Idaho agriculture and water bills

Publisher

Organization

Idaho Legislature

Publisher’s dataset

Idaho Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resource Legislation, 2019-2026

File or API used

https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/

Retrieval script

scripts/fetch-idaho-legislature-ag-water.py

Methodology

https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/

Coverage

Geography

Idaho

Time coverage

2019-2026

Update frequency

Annual, one session per year

Published

not stated

Retrieved

August 17, 2026

License

The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Idaho public record.

Measures

Records

One row per measure (bill, resolution, memorial, or proclamation), across the 2019-2026 sessions.

• year: Legislative session year the measure was introduced in.
• number: The Legislature's measure number, e.g. H0503, S1307, HCR010.
• issue: Which of this dataset's five policy areas the measure was sorted into. See the dataset caveats: this is an editorial classification, not the Legislature's own label.
• subject: The Legislature's own subject label for the measure, verbatim. Empty on measures with no subject label at all, chiefly rule-review resolutions.
• description: The Legislature's short description of the measure, verbatim.
• status: The Legislature's final status string for the measure.
• outcome: Normalized final outcome: one of enacted, adopted, vetoed, failed, died. 'adopted' covers resolutions and memorials, which are not enacted into code; 'failed' means the measure lost a recorded floor vote; 'died' means it never reached one.
• chapter: Session law chapter number when the measure was enacted, otherwise null.
• url: The measure's page on the Idaho Legislature's site.
• sponsor: Who introduced the measure, as the Legislature records it. See the dataset caveats: overwhelmingly a standing committee, not a named legislator.
• actionCount: Number of recorded actions (committee referrals, readings, votes, signature) parsed from the measure's detail page.

Caveats

• This dataset's default build reads a cached artifact (data/raw/idaho-legislature-ag-water/issue-data.json) rather than fetching legislature.idaho.gov live: a live rebuild fetches one detail page per bill in each of eight sessions, roughly 800 pages per session at a politeness delay, well over the few minutes a routine refresh should take. The cached artifact was produced on 2026-08-17 (its own file date, carried here as `retrieved`), by the same pipeline this puller's --refetch flag runs live. Re-run with --refetch to rebuild it from the Legislature's site.
• A measure is included when the Legislature's own subject label for it falls in a reviewed agricultural, water, or natural resource vocabulary (scripts/fetch-idaho-legislature-ag-water.py's AG_SUBJECTS), not by keyword matching on titles. That vocabulary is not stable across sessions: the same policy gets a different label from year to year (DOMESTIC WELLS in 2026 was DOMESTIC WATER USE in 2025), so it accumulates rather than predicts, and a session published without re-reviewing it against that session's own vocabulary will undercount.
• A small number of measures per session are included or excluded by explicit override rather than by subject label alone, each with its own stated reason (see OVERRIDES in the ingestion script) - for example rule-review resolutions, which carry no subject label at all, and a handful of measures whose label names the thing regulated rather than the policy domain (H0895, capping data-center water use, is labelled DATA CENTERS, not a water label).
• `issue` is this dataset's own five-way editorial classification of each measure's subject label (Water Rights & Supply, Land & Public Lands, Production & Commodities, Wildlife & Depredation, Legislative & Regulatory Process), not a category the Legislature itself publishes.
• `sponsor` is overwhelmingly a standing committee rather than a named legislator: across the 2026 session only 2 of 70 agricultural measures named an individual. Treat it as the originating committee, not as a measure of which legislators champion agriculture.
• `actionCount` is the number of recorded floor and committee actions parsed off each bill's detail page; the actions themselves (date and text of each stage) are not carried into this dataset's records or observations.

Pages built on this dataset

• Idaho agriculture, water and land bills

Downloads

CSV · JSON. 73 observations, 367 records, 2019-2026.

How to cite

Understand Idaho, “Idaho Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resource Legislation, 2019-2026”, compiled from Idaho Legislature, Idaho Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resource Legislation, 2019-2026. Retrieved August 17, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/idaho-legislature-ag-water/. CC BY 4.0.

Cite Idaho Legislature directly for the figures themselves.