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H0450CLOSE VOTE2025 Regular Session

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME -- Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

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This appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes funding for an a license sales system contract increase, the final year of the Albeni Falls projects; funding for recreational access leases; phase two of the agency's website overhaul; support for seasonal employees who will work to restore habitat as part of mitigation stewardship; hatchery fish trailer tanks; region 7 office renovations; support for operational increases at regional offices; funding a lease at the McCall regional office; improvements to regional offices in Coeur d'Alene and Jerome; hatchery improvements; software licenses; fire rehabilitation funds pursuant to a settlement with the Idaho Power Company; funding to align the budget with federal grant revenues; support for remote connectivity; replacement items; and IT hardware. This appropriation also includes a FY 2025 supplemental for the costs incurred by the agency to purchase and plant grass/forb seed and apply herbicide via aerial application in Ada County to mitigate damage caused by the Valley Fire.

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This appropriation provides an additional $18,984,900 to the maintenance appropriation provided to the Department of Fish and Game found in House Bill 248. Table 1 shows enhancements to the budget found in the bill, of which the ongoing increase is $2,216,500, and the onetime increase is $17,568,400. Table 2 shows all the adjustments leading to the FY 2025 Total Appropriation. The total budget for the Department of Fish and Game is $163,310,500. Table 1 FTP Gen Ded Fed Total 1. License Sales System Contract Costs 0.00 0 143,400 95,600 239,000 2. Albeni Falls Mitigation - Final Year 0.00 0 0 2,160,000 2,160,000 3. Recreational Access Lease Cost Increases 0.00 0 0 273,700 273,700 4. Agency Website Overhaul, Phase 2 0.00 0 550,000 0 550,000 5. Bonneville Mitigation Stewardship 0.00 0 191,700 0 191,700 6. Hatchery Fish Trailer Tanks 0.00 0 0 216,500 216,500 7. Region 7 Renovations 0.00 0 2,176,000 1,450,700 3,626,700 8. Regional Office Increases 0.00 0 115,300 76,900 192,200 9. McCall Regi

SOP revised: 03/26/2025, 12:28 PM

house Chamber· Mar 25, 2025

House Third Reading

Passed
39 Yea
26 Nay
5 absentPassed by 13 votes
Republican
30 yea/26 nay
Democrat
9 yea/0 nay
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Returned from Senate Failed; Filed in the office of the Chief Clerk