Idaho Bills

Relates to the funding of the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget. This bill includes funding for targeted CEC, deferred maintenance projects, new equipment, renovations at the State Street Headquarters, and grants and equipment for the Division of Transportation Services. Next, this bill includes funding for automated materials software, public transit, highway safety, metropolitan planning, historical highway markers, and Statewide Public Transit CARES for the Division of Highway Operations. Next, for the Contract Construction and Right-of-Way Acquisition Division, this bill includes funding for construction projects. Then road and bridge maintenance and safety and capacity project funded through General Fund cash transfers totaling $275,000,000. On a department wide basis, this bill includes funding for replacement equipment, IT hardware, and a correction for dedicated fund appropriation. Lastly, this bill provides for reappropriation, and allocating funds for specific types of projects. This appropriation does not include $9,600,000 requested by the department to relocate the District 4 Headquarters, currently located in Shoshone. This appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department provides a supplemental appropriation for FY 2025 for public transit, metropolitan planning, and construction projects. This appropriation provides an additional $65,500,000 to the FY 2025 appropriation. Table 2 shows these additional funds in the adjustments leading to the FY 2025 Total Appropriation.

States findings of the Legislature and provides that all pending and temporary rules of the Department of Environmental Quality have been reviewed and approved by the House Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee.

This Resolution states all temporary and pending administrative rules for the Department of Environmental Quality were presented to the House Environment, Energy and Technology Committee for review, and they were approved.

Proposes and amendment to House Rule 6 to add certain bill introduction limits and to require certain transparency in the origin of legislation.

The purpose of this House Resolution is to amend Rule 6 of the Rules of the House of Representatives to increase efficiency, promote legislative discipline, and enhance transparency in the lawmaking process. This resolution limits each member of the House of Representatives to introducing no more than twelve (12) bills, resolutions, or memorials as a sponsor during any regular legislative session. This limit does not apply to appropriation bills or to legislation sponsored by state agencies, ensuring that essential budgetary and administrative measures are not impeded. To improve transparency, the resolution requires each bill’s of the legislator, the statement of purpose must also disclose the lobbyist, agency, or political organization that proposed the legislation. Ideas that originate from constituents unaffiliated with such groups are exempt from this disclosure requirement. The resolution also prevents the reintroduction of any bill, or substantially similar legislation, that fails to pass either chamber until after the next regular legislative session. This helps reduce redundancy and encourages more thoughtful policy development. To further support the legislative process, the resolution provides that members who have not yet reached their bill limit will be given priority in bill drafting requests submitted to the Legislative Services Office (LSO), ensuring that legislators who stay within the established limits are able to access timely drafting assistance. Exceptions to the bill limits may be granted by the Speaker of the House when deemed necessary. The Speaker may also delegate this authority to committee chairmen. Any such exemption must be clearly indicated in the bill’s statement of purpose. Thisresolutionseekstopromoteamorefocused,transparent,andaccountablelegislativeprocessthatprioritizes quality over quantity and better serves the people of Idaho.

States findings of the House of Representatives commemorating the 2025 session with an official time of prayer.

This is a resolution to honor the historic heritage that prayer has played in America's rise as a new country. It outlines the traditional role both at the Federal and State level of government. Prayer was relied upon every step of the way. As an example of our Founders commitment to prayer in September of 1787, when they gathered to write the United States Constitution, elder statesman Benjamin Franklin moved that "prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." In Idaho, we honor this heritage and tradition by continuing it.

States findings of the Legislature and provides that all temporary and pending rules of the Idaho State Police, the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, the Idaho Secretary of State, the Department of Administration, and the Idaho State Lottery have been reviewed and approved by the Senate State Affairs Committee, with an exception.

This Senate Resolution shows the Senate State Affairs Committee reviewed and approved all temporary and pending rules of the Idaho State Police, the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, the Idaho Secretary of State, the Department of Administration, and the Idaho State Lottery, with Exceptions.

States findings of the Senate and commemorates the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's speech before the Second Virginia Convention.

This resolution commemorates and honors the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's historic "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech by the Idaho State Senate.

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to remove language allowing for the Legislature to require school attendance and to add language regarding the right of the people to educate their children without government regulation outside of public schools.

The interests and role of the people of Idaho in the care, custody, and control of their children are both implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in our nation's history and tradition. They are also among the unalienable rights retained by the people under the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The interests of the people include the high duty and right to nurture and direct their children's education. By statutes already in place, the legislature has long recognized and exercised its duty to protect the peoples' fundamental rights to nurture and direct their children's destiny, upbringing, and education. After decades of success in enacting statutory protections for the people of Idaho, this resolution will elevate the long-standing statutory provisions and protections to the Idaho Constitution by amending Section 9 of Article IX. At a time of strength in Idaho's education environment, this constitutional amendment strikes the outdated compulsory public school attendance provision and places language in the constitution that will ensure to future generations of Idahoans their ability to educate their children outside of the public schools of the state without undo government regulations and burdens.

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to repeal the prohibition on same sex marriage.

This legislation would provide for a constitutional amendment to establish the freedom of consenting adults to marry without government restriction, as has de facto been the law in Idaho since 2014. Legislative Council may use the following statement for the ballot explanation as to the effect of the question: “This proposed constitutional provision will remove the 2006 amendment purporting to prohibit marriage between individuals of the same sex.”