Idaho Bills
718 bills · 2024 Regular Session
Stating the findings of the Legislature and urging the United States Congress to pass the Hearing Protection Act.
Currently, gun suppressors are heavily regulated under the prohibition era National Firearms Act of 1934. The United States Congress has before it the Hearing Protection Act which would reclassify gun suppressors to be regulated as a regular firearm. This Joint Memorial expresses the desire of Idaho gun owners, sportsmen, and hunters to encourage the United States Congress to pass the Hearing Protection Act and allow Idaho’s law-abiding gun owners to protect their hearing while enjoying their shooting sports activities.
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A proclamation commending Douglas Robert Gwin for his service to the United States as a high-speed radio operator during World War II.
This proclamation honors World War II veteran, Douglas Robert Gwin of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho in advance of his 100th Birthday.
Amends existing law to authorize investigations and actions against city and county officers by the attorney general.
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Amends existing law to establish penalties for the disclosure of confidential member records.
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Adds to existing law to establish the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Office of the Attorney General.
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States findings of the Legislature and calls on Congress to impeach the President and to prioritize laws tightening border security and immigration.
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Amends existing law to require school principals to notify parents and guardians of a student's involvement in harassment, intimidation, bullying, violence, or self-harm and to provide empowering materials and requires school districts to report incidents and confirm the distribution of the materials to the State Department of Education.
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Amends existing law to define a public employer and a public corporation with respect to certain requirements regarding security for compensation.
This legislation would allow a city, country or district as defined in 72-301(6) and 72-928(d) to go to an open market for an insurer of choice for worker's compensation without having to secure its liability for payment of compensation with the state insurance fund.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding school board recall elections, vacancies, and quorums.
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Adds to existing law to create a medicaid budget stabilization fund.
The Medicaid Budget Stabilization Fund sets up a place for unobligated general fund moneys remaining in the cooperative welfare funds to be deposited after reconciliation and statute distributions. These funds shall be distributed by legislative appropriation.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2025.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2025.
This appropriation to the Department of Administration provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include 2.00 FTP and funding for benefits management positions; 3.00 FTP and funding for project management positions; 3.00 FTP and funding for purchasing officers; ITN implementation; a janitorial contract increase; replacement items, the additional 2% change in employee compensation, and an inflationary adjustment. The bill includes direction to transfer excess funds from the Employee Group Insurance Fund to the ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund for another eligible use.
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Adds to existing law to provide that health benefit plans and student health benefit plans covering prescription contraception must provide reimbursement for a six-month supply except under certain circumstances.
Jim Guthrie · SD-028
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Adds to existing law to establish standards for library materials and to establish procedures for the review and removal of materials, procedures for appeals, and penalties for violations.
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Repeals and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding annexation of land by cities.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
This appropriation to the Department of Agriculture provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes for funding for 6.00 additional FTP and funding for a veterinarian in eastern Idaho, dairy inspectors, seed lab personnel, to enhance the Idaho Preferred program, to build a storage facility, to provide international trade support with Japan, for the resilient food systems grant, to provide CEC for fruit and vegetable inspectors, for the Honey Commission, funding for quagga mussel, replacement items, and additional 2% CEC. This bill also transfers $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Invasive Species Fund to be used for quagga mussels. This appropriation also includes a deficiency warrant that reimburses the Department of Agriculture for prior fiscal year costs to survey and control pests on state and private lands authorized under Chapters 19 and 20, Title 22, Idaho Code. This action provides for moneys from the General Fund to be transferred to the Pest Control Deficiency Warrant Fund in the amount of $627,900.
Van Burtenshaw · SD-031
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Amends existing law to prohibit adoption placement or advertisement by unlicensed entities.
A person who is not licensed in Idaho to place children for adoption may not advertise, accepts/supplies, provides/obtains or places children for adoption shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Lottery for fiscal year 2025.
Janie Ward-Engelking · SD-018
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Relates to the appropriation to the Commission of Pardons and Parole for fiscal year 2025.
This appropriation to the Commission of Pardons and Parole provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes funding for extradition costs, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC.
Rick Just · SD-015
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Adds to existing law to provide for agricultural protection areas.
This legislation provides landowners with an additional option when considering protecting agricultural land in the state. The legislation adds a new chapter to the Idaho Local Land Use Planning Act that would provide the legislative authority for county governments to receive applications from willing landowners to establish a land use designation, known as an Agricultural Protection Area. The process to review and consider applications is outlined in the legislation.
Kevin Andrus · HD-035A
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Amends existing law to provide that a local governmental unit shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or a resolution that forces participation in an optional federal housing assistance program or regulates rent, fees, or deposits charged for leasing private residential property.
This bill amends Idaho Code Section 55-307 to prohibit local governments from mandating Idaho property owners to be forced to participate in an optional Federal Housing Assistance program or any program that would have the effect of regulating rent, fees or deposits. This bill updates language in Idaho Code Section 55-2006 to be consistent amended language.
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Adds to existing law to provide for nonresident tags and permits for deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope and to provide for the Nonresident Draw Implementation Committee.
This legislation shifts most general out-of-state hunter tags for deer, elk, and pronghorn from a first-come, first-served over-the-counter system to a drawing-based system, starting on November 15, 2026. The details of how this will be accomplished will be developed by a six-person implementation committee appointed by the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Idaho Fish & Game Commission, and the Fish & Game Director. This committee will develop recommendations for any necessary changes to statute and rule, and will deliver these recommendations to the Legislature at the beginning of the 2025 legislative session.
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States findings of the Legislature and directs the Department of Health and Welfare to develop, apply for, and report on waivers for Medicaid and to develop work requirements for waivers.
This resolution recognizes that Idahoans want to be self reliant when it comes to receiving health care benefits. But circumstances sometimes have consequences that interfere with that resilience and individuals find themselves in need of medical assistance. Helping these people gain back the independence they desire is what the Idaho Legislature is proposing in conjunction with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
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Adds to existing law to provide for the crime of organized retail theft.
In recent years, Idaho has seen an increase in the number of thieves who do not just steal from retail stores, they do so in concert with others. These ‘organized retail thieves’ work quickly to steal as much as possible often before leaving the state, to avoid detection and detainment. This bill would create a new category of theft called “organized retail theft” and would provide law enforcement and the retail community a requested tool to more accurately target and hold accountable these individuals. Currently, the law enforcement and retail communities must rely on combinations of charges including commercial burglary and grand theft.
Bruce Skaug · HD-010B
Amends existing law to define and provide for a candidate political committee.
Providing a new definition of a candidate political committee and ensuring that candidate political committees are subject to the same campaign finance reporting requirements as other political committees.
Bruce Skaug · HD-010B
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