Idaho Bills
25 bills · 2024 Regular Session
Relates to the funding of the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2025.
ThisappropriationtotheIdahoTransportationDepartmentprovidesenhancementstotheFY2025maintenance budget that includes funding for targeted CECs for aeronautics, airfield improvements, deferred maintenance projects, new equipment, net-zero department-wide transfers to align the budget with anticipated expenditures, construction planning software and updating the website, 53.00 FTP for workforce planning, an increase in federal funds, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also includes funding for construction projects,roadandbridgemaintenance,safetyandcapacityprojects,andlocalbridgemaintenance. Additionally, this bill provides cash transfers from the General Fund to dedicated funds totaling $502,800,000. Lastly, this bill provides language for reappropriation, direction to renovate the State Street headquarters, direction to renovate its Shoshone district 4 headquarters, provides for accountability reports, and language directing use of unobligated ARPA state and local fiscal recovery projects to pedestrian safety and surface transportation projects.
Kevin Cook · SD-032
18 – 17
Adds to existing law to provide for Idaho's participation in the Interstate Counseling Compact.
17 – 18
Amends and adds to existing law to prohibit the advertising of illegal products and services and to provide for the apportionment of fines.
16 – 18
Amends existing law to allow for the establishment of specialty license plates for the benefit of the Idaho State Board of Education and to establish a Don't Tread on Me license plate to generate funds for an existing gun safety education program.
Phil Hart · SD-002
58 – 8
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding state employee telework.
19 – 16
Amends existing law to authorize investigations and actions against city and county officers by the attorney general.
17 – 17
Amends existing law to establish penalties for the disclosure of confidential member records.
17 – 17
Adds to existing law to establish the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Office of the Attorney General.
34 – 36
States findings of the Legislature and calls on Congress to impeach the President and to prioritize laws tightening border security and immigration.
34 – 34
Amends existing law to require school principals to notify parents and guardians of a student's involvement in harassment, intimidation, bullying, violence, or self-harm and to provide empowering materials and requires school districts to report incidents and confirm the distribution of the materials to the State Department of Education.
32 – 38
Amends existing law to define a public employer and a public corporation with respect to certain requirements regarding security for compensation.
This legislation would allow a city, country or district as defined in 72-301(6) and 72-928(d) to go to an open market for an insurer of choice for worker's compensation without having to secure its liability for payment of compensation with the state insurance fund.
32 – 36
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding school board recall elections, vacancies, and quorums.
18 – 16
Adds to existing law to create a medicaid budget stabilization fund.
The Medicaid Budget Stabilization Fund sets up a place for unobligated general fund moneys remaining in the cooperative welfare funds to be deposited after reconciliation and statute distributions. These funds shall be distributed by legislative appropriation.
17 – 16
Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2025.
16 – 19
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2025.
This appropriation to the Department of Administration provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include 2.00 FTP and funding for benefits management positions; 3.00 FTP and funding for project management positions; 3.00 FTP and funding for purchasing officers; ITN implementation; a janitorial contract increase; replacement items, the additional 2% change in employee compensation, and an inflationary adjustment. The bill includes direction to transfer excess funds from the Employee Group Insurance Fund to the ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund for another eligible use.
21 – 14
Adds to existing law to provide that health benefit plans and student health benefit plans covering prescription contraception must provide reimbursement for a six-month supply except under certain circumstances.
Jim Guthrie · SD-028
35 – 34
Adds to existing law to establish standards for library materials and to establish procedures for the review and removal of materials, procedures for appeals, and penalties for violations.
17 – 18
Repeals and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding annexation of land by cities.
19 – 16
Amends existing law to prohibit adoption placement or advertisement by unlicensed entities.
A person who is not licensed in Idaho to place children for adoption may not advertise, accepts/supplies, provides/obtains or places children for adoption shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
37 – 32
Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Lottery for fiscal year 2025.
Janie Ward-Engelking · SD-018
37 – 32
Amends existing law to provide that idle moneys may be invested in physical gold and silver in certain instances, to provide for storage of physical gold and silver, and to provide for a maximum allowed investment.
Since the year 2000, the M2 money supply has grown by 350 percent. In other words, it has more than quadrupled. A quadrupling of the money supply will eventually accelerate the rate of inflation. By adding physical gold and silver to Idaho Code § 67-1210, the State Treasurer will be permitted to hold some portion of state funds in physical gold and silver to help secure state assets against the risk of inflation and financial turmoil and/or to achieve capital gains as measured in Federal Reserve Notes. The new authority will be confined to holding gold and silver directly and in a manner that does not assume the counter party risks involved with other current state holdings, such as corporate bonds, treasury bills, and other debt instruments. This measure does not empower the State Treasurer to invest in paper forms of the metal like futures contracts, or other gold and silver derivatives. The authority is confined to physical gold and silver, directly owned by the state and stored in a secure depository or any bank or credit union with a class 1 vault and licensed by the Department of Finance.
Scott Herndon · SD-001
36 – 33
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
ThisappropriationtotheDepartmentofHealthandWelfareprovidesenhancementstotheFY2025maintenance budget that includes additional appropriation for Federal Data Services Hub Interface, Child Care Subsidies, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also includes FY 2024 supplemental appropriations that adjusts the appropriation for a no cost impact for the eligibility verification systems used by the department and funding for LIHEAP Utility Assistance.
Julie VanOrden · SD-030
33 – 32
Amends existing law to provide that subscribing to certain elective oaths of office shall create a vacancy in any other office held.
This legislation adds to the circumstances under which elective local offices would be considered vacant, to include when the local government office holder becomes a federal, statewide, or state legislative office holder. It would not apply to those who hold state legislative office as a temporary or emergency successor. This change will ensure that a federal, statewide, or state legislative office holder’s full attention and focus is given to the high office to which they have been elected, and their interest in the well-being of the citizens of their state or district is neither divided nor weighted. In addition, it prevents the concentration of power and allows more voices to be heard and represented in all facets of our government.
35 – 34
Adds to existing law to establish the Distributed Ledger Technology Act to provide for certain rights regarding the use of distributed ledger technology.
This legislation adds a new chapter to Idaho Code related to Bitcoin miningdistributed ledger technology (DLT). It contains legislative findings that Bitcoin miningDLT brings positive economic value to individuals, corporations and other interests in the state. This legislation will protect the right of individuals and businesses to mine Bitcoinuse DLTin the state of Idaho by prohibiting regulations that impose certainprohibitive requirements on Bitcoin miningits use. This legislation also prohibits the public utilities commission from establishing rate classifications for Bitcoin mining. It further prohibits regulations that would impair the use of Bitcoin for the purchase of goods and services, and it prohibits special taxes from being enacted solely because Bitcoin local regulations that would unfairly impair the use of DLT by businesses or at home. The legislation protects DLT tokens and wallets as a private property right. It also prohibits special taxes from being enacted solely because distributed ledger technology is used as a method of payment in a transaction.
17 – 18
Amends and repeals existing law to revise and remove provisions regarding the Idaho Rural Development Partnership.
Thisbillre-authorizesTitle67,Chapter90,IdahoCode,short-titled“TheIdahoRuralDevelopmentPartnership Act,” within technical and conforming amendments. These amendments (1) clarify legislative findings to be up to date and remove outdated federal language (2)clarify that the Idaho Rural Partnership will reside within the Idaho Department of Commerce, or within another executive branch agency as designated by the Governor, and funding from time to time may be appropriated by the Idaho Legislature (3) update the number and type of board members appointed (4) repeal language that specifically calls for the hiring of an executive director, and (5) amend voting privileges for the board of directors.
38 – 32