republic-os/legislation/us/states/id/2026/h-697.md

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Bill	ELECTIONS – Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of illegal voting, to provide for the crime of interference with an election, and to provide for the crime of tampering with voting machines or vote tally systems.	ELECTIONS – Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of illegal voting, to provide for the crime of interference with an election, and to provide for the crime of tampering with voting machines or vote tally systems.	us/states/id	Idaho Legislature	2026	H 697	Idaho H 697 (2026)	bill	CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PROCEDURES ELECTIONS VOTING AND VOTERS	enacted		1	18	2	2026-02-16	2026-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/c8d05f5b-f837-45c5-94bb-64d5aa5a4d2b	https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0697/	4b9eaab7594c4850c912a84b8b436d828e14f819402b486156b804c607d55962	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-id

Idaho H 697 (2026) — ELECTIONS – Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of illegal voting, to provide for the crime of interference with an election, and to provide for the crime of tampering with voting machines or vote tally systems.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time in full – — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read Third Time in Full – — 68–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• JUDICIARY, RULES AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-16 Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing introduction
• 2026-02-17 Reported Printed and Referred to Judiciary, Rules & Administration
• 2026-02-26 Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-27 Read second time; Filed for Third Reading reading-2
• 2026-03-02 U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day
• 2026-03-03 Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 68-0-2AYES – Alfieri, Barbieri, Beiswenger, Berch, Bingham, Boyle, Bruce, Burgoyne, Cannon, Cayler, Cheatum, Church, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dygert, Egbert, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Fuhriman, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Garner, Green, Hall(Stone), Handy, Harris, Hawkins, Haws(Woller), Healey, Hill(Brown), Holtzclaw, Hostetler, Leavitt, Manwaring, Marmon, Mathias, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Pohanka, Price, Rasor, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Rubel, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Shirts, Skaug, Tanner(13), Tanner(14), Thompson, Vander Woude, Veile, Weber, Wisniewski, Mr. SpeakerNAYS – NoneAbsent – McCann, WheelerFloor Sponsor - GarnerTitle apvd - to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Received from the House passed; filed for first reading
• 2026-03-04 Introduced, read first time; referred to: State Affairs introduction
• 2026-03-09 Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Read second time; filed for Third Reading reading-2
• 2026-03-16 Read third time in full – PASSED - 35-0-0AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke(Bjerke), Blaylock, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Galloway, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Keyser, Kohl, Lakey, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Ricks, Ruchti, Semmelroth, Shippy, Taylor, Toews, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Wintrow, Woller(Rabe), Woodward, Zito, ZuiderveldNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – NoneFloor Sponsor - BerntTitle apvd - to House passage
• 2026-03-17 Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling enrolled
• 2026-03-17 Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate passage
• 2026-03-18 Received from the House enrolled/signed by Speaker
• 2026-03-18 Signed by President; returned to House passage
• 2026-03-18 Returned Signed by the President; Ordered Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-03-19 Delivered to Governor at 4:22 p.m. on March 18, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-03-20 Reported Signed by Governor on March 19, 2026 Session Law Chapter 63 Effective: 07/01/2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8d05f5b-f837-45c5-94bb-64d5aa5a4d2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Idaho legislature records).