Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division and the Department of Health and Welfare for the Public Health Services Division for fiscal year 2026.

ThisisatrailerappropriationtotheMilitaryDivisionandthePublicHealthServicesDivisionintheDepartment of Health and Welfare for the impact of House Bill 206. House Bill 206 transferred the Emergency Medical Services program, less Preparedness and Response, from the Public Health Services Division to the Military Division and this bill provides adjustments to appropriations to complete that transfer. The appropriation for the Preparedness and Response program is transferred to the Physical Health budgeted program in the Public Health Services Division.

Relates to the appropriation to the Industrial Commission for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Industrial Commission provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget thatincludesfundingforamaintenancecontractfortheIndustrialCommission'sredesignedinformationsystem (IRIS)project,financialtechnicianreclassification,refereepositionfunding,andOITShardware. Alsoincluded is a net-zero appropriation shift for FY 2025 for IRIS cost allocation. The Industrial Commission requested $32,300 for a rehabilitation field consultant, $25,500 to reclassify adjudication associates, $62,300 for a technical records specialist, $30,000 for an IRIS contingency fund, and $132,000 for replacement vehicles. These enhancement items do not receive funding in this bill.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture and the Soil and Water Conservation Commission for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budgets for the Department of Agriculture and the Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Enhancements to the Department of Agriculture include a pay structure for agricultural investigators, a 5% change in employee compensation for fresh fruit and vegetable inspectors, replacement items, and IT hardware. Enhancements for the Soil and Water Conservation Commission include onetime funding to replace a vehicle and support the Water Quality Program for Agriculture (WQPA). This legislation also includes a FY 2025 deficiency warrant to reimburse actual expenditures incurred in FY 2024formonitoringandcontrolofexoticspeciesincludingJapanesebeetles,Mormoncrickets,andotherexotic pests. Chapters 19 and 20, Title 22, Idaho Code, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to use deficiency warrants for the monitoring and mitigation of invasive species and pests.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Indirect Support Services provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include funding for a SQL server replacement, replacementitemsandOITSrecommendedhardwarereplacements. Thisbillalsoincludessectionsoflanguage directing the department to provide a report on state vehicle inventory, to provide a report on the administrative burdenoffederalgrants, languageprovidingguidanceonfederalfundinglimitations, andprovidingconditions, limitations, and restrictions. Additionally, this bill includes language related to the Division of Licensing and Certification. ThislanguagedirectsthedepartmenttoprovideareportontransitioningtheDivisionofLicensing andCertificationtotheDivisionofOccupationalandProfessionalLicenses(DOPL),aswellaslanguagerelated to transfer limitation exemptions for FY 2025 and FY 2026. This bill does not include enhancement 16, Cloud Server Capacity and Support. This bill also does not provide funding for the purchase of 60 replacement vehicles, as requested by the department. This appropriation represents a $1,105,600 reduction from the agency submitted budget request. Overall, the total FY 2026 budget for Indirect Support Services is 5.9% less than the FY 2025 Original Appropriation, representing a reduction of $3,311,200. This 5.9% reduction from FY 2025 was due to the amount of onetime appropriation in FY 2025 that was not repeated in the FY 2026 budget, as well as from the amount for requested replacement items that were not included in this bill.

Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Military Division provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include a public safety communications network administrator, ITS billing adjustment, replacement items, IT hardware, and funding for hazardous materials regional response. For FY 2025, the bill also provides an additional appropriation of $540,000 to the division for Public Safety Communications support, and an additional $759,200 for IT maintenance and licensing. A cash transfer of $34,200 is provided from the General Fund to the Hazardous Substance Emergency Response Fund to reimburse costs for cleanup of hazardous materials incidents. A cash transfer of $8,600,000 is provided from the State Emergency Relief Fund to the division's Miscellaneous Revenue Fund.

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the Judicial Branch for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for the Judicial Branch. This bill includes appropriations to Court Operations, Guardian ad Litem, and the Judicial Council. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

YOUTH SAFETY AND PERMANENCY- Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Youth Safety and Permanency provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget and adjustments to the FY 2025 appropriation. For FY 2026 this bill includes funding for five enhancements and population forecast adjustments. Enhancements include: prevention specialist staff to allow more children to be served safely in their homes by a family service workerpreventionspecialistsupportingboththechildandfamily; youthsafetyandpermanencystafftoprovide needs assessments to any child who has entered or is projected to enter a high level of care such as residential treatment or group homes; foster program clinical staff assigned to the congregate care unit to provide intensive support to foster families who have accepted placement of a youth with high emotional, behavioral, and mental healthneeds,aswellastoprovidea24/7supportlineforfosterparent; fosterprogramlicensingstafftofacilitate thelicensingprocessforbothfosterfamiliesandrelatedkin; andfundingforthecontinuedleasingandoperation ofthePayetteAssessmentandCareCenterforfosteryouth. ThetotalnumberofnewFTPbeingaddedtoYouth Safety and Permanency in this appropriation is 63.00. The bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental appropriation for mid-year population forecast adjustments. This bill includes five sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations, directing the division to provide reports to the Legislature on the status of meeting the 1:1 ratio of foster families to foster children, as well as language that provides transfer limitation exemptions for Youth Safety and Permanency in FY 2025 and FY 2026, and the standard conditions, limitations, and restrictions language. Thisbilldoesnotincludeanappropriationforthepurchaseof, andfull-timestaffingfor, thePayetteAssessment and Care Center. This bill also does not include six additional licensing staff requested by the department.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Division of Idaho State Police and POST Academy provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes fleet services positions, a special investigations unit for Department of Correction facilities, forensic deputy lab manager, highway distribution account fund shift, sexual kit initiative investigators, a Idaho Law Enforcement Telecommunications (ILETS) disaster recovery database, digital forensics team personnel transfer, federal funds shift, federal grant for Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) compliance, a technical records specialist, replacement items, IT modernization, IT hardware, and a 6% targeted salary increase for commissioned officers and forensics personnel. Also included is a supplemental appropriation for FY 2025 for a remote housing unit. The agency request included four (4.00) FTP and $757,300 for a special investigations unit for IDOC, which was reduced by one (1.00) FTP and $187,000 from the agency request. The agency also requested $168,100 for DNA collection legislation, which was not funded.

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for the State Board of Education. This bill includes appropriations to Agricultural Research and Extension Services, College and Universities, Community Colleges, the Office of the State Board of Education, Health Education Programs, Career Technical Education, Idaho Public Television, Special Programs, Department of Education, Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Charter School Commission. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for benefit costs, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

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 2026.

Relates to the appropriations from the Idaho Millennium Income Fund for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This is the FY 2026 appropriation bill for the Idaho Millennium Income Fund based on the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Millennium Fund Committee pursuant to Section 67-1806, Idaho Code. This bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental appropriation. The Millennium Fund includes moneys received from tobacco companies as part of the Master Settlement Agreementthatrequirestobaccocompaniestopaystatesacalculatedamounteachyearinperpetuitytoaccount forliesmaderegardingthehealthissueswithtobaccouse. Eachyear, Idahoreceivesapproximately$24million from the settlement. Moneys are used pursuant to the appropriation with the stated intent of providing services for Idaho's youth for behavioral health programs. For FY 2025, onetime funding is provided to the Department of Juvenile Corrections for Youth Assessment Centers around the state. For FY 2026, funding is provided for Idaho State Police for their Fentanyl Awareness Campaign and to provide the appropriation necessary for accurate accounting with programs being conducted in partnership with the State Department of Education. Funding is provided for the State Department of Education for school resource officers and for eligible after-school programs. The bill adjusts the funding for Idaho Public Television by moving the appropriation from operating expenditures to personnel costs to align the appropriation with the intended amounts from the 2024 session. Finally, onetime funding is provided for the Department of Juvenile Corrections for youth assessment centers, with the intent that future funding be first considered by the Behavioral Health Council. This bill does not include funding for additional vape detectors, for a youth assessment survey, or for $6 million for several other programs brought before the Joint Millennium Fund Committee for funding consideration. DISCLAIMER: This statement of purpose and

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 maintenance appropriation for the Legislative Branch which includes the Legislative Services Office, and the Office of Performance Evaluations. It includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for Health Education Programs for fiscal year 2026.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Treasurer for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the State Treasurer provides enhancements to the FY 2026 budget that includes additional funding for Abnormal Cloud Email Security Software.

Relates to the appropriation to the Endowment Fund Investment Board for fiscal year 2026.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Commerce, Department of Environmental Quality, and the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2025.

Relates to replacement items for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Idaho State Lottery, the Brand Inspection Division, the Commission of Pardons and Parole, the Public Utilities Commission, and Idaho Public Television for fiscal year 2026.

This is a FY 2026 appropriation bill for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Idaho State Lottery, the Brand Inspection Division, the Commission of Pardons and Parole, Idaho Public Television, and Public Utilities Commission. It includes funding for replacement items.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Lands for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Lands provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes funding for a fire emergency support program manager, and fire aviation section manager, a statewide forest assessment program manager, fire detection cameras, fire equipment, the replacement of the fire burn permit system, statewide security upgrades, GIS enhancements, a boat and trailer, a vehicle for the agency's fleet and facilities manager, assessment fee adjustments for the timber protective associations (TPA), a change in employee compensation adjustment for TPA employees, a net zero salary split adjustment, a net zero transfer to correct a CEC adjustment, dedicated funds for replacement items, funding to replace computer hardware as recommended by the Office of Information Technology Systems, onetime for bonuses for firefighters, and support for satellite fire detection and mapping. This bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental enhancement that appropriates and transfers $40,000,000 from the General Fund to Fire Suppression Deficiency Warrant Fund for fire-fighting activities. This action is reflected in Table 2. The appropriation does not include an additional 2.00 FTP and $323,000 that was requested by the Department of Lands, including funding for an assistant fire warden in the Ponderosa Area; a net-zero adjustment to support a fiscal financial specialist; a forestry program specialist; and funding for the shared stewardship program. The appropriation also shifted $83,000 from the General Fund to dedicated fund sources. The Governor's Recommendation included an additional $60,000,000 from the General Fund to Fire Suppression Deficiency Warrant Fund for fire-fighting activities as part of the FY 2025 and FY 2026 recommendations that was not included in the appropriation.

Relates to the maintenance appropriation to Natural Resources for fiscal year 2026.

This is the FY 2026 Maintenance Appropriation for Natural Resources. This bill includes appropriations to the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Fish and Game, the Board of Land Commissioners, the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Water Resources. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

Relates to the appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for fiscal year 2026.

Relates to the appropriation to the State Appellate Public Defender for fiscal year 2026.

This appropriation to the State Appellate Public Defender provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes a new Deputy State Public Defender position and reappropriation authority for capital and noncapital representation costs.

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Employee Retirement System for fiscal year 2026.