Idaho Bills

Amends and adds to existing law to revise terminology and to clarify rights of individuals with service dogs and dogs-in-training.

This bill amends sections in Title 18 and Title 56 that affect individuals with disabilities that need service dogs, to provide clarification on Idaho's statutes regarding access for service dogs in areas of public accommodation.

Relates to the appropriation to the Board of Tax Appeals for fiscal year 2019.

This is an FY 2019 supplemental appropriation bill for the Board of Tax Appeals. It provides $9,900 for new leased office space.

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

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

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.

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 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 revise the definition of “debt owed to the court” and to remove a provision regarding debts of less than fifty dollars.