c43e54d8218"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1247/"
source_hash: "29d0fa6a7c3d969dfb6f5809520cbb861786b04a4e0f4105ebdb544a8de52f32"
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 1247 (2024) — HEALTH – Adds to existing law to provide for 24-hour holds for persons with major neurocognitive disorders experiencing an acute crisis.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1247A1.pdf)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1247.pdf)
3. **Engrossment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1247E1.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full as amended – — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- Read Third Time in Full – — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** Reported Printed; referred to Health & Welfare
- **2024-02-07** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** Read second time; filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-15** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-16** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-19** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-21** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-22** Retained on calendar
- **2024-02-23** Referred to 14th Order for amendment
- **2024-02-28** Placed in the Committee of the Whole
- **2024-02-28** Reported out without recommendation, as amended
- **2024-02-28** Amendments ordered printed; referred for engrossment
- **2024-02-28** Amendments reported printed
- **2024-02-28** Reported engrossed, filed for first reading, as amended
- **2024-02-28** Read first time as amended, filed for Second Reading
- **2024-02-29** Read second time as amended, filed for Third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Read third time in full as amended – PASSED - 32-2-1AYES – Adams, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, ZuiderveldNAYS – Foreman, LenneyAbsent and excused – AnthonFloor Sponsor - WintrowTitle apvd - to House
- **2024-03-06** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2024-03-06** Read First Time, Referred to Health & Welfare `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-22** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar until Monday, March 25, 2024
- **2024-03-25** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 68-0-2AYES – Alfieri, Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Berch, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Burns, Cannon, Cheatum, Chew(Harada), Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Galaviz, Gallagher, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw(Johnson), Kingsley, Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, Mathias, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Necochea, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Price, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Roberts, Rubel, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber(Weber), Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – NoneAbsent – Achilles, HormanFloor Sponsor - Dixon(24)Title apvd - to Senate `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-26** Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling `enrolled`
- **2024-03-26** Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker
- **2024-03-26** Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Reported delivered to Governor at 11:43 a.m. on 03/27/24 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Governor on 04/02/24 Session Law Chapter 264 Effective: 10/01/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5b1a458-927a-4171-a8e1-8c43e54d8218`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).