The Idaho State Senate on Feb. 7 read several bills on first reading and referred them to standing committees for printing and further consideration.

On first reading the chamber took up bills including Senate Bill 1066 (listed in the reading as Senate Bill 10 66) by the Commerce and Human Resources Committee addressing identity-theft provisions and breach-notification rules; a Commerce and Human Resources bill on artificial intelligence (Senate Bill 10 67) that would define terms and set regulation limits for AI; a suite of education bills (Senate Bills 10 68–10 71) including measures on parent-supported instruction, literacy intervention changes and an online parent tech-awareness program; and local-government and taxation proposals on solid-waste collection, homestead exemptions and election-district elections (Senate Bills 10 73–10 75). The secretary read titles for many bills and the Senate referred multiple measures to the Judiciary and Rules Committee for printing.

The chamber also received a concurrent resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 105) from the Health and Welfare Committee stating legislative findings and declaring support for receiving federal funds to support adoption in Idaho; that resolution was referred to the Judiciary and Rules Committee for print.

House bills were also referred to the appropriate committees: House Bill 34 to State Affairs, House Bill 55 to Commerce and Human Resources, House Bills 36 and 37 to Judiciary and Rules, and House Bill 89 to Health and Welfare. Several committee reports were read into the record and several measures were placed on second-reading or third-reading calendars as noted by committee action.

These referrals move the listed measures into committee processing and into the Senate’s second- and third-reading calendars as indicated in the day’s journal entries; no final floor votes on the substantive legislation were recorded in the Feb. 7 transcript excerpt.