republic-os/legislation/us/states/id/2024/h-538.md

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Bill	CIVIL RIGHTS – Adds to existing law to prohibit governmental entities in the State of Idaho from compelling employees and students to use certain titles and pronouns.	CIVIL RIGHTS – Adds to existing law to prohibit governmental entities in the State of Idaho from compelling employees and students to use certain titles and pronouns.	us/states/id	Idaho Legislature	2024	H 538	Idaho H 538 (2024)	bill	CIVIL ACTIONS CIVIL RIGHTS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS	enacted		1	36	2	2024-02-09	2024-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/b2b53185-f1f7-4633-8498-fa5e05fe4f7a	https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0538/	d53629d870f88dbc1824d21149464b6765db3eb9b1351f40934d061e8cfe8896	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-id

Idaho H 538 (2024) — CIVIL RIGHTS – Adds to existing law to prohibit governmental entities in the State of Idaho from compelling employees and students to use certain titles and pronouns.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Rules Suspended (2/3 Vote Read in full as required) – — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• passage — 58–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-09 Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing introduction
• 2024-02-12 Reported Printed and Referred to State Affairs
• 2024-02-16 Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-19 Read second time; Filed for Third Reading reading-2
• 2024-02-20 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-21 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-22 U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-23 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar until Monday, February 26, 2024
• 2024-02-26 U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-27 U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-28 U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-28 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-02-29 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-01 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar until Monday, March 4, 2024
• 2024-03-04 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-05 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-06 U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-06 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day; objection
• 2024-03-07 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-08 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar until Monday, March 11, 2024
• 2024-03-11 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-12 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-13 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-14 Read Third Time in Full – U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2024-03-15 PASSED - 58-11-1AYES – Alfieri, Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Cannon, Cheatum, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Gallagher, Garner, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kingsley, Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Price, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – Achilles, Berch, Burns, Chew(Beazer), Galaviz, Gannon, Green, Mathias, Necochea, Roberts, RubelAbsent – WheelerFloor Sponsor - No sponsor data.Title apvd - to Senate
• 2024-03-18 Received from the House passed; filed for first reading
• 2024-03-18 Introduced, read first time; referred to: State Affairs introduction
• 2024-04-02 Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-02 Rules Suspended (2/3 Vote - Read in full as required) – PASSED - 25-9-1AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Herndon, Lakey, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Ricks, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Winder, ZuiderveldNAYS – Bearg(Rabe), Hartgen, Just, Lee, Semmelroth, Shea(Ruchti), Taylor, Ward-Engelking, WintrowAbsent and excused – SchroederFloor Sponsor - TrakelTitle apvd - to House passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-02 Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate passage
• 2024-04-03 Received from the House enrolled/signed by Speaker
• 2024-04-03 Signed by President; returned to House passage
• 2024-04-03 Returned Signed by the President; Ordered Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-03 Delivered to Governor at 11:15 a.m. on April 3, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-10 Reported Signed by Governor on April 8, 2024 Session Law Chapter 314 Effective: 07/01/2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2b53185-f1f7-4633-8498-fa5e05fe4f7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).