Idaho Bills
718 bills · 2021 Regular Session
Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2021.
68 – 1
Amends existing law to provide for board members to be compensated via honorarium.
67 – 1
Adds to existing law to establish a catastrophic line of duty benefit for public safety officers.
68 – 0
Amends existing law to provide that a certain action for a money judgment on a promissory note shall be filed within 90 days.
This legislation clarifies the duration of time in which a junior lienholder may bring an action for deficiency resulting from the sale of a secured property. Idaho Code does not specify the time period in which such action may be brought; the results are extremely inequitable situations where junior lienholders are able to bring such actions at any point during the duration of an installment contract. This legislation merely requires the junior lienholder to commence their action within the same time period as senior lienholders to provide equity and predictability for consumers and lienholders alike.
Amends existing law to revise penalties regarding red traffic lights.
Amends existing law to revise the definition of highways to include certain public transportation and pedestrian infrastructure.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to revise bond and levy expiration date information.
63 – 0
Amends existing law to provide that a highway district shall be financially responsible for certain urban renewal projects if it reaches an agreement with the urban renewal agency.
66 – 0
Amends existing law to revise signature requirements for ballot initiative or referendum petitions.
51 – 18
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding city election procedures and to provide that city elections shall be held in even years beginning in 2024.
53 – 16
Adds to existing law to provide certain requirements for a special session convened by the Legislature.
23 – 10
Adds to existing law to provide that privately owned, noncommercial vehicles do not have to stop at Idaho Transportation Department check stations, including ports of entry and weigh stations.
Amends existing law to remove provisions regarding a performance framework and to revise provisions regarding the Public Charter School Commission.
This legislation would move the Public Charter School Commission is organizationally located within out from undertheOfficeoftheStateBoardofEducation., andThislegislationwouldmaketheCommissionitaseparate stand-alone agency under the State Board of Education. Agencies currently under the State Board of Education includetheOfficeoftheStateBoardofEducation, StateDepartmentofEducation, CareerTechnicalEducation, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Idaho Public Television. Currently, the Commission director is an employee of the Office of the State Board of Education. This legislation It would authorize the Commission to appoint and evaluate its own a director, and for the director to hire staff. Currently, the seven commissioners on the Public Charter School Commission are appointed as follows: three by the Governor, two by the Speaker, and two by the President Pro Tem. The This legislation would amend the appointing authority to make all seven commissioners appointed by the Governor. The legislation would strike Idaho Code § 33-5209A(3) which allows mission specific goals to be added in a charter school’s performance certificate. Only three (3) schools make use of this feature currently. Two alternative methods for including this type of data already exist through the Commission’s revised framework and the Commission’s charter renewal application, making this section of code redundant.
69 – 1
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding expulsion or denial of enrollment for students who possess dangerous or deadly weapons or firearms on school property.
69 – 0
Amends existing law to provide certain limitations on coverage.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding when a sheriff can auction abandoned property.
County sheriff and city police departments are required by law to keep unclaimed property for 6 months before the item can be auctioned or destroyed. For bicycles, the law requires 90 days. This legislation shortens the timeline for unclaimed property to 90 days and bicycles to 60 days. Most of the time items of actual value that are truly lost and found by police are collected in days or weeks by their owners while the large bulk of unclaimed(andgenerallylowvalueproperty)sitsonshelveswaitingtobedisposedofatacosttothecountyand citiesmanagingthisproperty. ShorteningIdaho’stimelineforretaininglost/abandonedand/orunclaimedfound property to match other states would mean cities and counties spend less money and time storing unclaimed property and bicycles. As an added benefit, items that do have value can go to auction sooner so that the city or county can recoup some of their costs.
49 – 20
Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2021.
67 – 1
Amends existing law to revise references to soil conservation districts and the state Soil and Water Conservation Commission and to remove provisions regarding the Idaho OnePlan.
14 – 54
Amends existing law to provide that certain moneys regarding Lava Hot Springs are continuously appropriated.
46 – 23
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding contracts with providers of dental services.
49 – 17
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding suicide prevention and crisis care services and a fee to fund such services.
This legislation provides Idahoans a more sustainable method of funding to address mental health crisis care and suicide prevention. In October 2020, President Trump signed into law the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 that designates 988 as the three-digit number for suicide prevention and mental health crisis needs (U.S. public law No: 116-172.). In July 2022, 988 will go live and replace the current national suicide prevention phone number 800-273-8255. This bill establishes the framework to collect 988 fees, which mirrors 911 emergency funds; designates allowable uses; requires coordination for service implementation; requires annual auditing, reporting, and review of the program; and ensures fee collection does not exceed anticipated need. The fee collectionisscheduledtobeginJanuary1,2022. Atthetimethislegislationisbeingconsideredatleast1/3ofall states have drafted and/or introduced comparable legislation, including neighboring states Utah and Montana. Whyitmatters: Idahohasthefifthhighestsuiciderateinthenationpercapitaandis65%higherthanthenational rate. Idaho experienced about 24.5 suicides per 100,000 Idahoans. Further, the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline received over 14,000 calls, chats, and texts in 2020 and has received an increasing volume of calls since launching its 24/7 service in 2014. Call volume and service needs are expected to increase significantly with 988 (regardless of passage of this bill). This fee will help divert future needs for General Fund support.
Amends existing law to provide that certain insurance policies shall be construed to provide coverage in excess of the liability coverage of any underinsured motor vehicle involved in an accident.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the Disaster Emergency Account.
69 – 0
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the authority of the Governor during a state of extreme peril and to provide that the Governor may not alter, adjust, or suspend any provision of Idaho Code in certain instances.
ThislegislationisarevisiontoTitle46,Chapter6IdahoCodeclarifyingandlimitingthepowersofthegovernor during episodes of extreme emergency. It provides limitations on the amount of time a governor may maintain a declaration of extreme peril without concurrence by the legislature, protects Idaho workers as essential, reaffirms the legislature’s authority to end emergency declarations and/or emergency regulations, prevents the suspension of the right to peaceable assemble and free exercise of religion, protects Idahoans’ right to bear arms during emergencies, and prohibits a governor from unilaterally altering or suspending Idaho Code.
28 – 7
Amends existing law to revise the salaries of justices of the Idaho Supreme Court.
69 – 0