Idaho Bills
790 bills · 2025 Regular Session
Amends current law to revise provisions regarding director appointments to certain executive agencies.
This legislation will result in the directors of the agencies listed being appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of four years as is customary with other cabinet level agencies. Idaho Transportation Department Idaho Department of Fish and Game Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation Idaho Department of Correction Additionally, this legislation will result in the Director of Lands being appointed by the Board with the advice and consent of the Senate every four years.
Doug Okuniewicz · SD-003
Amends existing law to provide for certain actions, proceedings, or judgments founded in or derived from a judgment.
This bill prevents debt collectors from circumventing the Idaho Patient Act. The legislation clarifies that the limitations contained in the Idaho Patient Act apply to all actions to collect a medical debt covered by the Act including actions initiated after selling a covered medical debt.
Kelly Anthon · SD-027
Amends existing law to require public agencies and political subdivisions to factor contractor fees in determining which contractor to select for certain projects.
Doug Ricks · SD-034
Amends existing law to provide that liens for irrigation district assessments have a first priority over other liens.
66 – 0
Amends existing law to provide that the forfeiture period restarts upon removal of a water right from the water supply bank.
Van Burtenshaw · SD-031
65 – 0
Amends existing law to revise fee provisions regarding recreational vehicles and to establish provisions regarding an off-highway vehicle law enforcement program.
Mark Harris · SD-035
Amends existing law to provide for a lifetime instructional certificate and a lifetime administrator certificate for certain teachers and administrators.
Lori Den Hartog · SD-022
62 – 5
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the career ladder.
Jim Woodward · SD-001
31 – 4
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding student funding and to provide for weighted per-student funding.
This legislation changes the distribution of discretionary funding to follow the student. The distribution is weightedbasedonverifiedstudentcharacteristicstorecognizeactualcostsassociatedwiththeneedsofdifferent students.
Jim Woodward · SD-001
20 – 15
Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding a teacher apprenticeship program and to revise provisions regarding teacher certification.
Carrie Semmelroth · SD-017
Adds to existing law to require the provision of copies of medical records in certain circumstances.
Doug Ricks · SD-034
28 – 42
Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise and establish provisions regarding the duties of county coroners.
Melissa Wintrow · SD-019
60 – 6
Relates to the maintenance appropriation to Public Safety for fiscal year 2026.
Jim Woodward · SD-001
67 – 1
Relates to the maintenance appropriation to Economic Development for fiscal year 2026.
Phil Hart · SD-002
62 – 6
Amends existing law to define terms and to provide that compulsory means cannot be used to limit private sector competition.
Lori Den Hartog · SD-022
Amends existing law to establish provisions regarding aerial common fireworks.
Dave Lent · SD-033
Amends existing law to require an updated fiscal impact statement for initiative petitions.
This legislation requires an updated fiscal impact statement for proposed ballot measures that have reached the signature threshold and will appear on the ballot.
Ben Adams · SD-012
66 – 0
Amends existing law to revise certain monetary thresholds for certain types of procurement by political subdivisions.
Mark Sauter · HD-001A
65 – 0
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding placing certain persons in protective custody without a hearing.
Melissa Wintrow · SD-019
66 – 0
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding prohibiting the final disposition of dead human bodies.
Mark Harris · SD-035
66 – 0
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the oil and gas conservation commission.
Mark Harris · SD-035
Relates to the appropriation to the State Independent Living Council for fiscal year 2026.
Melissa Wintrow · SD-019
59 – 8
Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise the Agricultural Protection Area Act.
This legislation provides some incentives for agricultural landowners to voluntarily apply for Agricultural Protection Area designations and it further clarifies the intent of the statute that was passed by the Legislature in 2024 through H 608aaS.
Ben Adams · SD-012
50 – 18
Amends existing law to provide that certain records regarding coroners shall be exempt from disclosure and to provide that next-of-kin shall have access to certain reports prepared by a coroner.
Melissa Wintrow · SD-019
Adds to existing law to provide for Idaho's participation in the respiratory care interstate compact.
Carl Bjerke · SD-005