Greg Ferch
ID · Chair, Central District Health Board of Health
Boise chiropractor and Army medic veteran who served in the Idaho House from 2020 to 2022 and now chairs the Central District Health board. Backs planned road investment to handle growth, low taxes, and cuts to wasteful spending.
Where Greg Ferch stands, based on their records
Mixed record
Government Spending Reduction (8 support · 3 oppose), Public Infrastructure (2 support · 2 oppose)
Track record
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 8 support · 3 oppose
As board chair, joined a unanimous vote to approve Central District Health's proposed 2026 budget, which raised county contributions by 3%.
April 18, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Moved to approve a revised 2025 budget for Central District Health that cut planned spending by $705,100, including $573,000 in staff costs. The board approved it unanimously.
February 21, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Moved to drop an $80,000 conference room furniture upgrade from Central District Health's carryover spending plan and return the money to unassigned cash. The board approved the motion.
August 16, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Voted against moving $252.9 million from the state general fund to transportation (Senate Bill 1359). The money paid for airports, rail and port work, local bridges, pedestrian safety, and early payoff of a 2012 highway bond. It passed the House 44-25 and became law.
March 9, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against creating the Idaho Workforce Housing Fund, which used $50 million in federal pandemic relief money for housing development loans (House Bill 701). It passed the House 37-31 and became law.
March 4, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to make local taxing districts wait 11 months after a failed bond election before asking voters again on the same kind of bond (House Bill 512). It passed the House 43-26.
February 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for a property tax law that raised the homeowner's exemption to $125,000 and limited how much local taxing districts can grow their budgets (House Bill 389). It passed the House 48-20 and became law.
May 4, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for the 2022 state budget for Idaho's seven public health districts, $7.6 million in total (House Bill 396). It was about $3 million less than the districts and the governor had requested. It passed the House 60-5.
May 4, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against the $629.9 million state budget for Idaho's public colleges and universities (House Bill 387). It passed the House 49-20 and became law.
May 3, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to raise the share of state sales tax sent to transportation from 1% to 4.5% (House Bill 362). The law sets aside $80 million a year for major state highway projects, backing about $1.6 billion in bonds, with extra money going to local roads and bridges. It passed the House 59-11.
April 8, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for moving $126 million from the state general fund into transportation accounts for state and local road projects and airports (House Bill 308). It passed the House 59-9.
March 10, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 2 support · 2 oppose
Voted against moving $252.9 million from the state general fund to transportation (Senate Bill 1359). The money paid for airports, rail and port work, local bridges, pedestrian safety, and early payoff of a 2012 highway bond. It passed the House 44-25 and became law.
March 9, 2022Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to raise the share of state sales tax sent to transportation from 1% to 4.5% (House Bill 362). The law sets aside $80 million a year for major state highway projects, backing about $1.6 billion in bonds, with extra money going to local roads and bridges. It passed the House 59-11.
April 8, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for moving $126 million from the state general fund into transportation accounts for state and local road projects and airports (House Bill 308). It passed the House 59-9.
March 10, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against creating the Idaho Broadband Fund and a state broadband advisory board to plan statewide internet expansion (House Bill 127). It passed the House 40-27 and became law.
March 1, 2021Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Track record — General
General · 12 records
Recommended that Ada County commissioners reappoint Dr. Ryan Cole, a vaccine skeptic, to the Central District Health board, according to commission chair Rod Beck.
July 14, 2026
Source: idahocapitalsun.com
As board chair, voted no on a motion to set aside indefinitely the board's vote on whether Central District Health should keep offering the COVID-19 vaccine. The motion passed 4-3.
May 9, 2025
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Was elected chair of the Central District Board of Health by a unanimous board vote.
February 21, 2025
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Moved that, if staff left Social Security, Central District Health put its 6.2% employer share into staff 401(k) retirement accounts with no employee match required. The board approved the motion.
August 16, 2024
Source: cdh.idaho.gov
Was appointed to the Central District Board of Health by a unanimous vote of the Ada County commissioners, filling the seat left by Attorney General Raúl Labrador.
October 10, 2023
Source: boisestatepublicradio.org
Voted to bar employers from treating workers differently based on their COVID-19 vaccination status (House Bill 581). It passed the House 39-29.
February 22, 2022
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to bar the state and local governments from requiring face masks to slow the spread of disease (House Bill 631). It passed the House 46-24.
February 21, 2022
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for cutting Idaho income tax rates and paying a one-time $350 million tax rebate (House Bill 436). It passed the House 57-13 and became law.
January 20, 2022
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Said in House floor debate on a vaccine religious-exemption bill that there appeared to be credible evidence Pfizer hid the use of aborted fetal cells in making its COVID-19 vaccine. The Associated Press and other fact-checkers rated that claim false.
November 16, 2021
Source: idahocapitalsun.com
Joined a small group of Republican lawmakers at the Idaho Statehouse who tried, and failed, to reconvene the Legislature in September 2021.
September 15, 2021
Source: idahocapitalsun.com
Carried a bill on the Idaho House floor that bars dentists from limiting a patient's right to file a complaint with the state Board of Dentistry (Senate Bill 1012). It passed the House 70-0 and became law.
February 11, 2021
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Won the November 2020 general election for Idaho House District 21, Seat B, with 20,509 votes (71.5%) over Libertarian Lisa Adams.
November 3, 2020
Source: canvass.sos.idaho.gov
Past race Greg Ferch ran in:
- Ada County Highway District Commissioner, District 4 · November 3, 2026 · Ada County Highway District