Bill Description: House Bill 752 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 752 deals with single-sex restrooms and changing rooms. It is a replacement for House Bill 606 (2026). House Bill 752 increases the potential incarceration time for a first offense from six months to one year. It also adds two additional exceptions. 

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 752 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 restroom facilities when the person is in dire need of urinating or defecating and such facility is the only facility reasonably available at the time of the person's use;
7. To use restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters that have been temporarily designated for use by people of that person's biological sex;
8. To provide coaching or athletic training during athletic events; or
9. 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.
10. To a minor child who is in need of assistance and, for the purpose of receiving that assistance, is accompanied by a family member, a legal guardian, or the individual's designee who is a member of the designated sex for the single-sex restroom or changing facility. 

A first offense under this law would be a misdemeanor, carrying a penalty of up to one year of imprisonment in the county jail. A second offense within five years would be deemed a felony and carry a penalty of up to five years in state prison.

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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