Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to define terminology and to establish a certain exemption from licensure.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the release of certain liens.

Amends existing law to revise definitions regarding the basis of bearing as it pertains to plats and surveys.

Amends and repeals existing law to remove an obsolete code section and references to that code section.

Amends and repeals existing law to revise provisions regarding credit unions.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding personal service contracts and to establish provisions regarding personal service contracts.

Adds to existing law to provide legislative findings and to define terms.

This legislation amends Title 22 of Idaho Code by adding a New Chapter to provide legislative findings and to define terms relating to Urban Agriculture.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding allowable expenses for a birth mother.

Adds to existing law to provide eligibility requirements and to provide for services.

Family should be able to honor their veteran loved ones at the Idaho veteran’s cemetery and utilize the facilities to do so if the deceased is eligible for honors and the facility is available. There should not be a requirement of the Idaho veteran’s cemetery being the final resting place.

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the preparation and filing of a budget request.

Amends existing law to provide for the council members to elect two cochairs.

Amends existing law to revise the number of registered electors required for a cemetery maintenance district to have commissioners elected at large.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law regarding irrigation and drainage rights-of-way.

Thislegislationupdateschapters11and12ofTitle42andonesectionofTitle18thataddressditchrights-of-way (ROW), operation and maintenance duties, interference and encroachments. This legislation: consolidates provisions that pertain to the same subject; repeals antiquated provisions that are no longer in use, and clarifies provisions based on recent Idaho Supreme Court decisions and contemporary experience: (1) laterals and drains will be added to the chapter 11 statutes that deal with ditch ROW existence, establishment and rights; (2) the circumstances in which a land owner has notice of a ditch ROW will be clarified in 42-1102(3); (3) ditch operation and maintenance duties will be defined in one statute (I.C. 42-1201), rather than five (I.C. 42-1102(3), 42-1201, 42-1202, 42-1203, 42-1204); (4) the following antiquated provisions will be repealed: I.C. 42-1108 (right to cross ditches); I.C. 42-1205 (bridges over ditches); I.C. 42-1206 (repair of community ditches), and (5) the written permission, encroachment removal and “self-help” provisions (as interpreted by the Idaho Supreme Court in Pioneer v. Caldwell, 153 Idaho 593, at 599-600 (2012)) are codified in the ditch encroachment provisions of 42-1102(5) and 42-1209(2), and in the ditch relocation and piping provision on 42-1207(1)(e) (addressing the Idaho Supreme Court’s decision in Hood v. Poorman, 519 P.3d 769 2022, to make it clear that the ditch owner’s “self-help” remedy applies to ditch relocation and piping as well as ditch ROW encroachments).