Idaho Bills
661 bills · 2022 Regular Session
Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for settlement agreements.
The purpose of this bill is to streamline the worker's compensation settlement process for the involved parties, employers and injured workers, who choose to settle their respective claims, rather than go to hearing (trial). Currently, the settlement process is cumbersome, slow, and private party agreements require approval of the Industrial Commissioners. This bill eliminates the requirement of approval of the Industrial Commissioners, except for settlements involving minors or legally incompetent persons. The Industrial Commission would still require the parties to submit information regarding settlements.
States findings of the House of Representatives and supports the Department of Correction's request of $112.4 million from the Permanent Building Fund for construction of a new women's prison.
States support by the House of Representatives for the request by the Idaho Department of Corrections for $112.4 million from the permanent building fund for the construction of a new women’s prison.
Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Commission for Libraries for fiscal year 2023.
This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Commission for Libraries. It appropriates a total of $11,206,700andcapsthenumberofauthorizedfull-timeequivalentpositionsat37.50. Forbenefitcosts,thebill 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 six line items, which provide additional funds for Broadband Reimbursements, Project Coordinator, Local Library Grants, Digital Training and Programming, Technology Projects, and Digital Access.
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Relates to the appropriation to the to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for Special Programs for fiscal year 2023.
This is an FY 2023 trailer appropriation bill for the Division of Special Programs. It addresses the fiscal impact of S1290, which established a rural educator incentive program for educators who work in high-need or rural school districts or charter schools.
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Amends existing law to provide for confidential relations and communications for employees and volunteers at a domestic or sexual violence program in certain instances.
This legislation will align state and federal law to protect confidential communications between a client of a non-governmental domestic or sexual violence program and the staff or volunteers of the non-governmental domestic or sexual violence program.
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Amends, adds to, and repeals existing law to remove certain fees regarding juvenile corrections.
This legislation eliminates fees for children involved in the juvenile justice system and their parents and guardians. Idaho law currently allows children to be assessed fees exceeding thousands of dollars per case. The juvenile justice system is meant to be restorative and rehabilitative. Fees undercut this purpose and are bad for public safety as they force probation officers and juvenile justice system officials to dedicate resources to collection efforts rather than supervising at-risk youth. This legislation reduces the burden of government on Idaho families. The bill does not change any law related to restitution.
Amends and adds to existing law to provide for state support of discretionary spending by school districts.
This bill provides a method for the legislature to appropriate additional funds for K-12 schools and reduce local propertytaxes. Schoolsthathaveasupplementalmaintenanceandoperationlevyarerequiredtouse75%ofthe funds they receive to reduce the levy. After reducing the levy, or if a school has no levy, any funds remaining can be used at the discretion of the School Board. If a school takes the funds one year but does not reduce the levy, the school is ineligible for these funds for two (2) years.
Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Children's Programs for fiscal year 2023.
This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Children's Programs. This division includes programs that provide direct educational or material benefits to children, where funding doesnotprimarilygotopayingcertificatedteachersandadministrators. Italsoincludesprogramsthatprimarily and specifically provide funding for the separate instruction of identified subgroups of children outside the normal classroom of an Idaho public school. Funding is provided from both state and federal funds. This bill includes adjustments for advanced opportunities, the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, border contracts, and exceptional contracts and tuition equivalents. From federal COVID-19 relief funds, this bill includes funding for ESSER I, II, and III; support for homeless children; and special education support. This bill also includes funding for child nutrition programs and literacy related funding.
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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 2023.
This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Division of Special Programs under the State Board of Education. It appropriates a total of $32,383,800 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 47.09. This division includes the budgets for six distinct programs, including Forest Utilization Research, Idaho Geological Survey, Scholarships and Grants, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Small Business Development Centers, and TechHelp. 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 two line items, which provide for operational support at the Idaho Geological Survey; and a rural consultant at the Small Business Development Centers.
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Amends existing law to clarify provisions regarding taxation of short-term rental marketplace transactions.
This bill relates to sales tax. The bill adds language to the short-term rental statutes, 63-1803 and 63-1804, Idaho Code to clarify that short-term Idaho real property rentals are not subject to the marketplace facilitator statutes. The 2017 short term rental statute, enacted with HB 216, contains a requirement for property owners to register, collect, and remit taxes - including sales tax, travel and convention, and any local-option taxes applicable. HB 259, the Marketplace Facilitator and Remote Retailer enacted in 2019 created a new separate registration requiredformarketplacefacilitatorsandremoteretailers. Short-termrentalpropertyownersareconfusedabout whether HB 259 applies to them. This help will eliminate that confusion.
Relates to year-end appropriations and transfers for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
This bill addresses several end of session items. 1. It provides cash transfers to various accounts for savings and other purposes. 2. It appropriates $50,000,000 to the Office of the State Treasurer for Workforce Housing as found in House Bill 701. 3. It keeps the sun-up for reporting requirements by school districts and public charter schools to continue submitting expenditure data to the Board of Education and the Legislature.
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Amends existing law to provide that a residential care or assisted living facility resident shall be entitled to in-person visitation subject to certain precautions.
This legislation amends Section 39-3316, Idaho Code, to provide for in-person visitation rights.
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Amends and adds to existing law to provide restrictions on the use of rental application fees and background check fees by landlords, property managers, and owners.
This bill requires that an application fee cannot be charged until the application is being considered and processed and there is either a rental unit available, or the applicant is first or second in line on a waiting list. The basis upon which an application is being considered when a unit is available must be disclosed in writing before an application is accepted. The bill provides that a maximum of 2 application fees can be charged at any one time and that each application must be separately considered. A violation of this statute is a violation of Idaho Code 6-320, that addresses violations in a landlord’s duties concerning repairs and security deposits. This section mandates that a claimant give 3 days’ written notice before any court action for damages or specific performance can occur.
Repeals session law of 2015 regarding legislative intent language requiring certain reporting requirements.
This legislation repeals legislative intent language from H312 (2015) that required local highway districts and other jurisdictions to report annually to the legislature how they spent the funds distributed as part of the enactment of H312. This reporting requirement has become an administrative burden for local jurisdictions and the monetary amounts to distribute to some jurisdictions are so small that the report has little value to the legislature. Local highway districts are still required to report expenditures per Idaho Code 40-708.
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Amends existing law to provide for renewal of a suspended noncommercial driver's license in certain instances.
This is one of a series of bills the Supreme Court has recommended in its annual report to the Governor concerning defects or omissions in the laws, as required by article V, section 25 of the Idaho Constitution. Chapter 3 of Title 49, Idaho Code, currently prohibits the renewal any driver’s license that is suspended. However, as authorized by statute, drivers with suspended licenses are often times granted limited driving privilegeswhichrestricttheirdrivingtocertaintimesorpurposes,suchaswork,school,orhealthappointments. The inability to renew a suspended license creates procedural issues for courts and probationers who are driving pursuant to limited driving privileges. In order to eliminate these problems, this bill will amend I.C. §§ 49-303(5) and 319(1)(e) to allow persons with a suspended driver’s license to renew such license, and subject a license so renewed to the existing suspension.
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Amends and adds to existing law to revise procedures for contested cases and hearing officers.
This legislation establishes an independent office of Administrative Hearings, and otherwise provides for the independenceandimpartialityofhearingofficersintheAdministrativeHearingActcontestedcaseproceedings in accordance with the recommendations in the Administration Hearing Officer Interim Committee and the “Bias in Hearing” findings by the Office of Performance Evaluation.
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Amends existing law to replace references to the Bureau of Occupational Licenses with the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses.
This proposed legislation will continue the reorganization of the Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses consistent with the Executive Order 2020-10. The proposal will align the reference terms of the former Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses into the Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses. In addition, the proposal will align the reference terms of the bureau chief of the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses to be the administrator of the Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding notice.
This bill amends section 42-2401 to provide consistency in the notice requirements for canal companies. Subsection 42-2401(6) currently requires that notice of changes to a canal company’s articles of incorporation or bylaws be published in the newspaper once a week for 4-weeks prior to the meeting at which the proposed changes will be considered. Subsection 42-2401(10), on the other hand, requires that notice of the meeting be published in the newspaper “for 2-weeks” prior to the meeting. Canal companies have historically issued notice of any changes to their articles of incorporation or bylaws with the meeting notices - i.e. “for 2 weeks” prior to the meeting. This amendment would align the notice required for changes to articles of incorporation and bylaws with the notice requirement for meetings.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Teachers and Division of Children's Programs for fiscal year 2022.
This is an FY 2022 supplemental appropriation bill for the Public Schools Educational Support Program. The bill includes additional funding for the Teachers Division and the Children's Programs Division. Teachers Division: Funding from the General Fund is provided to 1) fulfill the statutory requirements for the Career Ladder (see Section 33-1004B, Idaho Code) and 2) to account for added costs with counting students with enrollment instead of by attendance as was approved in the temporary State Board of Education rule. Children'sProgramsDivision: FundingfromtheGeneralFundisprovidedtoaccountforincreasedenrollments at the Idaho Digital Learning Academy. Funding from Federal Grant Fund is provided to account for the increased costs to provide meals to all Idaho students throughout the remainder of the 2021-2022 school year and for the 2022 summer programs.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division for fiscal year 2022.
This is a FY 2022 supplemental appropriation bill for the Military Division. It provides funding for upgrades related to the Next Generation 9-1-1 Program, maintenance and upgrades to the state microwave radio system, and a fire spending audit.
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise reporting requirements for lobbyists and to revise campaign finance requirements for candidates.
This legislation makes a number of changes to Idaho’s campaign finance reporting system, primarily relating to reporting requirements. The goal of these changes is to provide a more uniform standard of $500 in total contributions or expenditures for when candidates and political committees are required to begin reporting, replacing the highly variable monetary trigger points that exist in the law today. This legislation also consolidates all campaign finance reporting requirements into two sequential sections – one section for all regular (monthly and annual) reports, and one section for all timed (2-day) reports, replacing the many sections dealing with reporting that are currently scattered across this chapter of code. It also closes a loophole that has allowed political committees that are filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to spend significant money on state and local political campaigns in Idaho, while avoiding the disclosure of this spending, or their donors, until months after the elections are over. It does this by changing the current blanket Idaho reporting exemption for all political committees filed with the FEC, narrowing it to exempt only those political committees that do not make expenditures relating to an Idaho measure or candidate election, except for federal elections. There are also smaller technical corrections and modernizations relating to lobbyist reporting.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2023.
This is a FY 2023 trailer appropriation bill for the Department of Fish and Game. It addresses the fiscal impact of H702, which changed the distribution of money derived from each license endorsement between big game depredationandsportsman'saccess,aswellaschangedtheannuallimitforanyindividualbiggamedepredation claim from a percent of the annual appropriation to a fixed amount.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Finance for fiscal year 2023.
This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Department of Finance. It appropriates a total of $10,059,400 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 70.00. 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. Funding for replacement items includes $63,100 for laptops, docking stations, monitors, and printers. The bill funds three line items: line item 1, which provides 2.00 FTP and $273,300 for credit union examiners, line item 2, which provides 1.00 FTP and $126,100 for a mortgage supervising examiner, and line item 3, which provides 1.00 FTP and $108,300 for a securities examiner.
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Amends and adds to existing law to provide for public records requests to be made to the custodian of records and to provide for the Legislative Services Office to be designated as the custodian for legislative records.
This bill adds language to our current Public Records Act to designate a custodian of Public Record Requests. It provides that the Legislative Services Office is the custodian for Legislative Records and that requests for such shall be made to the Legislative Services Office.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding state and local tax treatment for affected business entities.
This legislation replaces HB510 and makes technical corrections to legislation enacted in 2021 that provided state and local tax deductions (SALT) for income taxes paid by an Affected Business Entity (ABE) on behalf of its pass-through owners. The 2021 legislation, HB317, was a SALT workaround that allowed ABEs to elect to pay state income taxes on behalf of their owners, making those tax payments fully deductible at the federalleveljustlikebusinessesthatarenotpass-throughentities. LikeHB510, thisbillalsomakestheelection available to more taxpayers by including fiscal year taxpayers and ABEs with owners that are trusts or estates. It differs from HB510 in that it allows tiered pass-through entities (entities in which other pass-through entities are owners) to use the election. It also clarifies language used in HB510 that allowed ABEs with owners who do not have Idaho income tax liability to qualify for the election without charging those members a tax they do not owe. Finally, it eliminates the unintended multiple imposition of the permanent building fund excise tax erroneously caused by HB510, so a taxpayer pays it only once.
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