Idaho Bills

Adds to existing law to establish certain requirements for employers to verify the lawful status of workers.

This legislation adds to Idaho employment law to prohibit employment of illegal aliens and require employers to e-verify an employee’s legal employment status as a condition of employment.

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to repeal the prohibition on sectarian appropriations.

The purpose of this joint resolution is to put a question to the citizens of Idaho if they want to repeal Article IX Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Idaho (Also known as "The Blaine Amendment").

States findings of the Legislature and provides that all temporary and pending rules of the State Board of Education and the Division of Career Technical Education have been reviewed and approved by the Senate Education Committee.

This legislation approves all pending and temporary rules of the State Board of Education and the Division of Career Technical Education reviewed and approved by the Senate Education Committee.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding starter home subdivisions.

With the national median age of first-time homebuyers having recently reached 40, the need to reduce barriers of entry in the face of increasing cost of living and artificial scarcity is ever more apparent. This legislation removes red tape discouraging first-time homeownership by enabling small-lot starter home subdivisions on vacant residential land, removing restrictive covenants and local zoning barriers that prevent compact single-family development. It sets reasonable state standards for lot size, frontage, setbacks, and density, while preserving health, safety, environmental, and infrastructure requirements.

Adds to existing law to establish the Idaho Dental Plan Transparency Act.

This bill creates a new chapter in Title 41 of the Idaho Code to establish transparency requirements for dental health care service plans. It requires annual reporting by company of their Dental Loss Ratio (DLR) which is the percentage of premium dollars spent on patient care compared to the premium dollars collected. The goal is to promote consumer transparency in the dental insurance industry. While the bill would go into effect this year on July 1, 2026, dental plans are provided ample time to prepare for reporting with the first report not required until July 31, 2027. The Department of Insurance is also provided with ample time to prepare for receiving the information and making it available to the public for the first time by January 1, 2028.

States findings of the Legislature and requests federal action.

The purpose of this joint memorial is to urge the United States Congress to prohibit unauthorized geoengineering and atmospheric modification activities conducted over the State of Idaho without state approval, public disclosure, or transparency. This memorial asserts Idaho’s responsibility under the Tenth Amendment to protect public health, private property, agriculture, and environmental integrity from potential harm caused by intentional atmospheric interventions, including weather modification and solar radiation management. It expresses concern that such activities may occur without sufficient oversight, consent, or evaluation of long-term impacts on human health, livestock, crops, ecosystems, and weather stability. The memorial calls upon Congress to establish clear prohibitions and penalties for unauthorized geoengineering activities, ensure coordination with state and federal enforcement agencies, and respect state sovereignty over activities conducted within and above Idaho’s borders.

States findings of the Legislature and calls on the federal government to protect Idaho citizens who file depredation claims.

Grazing leases or permits on federal land are a valuable property right and can be critical to the success of Idaho ranchers. A rancher should not have their grazing lease or permit be adversely impacted because they submitted a depredation claim regarding their livestock. This Memorial calls upon the federal government to adopt rules to ensure that depredation claims cannot be used as a basis for modifying or revising a federal grazing permit or lease.

Amends existing law to provide that procedures used in an execution shall not be subject to rulemaking, judicial review, or certain other provisions.

This legislation amends parts of Title 19, Chapter 27, Idaho Code to extend legal protections from discovery or disclosure of certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty by lethal injection to certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty by firing squad. Death penalty by firing squad will become the primary method of execution beginning July 1, 2026.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding permit and license fees.

This legislative proposal increases alcohol licensing and permit fees across the board to balance the effects of SB1120, SB1421, and amendments to Idaho Code 23-903. The amendments to the statute prohibit the ability of any new liquor license issued after July 1, 2023, to be sold or transferred, and any existing license prior to July 1, 2023, to be sold or transferred one time under certain conditions. Therefore, it eliminated ABC’s ability to continue to collect the 10% transfer fee in the future when these licenses are sold. Historically, liquor license transfer fees were a large percentage of ABC’s dedicated funding. ABC has seen a dramatic decrease in liquor license transfer fees being collected post FY 23 by 47%. Research indicates that alcohol licensing fees in Title 23 for beer, wine, and liquor-by-the-drink licenses have not been increased, in most cases for decades, since they were initially set by the legislature.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to repeal and replace the Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit and the Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit Advance Payment Fund.

The purpose of this bill is to give the state of Idaho the flexibility to increase revenue should the uncertainty concerning state and national economic conditions require considering doing so. This bill does not repeal H93. It only puts a potential one-year pause on continuing it in 2027and then resumes it in 2028.