Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to provide for a commission on continuous improvement plans and student achievement measures and to revise provisions regarding staff evaluations, college and career advising, and literacy intervention.

This legislation eliminates several non-valued added activities associated with K-12 including reports and unnecessary bureaucracy. It drives effectiveness in the aspects of schools that Idaho’s citizens are primarily interested in, and that is: “are more kids learning to read, are they getting better at math, are more industry certificates being earned in CTE programs, and so on.” Additionally, this legislation sets up infrastructure so that the legislature, along with the Governor’s office, the state education agencies, and stakeholder groups, can consider ways to incentivize, encourage, and recognize high performing teachers and schools in an effort to encourage more schools to use practices that are highly successful here in Idaho.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the transfer of property between government bodies.

This bill amends the state law which authorizes intergovernmental agreements when governmental entities are jointly affected by growth and development for the purpose of agreeing to impose, collect and expend development impact fees in order provide for new growth and development to pay its proportions share of the cost of public facilities to serve that new growth and development. This bill adds recreation districts to this law which authorizes governmental entities that are authorized to enact development impact fee ordinances to enter into such intergovernmental agreements with designated governmental entities that are not so authorized.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the treatment of certain federal relief moneys when calculating Idaho taxable income.

This bill makes all one-time federal relief monies provided to Idaho businesses in 2020 non-taxable except for emergency rental assistance program funds. This includes the Rebound Idaho Small Business Grants, forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans, and Economic Injury Disaster Loan advance funds.

Relates to the appropriation to the Endowment Fund Investment Board for fiscal year 2022.

This is the FY 2022 original appropriation bill for the Endowment Fund Investment Board. It appropriates a total of $788,800 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 4.00. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP, extends the holiday for the employer's sick leave contribution rate for another year, and restores funding for the employer's unemployment insurance contribution rate. Funding for replacement items includes $2,000 for a computer and accessories. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees. The bill funds one line item that provides an additional appropriation of $20,000 in personnel costs and shifts $20,000 from operating expenditures to personnel costs to give a raise to the manager of investments.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Labor for fiscal year 2022.

This is the FY 2022 original appropriation bill for the Department of Labor. It appropriates a total of $100,414,500 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 708.58. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP, extends the holiday for the employer's sick leave contribution rate for another year, and restores funding for the employer's unemployment insurance contribution rate. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 2% change in employee compensation for permanent state employees and a 2% upward shift in the compensation schedule. Two line items were provided in this budget. Line item 1 is a net-zero budget restructure. Line item 2 provides $3,302,600 from CARES Act Relief Funds for additional staffing to meet unemployment insurance claims.

States findings of the Legislature and requests that the federal government sanction the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party for their crimes against humanity and their handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.

This Memorial seeks to condemn the Communist Chinese government and the Chinese Communist party for its deceit, duplicity, and crimes against humanity during the initial phase of the COVID-19 outbreak, and let it be known to the President and Congress of the United States that it is the position of the Idaho Legislature that Communist China should be sanctioned and otherwise punished for its misdeeds in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Amends existing law to revise provisions of the Idaho Bank Act.

The purpose of this legislation is to focus on three main areas: providing regulatory relief for state-chartered banks, bringing bank management concerns into today’s reality of remote meetings, and distancing, and updating fees owed for banks over $10 billion in asset size. Below are the specific amendments to this bill: • Updates the requirement to conduct regular or special meetings of stockholders, board of directors, board committees, or the executive committee remotely • Eliminates the residency requirements for a bank’s board of directors; • Decreases the number of annual required bank board meetings from ten to six; • Eliminates the twenty percent write-down on bank-owned real estate during the Department of Finance Director-approved second 5-year period; • Updates bank fees for institutions with excess of $10 billion in total assets.

Amends existing law to provide certain exemptions regarding electrical contractors and journeymen and to provide for preemption of local jurisdictions and the state fire marshal as to such exemptions.

This legislation will put two exemptions in Idaho code. The first exemption will allow firefighters to replace smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors in one and two family dwellings. Secondly, this legislation will provide an exemption for the installation or replacement of a fire alarm panel communication device.

Amends and repeals existing law to revise provisions regarding the apprehension, release, and detention of juveniles and to remove reference to habitual status offenders.

The purpose of this legislation is to eliminate the use of habitual status offender definition and to update definitions and related statutes in the Juvenile Corrections Act (JCA) to prevent status offenders from being detained in secure facilities. This proposal ensures the JCA keeps pace with current practices both nationally and within Idaho's juvenile justice system. It also ensures our system aligns with requirements under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.