---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAID – Adds to existing law to establish a medicaid legislative review panel."
description: "MEDICAID – Adds to existing law to establish a medicaid legislative review panel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "S 1355"
citation: "Idaho S 1355 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FEDERAL LAWS AND RELATIONS", "HEALTH AND WELFARE DEPARTMENT", "INSURANCE", "LEGISLATURE", "MEDICAL", "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/488ff155-b5a5-4095-8080-821a4f2c98c1"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/S1355/"
source_hash: "50503d27488c8609dae911e651dfb06ebc2eeb01eab715af2fa21e13fdd504c7"
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 1355 (2024) — MEDICAID – Adds to existing law to establish a medicaid legislative review panel.

## 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/S1355.pdf)

## Votes

- Read third time in full – — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- Read Third Time in Full – — **58–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-02-13** Reported Printed; referred to Health & Welfare
- **2024-02-20** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Read second time; filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Read third time in full – PASSED - 27-8-0AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Forsmann(Carlson), Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Lakey, Lee, Lent, Okuniewicz, Ricks, Schroeder, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, WinderNAYS – Just, Lenney, Nichols, Rabe, Ruchti, Semmelroth, Wintrow, ZuiderveldAbsent and excused – NoneFloor Sponsor - VanOrdenTitle apvd - to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading
- **2024-02-28** Read First Time, Referred to Health & Welfare `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-13** U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
- **2024-03-14** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 58-9-3AYES – Achilles, Alfieri, Andrus, Barbieri, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Cannon, Cheatum, Chew(Beazer), Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Furniss, Garner, Green, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Price, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Roberts, Sauter, Scott, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – Allgood, Berch, Burns, Erickson, Gallagher, Gannon, Mathias, Necochea, RubelAbsent – Galaviz, Kingsley, ShepherdFloor Sponsor - Vander WoudeTitle apvd - to Senate `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-15** Returned From House Passed; referred to enrolling `enrolled`
- **2024-03-18** Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker
- **2024-03-19** Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-20** Reported delivered to Governor at 4:52 p.m. on 03/19/24 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22** Signed by Governor on 03/21/24 Session Law Chapter 149 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/488ff155-b5a5-4095-8080-821a4f2c98c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).