---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADOPTION – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding allowable expenses for a birth mother."
description: "ADOPTION – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding allowable expenses for a birth mother."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "S 1309"
citation: "Idaho S 1309 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADOPTION", "CHILDREN", "CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PROCEDURES", "PARENTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30ddf1a4-d93d-46b8-96a5-fbd6b983610f"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1309/"
source_hash: "aa0978b9fb0c0b787d6db5d9dc4ccbdece387d05a12bad0843e2285e557c1543"
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 1309 (2024) — ADOPTION – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding allowable expenses for a birth mother.

## 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/S1309A1.pdf)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1309.pdf)
3. **Engrossment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1309E1.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full as amended – — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Suspended: Ayes 69 Nays 1 Abs/Excd 0, read in full as required – — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-09** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-02-12** Reported Printed; referred to Judiciary & Rules
- **2024-02-28** Reported out of committee; to 14th Order for amendment
- **2024-03-07** Placed in the Committee of the Whole
- **2024-03-07** Reported out without recommendation, as amended
- **2024-03-07** Amendments ordered printed; referred for engrossment
- **2024-03-07** Amendments reported printed
- **2024-03-07** Reported engrossed, filed for first reading, as amended
- **2024-03-07** Read first time as amended, filed for Second Reading
- **2024-03-08** Read second time as amended, filed for Third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-11** Read third time in full as amended – PASSED - 34-0-1AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews(Toews), Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, ZuiderveldNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – SchroederFloor Sponsor - VanOrdenTitle apvd - to House
- **2024-03-12** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2024-03-12** 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 - 70-0-0AYES – Achilles, 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), 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 – NoneAbsent – NoneFloor Sponsor - MitchellTitle 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`
- **2024-03-29** Signed by Governor on 03/28/24 Session Law Chapter 231 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/30ddf1a4-d93d-46b8-96a5-fbd6b983610f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).