Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the Project Choice program fee.

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026 IN THE SENATE SENATE BILL NO. 1379 BY JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE AN ACT1 RELATING TO THE PROJECT CHOICE PROGRAM FEE; AMENDING SECTION 49-454, IDAHO2 CODE, TO REVISE A PROVISION REGARDING THE PROJECT CHOICE PROGRAM FEE;3 PROVIDING SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EF-4 FECTIVE DATE.5

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:6

SECTION 1. That Section 49-454, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby7 amended to read as follows:8 49-454. PROJECT CHOICE FEE. (1) A project choice program fee of three9 dollars ($3.00) eight dollars ($8.00) shall be collected in addition to each10 registration fee assessed pursuant to section 49-402(1), (2) or (3), 49-411,11 49-412 or 49-434(1), Idaho Code. Such fees shall be deposited to the Idaho12 law enforcement fund established in section 67-2914, Idaho Code.13 (2) The project choice program fee shall be collected and deposited14 pursuant to subsection (1) of this section for registrations for calendar15 year 2007 and thereafter.16 (3) The project choice fee shall be used, subject to appropriation,17 exclusively for the purposes of creating a career ladder within the Idaho18 state police and to provide salaries to encourage the hiring and retention19 of trained and qualified employees for Idaho state police positions. Idaho20 state police personnel who have participated in and benefited from the use of21 the project choice fee, as of July 1, 2010, shall continue to participate in22 and benefit from the project choice fee while employed by the Idaho state po-23 lice. Provided however, that beginning July 1, 2010, the use of the project24 choice fee shall be restricted in the following manner: the project choice25 fee shall be used exclusively for the purposes of creating a career ladder26 for commissioned officers, dispatch personnel and forensic personnel within27 the Idaho state police; and to provide salaries to encourage the hiring and28 retention of trained and qualified commissioned officers, dispatch person-29 nel and forensic personnel.30

SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this act are hereby declared31 to be severable and if any provision of this act or the application of such32 provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid for any reason,33 such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of34 this act.35

SECTION 3. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby36 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after37 July 1, 2026.38