Bill Description: House Bill 606 would make it a crime to enter a restroom or changing room designated for the opposite sex in a government-owned building or a place of public accommodation, with certain narrow exceptions.

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NOTE: House Bill 606 deals with single-sex restrooms and changing rooms. It is related to House Bill 607 (2026); House Bill 264 (2025), which became law; House Bill 190 (2025); and House Bill 49 (2025). 

Does it promote the breakdown of the traditional family or the deconstruction of societal norms? Examples include promoting or incentivizing degeneracy, violating parental rights, and compromising the innocence of children. Conversely, does it protect or uphold the structure, tenets, and traditional values of Western society?

House Bill 606 would create Section 18-4117, Idaho Code, to criminalize entering a restroom or changing room designated for the opposite sex in a government-owned building or a place of public accommodation, with certain exceptions. 

A “place of public accommodation” is defined as “a business, accommodation, refreshment, entertainment, recreation, or transportation facility of any kind, whether licensed or not, whose goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations are extended, offered, sold, or otherwise made available to the public.”

The bill would make exceptions under the following circumstances:

1. To perform custodial services or maintenance;
2. To render medical assistance;
3. To provide law enforcement assistance or to supervise any arrestee, detainee, or inmate in a custodial setting;
4. To provide services or render aid during a natural disaster, during a declared emergency, or when necessary to prevent a serious threat to good order or safety;
5. To use a single-user facility designated for the opposite sex, if such single-user facility is the only facility reasonably available at the time of the person's use of the facility;
6. To use restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters that have been temporarily designated for use by people of that person's biological sex;
7. To provide coaching or athletic training during athletic events; or
8. To accompany and render assistance to a person who is in need of assistance when the person rendering assistance is:
   1. A family member or a legal guardian; or
   2. The designee of the person in need of assistance and the designee is not a member of the designated sex for the single-sex restroom, changing facility, or sleeping quarters.

Unlike prior bills on this subject, some of which were restricted to government buildings and all of which put the onus of compliance on the facility, House Bill 606 criminalizes as a misdemeanor the act of entering a restroom or changing room that is designated for use by the opposite biological sex of such person.

Because the bill does not specify penalties, Section 18-113, Idaho Code, applies, which says, “Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed in this code, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both.

The bill is designed to protect the privacy and security of people (primarily women) to use single-sex restrooms and changing rooms without being confronted or embarrassed by someone of the opposite sex.

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