Idaho Bills

Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding social workers.

RS32997C3 / H0956 This legislation provides clarifying language as it pertains to the occupational duties of CPS social workers, provides for additional job training requirements with regard to interacting with and handling children diagnosed with autism, and provides a requirement for all potential hires applying for the position of social worker within IDHW to have a psychological evaluation performed.

Adds to existing law to establish the Financial Accountability Stablecoin Transaction (FAST) Act to provide for the authorization and use of payment stablecoins.

RS33717 / H0901 This legislation establishes the Financial Accountability Stablecoin Transaction (FAST) Act in Title 67, Idaho Code, to authorize the optional use of certain federally qualified and public purpose-qualified payment stablecoins for state vendor and contractor payments. The act aligns Idaho law with the federal GENIUS Act, which governs payment stablecoins, including issuer qualifications, reserve requirements, and consumer protections. The bill directs the state treasurer to maintain and publish a list of authorized payment stablecoins, establish compliance and risk management procedures, and submit an annual report by December 15, 2027, to the Legislature detailing authorized stablecoins, transaction volumes, and estimated fiscal impacts. Vendors and contractors may elect, but are not required, to receive payment using an authorized payment stablecoin. The purpose of the act is to improve payment efficiency, reduce transaction costs, enhance transparency and auditability, and promote competition and innovation in financial infrastructure, while preserving legislative oversight and compliance with federal and state law.

Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding programmable money.

excluding it from existing definitions of money under the Uniform Commercial Code and establishing a new framework to protect consumer payment rights. The bill limits the ability of issuers to control, restrict, or deny transactions based on lawful personal characteristics or activities, prohibits the use of social credit scoring through programmable money, and requires transparency when transactions are denied. It also provides civil remedies, attorney’s fees, and criminal penalties to ensure enforcement while preserving the lawful use of digital assets and alternative forms of payment.

Adds to existing law to provide for automatic dissolution of homeowner's associations.

This legislation seeks to allow for the automatic sunsetting of HOAs. Every 10 years, current HOAs members will vote whether or not to keep their HOA. The current HOA will create a plan on how the common property would be handled upon dissolution, with broad options allowed for.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding Medicaid eligibility requirements and verification.

RS33718 / H0912 This legislation establishes comprehensive oversight for Idaho’s Medicaid program, which accounts for a significant portion of the state’s annual budget. This bill updates Idaho law to match federal Medicaid standards under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21). These changes strengthen the program’s integrity and provide clearer rules for accountability. These reforms are designed to protect Medicaid for eligible Idaho residents while safeguarding taxpayer dollars from financial penalties; specifically, federal law now mandates that if Idaho’s eligibility error rate exceeds 3%, the state faces an anticipated penalty of nearly $30 million for every additional percentage point. To mitigate financial risks, the bill replaces self-attestation with a structured framework requiring three months of verified prior work activity for enrollment, followed by quarterly compliance checks, biannual eligibility redeterminations for able-bodied adults. State agencies are also prohibited from implementing additional optional exemptions without explicit legislative approval. Furthermore, the act clarifies that Medicaid is reserved for lawful Idaho residents by requiring the use of the federal SAVE database to verify immigration status and mandating that cases involving unlawful status be referred to federal authorities. To prevent improper payments, the bill requires ongoing cross-checks against state and federal databases—including tax, wage, death record, and address verification systems—to identify changes in circumstances and promptly remove deceased individuals from the rolls.

Adds to existing law to require a temporary moratorium on rulemaking and fees and to provide for the migration of certain administrative rules into statute.

RS33558 / H0914 This legislation creates a temporary five (5) year moratorium on any additional rule-making and fees promulgation by the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses. It also requires that the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses submit to the legislative services office proposed legislation that transfers all division of occupational and professional licenses administrative rule chapters less than eight (8) pages into statute by December 31, 2026.

Proposes a new Joint Rule 24 to designate certain days as constituent days during regular legislative sessions.

RS33637 / HCR038 This rule will provide for a four-day work week every two weeks of a legislative session. The first week of a session would be designated as an odd week. Week two would be considered an even week. Every odd week would have a five-day work week for House and Senate committees and for work in the House and Senate Chambers. On Friday of even weeks, there would be no official House or Senate committee meetings and no work done in either the House or Senate Chambers. Fridays of even weeks would be designated a constituent day. Work would still take place in the Statehouse on even week Fridays, but not official meetings requiring committee minutes nor chamber journal entries. For those legislators who live outside of the Boise area, they would also be working in their districts on the even week Friday constituent days.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding income eligibility for the Idaho Child Care Program.

RS33825 / H0958 This bill expands eligibility for the Idaho Child Care Program by allowing families earning up to 175% of the federal poverty level to qualify for assistance. It aims to make child care more accessible to working families. The bill also includes an emergency clause, making it effective July 1, 2026.

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding a psychosexual evaluation, to provide that failure to provide an evaluation may be an aggravating circumstance, to revise a provision regarding payment for a psychosexual evaluation by a defendant, and to establish provisions regarding use of certain funding and restitution.

This legislation amends Sections 18-8316 and 18-8318, Idaho Code, to refine the procedures and funding structures for psychosexual evaluations for sexual offenders. The bill provides that any individual who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a sexual offense listed in Section 18-8304, Idaho Code, shall undergo a psychosexual evaluation at their own expense prior to sentencing. The bill establishes that a defendant’s failure to make a good faith effort to provide a completed evaluation may be considered an aggravating circumstance by the court during the sentencing phase. Regarding indigent defendants, the legislation clarifies the utilization of authorized funds for court-ordered counseling or treatment to cover evaluation costs. By aligning these evaluations with broader treatment resources, the bill streamlines the administrative process and ensures that funding provided by any governmental entity is subject to mandatory restitution from the defendant in accordance with standard crime victim restitution procedures.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding abatement districts and to provide for optional participation.

RS33760 / H0960 This legislation allows individual property owners to opt-out of and exempt their private property from Mosquito District Abatement. It also restricts certain aerial abatement methods in certain circumstances. It requires Mosquito Abatement Districts to publish and notify on abatement activities and the right to opt-out and sets penalties for knowingly not complying.

Amends and adds to existing law to expand the homestead property tax exemption, to increase the sales tax rate, and to direct sales tax revenue to taxing districts to replace property tax revenue lost from the homestead exemption expansion.

RS33792 / H0961 This legislation would eliminate all property taxes on a person’s primary place of residence forever. It would not affect any other property, nor would it allow property taxes to increase on other nonresident properties. The lack of property taxes would have a fiscal impact. Please see the

Amends existing law to provide that certain vehicles shall not be subject to more than one inspection within a seventy-two-hour period.

This legislation stipulates that any vehicle subject to inspection will not be subject to re-inspection for 72 hours. This allows local truck traffic to operate for 72 hours between inspections and not be subject to multiple inspections on the same day. This balance between need for safety and trucks being able to operate in a productive manner.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding a sales and use tax rebate to certain developers of certain retail complexes.

The State Taxation Anticipated Revenue or STARs program allows developers to receive a rebate of sales taxes to be collected from retailers within a new complex for transportation improvements. The law currently has a minimum expenditure of $6 million and a maximum of $35 million for a qualified project. This legislation increases the minimum project total to $10 million and the maximum to $100 million.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding the election of commissioners in certain single countywide highway districts.

This legislation changes the process by which highway district commissioners are elected in a countywide highway district to match the process by which county officials are elected, effective for the 2028 election cycle. Specifically, it would match the process by which county commissioners are elected. Like county commissioners, countywide highway district commissioners will need to reside within the district they represent and will be elected countywide. Also, like county commissioners, they will file for nomination in the even-year May primary, and then the primary winners will run for election in the even-year general election. The process by which county commissioners are elected is well-understood and ensures that countywide commissioners are elected on the broadest possible basis. The legislation also allows for a candidate for the 2026 election to declare their party affiliation and to have that information available on the general election ballot.