---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPROPRIATIONS – COMMISSISON FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED – Relates to the appropriation to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2025."
description: "APPROPRIATIONS – COMMISSISON FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED – Relates to the appropriation to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/id"
legislature: "Idaho Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "H 699"
citation: "Idaho H 699 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BLIND", "COMMISSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-05"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b769dca7-f955-4b43-959d-79f38869f8d9"
source_url: "https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0699/"
source_hash: "32c34e405d418b74b16864221f36a35a304ff32501d5fc1a02e5a93ee9ae17d0"
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 699 (2024) — APPROPRIATIONS – COMMISSISON FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED – Relates to the appropriation to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2025.

## 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/H0699.pdf)

## Votes

- Read Third Time in Full – — **66–1** (pass) · lower
- Read third time in full – — **29–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-05** Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing `introduction`
- **2024-03-06** Reported Printed; Filed for Second Reading
- **2024-03-07** Read second time; Filed for Third Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 66-1-3AYES – Achilles, Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Berch, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Burns, Cheatum, Chew(Schmick), Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Gallagher, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kingsley, 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, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – LambertAbsent – Alfieri, Cannon, GalavizFloor Sponsor - MillerTitle 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: Finance `introduction`
- **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`
- **2024-03-18** Read third time in full – PASSED - 29-4-2AYES – Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lent, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, ZuiderveldNAYS – Carlson, Lenney, Nichols, TrakelAbsent and excused – Adams, LeeFloor Sponsor - Ward-EngelkingTitle apvd - to House `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling `enrolled`
- **2024-03-19** Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Received from the House enrolled/signed by Speaker
- **2024-03-20** Signed by President; returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Returned Signed by the President; Ordered Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** Delivered to Governor at 10:35 a.m. on March 21, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Reported Signed by Governor on March 25, 2024 Session Law Chapter 182 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/b769dca7-f955-4b43-959d-79f38869f8d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).