---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY – Amends existing law to provide for the use of telecommunication, email, text message, and other forms of electronic communication."
description: "COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY – Amends existing law to provide for the use of telecommunication, email, text message, and other forms of electronic communication."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "S 1262"
citation: "Idaho S 1262 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PROCEDURES", "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a456b7-d07b-434d-a236-3d10cefb84a1"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1262/"
source_hash: "f383820745ca2619f942a3d53eff34f90e8f5e61ad65216512828122ef894149"
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 1262 (2024) — COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY – Amends existing law to provide for the use of telecommunication, email, text message, and other forms of electronic communication.

## 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/S1262.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full – — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Suspended: Ayes 69 Nays 1 Abs/Excd 0, read in full as required – — **69–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-01** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-02-02** Reported Printed; referred to Judiciary & Rules
- **2024-02-28** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-29** Read second time; filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Read third time in full – PASSED - 34-0-1AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lenney, Lent, Moser(Semmelroth), Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, ZuiderveldNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – BerntFloor Sponsor - NicholsTitle apvd - to House `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2024-03-04** Read First Time, Referred to Judiciary, Rules & Administration `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-22** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-25** Rules Suspended: Ayes 69 Nays 1 Abs/Excd 0, read in full as required – PASSED - 69-1-0AYES – Achilles, 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), Horman, 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 – AlfieriAbsent – NoneFloor Sponsor - LambertTitle apvd - to Senate
- **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 04/01/24 Session Law Chapter 253 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/b4a456b7-d07b-434d-a236-3d10cefb84a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).