Idaho Bills
7 bills · 2018 Regular Session
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding dental services.
28 – 7
Amends and adds to existing law to provide for Idaho Humane Society's pet friendly license plates.
31 – 31
Amends existing law to provide that a taxing district may not run another bond election for eleven months after a failed bond election.
37 – 32
Adds to existing law to provide certain immunity from civil and criminal liability for a person rendering certain aid to a pet in a vehicle.
To provide immunity from civil liability and criminal prosecution for persons rendering certain aid to a pet in a motor vehicle who have a good faith belief is in imminent danger of suffering death or serious bodily harm.
17 – 18
Amends existing law to require annual notice of leave for organ donation offered to state officers and employees.
ThepurposeofthislegislationistohavetheStateofIdahoHumanResourceDivision,orappropriateagency, send out an email every April, which is National Donate Life Month, to remind state employees that this benefit exists. If more state employees step forward because of this benefit, this will help Idahoans on the kidney transplant waiting list receive their transplant sooner, get off dialysis and return to a full, healthy lifestyle.
35 – 33
Amends existing law to provide that certain funds may be used for scholarship awards to adults meeting certain criteria.
To add a provision to the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship to allow up to twenty percent (20%) of funds appropriated for the program to be awarded to adult students who have earned at least 24 credits and who are completing their first undergraduate degree or certificate at an eligible Idaho postsecondary institution. Providing a financial incentive for adults who have some college but no degree to finish a postsecondary program was a unanimous recommendation of the Governor's 2017 Higher Education Task Force.
37 – 32
Amends existing law to require public institutions of higher education to notify students of the option to register as an organ donor.
The purpose of this legislation is to provide young adults another way to register their wishes to be organ, eye and tissue donors. There has been an increase in the number of 16 to 20-year-olds that are not getting a driver's license, the number one place they expect to be able to register as a donor. This legislation would instruct all institutions of higher education to twice a year send out an email with a link to a registration page to give students that may not have a driver's license an easy way to register their wishes to help others by being an organ, eye and tissue donor.
37 – 31