H 277 Idaho House · 68th Legislature, 1st Regular Session (2025)

OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES – Amends existing law to provide for certain criminal history checks to be performed.

This bill requires Idaho's Office of Information Technology Services to conduct criminal history checks on prospective IT contractors and employees working in specific high-risk technology roles, including network engineering, cybersecurity, database administration, and data science. The checks must use fingerprint-based searches of both Idaho's criminal database and the FBI's database. It directly affects IT professionals providing services to state agencies who work in the 12 designated disciplines listed in the bill. The requirement takes effect on July 1, 2025.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Signed Mar 24, 2025
Floor votes · Senate Mar 17, 2025 · House Mar 3, 2025

How they voted

350
Passed
Total votes 35
Mar 17, 2025
D Democratic5
5 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican30
30 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
17
Key actions
7
Committee
3
Mar 24, 2025
Signed into law
Reported Signed by Governor on March 21, 2025 Session Law Chapter 143 Effective: 07/01/2025
lower
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President; returned to House
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time in full – PASSED - 35-0-0AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bearg(Rabe), Bernt, 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, Woodward, Zito, ZuiderveldNAYS – NoneAbsent and excused – NoneFloor Sponsor - Den HartogTitle apvd - to House
upper
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading
upper
Mar 4, 2025
Introduced
Introduced, read first time; referred to: State Affairs
upper
Mar 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Rules Suspended: Ayes 67 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 3, read in full as required – PASSED - 70-0-0AYES – Achilles, Alfieri, Andrus, Barbieri, Beiswenger, Berch, Boyle, Bruce, Burgoyne, Cannon, Cayler, Cheatum, Church, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dygert, Egbert, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Fuhriman, Furniss, Galaviz, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Harris, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Hostetler, Leavitt, Manwaring, Marmon, Mathias, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks,
lower
Feb 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Committee
Reported Printed and Referred to Commerce & Human Resources
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Introduced
Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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