Idaho Bills

Repeals existing law relating to Carey Act construction companies, certain statements filed with county recorders, duties of county recorders, the transfer of certain water rights, certain appeals, fees for decisions on applications for transfers of water rights, the sale of water rights, and certain reports of irrigation companies; and amends existing law to remove provisions regarding certain reports to the Department of Water Resources.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding meetings of irrigation district boards of directors.

ThisbillamendsIdahoCode§43-303intwowaystomakeitconsistentwithcurrentlaw. First, thelanguage is amended to align timeframes with Idaho's open meetings law (chapter 2, Title 74, Idaho Code) and to clarify that decisions at board meetings are based on a majority of the board members present (when a quorum exists). Second, the language is amended to conform with a decision from the Idaho Fourth Judicial District in Tribune Publishing Co. v. Boise-Kuna Irrigation District (Case No. 63836) (Aug. 16, 1978).

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding rights associated with rights-of-way and encroachments onto easements and rights-of-way.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the issuance of free permits and tags to military veterans with disabilities.

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding a continuance for a certain hearing.

Amends existing law to provide an alternative to regular compliance inspections of residential care and assisted living facilities.

Amends existing law to provide advanced opportunities funding for career technical education workforce training.

This legislation provides Advanced Opportunities funding for Career Technical Education Workforce Training. This will open up more opportunities for high school students to take Career Technical courses that lead to industry certifications if these courses are not offered in their high school. An example of this is providing more opportunities for students to participate in industry apprenticeships while in high school.

Amends existing law to provide for the expansion of virtual, blended, traditional, or other secondary career technical education programs, as approved by the Board of Career Technical Education.

This legislation modifies Title 33 to clarify that career technical education includes all secondary, postsecondary, and adult courses, programs, training and services, irrespective of instructional delivery method. This bill clarifies that virtual Career Technical Education (CTE) programs which meet the same quality requirements and demonstrate compliance with the Idaho CTE Initiative may be authorized by Idaho CTE. This modernizes CTE language to include all instructional delivery methods and better positions Idaho to meet demands of modern-day workforce.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide requirements for bail enforcement agents.

Adds to and amends existing law to provide for remotely located individuals and communication technology in the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts.

TheOfficeoftheSecretaryofStateisproposinglegislationthatwillenablethenotarizationofadocumentby anIdahonotarytoexecuteanotarialactforaremotelylocatedindividual, throughtheuseofcommunication technologyandinconcertwithaprocessforidentityproofing. Thisprocessisknownasremotenotarization. Theproposedlegislationalsoincludeslanguagetorequirecountiestoacceptelectronicallynotarizedrecords for recording.

Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.

Amends existing law to revise campaign finance reporting laws, applies requirements to local campaigns that meet a certain financial threshold and creates a single reporting database for all elections within the Secretary of State's office.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding appropriations for certain fiscal years.

Section 23-404, Idaho Code, sets forth the distribution of funds from the liquor account. The distribution to cities and counties was amended in 2018 to allocate a portion of the city and county distributions to the magistratedivisionofthedistrictcourt. Atechnicalerrorinthedistributionlanguagehaspreventedaportion of these funds from being distributed by the liquor division. This legislation corrects the technical error. It also includes an emergency clause to allow funds already dedicated to the magistrate division of the district court to be disbursed.

Amends existing law to provide for a juvenile probation fee.

The Idaho Juvenile Corrections Act allows the court to place juvenile offenders on probation for up to three years. In some cases judges have ordered juvenile offenders to pay a probation supervision fee for the time the offender is on probation. Currently there is no statutory fee for juvenile probation; however, some counties have been collecting court ordered juvenile probation fees through Odyssey. Judges and counties were notified in November that effective June 2019, Odyssey would no longer be configured to allow court orderedjuvenileprobationfeestobecollected. Asaresult,countieswouldberequiredtocreatenewtracking and collection portals outside of Odyssey. The proposed legislation amends Section 20-520, Idaho Code to establish a statutory juvenile probation supervision fee to be paid to the clerk of the court, amends Section 19-4708, Idaho Code, to allow for the collection of debts owed by juvenile offenders to the court, and Section 20-529, Idaho Code, to specify that revenues from juvenile probation fees are to be used exclusively for county juvenile probation services.