Idaho Bills
635 bills · 2023 Regular Session
Adds to existing law to prohibit the name of any public official or any electioneering message from appearing on tax commission correspondence or county property tax correspondence.
James Ruchti · SD-029
35 – 0
Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for fiscal year 2023.
This is a FY 2023 supplemental appropriation bill for the College and Universities. It provides $1,000,000 for unexpected expenses to the University of Idaho due to a security incident near campus.
27 – 8
Amends and repeals existing law to update terminology in the Medical Consent and Natural Death Act.
This bill revises Chapter 45, title 39 updating medical terminology and clarifying existing statute. The changes will not impact current policy or patient protections in the statute; however, it will provide clarity to providers and the public who utilize advanced care plans, living wills, and durable power for health care.
34 – 1
Adds to existing law to establish a rural nursing loan repayment program.
This legislation creates an incentive for nurses to seek employment in rural health professional shortage areas or Idaho critical access hospitals.
18 – 17
Adds to existing law to provide for an investigation into the residency of a community college trustee and to provide for emergency authority of the State Board of Education when a community college's accreditation is threatened.
Adds to existing law to require selection and access policies for public libraries and public school libraries.
This legislation requires public schools and community libraries to take reasonable steps and provide age appropriate material to our local communities. All schools and libraries will inform the community of their processes under which a member of the community may challenge inclusion of certain materials in the library collection. This legislation also provides for parental restriction for access to materials in school libraries.
Amends existing law to revise definitions.
23 – 11
Amends existing law to revise the deadline for submitting sales tax and withholding tax returns.
This bill changes the due date for Idaho sales tax and withholding taxes from the 20th day of the following month to the 30th day. The due date was the 25th until 1983 when it was changed to the 20th.
66 – 0
Amends existing law to provide for duties of assessors and to provide for the valuation of income-producing property.
30 – 5
Adds to existing law to provide that certain persons and institutions must take reasonable steps to restrict the access of minors in certain instances, to provide for a civil action in certain instances, and to prohibit the use of public facilities and public assets for sexual exhibitions.
Repeals and adds to existing law to prohibit certain electioneering messaging at polling places on certain days.
Amends existing law to provide that trafficking in fentanyl is a felony and to provide that mandatory minimums become effective only on a second offense.
Idaho is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. Not only is it deadly, it is often laced into other pills or drugs – even black-market vape cartridges – and a person won’t even know it. This bill would impose mandatory minimum prison sentences and fines on those found with seven grams or more of fentanyl. It would also make the following updates to Idaho’s 30-year-old mandatory minimum drug sentencing statute: 1. Keep mandatory minimum sentences but allow judicial discretion for first-time convictions for drugs other than fentanyl. Idaho’s original law included language allowing discretion to depart from the mandatory minimum sentence in specific instances. This bill would restore discretion in a way that respects the legislature’s original intent and Idaho’s Constitution so that judges may distinguish between trafficking and addiction. 2. Ensure the law focuses on drug dealers by requiring prosecutors to prove intent to distribute. The current statute only requires a showing of weight, not proof that the person intended to distribute or deliver it. 3. Require weight be limited to the illegal substance. Weight is based not only on the illegal substance, but also onallsurroundingmaterials. TheStateLabalreadyseparatesandweighstheillegalsubstancefromsurrounding materials for federal cases. 4. Update quantities of certain drugs that trigger a mandatory minimum by eliminating the lowest category of marijuana trafficking and by mirroring the levels for heroin to federal law. Most quantities are original to the 1992 law. Yet Idaho police report that nearly every drug they apprehend is a combination of legal and illegal substance. Dilution coupled with tolerance means some addicted Idahoans are mislabeled as traffickers. If the power and resources of government are used to remove a person’s liberty, the standard should be higher.
Judy Boyle · HD-009B
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding underground facilities damage prevention.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to establish a policy regarding maintenance, construction, and development of bridges and highways.
This legislation amends Idaho Code, Section 40-708, to provide for the administration, maintenance, construction, and development of local bridges and highways.
26 – 9
Adds to existing law to establish the Unfair Service Agreements Act.
The goal of this legislation is to protect homeowners and to provide a remedy for existing Unfair Service Agreements, while discouraging future unfair and deceptive trade practices in real estate transactions.
James Ruchti · SD-029
20 – 15
Adds to existing law to establish the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.
This legislation will prohibit credit card companies from assigning a unique merchant category code to firearms retailers that sell weapons and ammunition in Idaho. The tracking of this unique merchant category will allow unprecedented surveillance of the 2nd Amendment activity by the sharing of financial information between financial institutions and the government. There will still be allowances for financial institutions to disclose this protected financial information if authorization is provided or required by a lawful subpoena.
Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of abortion trafficking, to provide certain requirements for and restrictions on a civil action, and to provide prosecution authority for the attorney general.
Todd Lakey · SD-023
58 – 11
Amends existing law to authorize duties of the State Board of Education regarding professional school personnel.
31 – 39
Amends existing law to provide in-person visitation rights for residents in certain facilities and to provide that visitation shall not be precluded based on vaccination status.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to increase the distribution of cigarette and tobacco product taxes to the Central Cancer Registry Fund.
Thepurposeofthisbillistoincreasethemoneysdistributedtothecentralcancerregistryfundthroughrevenues received from the cigarette and tobacco product taxes. The funding to the central cancer registry fund that subsequently supports the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho has remained unchanged since 2013 while costs associated with the registry have increased.
34 – 1
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding hospital property tax exemptions.
Amends existing law to clarify provisions regarding deferral of property tax.
68 – 0
Relates to the appropriation to the Board of Tax Appeals for fiscal year 2024.
34 – 0
Relates to the appropriation to the Division of Financial Management for fiscal year 2023.
31 – 3
Relates to the appropriation to the State Independent Living Council for fiscal year 2024.
31 – 3