Idaho Bills
661 bills · 2022 Regular Session
Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding duties of the treasurer and to provide that the investment board shall review certain investment vehicles.
ThisbillallowstheStateTreasurertoprovidefinancialeducationforthepurposeofincreasingfinancialliteracy and preparedness for retirement. It provides for a review of retirement savings vehicles and a portal to highlight options for individual retirement accounts for private sector employer informative purposes. In 2020 the Legislative Office of Performance Evaluation (OPE) published the report, “Preparedness of Idahoans to Retire: Deciding the State’s Role”. The report highlighted that there is a negative fiscal impact for the State of Idaho due to the lack of retirement preparedness. The report also emphasized that the majority of Idahoans are vastly unprepared financially for retirement and that most private-sector employees in Idaho do not offer a retirement plan at work.
Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2023.
This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Idaho Transportation Department. It appropriates a total of $1,252,337,800 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 1,648.00. For benefit costs, the bill increases the appropriated amount for health insurance by $850 to $12,500 per eligible full time FTP,includesaone-yearholidayofunemploymentinsurance,andadjustsworkers'compensationamounts. The billalsoprovidesfundingforpermanentemployeesfortheequivalentofa3%salarystructureshiftandprovides $1.25 per hour per eligible employee to be distributed based on merit for change in employee compensation. Thebillfunds13lineitems, whichprovideadditionalfundsforasoftwarereplacement, newequipment, facility upgrades, airstrip maintenance, Luma Development costs, federal transportation funding, revenue and receipts received above the forecasted amount, road and bridge maintenance, and Strategic Initiatives Program. Also included in this bill is are two cash transfers from the General Fund.
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States findings of the Legislature and directs the Endowment Fund Investment Board to divest from Russian governmental assets and certain other assets connected to Russia.
In this Resolution the Legislature condemns the conduct of the Russian Government in its unprovoked and unjustified attack upon the Ukraine and concludes finds that currency and Russian Government investments by the Endowment Fund Investment Board should be sold, traded and divested in the interest of prudently and morally investing its funds. Within 7 days the Resolution requests that the EFIB review and publicly disclose all other investments in Russian related enterprises.
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Adds to existing law to provide the director of the Department of Administration with certain authority regarding roadways adjoining the Capitol.
This legislation adds a section to Title 67, Chapter 16, Idaho Code. It provides that the Director of Administration, in cooperation with the Idaho State Capitol Commission, Governor and presiding officers of the Legislature, has authority, in the best interest of the state, to control the use of the roadways adjoining the capitol building.
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the salary of justices of the Supreme Court.
JFAC approved a Statewide Decision for CEC for FY 2023 of a 3% pay increase, plus an additional $1.25 per hourmerit-basedraise, forpermanentemployeesofthestate. Judicialsalariesmustbeseparatelyestablishedby the Legislature and are set forth in section 59-502, Idaho Code, which also indexes such salaries to a Supreme Court Justice’s salary to avoid salary compression among the four types of judgeships. To accomplish the intent of both the budget process as well as the salary statute, a 3% plus $1.25 per hour increase to the current Magistrate Judge salary is first calculated. This calculation results in a $6,572 salary increase, which is then added to the Supreme Court Justice salary so as to maintain the salary differentials currently existing in section 59-502, Idaho Code. This results in a $6,572 salary increase per judicial officer. This bill sets the annual salary of a justice of the Supreme Court at $166,972, which is a 4.1% increase of the current salary. As set forth in established Idaho Code, the difference between the salary of a Supreme Court Justice and a Court of Appeals Judge remains at $10,000 (resulting in a 4.4% salary increase for Court of Appeals Judges); the difference between the salary of a Court of Appeals Judge and a District Judge remains at $6,000 (resulting in a 4.6% salary increase for District Judges); and, the difference between the salary of a District Judge and a Magistrate Judge remains at $12,000 (resulting in a 5.0% salary increase for Magistrate Judges).
Amends existing law to provide an exemption from stopping and inspection for certain private vehicles and horse trailers.
The purpose of this legislation is to clarify Idaho Transportation Department stopping and inspection authority atcheckstations(portsofentry, weighstations, andtemporarycheckstations)asrequiredinIdahocode40-511.
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Amends existing law to establish the County and City Property Tax Relief Fund.
This legislation provides property tax relief to all property owners in Idaho. When the legislature created the “tax relief fund” (or the Wayfair account), online sales taxes collected were exempted from the normal sales tax revenue sharing formula with Cities, Counties and local taxing districts. This legislation will provide that 12% of online sales tax collections will be distributed 50% to the Cities and 50% to the counties. Of the 50% to the Cities and the 50% to the Counties, half of those distributions must be used for property tax relief. In 2024 the provision that excluded local taxing districts from receiving 11.5% of the online sales tax collections is set to expire. In an effort to provide property tax relief in 2023, $50 million from general funds will be provided to the Cities and Counties of which 50% will have to be used for property tax relief. In 2024, the 12% of online sales tax collections will be divided 50% to Cities and 50% to the Counties and half of said funds must be used to reduce property taxes.
Relates to the appropriation to the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
ThisistheFY2023originalappropriationbillfortheOfficeofEnergyandMineralResources. Itappropriatesa total of $3,180,600 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 11.00. For benefit costs, the bill increases the appropriated amount for health insurance by $850 to $12,500 per eligible full time FTP, includes a one-year holiday of unemployment insurance, and adjusts workers' compensation amounts. The bill also provides funding for permanent employees for the equivalent of a 3% salary structure shift and provides $1.25 per hour per eligible employee to be distributed based on merit for change in employee compensation. The bill funds three line items, which provide additional funds for the State Energy, Energy Efficiency and ConservationGrant, andtheEnergyEfficiencyLoanprograms, alongwith3.00FTPtomanagetheseprograms. Also included is a fiscal year 2022 supplemental appropriation which provides funds for the Energy Resiliency Grant Program.
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Amends HB692 to revise provisions regarding voter identification and to appropriate moneys to the Election Integrity Fund.
This legislation seeks to amend Section 34 , Idaho Code, by amending , adding and revising certain subsections of the Election Code
Amends existing law to provide that the list of deceased voters is a nonexempt public record.
This legislation would allow the public to examine election records to ensure voters who have passed away are removed from the voter rolls. Currently the Secretary of State and the Department of Health and Welfare do not allow the lists of who has died to become a public record which makes it impossible to validate voter registration information.
Amends existing law to provide for adoption of the 2018 International Building Code, the 2018 International Residential Code, the 2017 National Electrical Code, and the 2017 Idaho State Plumbing Code.
This legislation adopts the 2018 International Building Code, 2018 International Energy Conservation Code, 2017 National Electrical Code, 2015 Uniform Plumbing Code, 2018 International Mechanical Code, 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, and parts V and VI of the 2018 International Residential Code in Idaho Code. The legislation adds all current adopted codes in Idaho administrative rule by the respective regulatory boards into Idaho Code. The bill does not adopt any new provisions of codes and does not change the rulemaking authority for the respective regulatory boards under the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses to make amendments, revisions or modifications to the code adopted by the Idaho legislature.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding detention of a juvenile in a jail or lockup for adults and to revise a provision regarding standards for detention.
The purpose of this legislation is to expand protections regarding juvenile sight and sound separation and jail removal, and to better define when a juvenile can legally be held in an adult jail or lockup. This update also ensurestheIdahosystemalignswithnationalresearchandrequirementsunderthereauthorizedJuvenileJustice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA).
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Adds to existing law to provide for the donation of liquor for benevolent, charitable, or public purposes.
Today, it is illegal for a distillery to donate it's own liquor to charity. When a distillery owner is asked to support a local nonprofit with an in-kind donation of liquor to serve at an event or to put in an auction gift basket, an old law prevents him from doing it. The law has been updated for beer and wine, which can legally be donated for charitable purposes. This bill provides a similar update for liquor so that a distiller can legally donate liquor to a charity. The same process used for beer and wine will be used for liquor. The bill was drafted with input from and in conjunction with the Idaho State Liquor Division and the Alcohol Beverage Control.
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Amends existing law to provide for the addition of a “USA” citizenship designation on driver's licenses and identification cards.
This legislation allows for citizens to add the designation of a U.S. Citizen on their drivers license. Similar to the star card, but is not as stringent to add it. All U.S. Citizens will be able to provide proof of citizenship and the insignia would be then added to the drivers license.
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Adds to existing law to provide for maximum fees that health care providers may charge for medical records requests.
This legislation amends Title 39, Idaho Code, to set a reasonable maximum charge for a patient, or their representative, to obtain a copy of records from a physician or other health care service. Idaho is the only state without any guidelines on costs and this legislation is intended to prevent price gouging, but also provides an incentive for an electronic download.
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Amends existing law to provide for reinstatement of a commercial driver's license under certain circumstances.
Currentlywhenapersonwithacommercialdriver'slicense(CDL)isconvictedofcertainoffenses, federalcode requires a lifetime disqualification of the individual. This means that these individuals can never again obtain a commercial driver's license. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has adopted new rules that allow jurisdictions the ability to reinstate commercial drivers with lifetime disqualification offenses, after ten years have elapsed. It requires states to have a rehabilitation program in order to permit jurisdictions the ability to allow these drivers to again obtain their commercial driving privileges after an initial ten-year period, but does not specify what the rehabilitation program must include. This proposal is for Idaho to implement a program that would include criteria such as a clean driving record for the past 3 years, completion of online defensive driving classes for driving safety, truck driver safety, and successful completion of knowledge and skills testing. Thisproposalprovideseconomicopportunityforcommercialdriverswhoseeklicensureafterservingaten-year qualification period and will help increase the number of CDL drivers as shortages persist.
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Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.
The purpose of this legislation is to make codifier and technical corrections to the Idaho Code. During the course of a session, the same code sections and chapters might be amended multiple times in different bills. These amendments cannot always be cleanly reconciled and incorporated into the Idaho Code. Rather, the changes can result in inconsistent numbering of statutes, irregular grammar, and “surplus punctuation” — for example, a comma that was not itself deleted in any bill but was associated with deleted language. In the annual codifier bill, the Legislative Services Office corrects any such irregularities and also makes other technical corrections to the Idaho Code, such as revising grammar and punctuation, correcting inaccurate code references, and updating archaic language. Codifier and technical corrections are not substantive in nature and will not change the meaning or effect of any section or chapter being amended. This is merely “cleanup” legislation, intended to provide clarity to readers of the Idaho Code.
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Adds to existing law to establish the Empowering Parents Grant Program, which provides funds to eligible students for certain education expenses.
The Empowering Parents Grant Program provides funding to parents to help meet their child’s educational needs and to address any learning loss. $1,000 per student or a maximum of $3,000 per family will be available for public and non-public students to address learning loss and provide support for our most at-risk students by providing resources in addition to what is available during the school day. Grants are available first to families whose Adjusted Gross Income is at or below $60,000 per year, then to families earning up to $75,000 and then to everyone else for as long as the funding lasts. Parents will be able to access and spend the grant funds on behalfoftheirchildforapprovededucationalexpensesthroughadigitalplatform. AParentalAdvisoryPanelis established to help with the implementation and administration of the program. The purpose of the emergency clause is to allow the program to be instituted quickly by the State Board of Education and to get funding into the hands of parents as quickly as possible.
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Amends existing law to authorize the Division of Human Resources to issue certain rules.
This legislation aligns the statute with current practice. The Division of Veterans Services and the Division of Human Resources work together to implement Veterans preference protections. The two Division’s will continue to work together to ensure the rights and privileges of veterans.
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Amends existing law to provide that a motor vehicle shall not be required to display a front license plate.
This proposed legislation changes the requirement of placing license plates on the front of vehicles except for tractor trucks and wreckers.
Adds to existing law to allow for the sale, lease, or conveyance of hospital district property.
This legislation updates statute to allow district hospitals the same options already available to county hospitals to lease or sell property to a qualified non-profit for the continuity of service in the community. It provides options for district hospitals to enable them to address future fiscal challenges.
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States findings of the Legislature and encourages certain officers, agencies, and employees of the State to become informed about the impacts of traumatic childhood experiences and to implement interventions and practices to develop resiliency in children and adults who have suffered from traumatic childhood experiences.
This concurrent resolution encourages state officers, agencies, and employees to promote interventions and practices to identify and treat child and adult survivors of severe emotional trauma and other adverse childhood experiences using interventions proven to help and develop resiliency in these survivors. This resolution: • Highlights recent advances in understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences on an individual's future outcomes. •Encourages state officers, agencies, and employees to become informed regarding well-documented detrimental short-term and long-term impacts to children and adults from serious traumatic childhood experiences. • Encourages state officers, agencies, and employees to implement evidence-based interventions and practices that are proven to be successful in developing resiliency in children and adults currently suffering from trauma-related disorders.
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Amends and adds to existing law to provide for advanced notification regarding natural gas transmission pipelines.
Idaho is home to two interstate pipelines, one that crosses the state in the panhandle and the other that traverses the southern part of the state. Those pipelines are a critical part of our region’s natural gas transmission systems and have been in place for decades. Recent population growth in our state means that residential developments are encroaching on those pipelines. And that presents potential safety issues that need to be mitigated. With proper notice and planning, those issues are addressed through collaboration between the pipeline companies and the developers. This bill promotes that collaboration by requiring notification of encroachment at the front end of the development process. Currently, interstate pipeline companies do not get notification until much later in the process. At that point, it is often difficult to make changes or, in some cases, too late.
Amends existing law to provide for methods to assess self-service storage facility properties.
This legislation seeks to clarify how market value of a self-service storage facility is calculated and to reference a definition of self-service storage facility in Idaho Code section 55-2301(8).
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding grand theft and to provide for the crime of grand theft in certain instances.
This legislation would amend Idaho Code 18-2407 to raise the dollar threshold triggering felony theft from $1000 to $2500 for those without a record of theft in the past 7 years.