Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include appropriations for the Hospital Assessment Fund, the federally required Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, expenses for the Adult Developmental Disabilities Resource Allocation model required by court order, actuary contract amendments, the federally required External Quality Review contract for Managed Care Organizations, year four of the MMIS procurement process, and population forecast adjustments. This bill also provides the appropriation to move Extended Employment Services from Services for the Developmentally Disabled to the Division of Medicaid as part of the department's overall reorganization. This bill includes the fiscal impact of House Bill 345, the Medicaid Reform and Cost-Containment Act, which establishes sideboards on Medicaid expansion. The fiscal impact of House Bill 345 includes onetime development costs for waivers and ongoing implementation costs if those waivers are approved. Supplemental appropriations for FY 2025 include appropriation for the federally required External Quality Review contract, the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan (IBHP) system configuration changes that were part of the calendar year 2024 go-live implementation, the updated Medicaid forecast, IBHP capitation rate increases, and the Hospital Assessment Fund. This bill includes 5 sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations and directing the division to explore a value-based outpatient addiction treatment, work towards aligning contract periods with the state fiscal year, and provide annual reports to the Legislature on the Emergency Medicaid plan.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for College and Universities and the Office of the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2026.

This bill provides enhancements to the College and Universities including: an operational capacity enhancement (line 1); a net-zero FY 2025 health benefits correction in College and University Systemwide (line 2); a correction to the FY 2025 change in employee compensation in College and University Systemwide (line 3); a salary adjustment for Lewis Clark State College (line 5); $1,000,000 for the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (line 6); a onetime reduction to Boise State University (line 7); a onetime reduction to the University of Idaho (line 8); an endowment funds adjustment (line 9); and an enrollment workload adjustment (line 10). This bill does not include the Minors on Campus training requested by the agency and recommended by the Governor (line 4).

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Central Services for fiscal year 2026.

This is a trailer appropriation bill for Senate Bill 1069 which provides professional development funding for literacy programs. The appropriation is provided to Public Schools in the Division of Central Services.

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Utilities Commission for fiscal year 2026.

This bill is a trailer to Senate Bill 1183 and provides an additional 2.00 FTP and $187,000 to the Public Utilities Commission from the Commission's dedicated fund. Senate Bill 1183 directed the Public Utilities Commission to enact the Wildfire Standard of Care Act, with the associated workload requiring two full time positions to create standards of care regarding operations, maintenance, repair, upgrades, and the outlining of liabilities for an expected minimum of twelve wildfire mitigation plans.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Public Health Services provides enhancementstotheFY2026maintenancebudgetandadjustmentstotheFY2025appropriation. ForFY2026, this bill includes funding for seven enhancements. Enhancements include the restoration of funding for several programs in the division that include Suicide Prevention, Drug Overdose Prevention, WIC Food Program, Alzheimer's and Dementia programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and partial funding for the Hepatitis C and HIV Prevention programs; funding for the continuation of several ARPA programs; funding for the fourth year of communicable disease prevention grant funding; new funding for the Immunization Assessment Fund and changes $18.97 million of ongoing funding to onetime funding; additional appropriation for revenue generated in the Vital Records Bureau; new funding for the Home Visiting Program and changes $3.51 million of ongoing funding to onetime funding for the program; and funding for the Rural Nursing Loan Repayment Program for years 3-5 of the program. This bill includes eight sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations and directing the division to provide reports to the Legislature on federal grants including pass-through grants, drug overdose prevention programs, Alzheimer's and dementia programs, the Fit and Fall Proof Program, suicide prevention, and the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho. Finally, thisbillincludesfundingandatransferfortheRuralNursingLoanRepaymentProgramtoassistnurses working in rural areas for FY 2025. Thisbill doesnot include a requestfromthe agency to restorefundingforseveralprogramsincluding the Office of Accreditation, Refugee Health Screening, Populations with Diabetes, and for the Oral Health Workforce. Funding for the Governor's Initiative to provide medical education loan repayments under the Rural Physician Incentive Program (RPIP), which is for physicians providing care in federally desi

Relates to the appropriation to the Division of Financial Management for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the Division of Financial Management provides enhancements to the FY 2026 budget that includes additional appropriation for ITS hardware replacement items and a reduction of General Fund operating expenditures.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Historical Society for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the Idaho State Historical Society provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget. This bill includes funding for new staff at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, an archivist technician, onetime support for state collections and archival moving, and onetime support for IT hardware.

Relates to the appropriation to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the Executive Office of the Governor provides enhancements to the FY 2026 budget that includes funding for IT replacement items and funding for America250.

Relates to the appropriation to the Commission on Aging for fiscal year 2026.

This is the enhancement appropriation to the Commission on Aging and includes $666,500 for the provision of three enhancement requests. The first enhancement provides a onetime federal fund appropriation for the agency to distribute remaining American Rescue Plan Act awards to local Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) for onetime services and modernization projects. The second enhancement provides for an ongoing $155,000 General Fund appropriation, for a 3% increase in distributions provided to local AAAs, to address inflationary increases related to labor and operating expenses, which do not receive annual maintenance adjustments. This enhancement also includes $7,600 ongoing for inflationary increases for Commission staff to travel, audit, and train programs throughout the state. The final enhancement provides for the onetime replacement of IT hardware as recommended by the Office of Information and Technology Services.

Provides appropriations for a statutory increase to commissioner salaries of the Public Utilities Commission, Industrial Commission, and State Tax Commission.

This bill is a trailer to Senate Bill 1148 and provides appropriations to the Public Utilities Commission, State TaxCommission, andIndustrialCommission. Theseappropriationsprovidefundingfora$1.55perhoursalary increase for each of the Commissioners of these agencies, as provided for in Senate Bill 1148. Senate Bill 1148 provided an equivalent Change in Employee Compensation (CEC) as received by other state employees.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Tax Commission for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the State Tax Commission provides enhancements to the FY 2026 budget that includes funding for a contract to process certified mail, additional staffing and funding for the implementation and operation of the Parental Choice Tax Credit program pursuant to House Bill 93, and onetime funding for replacement items and IT hardware.

Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division and the Department of Health and Welfare for the Public Health Services Division for fiscal year 2026.

ThisisatrailerappropriationtotheMilitaryDivisionandthePublicHealthServicesDivisionintheDepartment of Health and Welfare for the impact of House Bill 206. House Bill 206 transferred the Emergency Medical Services program, less Preparedness and Response, from the Public Health Services Division to the Military Division and this bill provides adjustments to appropriations to complete that transfer. The appropriation for the Preparedness and Response program is transferred to the Physical Health budgeted program in the Public Health Services Division.

Relates to the appropriation to the Industrial Commission for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Industrial Commission provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget thatincludesfundingforamaintenancecontractfortheIndustrialCommission'sredesignedinformationsystem (IRIS)project,financialtechnicianreclassification,refereepositionfunding,andOITShardware. Alsoincluded is a net-zero appropriation shift for FY 2025 for IRIS cost allocation. The Industrial Commission requested $32,300 for a rehabilitation field consultant, $25,500 to reclassify adjudication associates, $62,300 for a technical records specialist, $30,000 for an IRIS contingency fund, and $132,000 for replacement vehicles. These enhancement items do not receive funding in this bill.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture and the Soil and Water Conservation Commission for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budgets for the Department of Agriculture and the Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Enhancements to the Department of Agriculture include a pay structure for agricultural investigators, a 5% change in employee compensation for fresh fruit and vegetable inspectors, replacement items, and IT hardware. Enhancements for the Soil and Water Conservation Commission include onetime funding to replace a vehicle and support the Water Quality Program for Agriculture (WQPA). This legislation also includes a FY 2025 deficiency warrant to reimburse actual expenditures incurred in FY 2024formonitoringandcontrolofexoticspeciesincludingJapanesebeetles,Mormoncrickets,andotherexotic pests. Chapters 19 and 20, Title 22, Idaho Code, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to use deficiency warrants for the monitoring and mitigation of invasive species and pests.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Indirect Support Services provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include funding for a SQL server replacement, replacementitemsandOITSrecommendedhardwarereplacements. Thisbillalsoincludessectionsoflanguage directing the department to provide a report on state vehicle inventory, to provide a report on the administrative burdenoffederalgrants, languageprovidingguidanceonfederalfundinglimitations, andprovidingconditions, limitations, and restrictions. Additionally, this bill includes language related to the Division of Licensing and Certification. ThislanguagedirectsthedepartmenttoprovideareportontransitioningtheDivisionofLicensing andCertificationtotheDivisionofOccupationalandProfessionalLicenses(DOPL),aswellaslanguagerelated to transfer limitation exemptions for FY 2025 and FY 2026. This bill does not include enhancement 16, Cloud Server Capacity and Support. This bill also does not provide funding for the purchase of 60 replacement vehicles, as requested by the department. This appropriation represents a $1,105,600 reduction from the agency submitted budget request. Overall, the total FY 2026 budget for Indirect Support Services is 5.9% less than the FY 2025 Original Appropriation, representing a reduction of $3,311,200. This 5.9% reduction from FY 2025 was due to the amount of onetime appropriation in FY 2025 that was not repeated in the FY 2026 budget, as well as from the amount for requested replacement items that were not included in this bill.

Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Military Division provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include a public safety communications network administrator, ITS billing adjustment, replacement items, IT hardware, and funding for hazardous materials regional response. For FY 2025, the bill also provides an additional appropriation of $540,000 to the division for Public Safety Communications support, and an additional $759,200 for IT maintenance and licensing. A cash transfer of $34,200 is provided from the General Fund to the Hazardous Substance Emergency Response Fund to reimburse costs for cleanup of hazardous materials incidents. A cash transfer of $8,600,000 is provided from the State Emergency Relief Fund to the division's Miscellaneous Revenue Fund.

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the Judicial Branch for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for the Judicial Branch. This bill includes appropriations to Court Operations, Guardian ad Litem, and the Judicial Council. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

YOUTH SAFETY AND PERMANENCY- Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Youth Safety and Permanency provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget and adjustments to the FY 2025 appropriation. For FY 2026 this bill includes funding for five enhancements and population forecast adjustments. Enhancements include: prevention specialist staff to allow more children to be served safely in their homes by a family service workerpreventionspecialistsupportingboththechildandfamily; youthsafetyandpermanencystafftoprovide needs assessments to any child who has entered or is projected to enter a high level of care such as residential treatment or group homes; foster program clinical staff assigned to the congregate care unit to provide intensive support to foster families who have accepted placement of a youth with high emotional, behavioral, and mental healthneeds,aswellastoprovidea24/7supportlineforfosterparent; fosterprogramlicensingstafftofacilitate thelicensingprocessforbothfosterfamiliesandrelatedkin; andfundingforthecontinuedleasingandoperation ofthePayetteAssessmentandCareCenterforfosteryouth. ThetotalnumberofnewFTPbeingaddedtoYouth Safety and Permanency in this appropriation is 63.00. The bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental appropriation for mid-year population forecast adjustments. This bill includes five sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations, directing the division to provide reports to the Legislature on the status of meeting the 1:1 ratio of foster families to foster children, as well as language that provides transfer limitation exemptions for Youth Safety and Permanency in FY 2025 and FY 2026, and the standard conditions, limitations, and restrictions language. Thisbilldoesnotincludeanappropriationforthepurchaseof, andfull-timestaffingfor, thePayetteAssessment and Care Center. This bill also does not include six additional licensing staff requested by the department.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Division of Idaho State Police and POST Academy provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes fleet services positions, a special investigations unit for Department of Correction facilities, forensic deputy lab manager, highway distribution account fund shift, sexual kit initiative investigators, a Idaho Law Enforcement Telecommunications (ILETS) disaster recovery database, digital forensics team personnel transfer, federal funds shift, federal grant for Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) compliance, a technical records specialist, replacement items, IT modernization, IT hardware, and a 6% targeted salary increase for commissioned officers and forensics personnel. Also included is a supplemental appropriation for FY 2025 for a remote housing unit. The agency request included four (4.00) FTP and $757,300 for a special investigations unit for IDOC, which was reduced by one (1.00) FTP and $187,000 from the agency request. The agency also requested $168,100 for DNA collection legislation, which was not funded.

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for the State Board of Education. This bill includes appropriations to Agricultural Research and Extension Services, College and Universities, Community Colleges, the Office of the State Board of Education, Health Education Programs, Career Technical Education, Idaho Public Television, Special Programs, Department of Education, Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Charter School Commission. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for benefit costs, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

Relates to the appropriations from the Idaho Millennium Income Fund for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This is the FY 2026 appropriation bill for the Idaho Millennium Income Fund based on the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Millennium Fund Committee pursuant to Section 67-1806, Idaho Code. This bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental appropriation. The Millennium Fund includes moneys received from tobacco companies as part of the Master Settlement Agreementthatrequirestobaccocompaniestopaystatesacalculatedamounteachyearinperpetuitytoaccount forliesmaderegardingthehealthissueswithtobaccouse. Eachyear, Idahoreceivesapproximately$24million from the settlement. Moneys are used pursuant to the appropriation with the stated intent of providing services for Idaho's youth for behavioral health programs. For FY 2025, onetime funding is provided to the Department of Juvenile Corrections for Youth Assessment Centers around the state. For FY 2026, funding is provided for Idaho State Police for their Fentanyl Awareness Campaign and to provide the appropriation necessary for accurate accounting with programs being conducted in partnership with the State Department of Education. Funding is provided for the State Department of Education for school resource officers and for eligible after-school programs. The bill adjusts the funding for Idaho Public Television by moving the appropriation from operating expenditures to personnel costs to align the appropriation with the intended amounts from the 2024 session. Finally, onetime funding is provided for the Department of Juvenile Corrections for youth assessment centers, with the intent that future funding be first considered by the Behavioral Health Council. This bill does not include funding for additional vape detectors, for a youth assessment survey, or for $6 million for several other programs brought before the Joint Millennium Fund Committee for funding consideration. DISCLAIMER: This statement of purpose and

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 maintenance appropriation for the Legislative Branch which includes the Legislative Services Office, and the Office of Performance Evaluations. It includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Treasurer for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the State Treasurer provides enhancements to the FY 2026 budget that includes additional funding for Abnormal Cloud Email Security Software.