Idaho Bills
718 bills · 2021 Regular Session
Amends existing law to provide that school officials shall provide parents and guardians with certain information in communications regarding student immunizations.
This legislation requires school officials to notify parents or guardians of their right to vaccine exemptions. Exemptions for preschool through grade twelve students exist in Idaho code 39-4802. With the addition of this legislation, any notifications to parents or guardians regarding vaccinations must include a verbal description of their right to exempt their child.
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Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the protection of personal medical information.
This legislation amends Idaho code by adding a definition of personal medical information that includes details of a person's medical or dental condition, including information regarding medication and vaccinations. A new section is added that states that every person has a right to confidentiality regarding their personal medical information. Further, no private or public entity shall be entitled to condition access on the revelation of personal medical information. Health care providers who require personal medical information, such as needed to provide medical treatment, may not use that information to deny access to care.
Amends existing law to provide for the ability of certain disabled veterans to transfer their veteran's property tax reduction and homestead exemption upon a change of homestead.
This legislation allows a qualified disabled veteran who has applied before April15th for the special property tax reduction outlined in Idaho Code Section 63-702 and 63-705A, to transfer their property tax reduction or occupancy tax reduction benefit upon changing their residence to a new residence after April 15 but before October 1st.
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Amends existing law to revise the unemployment benefit formula.
This legislation streamlines and simplifies unemployment insurance calculations to help ensure the State Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund remains solvent. It does that by changing the employment security benefitformulainemploymentsecuritylawstosimplifytheminimumandmaximumamountofunemployment insurance benefits for which a person is eligible. The bill does keep in place the State's index tying the amount of benefits people receive to the overall health of the economy, but reduces the maximum number of weeks of unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks. This legislation will have the added benefit of making it easier for someone to understand the number of weeks of unemployment benefits for which he or she is eligible. Finally, there is a sunrise provision so that the bill takes effect on July 1, 2022 in order to account for federal pandemic unemployment funding. As with Medicaid funding, there were strings attached to the supplemental federal funding for unemployment insurance. The effective date of this bill accounts for the federal funding timeline and strings.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding appointments and elections to fill vacant school trustee positions after a recall or resignation following a recall petition.
This legislation will change the manner in which school board trustees fill positions that are vacated due to a recall. This process will be applied to a recall that: a) Was initiated and then the trustee chose to resign; b) Was initiated and then recalled through the voting process; It further states that if a regularly scheduled election date is upcoming within 90 days of a successful recall, then no one shall be appointed to a position and it shall remain open and allow candidates to run for the vacated trustee office. If such a position is farther out than 90 days, the trustee position will be filled as a “temporary” position only and will be up for election at the next possible election cycle where the permanent trustee position will be decided.
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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.
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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.
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law regarding driver's education programs and driver's permits.
To remove mandatory driver's education law in the State of Idaho and replace it with the following: Age 14- Apply for learner's permit (and pass written exam); record at least 50 hours of supervised driving by a licensed parent or guardian 21 years of age or older. Age 16- Apply for intermediate license (and pass state driving exam); includes Graduated Driver's License rules, which have been proven to be safer and more effective than driver's education classes. Age 17- No change to current law.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the authority of the governor during a state of extreme peril and to provide that the governor may not alter, adjust, or suspend any provision of the Idaho Code in certain instances.
This bill updates §46-601 by renaming extreme emergencies as extreme peril. It limits the application to human caused conditions. It prohibits restrictions on the right to work. It limits the duration of extreme peril declarations and provides conditions for their extension. It prohibits limiting or suspending the rights of the citizens. It prohibits alterations, adjustments, or suspension of statutes by the Governor.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the reporting of campaign finances.
This legislation makes several changes to Idaho’s campaign finance “sunshine” laws. First it clarifies how to report contributions when items are donated for the purpose of raising funds at auction – a common practice. Second, it reduces the campaign finance paperwork required for most local elections by deeming a local candidate to have appointed himself as his campaign treasurer upon filing his candidacy, until and unless he appoints someone else. Third, it clarifies that monthly reporting is only required in the year of a candidate’s election, or the year in which a PAC expends money, and that an incumbent with a zero fund balance must continue filing any required reports until the incumbent fails to file for re-election by the close of the candidate filing period. And fourth, it eliminates duplicative reporting by absolving local candidates and PACs from having to file a report within seven (7) days after the $500/$1,000 reporting thresholds are met, if the next monthly report, which would be required anyway, falls before the election.
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.
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Relates to the appropriation to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor for fiscal year 2022.
This is the FY 2022 original appropriation bill for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. It appropriates a total of $175,700 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 2.50. 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. The bill includes one line item which reduces the ongoing appropriation by 0.50 FTP and $7,400 in personnel costs.
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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.
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Amends existing law to prohibit the supervision and regulation of public school extracurricular activities by certain entities unless such entities establish a review board and to provide requirements for and duties of the review board.
This legislation is to provide an appeals board for the Idaho High School Association.