2026 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
After the Gavel: Idaho
Republicans hold 29 of 35 Senate seats and 61 of 70 House seats this session, a supermajority in both chambers. That margin is enough to pass nearly anything the majority chooses, with room to spare.
After the Gavel analyzed 18 key bills from Idaho's 2026 session. Some are grouped by theme, because a single bill rarely tells the whole story and two or three related bills, read together, usually do.
This is our read of the bills. We encourage every reader to read the legislation for themselves and reach their own conclusions.
Every post links to the bill text and the enacted law it draws from. Every claim here traces to the enrolled bill, the session law chapter, or a named outside source.
School district payroll offices no longer collect union dues or fund union time on the taxpayer's dime. A union that wants dues now collects its own.
1 Bill H561 · H602 · H623What government may fly, what law its courts may apply, what it may say during the silence. Three laws that restrain the state itself.
3 Bills, One Pattern H731 · H940One channel opened for private scholarship dollars to reach Idaho families. One 20-year-old state program now has to show where every dollar went.
2 Bills, One Pattern H752Knowingly entering an opposite-sex restroom or changing room is now a misdemeanor. The ten written exceptions show exactly what the law is for.
1 Bill H822Schools and providers must notify parents within 72 hours of a social transition request. The two-file system, one identity at school and another at home, is over in Idaho.
1 Bill H895 · H911Data centers drink like small cities and pull power like steel mills. Two laws make them buy metered water and fund their own grid expansion.
2 Bills, One Pattern H928Medicaid participation now requires merit-based hiring. No quotas, no compelled pledges, and the clinical carve-outs sit in the same section.
1 Bill S1336Four credits of American history and government, a civics test on the transcript, and the founding documents themselves on the desk.
1 Bill S1430Firearms preemption finally has an enforcer. A $10,000 penalty, attorney's fees, and a cause of action that survives the courthouse-steps repeal.
1 Bill S1448The harmful-to-minors standard got a two-part test, an adolescent benchmark, and named exclusions for the Bible and classical art. Tighter, and built to survive a courtroom.
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