Idaho Bills

Adds to existing law to provide for interest rates to be allowed by agreement subject to certain limitations.

This legislation prohibits usury in lending by non-regulated entities. Regulated entities, such as banks and credit card companies are otherwise regulated. Parties may agree to payment of interest and fees not to exceed 30%, or 10% over the prime rate as published by the federal reserve, whichever is higher.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding cloud seeding activities.

This legislation enacts a full repeal of cloud seeding operations by any public or private entity. It also prohibits any type of weather modification activity within the state.

Amends existing law to provide for public comment and reporting requirements.

This legislation amends Idaho Code §36-105, to provide for a 30-day public comment period prior to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission adopting, repealing, or amending any season-setting proclamation.

Adds to existing law to provide for regulation of development on religious land.

RS33764 / H0937 This legislation permits multifamily and mixed-use housing on religious land and prevents local governments from imposing discretionary zoning barriers or mandates that deter religious institutions from engaging in mixed use or housing development. It establishes ministerial approval procedures and enforcement mechanisms while preserving core health, safety, and infrastructure regulations.

States findings of the Legislature and calls on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee and the State Treasurer to return rural health transformation funds to the United States Treasury.

RS33746 / HCR037 This concurrent resolution explicitly rejects about $1B dollars granted to Idaho as part of the Rural Health Transformation Fund (RHTF) that was secured with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). This resolution returns this grant to the US Treasury. Spending borrowed federal dollars is inflationary as Idaho witnessed with the borrowed federal funds granted through the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021. Targeting more borrowed federal dollars to the healthcare industry, which has already experienced high-cost inflation is not an Idaho solution. The legislature finds that Idaho needs to set an example for what true fiscal conservatism is and reject this money. Sending it back to Washington sends a clear message that it is time to stop the federal subsidization of the healthcare system.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding abatement districts and to provide for optional participation.

This legislation allows individual property owners to opt-out and exempt themselves from Mosquito District Abatement. It also restricts certain aerial abatement methods in certain circumstances. It requires Mosquito Abatement Districts to publish and notify on the use of products and information on how to opt-out, and sets penalties if the District is not in compliance.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding coverage of anticancer medications under health benefit plans.

The purpose of this legislation is to create co-insurance parity for cancer treatment patient cost regardless of treatment being intravenously administered, injected, or orally taken. The legislation directs the Department of Insurance to ensure state regulated health plans, when anti-cancer medication is covered by a health plan, to provide patients access to orally administered anti-cancer medications at a co-insurance rate no more than the cost to access injected or intravenously administered medication.

Adds to existing law to provide that deficiency warrants may be issued for providing fire resources for fire suppression.

This legislation allows the state land board to issue deficiency warrants for reimbursable non-fire activities for emergencies.

Amends existing law to include physical therapy in the definition of primary care provider.

This legislation amends the Idaho Direct Primary Care Act to update statutory language and clarify that physical therapists may participate in direct primary care agreements with patients.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding certain election procedures.

2025 legislation established uniform dates and deadlines for county clerks ahead of elections. This bill cleans up three additional sections that were inadvertently missed, including (1) soil and water conservation districts, (2) sparsely populated precincts, and (3) canvassing timelines.

Adds to existing law to prohibit certain governmental entities from investing in foreign adversaries.

The Foreign Adversary Investment Act will ensure that the State of Idaho’s public investment dollars are not put at risk in adversary countries so not to fund the development of military technologies and surveillance tools of foreign adversaries that impede the State of Idaho’s interests and the interests of the United States, by requiring that Idaho’s public investments are prohibited from any future investment of from countries of concern. All state managed funds shall immediately and in good faith begin divesting of any prohibited holdings.