The Idaho House on Feb. 20 considered a series of bills across committees and approved multiple measures. Below are the bills and resolutions that the House moved on during the session, a brief description drawn from the floor reading, and the recorded outcomes when the roll call or clerk tally was announced.

Votes and short descriptions (as read into the House record):

- House Bill 88 — Amends Idaho code related to solicitation and purchases of commercial sex; sponsor described the bill as targeting repeat purchasers with increased penalties. Vote: passed. Clerk announced: 50 ayes, 19 nays, 1 absent/excused (as stated on the floor).

- House Bill 148 — Establishes procedures for the constitutional defense counsel to consider and potentially assist certain Idaho litigants in lawsuits against the federal government (grazing/water rights among examples). Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 63 ayes, 5 nays, 2 absent/excused.

- House Bill 122 — Delicensing of a narrowly held glamour-shot photography license; sponsor said only two active licensees remain in the state. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 68 ayes, 2 absent/excused.

- House Bill 151 — Licensure and regulatory transparency reforms, including annual reporting requirements for licensing agencies; sponsor said it enhances consumer protections and reporting. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 68 ayes, 2 absent/excused.

- House Bill 91 — A large repeal bill described as removing some 150 obsolete code sections across state law (sponsor said it was the largest repeal bill in state history). Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 69 ayes, 1 absent.

- House Bill 110 — Changes intended to ensure licensing and scope-of-practice matters align with legislative intent and access to providers referenced in Medicaid payments. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 69 ayes, 1 absent/excused.

- House Bill 133 — A rules-to-code update containing long-standing regulatory definitions; sponsor characterized it as routine housekeeping. Vote: passed (tally not specified in the transcript record provided).

- House Bill 198 — Transfers certain laboratory-quality assurance rules into statute and adjusts testing fees to better reflect market rates; sponsor described the measure as aligning fees with market conditions. Vote: passed (tally not specified in the excerpt provided).

- House Bill 199 — Changes relating to Refugee Medical Assistance statutes; sponsor said the bill aligns statutory language with the original intent and poverty-rate thresholds. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 61 ayes, 8 nays, 1 absent/excused.

- House Bill 99 — An update related to driver-education/parent-led instruction (described as working in rural areas and noting district reimbursements per student). Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 69 ayes, 1 absent/excused.

- House Bill 174 — Comprehensive rewrite of abandoned-vehicle statutes; sponsor said the bill creates an online portal for law enforcement to log abandoned vehicles, requires towing companies to publish rates and clarifies notice procedures for owners and lienholders. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 68 ayes, 1 nay, 1 abstain/excused (as stated on the floor).

- House Bill 204 — Adds new specialty license plates (a black “World Famous Potatoes” retro plate and an economical teal-lettering plate); sponsor said demand prompted the measure. Vote: passed. Recorded tally announced: 69 ayes, 1 absent/excused.

Other procedural actions recorded on the floor included filing dozens of bills for first or second reading, committee referrals and requests to print amendments. Several bills and measures were carried over to the next session day and held on the third-reading calendar by unanimous consent.

Several measures taken were described on the floor using statutory references (for example, numerous proposed bill texts referenced specific Idaho Code sections as read into the record). Where the clerk recorded a roll-call tally, the count above reproduces the numbers as announced on the House floor transcript.