Idaho Bills
718 bills · 2024 Regular Session
Amends existing law to provide that the boards of trustees of each school district shall have the discretion whether to establish school libraries and whether to decommission any school library that is not necessary.
This legislation amends Idaho Code, Section 33-512, to revise a provision regarding power of School Board Trustees within a school district, allowing the Board to determine whether to equip and maintain a library or libraries in any school or schools. Additionally, the Board may authorize any school under its authority to decommission any library that it determines is not necessary.
Relates to the appropriation to the to the Department of Insurance for fiscal year 2025.
This appropriation to the Department of Insurance provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes 4.00 FTP and additional personnel costs for two deputy fire marshals, a financial technician, and an examiner financial specialist; replacement items; and the additional 2% CEC.
Kevin Cook · SD-032
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Adds to existing law to provide that a political subdivision shall not enact certain rules, ordinances, or taxes regarding knives, to provide certain exceptions, and to provide that certain rules and ordinances from a political subdivision shall be null and void.
The purpose of this legislation is to prevent political subdivisions from regulating the possession, sale, transfer, or manufacture of knives more strictly than Idaho code.
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Amends existing law to provide for certain fingerprint and criminal history background checks.
This bill allows the division administrator, unless otherwise prohibited by law or rule, to conduct fingerprint criminal background checks as a requirement for licensure and registration, revises language concerning fingerprinting to align the procedures employed by the various boards and commissions governed by the division of occupational and professional licenses, and simplifies the fingerprinting process for applicants.
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Adds to existing law to allow a city to prohibit the expansion of certain operations posing a threat to public health and safety with approval of a two-thirds majority vote of the city council.
Existing property can become hazards to health and safety. In addition, such properties can raise concerns that they are vulnerable to subversive threats and the damage such activity may cause. This bill provides that a city, by a two-thirds council vote, can limit the expansion of such properties.
States findings of the Legislature and approves pending rules of the Idaho State Racing Commission, the Idaho State Liquor Division, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, and the Endowment Fund Investment Board reviewed by the Senate State Affairs Committee and the House State Affairs Committee.
This legislation states the legislative findings and approves the rules of the Idaho State Racing Commission, the Idaho State Liquor Division, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, and the Endowment Fund Investment Board. These rules were reviewed by the Senate State Affairs Committee and the House State Affairs Committee.
Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding certain time requirements, penalties and damages, and charges for care and to establish provisions regarding willfully and wantonly allowing estrays.
This legislation adds provisions to address stray livestock and the disruption they can cause. This legislation will ensure improved animal husbandry and neighbor relationships.
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Amends existing law to provide that the Governor's appointment of the executive officer of the state board is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate and to revise provisions regarding School Modernization Facilities Fund distributions to school districts.
This is a trailer bill to House Bill 521 that makes three changes: 1) it ensures the executive officer of the state board is Senate confirmed; 2) it delays the implementation of the minimum days requirement for schools to 2025 to ensure legislative oversight while providing the state board flexibility to phase in hours or days requirements; and 3) it ensures any misused dollars by a local school district are recaptured to the schools facilities fund and distributed to rural schools.
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Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the prohibition of mask mandates.
The purpose of this legislation is to prevent the State of Idaho, its political subdivisions, or any state officers from mandating the use of face masks, face shields, or other face coverings to prevent or slow the spread of a contagious or infectious disease; it also provides relevant definitions.
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for the creation of the Idaho Allied Health Professionals Board and to remove references to various health boards that are to be consolidated under the Idaho Allied Health Professionals Board.
The Idaho Board of Medicine currently governs the practice of dietetics, athletic training, respiratory therapy, and naturopathic medicine through separate advisory boards for each practice. This bill restructures those advisory boards into a single allied health advisory board to restrain costs and provide more efficient governance.
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Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding annual reports on drug trafficking, manufacturing, delivery, and possession with the intent to distribute.
This legislation will produce annual statistical data regarding criminal charges and corresponding sentences for Delivery of Controlled Substances, Manufacturing of Controlled Substance, Trafficking of Controlled Substances, and Possession with Intent to Deliver Controlled Substances. This annual report will provide accurate detailed information regarding the most serious drug offenses in Idaho with transparency on the actual charges, convictions, sentencings and probation/parole supervision of these drug-related offenses in Idaho.
Relates to the appropriation to the Office of the State Controller for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
This appropriation to the State Controller provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includesanet-zeroadjustmentbyprogramtorealignthebudgetandthe2%CEC.Additionally,thisbillincludes an FY 2024 supplemental appropriation for a Catastrophic Health Care Fund Claim.
Carl Bjerke · SD-005
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Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the selection, review, and reconsideration of school library materials.
The School Library Material Care act creates a consistent set of procedural requirements for Idaho school librariesregardingtheselection,review,inventorymanagement,andreconsiderationofschoollibrarymaterials. Local school boards of trustees will be empowered to develop and adopt such policies, as well as appoint a committee, in partnership with local parents for the review and reconsideration procedures of school library materials. These policies shall include periodic curation, review, and revision of such materials, in addition to maintaining a complete and transparent inventory of current school library materials for parents and legal guardians of students enrolled at the relevant school. Effectively implementing these procedures will protect students from pornography and from accessing materials that are not appropriate for their maturity or interest. School libraries that are not compliant may not be open to students until such time as they achieve compliance with the developed procedures.
Linda Hartgen · SD-025
Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for Special Programs for fiscal year 2025.
This appropriation to the Special Programs under the State Board of Education provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes additional staffing, additional operating expenditures, funding for the rural educator incentive program, and the additional 2% CEC.
Julie VanOrden · SD-030
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Amends existing law to revise the appointment procedures for the Board of Education, including establishing geographical representation of seats on the Board of Education.
This legislation establishes seven geographical regions for appointment to the State Board of Education. Each region holds five state legislative districts. If a qualified candidate who resides in the region does not apply within six months of the state posting a vacancy, the governor may appoint an interim board member for an abbreviated term of no more than three years. No more than two of the seven board members may be interim appointments, and interim board members may not reside in the county of any other current board member. Region Divisions Grouped by Legislative District: • Region 1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 • Region 2: 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 • Region 3: 10, 11 , 12, 13, 20 • Region 4: 15, 16, 17,21 ,22 • Region 5: 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 • Region 6: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 • Region 7: 31 , 32, 33, 34, 35
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Proposes an amendment to Joint Rule 11 to provide that the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee shall be cochairmen of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.
This resolution amends the joint rules of the Idaho House of Representatives and the Senate. In doing so, it provides a Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee (JFAC) exception to the provision in the joint rules that states that the Senate committee chairman will chair all joint committees of the House and Senate. Putting this JFACexceptionintothejointrulesisneededtoalignthejointruleswithdecadesofsuccessfulpractice,inwhich the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee have functioned as co-equal JFAC co-chairs.
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Amends existing law to revise the minimum and maximum distribution amounts for school districts from the School Modernization Facilities Fund.
This legislation is a trailer bill to H 521. It amends the Fixed Distribution section of the School Modernization Facilities Fund in Idaho Code 33-915. It would raise the minimum distribution to $100,000 and cap the maximum distribution at $100M.
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Adds to existing law to enact the Idaho Dietary Supplement Act, which provides that the production, marketing, distribution, sale, and use of dietary supplements that were legal in Idaho as of July 1, 2023, shall remain legal in Idaho, regardless of any changes to federal law or regulation.
ThepurposeofthislegislationistoensuretheCitizensofIdahoandhealthpractitionersretainaccesstovitamins and supplements under current regulations.
States findings of the Legislature and approves pending rules of the Idaho Department of Lands reviewed by the House Resources and Conservation Committee and the Senate Resources and Environment Committee, with an exception.
This legislation approves the Idaho Dept. of Lands 2024 Administrative Rules as submitted and considered by the House Resources & Conservation Committee and the Senate Resources & Environment Committee, with theexceptionofIDAPA20.03.01, RulesGoverningDredgeandPlacerMiningOperationsinIdaho, DocketNo. 20-0301-2301, Section 051., Subsection 01 which the House Resources & Conservation Committee rejected because it does not agree with Idaho Code 67-5291.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the legislative policy on highway-related expenditures.
This legislation clarifies that all highway user revenues accruing to the Highway Distribution Account, and ad valorem levies accruing, shall be spent in support of the operations, administration, maintenance, construction, and development of bridges and highways that benefit primarily motor vehicles in the local highway jurisdictions. Additionally, expenditure of these funds shall be certified annually stating that all highway user revenues and ad valorem levies have been expended for their intended purposes.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2025.
This is a fiscal year 2025 trailer appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. It addresses the fiscal impact of H592, which amended existing law to authorize the director of the Department of Agriculture to provide compensation to livestock owners and producers that have experienced livestock losses.
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Amends existing law to clarify requirements for criminal history and background checks for potential temporary caregivers.
This legislation provides clarification to authorize the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare to submit the fingerprints of temporary caregivers to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to process a criminal history and background check as per Idaho Code §56-1004A, Criminal History and Background Checks. The statutory update is needed in order to add this category of caregivers as an approved group per FBI requirements.
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Amends existing law to require certain heat detection devices in certain attached garages and to provide an exemption from a requirement of fire sprinklers for certain multiple family dwellings with fire walls.
This legislation would clarify building code requirements for multifamily units up to 2 units on the same side (Fourplex) by not requiring sprinklers when a 2 hour fire wall is constructed between the units and to require for single and multi-family residences that a heat detection device be installed in the garage.
Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the Kootenai River Water Rights Adjudication.
This legislation starts the water adjudication process for the Kootenai River Basin in North Idaho. The Idaho Department of Water Resources will be the responsible state agency. There will be no new staff requirements. The IDWR staff assigned to the adjudication of the neighboring Pend Oreille Basin will remain for this project after completing their current work. This project will likely take 4-5 years and is supported by the water users of the basin. The Kootenai Basin is the last water basin in the state to address their water adjudication needs.
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Amends existing law to include responding to solicitations for services within the practice of architecture and to provide that a firm offering to practice in Idaho shall identify an Idaho-licensed architect who will supervise such services.
ThisbillaimstoleveltheplayingfieldbetweenIdahobasedarchitecturalfirmsandnationalfirmswhenbidding on state projects. This bill does two things. 1. It amends 54-303 to clarify that the “practice of architecture” also includes “submitting a response” to an RFP, or RFQ 2. It amends 54-305 to make clear that a firm who “offers to practice” must have an Idaho licensed architect who will “supervise the architectural services” listed in the proposal.
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