Amends existing law regarding lifetime hunting and fishing licenses.

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 855 BY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE AN ACT1 RELATING TO FISH AND GAME; AMENDING SECTION 36-413, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE2 PROVISIONS REGARDING LIFETIME LICENSE CERTIFICATES; AND DECLARING AN3 EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.4

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:5

SECTION 1. That Section 36-413, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby6 amended to read as follows:7 36-413. LIFETIME LICENSE CERTIFICATE -- FEE. (a) The fish and game8 commission shall issue rules and regulations to administer a lifetime li-9 cense certificate system.10 (b) A lifetime license certificate may be sold to any person who quali-11 fies as a resident or is granted resident license privileges as provided in12 subsection (s) of section 36-202, Idaho Code, if such person has been a resi-13 dent of this state for at least five (5) years immediately preceding the date14 of application for the lifetime license certificate. If the applicant is un-15 der the age of five (5) years, a legal guardian of the child shall have been a16 resident of this state for at least five (5) years immediately preceding the17 date of application.18 (c) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person one (1) day of age19 through one (1) year of age possessing the qualifications therein described20 upon payment of: twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a combined21 hunting and fishing license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a combined22 hunting and fishing license certificate; twenty-five (25) times the fee pre-23 scribed for a hunting license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a hunting24 license certificate; twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a fishing25 license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license certificate;26 or twenty-five (25) times the fee prescribed for a trapping license in sec-27 tion 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.28 (d) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person two (2) years of29 age through fifty (50) years of age possessing the qualifications therein30 described upon payment of: thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a31 combined hunting and fishing license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for32 a combined hunting and fishing license certificate; thirty-five (35) times33 the fee prescribed for a hunting license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code,34 for a hunting license certificate; thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed35 for a fishing license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license36 certificate; or thirty-five (35) times the fee prescribed for a trapping li-37 cense in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.38 (e) A lifetime certificate may be obtained by a person fifty-one (51)39 years of age or older possessing the qualifications therein described upon40 payment of: twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a combined hunting and41 fishing license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a combined hunting42

2 and fishing license certificate; twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for1 a hunting license in section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a hunting license2 certificate; twenty (20) times the fee prescribed for a fishing license in3 section 36-416(a), Idaho Code, for a fishing license certificate; or twenty4 (20) times the fee prescribed for a trapping license in section 36-416(a),5 Idaho Code, for a trapping license certificate.6 (f) Holders of lifetime license certificates shall be subject to the7 provisions of title 36, Idaho Code.8 (g) The director shall promptly transmit to the state treasurer all9 moneys received by him from the sale of lifetime license certificates and10 the state treasurer shall deposit all such moneys in the fish and game trust11 fund. All such moneys shall be expended at the direction of the commission12 to carry out the purposes of the Idaho fish and game code or any law or regu-13 lation promulgated for the protection of wildlife, and shall be used for no14 other purpose.15

SECTION 2. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby16 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after17 July 1, 2026.18