Idaho Bills
790 bills · 2025 Regular Session
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the public charter school facilities program.
Charter schools are public schools funded by taxpayers. To help established charter schools secure lower interest rates on bonds, the state created the charter school credit enhancement. Twenty-one charter schools have used the tool, resulting in annual interest savings of $11.8m, or a projected $112m over a fifteen-year period. However, this tool has hit its statutory cap. This bill would raise the cap on the overall capacity of the tool so more qualifying schools may apply to participate.
Wendy Horman · HD-032B
35 – 0
Relates to the maintenance appropriation to General Government for fiscal year 2026.
This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for General Government. This bill includes appropriations to the Department of Administration, Office of the Governor, and the Department Revenue and Taxation. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.
Carl Bjerke · SD-005
65 – 5
Repeals and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the accuracy of voter registration information.
Brandon Mitchell · HD-006B
55 – 10
Amends existing law to limit the topics subject to collective bargaining by firefighters.
Brian Lenney · SD-013
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding compensation and benefits of local boards.
Stephanie Mickelsen · HD-032A
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Finance for fiscal year 2026.
This appropriation to the Department of Finance provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes 5.00 FTP and additional personnel costs for a financial institutions IT examiner, a financial institutions examiner, two financial examiner investigator 3 positions, and a financial examiner with a forensic accounting specialty; and IT replacement items.
Jim Woodward · SD-001
29 – 37
Adds to existing law to provide that funds appropriated to public schools shall be used for the purposes identified in statute or in an appropriation.
Kyle Harris · HD-007A
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding parental rights in education.
This legislation amends Idaho's "Parental Rights in Education" to require public schools to adopt policies and proceduresthatprohibitclassroomeducationonsexualorientationorgenderidentityfromkindergartenthrough 12th grade.
Dale Hawkins · HD-002B
29 – 6
Amends existing law to revise provisions related to the assessment of market value and the homestead exemption.
Dustin Manwaring · HD-029A
34 – 0
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding certain prohibited actions by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Jordan Redman · HD-003B
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the composition of public health district boards.
Douglas Pickett · HD-027A
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding human personhood.
Dale Hawkins · HD-002B
Relates to the appropriation to the Agricultural Research and Extension Service for fiscal year 2026.
Elaine Price · HD-004B
26 – 9
Adds to existing law to require legislative candidates, legislators, and members-elect of the Legislature to report certain travel paid by others.
The legislation proposes legislators and nominees to the legislature self-disclose any state or out-of-state travel related to legislative or governmental purposes not paid for by themselves to promote public confidence in government and transparency.
Stephanie Mickelsen · HD-032A
47 – 22
Adds to existing law to require certain state officials to report certain travel paid by others.
Stephanie Mickelsen · HD-032A
Amends existing law to remove a provision regarding restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons.
Dale Hawkins · HD-002B
56 – 10
Amends existing law to revise provisions about the dig once policy and rights-of-way for broadband.
This legislation updates and amends Idaho’s Dig Once Policy by expanding its application to single county-wide highway districts formed pursuant to chapter 14, title 40 Idaho Code. Expanding Idaho’s Dig Once Policy will further encourage the cost-efficient, orderly, and coordinated expansion of broadband services by requiring the districts to consider the appropriateness of including the installation of broadband infrastructure during roadway construction and maintenance projects. Additionally, requiring districts to develop nondiscriminatory and competitively neutral rules, standards, and policies consistent with Idaho’s Dig Once Policy encourages further investment in broadband infrastructure by reducing installation costs and providing service providers with a fair, transparent, and predictable process. This update to Idaho’s Dig Once Policy yields greater efficiency and coordination between utilities, broadband service providers, and transportation agencies to minimize the number of times roadways must be cut and therefore closed for construction. Finally, this legislation protects the long-term integrity and performance of roadways by standardizing the construction specifications and installation methods used to deploy broadband facilities within the public ROW of state or district highways.
John Vander Woude · HD-022A
Amends and adds to existing law to provide that a fire burning out of control on federal land in Idaho is a nuisance and cost recovery actions related to such fires are subject to a statute of limitations after ten years, and to allow the governor to direct state resources to suppress fires on federal land.
This legislation provides that any range or forest fire burning on any land within Idaho is declared a public nuisance. The bill allows the Governor to declare an emergency exists threatening health, safety, welfare and property directing state resources to immediately extinguish such a fire on federal land. Private and state lands already extinguish fires when they begin. It directs the Idaho Attorney General to recover costs in a civil action.
Judy Boyle · HD-009B
32 – 1
Repeals and adds to existing law to remove provisions relating to the Local Innovation School Act and to establish provisions regarding districts of innovation.
Jack Nelsen · HD-026B
Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to establish provisions governing lobbying and lobbyists.
Mike Moyle · HD-010A
27 – 8
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding documents that may be used to prove identity and citizenship status.
This legislation allows people applying for driver's licenses or learner's permits to use an unexpired passport, when a certified copy of a birth certificate is not available, for proof of identity, date of birth, and citizenship status.
Joe Palmer · HD-020A
33 – 0
Amends and adds to existing law to provide for a temporary assessment to fund fire protection and emergency medical services.
Jason Monks · HD-022B
Adds to existing law to provide for the Idaho Middle Income Property Development Tax Credit and the Middle Income Land Trust Tax Credit.
Jordan Redman · HD-003B
Adds to existing law to provide that funds appropriated to public schools shall be used for the purposes identified in statute or in an appropriation.
Thisbillstatesthatfundingappropriatedanddistributedbythestatetoschooldistrictsandpubliccharterschools must be used for the intended purposes.
Kyle Harris · HD-007A
52 – 17
Relates to the appropriation to the STEM Action Center for fiscal year 2026.
Elaine Price · HD-004B
31 – 2