Idaho Bills
629 bills · 2020 Regular Session
Amends existing law to update restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft systems and to provide for exceptions.
This legislation clarifies and enhances restrictions on the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, aka Drones. It amendssection21-213tostrengthenprohibitionofsurveillancebyunmannedaircraftonindividualsandprivate property. It provides a narrow scope for law enforcement and fire department use of unmanned aircraft systems without a warrant and to provide an exception for Utility companies.
Adds to existing law to establish an extended employment services program.
The purpose of this legislation is to continue to provide work and employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities. These community-based services known as Extended Employment Services were createdandcodifiedbytheIdahoLegislaturein1978. Thisnewchapterplacestheseservicesunderthedirection and administration of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The majority of state services provided the eligible population defined in this statute are provided by the Department of Health and Welfare. Consolidating the extended employment program with these existing services provides greater efficiency, consistency and quality outcomes for persons served. The Statute is consistent and based on 47.01.02 Rules and Minimum Standards Governing Extended Employment Services as modified by House Concurrent Resolution Number 18.
Relates to the appropriation to the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 2021.
This is the FY 2021 original appropriation bill for the Legislative Branch, which includes the Legislative Services Office (LSO), Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), and the Redistricting Commission. It appropriates $7,899,000 and 66.00 FTP to LSO, $950,200 and 8.00 FTP to OPE, and $444,900 for the Redistricting Commission. The grand total for all three divisions is $9,294,100 from all funds for a 2.4% increase. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP and temporarily removes funding for the employer's sick leave contribution rate. Funding for replacement items includes $13,600 for eight laptop computers for LSO. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees. The bill funds five line items. Line item 1 provides 1.00 FTP and $109,800 to LSO for a revenue analyst position. Line item 2 is a 1% onetime base reduction of $55,000 for LSO. Line item 3 reduces $400,000 from LSO's Miscellaneous Revenue Fund to better align the appropriation with actual expenditures. Line item 4 is a 1% onetime base reduction of $9,500 for OPE. Line item 5 provides $444,900 onetime to the Redistricting Commission to address the requirements of redrawing congressional and legislative boundaries. Also included is $1,100 to pay the Office of Information Technology Services for software licensing, server infrastructure, and storage to expand system capabilities on core systems and to maintain agency-specific software. DISCLAIMER: This statement of purpose and
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Relates to the appropriation to the State Liquor Division for fiscal year 2021.
This is the FY 2021 original appropriation bill for the State Liquor Division. It appropriates a total of $22,732,900 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 240.00. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP and temporarily removes funding for the employer's sick leave contribution rate. Funding for replacement items includes $740,400 for warehouse equipment and store equipment and repairs. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees, with an additional 2% increase for those in the 20 job classifications most in need of equity adjustments. The bill funds three line items, which provide $124,000 to relocate or remodel two stores; $56,000 for a warehouse maintenance contract to service the automated storage and retrieval system; and $239,900 to increase store staff levels. Also included are adjustments to pay the Office of Information Technology Services for security software and data center office space located at the Chinden Campus, and billings in excess of current appropriations.
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Adds to existing law to establish the Idaho Promise Mentor Program.
This legislation establishes authorizes and creates the Idaho Promise mentor program in the Office of the Idaho State Board of Education. Under the program, volunteer mentors will help Idaho high school graduates, veterans, and other adults overcome financial and other barriers to earning postsecondary apprentice and other job training certificates, and associate degrees. These career-ready credentials will qualify students for vacant, good paying Idaho jobs which currently go begging. Filling just 7,000 vacant STEM jobs will raise $24 million instatetaxes, farmorethanthecostofthislegislation. Thementorswilldeveloprelationshipswithmenteesand their families to identify credential options, and to help them overcome barriers to enrollment and completion of career-ready programs. The mentors will be available to recently graduated high school seniors during the critical summer months when they do not have access to high school counselors and have not yet connected with postsecondary program advisors. Current data show about 2,600 graduating high school seniors plan to enroll in postsecondary programs each year but do not do so. The mentors will assist mentees apply for Pell grantsandothersourcesoffunding. Manywhodonotnowapplybecausetheyassumepostsecondaryprograms are beyond their reach will learn that this is not the case.
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Adds to existing law to establish the Quality Educator Loan Assistance Program.
This bill establishes the Quality Educator Loan Assistance Program to provide loan repayment assistance, eligibility, award criteria and protocols in order to address the serious teacher shortage in Idaho as identified by the Idaho State Department of Education. Because attracting Certified Instructional and Pupil Service Staff to work in rural school districts and communities with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students is becoming increasingly difficult, this bill will provide additional incentive to keep qualified teachers in those communities.
Amends existing law to provide that certain personal information shall be exempt from disclosure.
The proposed legislation would amend Section 74-106, Idaho Code to exempt certain records of a personal naturefrompublicdisclosureunderthePublicRecordsAct. Theamendmentwouldaddlanguagetothegeneral exclusions found in Section 74-106 (4). A district court case recently came out in Ada County that indicated personal information, such as residential address, phone numbers, and email addresses, could not be redacted unless there was a specific statute authorizing such exemption. Personal information is contained in many other public records than just the records found in Section 74-106. For example, a utility bill. In addition to the concern with releasing personal information, there are also public safety concerns if this information is required to be released. For example, if the requestor has ill intentions and the agency is required to provide home addresses, or the personal information of juveniles who participate in a city's recreation programs who are required to fill out a form with the juvenile's home address, and the city is required to release this information.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding genital mutilation of a child and to provide that engaging in practices to change or affirm a child's perception of the child's sex is a felony.
This legislation would prohibit anyone from performing surgeries to remove otherwise healthy tissue or engage in practices to change or affirm the child's perception of the child's sex identity to anyone under 18.
Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Children's Programs for fiscal year 2021.
This is the FY 2021 original appropriation bill for the Division of Children's Programs of the Public Schools Educational Support Program. It appropriates $321,752,600. This budget includes nondiscretionary adjustments from the General Fund of $2,580,700, which includes increases of $2,000,000 for the Advanced Opportunities Program, $224,200 for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, $284,100 for Border Contracts, and $72,400 for Exceptional Contracts and Tuition Equivalents. Also included are the following line items: line item 1 for an increase of $3,156,500 for Literacy Proficiency, to make the onetime appropriation for that purpose ongoing; and line item 3 for a reduction of $10,115,000 from the Federal Grant Fund to align the federal appropriation with actual expenditures. This line item does not impact the amount of federal funding the state will receive, rather it more closely aligns the appropriation with estimated federal expenditures. This appropriation is a 2.3% decrease from FY 2020.
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Repeals existing law to eliminate committees and commissions.
Consistent with the Governor's Licensing Freedom Act, this bill seeks to eliminate inactive programs and commissions. Chapter 52, Title 22, Idaho Codes, established the carbon sequestration advisory committee in 2002 but the committee has not taken any action since 2009-2010. Chapter 3, Title 70, Idaho Code, created the snake river improvements commission, however it has never actually been a functional commission and their duties are covered by flood control districts in Idaho.
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Amends existing law to provide for the removal of a tenant's property following judgment in favor of a landlord in certain instances.
This legislation amends section 6-303 relating to unlawful detainer. This will provide a uniform process for counties and sheriffs to follow regarding evictions after a court enters a judgment against a tenant. An evicted residential tenant shall have seventy-two (72) hours to remove his belongings from the premises, and commercial tenants will have seven days or longer if the court find good cause. Following the waiting period, a landlord may remove the tenant's belongings. Additional terms to the three (3) days' notice for default of payment is required.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2021.
This is the FY 2021 original appropriation bill for the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration. It appropriates a total of $129,513,400 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 749.51. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP and temporarily removes funding for the employer's sick leave contribution rate. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees, with an additional 2% increase for those in the 20 job classifications most in need of equity adjustments. The bill funds the final year of the child welfare IT system replacement, provides five additional social workers, directs the use of funding for Head Start, provides for a cash transfer from the General Fund to the Technology Infrastructure Stabilization Fund, and directs the department to meet the educational needs of children in its care. Lastly, the ongoing General Fund appropriation is reduced.
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise the regulations for credit unions.
The purposes of this legislation are to grant authority to the Director to issue enforcement actions directly to a creditunion,provideforconfidentialityofexaminationreportsandotherconfidentialinformation,andauthorize credit unions to act as a custodian or fiduciary for tax-advantaged savings plans. Specifically, amendments are proposed to (1) reorganize and update provisions relating to examinations and investigation reports, and to authorize the director to examine and investigate the affairs of a subsidiary of a credit union, credit union serviceorganization,andthird-partyserviceproviders,(2)addanewsectiontoprovidefortheconfidentialityof examination reports and confidential communication, provide for circumstances where disclosing confidential information is authorized, and imposing penalties violations, (3) authorizes the Director to issue cease and desist orders and suspension or removal orders directly to a credit union or affected person, and to prohibit future employment by a credit union, (4) amend provisions authorizing the Director to appoint a receiver and to outline the powers and duties of a receiver, (5) amend the provision relating to voluntary or involuntary liquidation of a credit union to remove an outdated reference to the Idaho Credit Union League Stabilization Fund,(6)amendprovisionoftheacttoallowstate-charteredcreditunionstoactasacustodianorfiduciarytothe same extent as a federal credit union for the purpose of offering tax-advantaged savings plans, and (7) add new sections authorizing the Director to call for a special meeting of the board of directors and to attend meetings of the board. The proposed amendments relating to enforcement actions will provide for the Department of Finance to meet national accreditation standards.
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Amends existing law to clarify provisions regarding deposits of certain funds.
ThecurrenttimeperiodestablishedinSection59-1014, IdahoCode, forallstateofficersandagenciestodeposit the receipt of funds can be challenging for some remote agency locations. This legislation would allow the Board of Examiners to grant specific permission of deposit and some other interval by the provisions of a resolution of the board.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho Commission for Libraries for fiscal year 2021.
This is the FY 2021 original appropriation bill for the Commission for Libraries. It appropriates a total of $5,891,700 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 37.50. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP and temporarily removes funding for the employer's sick leave contribution rate. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees, with an additional 2% increase for those in the 20 job classifications most in need of equity adjustments. Also included are adjustments to pay the Office of Information Technology Services for security software and data center office space located at the Chinden Campus. Lastly, the ongoing General Fund appropriation is reduced by 2%.
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Amends existing law to establish a technology services unit in the State Department of Education.
Both the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Education were originally created when Idaho was granted statehood. In 1972, Section 125 of Title 33 Idaho Code established an executive agency of the State Board of Education, known as the State Department of Education and established duties for the department. Further, this section requires that the State Superintendent shall serve as the executive officer of such department and shall have the responsibility for carrying out policies, procedures and duties authorized by law or established by the state board of education for all elementary and secondary matters. Among these policies so authorized, the State Department of Education has responsibility for the reporting and tracking of K-12 related data. Procedurally this is carried out by the State Department of Education within its Technology Services Unit. This bill recognizes that technology services are an integral part of K-12 support to our school districts, charter schools, students, parents and teachers. The State Department of Education has the responsibility for services including the management of the Idaho System for Educational Excellence (ISEE) and broadband/e-rate support for schools and libraries.
Amends existing law to provide that the names of the three finalists for college or university presidencies shall be made available to the public.
The proposed legislation would amend Section 74-106, Idaho Code to allow an exception for the public postsecondary institutions to the number of finalist names that are required to be released to the public when hiring for non-classified positions. The amendment would reduce the number of required applicant names that must be released from five to three. The requirement that the names of the five final applicants be released to the public has had a chilling effect on the applicants willing to apply for the President positions at the public postsecondary institutions. This caused some applicants to withdraw from the list of finalists during the recent presidential searches. Applicants were much more willing to be publicly announced if they were in the top three rather than the top five list of candidates.
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Amends existing law to repeal the property tax and to increase the sales tax.
Arguably, property taxes are a leftover vestige of a feudal system of governing from the Middle Ages wherein lords of manors were required to pay tribute to a king or queen or they risked losing their lands. It is not unreasonable to suggest that we still live under that same system in that if you refuse to pay property taxes, you risk losing your property. The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right of its citizens to own property. In order to truly own property, one must be free from having to make payments to the government just to keep your own in the form of property taxes. This legislation will eliminate all property taxesinthestateandsimultaneouslyreplacethelostrevenuefromsaidpropertytaxeswithincreasedcollections of sales taxes. The sales tax rate will be increased from 6% to 11%. In order to ensure that property taxes are not raised in the future, a Joint Resolution would need to follow that would amend the constitution to prohibit property taxes from being collected.
Jason Monks · HD-022B
Amends existing law to authorize the director of the Department of Water Resources to receive, file, record, or retain documents of record on media other than paper.
The purpose of this legislation is to give the Director of the Idaho Dept. of Water Resources explicit authority to receive, file, record, or retain documents of record on media other than paper. This legislation would enable use of digital documents, online form submissions, and other document technology to conduct the duties of the department,includinglong-termdocumentstorage. Paperdocumentsofhistoricalsignificancewillbedigitized, and the physical copies will be retained by the Department of Water Resources or archived with the Idaho State Archives. Digital document submittals improve customer service by reducing application processing times. Use of digital media also reduces paper handling and storage costs.
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Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting that Congress take action necessary to make buprenorphine more accessible to patients.
Suboxone is a drug that alleviates withdrawal symptoms in patients suffering from opioid addiction. This kind of treatment normalizes brain chemistry and relieves physiological cravings, effectively allowing patients to focus on recovery and build healthier lifestyles. Suboxone has few adverse side effects and minimal potential for abuse. Unfortunately, federal law creates barriers for medical practitioners who wish to prescribe Suboxone (known generically as buprenorphine). This Joint Memorial seeks to remove those barriers so that opioid treatment drugs can be as readily available as the opioids themselves. The United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and Idaho's Congressional Delegation are requested to amend 21 U.S.C. 823 and other provisions of federal law as necessary to allow widespread access to Suboxone. This Joint Memorial was crafted with statistics provided by the Idaho Office of Drug Policy to illustrate the urgency of the crisis relating to opioid overdoses in Idaho and the United States.
Repeals existing law relating to the taking up of hogs and hogs running at large within towns.
Consistent with the Governor's Red Tape Reduction Act, this bill seeks to eliminate inactive provisions of law regarding the taking up of trespassing hogs that have remained on the books for more than 100 years. Among other provisions, it required any person taking up a hog under this chapter to immediately thereafter write out three (3) notices in a plain, legible hand giving a correct description thereof with the marks and brands, if any, on said hog, and the time and place of taking up, and at once post up said notices in a good and substantial manner in three (3) conspicuous places in the precinct in which said hog was taken up.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding criminal history and background checks, to provide standards for infant sleep areas, to provide that persons guilty of certain offenses are ineligible for licensure, and to revise provisions regarding appeals of a suspension, revocation, or denial of a license.
This legislation amends and updates Idaho daycare licensing statutes 39-1105, 39-1106, 39-1110, and 39-1113 to align with Idaho Child Care Program (ICCP) standards. Specifically this legislation: reduces redundant and/or obsolete language regarding criminal background check requirements for daycare owners and employees, adds three criminal offenses with an additional appeal process in the event of denial, suspension or revocation, and updates health standards to include infant safe sleep practices.
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding adverse action by an employer and to provide a limit on certain damages.
This legislation amends Idaho Code 6-2104 to provide a cap for non-economic damages. There is no cap on economic damages.
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for a county share of funding for Medicaid expansion.
This legislation addresses the county medical indigency program, the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Program, and Medicaid Expansion. On the bill’s effective date, the following changes will be implemented: • The county medical indigency programs will end after one year • The Catastrophic Health Care Cost Program will suspend on June 30, 2021 • Counties can continue using the charity levee to cover court-ordered involuntary mental health services • Proposed Expansion County Contribution ◦ Implement sales-tax based formula to create stabilization fund for Medicaid expansion based on quarterly count of actual Medicaid enrollees statewide ◦ County cost share = 30% of state costs ◦ DHW reports total county cost share to tax commission by the 30th of month after the calendar quarter ends ◦ Quarterly collection nine months retroactive; tax commission begins collecting December 31, 2020, and every three months thereafter ◦ Total county cost share for the quarter subtracted from the counties' portion of sales tax revenue sharing before existing formula calculations take place ◦ Collections flow into a stabilization fund with the goal of growing a savings account to counterbalance population growth and economic downturns ◦ County per member per year share capped at 3% annual growth ◦ LSO review of funding formula every three years starting in 2022 • The following sections of Idaho Code are repealed (under Title 31, Counties and County Law, Chapter 35, Hospitals for Indigent Sick): ◦ 31-3501: Declaration of Policy ◦ 31-3502: Definitions ◦ 31-3503C: Powers and Duties of the Department ◦ 31-3503E: Medicaid Eligibility Determination ◦ 31-3503F: Medical Home ◦ 31-3504: Application for Financial Assistance ◦ 31-3505: Time and manner of Filing Applications for Financial Assistance ◦ 31-3505A: Investigation of Application by the Clerk ◦ 31-3505B: Approval by the County Commissioners ◦ 31-3505C: Powers and Duties of the Department ◦ 31-3505D: Appeal of Initial Determination Denying an
Relates to the appropriation to the Division of Career Technical Education for fiscal year 2021.
This is an FY 2021 trailer appropriation bill for the Division of Career Technical Education. It addresses the impact of S1329, which addresses pay associated with recruitment and retention of industry professionals within Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. This bill provides additional personnel costs; ongoing operating expenditures for travel, professional development, and contracted facilitators; and onetime operating expenditures for module development and pay equity.
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