Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Military Division for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This additional appropriation to the Military Division provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget, which include a net-zero transfer for temporary employees, employee development costs, construction and facilities maintenance, replacement items, the additional 2% change in employee compensation, and IT consolidation. The bill also provides an additional appropriation to the division for FY 2024 for construction and facilities maintenance and previously committed project costs. Lastly, it reimburses the division for costs incurred for the cleanup of hazardous materials incidents throughout Idaho authorized under Section 39-7110, Idaho Code.

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 2025.

This appropriation to the Health Education Programs organized under the State Board of Education provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes funding for new residencies and the additional 2% CEC.

Relates to the appropriation to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for fiscal year 2025.

This appropriation to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes additional personnel costs and 2.00 FTP for senior counselors, a net-zero transfer between account categories to realign the Base, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC.

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of Student Support for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This bill provides an appropriation to the new Student Support Division as part of the Public School Support Program. This division includes funding for Administrators, Operations, and Children's Programs. This appropriation provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget with adjustments to nondiscretionary funding as a result of 696 fewer estimated support units for fiscal year 2025. This bill increases the discretionary funds distribution by 20.1%, and provides an additional 2% CEC for the administrative and classified positions. This bill also changes three sections of language that were approved in House Bill 460. For FY 2024, the bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $105,000,000 for discretionary funds. This supplemental is the result of fewer calculated support units as a result of the state returning to average daily attendance (ADA) for student count funding purposes. This supplemental relies on existing appropriation and therefore has no impact to the General Fund.

Relates to the maintenance appropriations to the executive offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Controller, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer for fiscal year 2025.

This is the FY 2025 Maintenance Appropriation for the Constitutional Officers. This bill includes appropriations to the Executive Office of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the State Controller, the Secretary of State, and the State Treasurer. The appropriation includes standard adjustments for benefit costs, inflationary adjustments, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game provides enhancements to the fiscal year 2025 maintenance budget that includes salary inflation for temporary employees, operating costs for conservation officer, 1.00 FTP and funding for grizzly bear conflict management, restoration of habitat along the Pahsimeroi River, 2.00 FTP and funding for depredation prevention program staffing, funding to overhaul the agency's website, fish screen fabrication and placement, wildlife migration staff, adjustments to the appropriation for revenues from wildlife license plates, a conservation easement in Elmore County, wildlife crossing-migration initiatives, improvements to the agency's Pocatello office, fish habitat restoration projects, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Lands and the Endowment Fund Investment Board for fiscal year 2025.

This appropriation to the Idaho Land Board provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget for the Department of Lands and the Endowment Fund Investment Board. Enhancements include fire equipment for the East Idaho District, operating costs within the fire program, tree seedling coolers, fire program staffing, staffing within the Good Neighbor Authority, operating costs within the Good Neighbor Authority, support for the forestry assistant program, fire program equipment, recreation program equipment, a vehicle for GIS equipment, funding for staff computers, funding to purchase land for the Veterans Cemetery as an agency for the Division of Veteran Affairs, $1,000,000 for bonuses for Department of Lands firefighters, adjustments for the timber protective association, funding to continue support for the department's contract with the Idaho Geological Survey at the University of Idaho for abandoned mine database, replacement items; and an additional 2% CEC. The enhancements for the Department of Lands also include a reduction of 14.00 FTP and an increase of $97,000 for consolidation with the Office of Information Technology. Enhancements for the Endowment Fund Investment Board include funding to replace computer equipment and the 2% CEC. The bill also appropriates and transfers $17,000,000 from the General Fund to Fire Suppression Deficiency Warrant Fund for fire suppression activities.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include nondiscretionary adjustments, funding for the Idaho Children's Trust, Year 2 of the START Certification, infant and toddler service coordination, crisis patient treatment at SWITC, crisis stabilization funding, replacement items, personnel cost reductions, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include cost based pricing increases, a net-zero shift for additional operating expenditures, crisis patient treatment at SWITC, crisis stabilization, and infant and toddler coordination.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2025.

This appropriation to the Idaho State Police which is comprised of four divisions: the Brand Inspection, the Idaho State Police, the POST Academy, and the Racing Commission, provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that includes funding for instrument maintenance agreements, additional IT bandwidth, a funds shift off of the Highway Distribution Account onto the General Fund, Microsoft 365 licenses, radio dispatch consoles, SQL server licenses, additional appropriation for federal funds, a net-zero budget realignment, a training mission, sexual assault cold cases, watercraft inspection stations, a fund shift for employee health care, a pay increase for contract employees, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC .

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Behavioral Health Services Division for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention, Mental Health Services, and Psychiatric Hospitalization provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include nondiscretionary adjustments, funding from the opioid settlement for treatment, adjusting the budget for personnel costs and operating expenditures, replacement items, and endowment fund adjustments for state hospital north, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Hospitalization. Looking at Table 2 below, there are net-zero budget impacts moving personnel costs to operating expenditures, and moving funding for crisis centers from the Adult Mental Health Program to the Children's Mental Health Program, budget alignment by fund source for State Hospital South, and accreditation at State Hospital North and State Hospital West.

Relates to the appropriation and transfer of moneys to the General Fund for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This bill provides a onetime cash transfer to the General Fund and directs the Office of the State Controller to not transfer funds from the rainy day fund to the General Fund. Section 57-814, Idaho Code requires the Office of the State Controller to transfer any balance that exceeds 15% of General Fund revenue collections of the year just ended from the Budget Stabilization Fund, otherwise known as the rainy day fund, to the General Fund. The fund balance of the rainy day fund is at the statutory cap of 15% of General Fund revenues for FY 2023. The current revenue forecast for FY 2024 is 5.1% below FY 2023 General Fund revenue collections. If this revenue forecast holds, funds in the Budget Stabilization Fund would be transferred back to the General Fund. Rather than reducing the balance in the Budget Stabilization Fund, section 2 directs the Office of the State Controller to not make the transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Fund.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Indirect Support, Licensing and Certification, and Independent Councils provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include funding for MMIS operational data personnel, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides the FY 2025 Appropriation for the Indirect Support Services Division, which includes standard adjustments for benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation. This appropriation provides an additional $140,400 to the maintenance appropriation provided to the Divisions of Licensing and Certification and Independent Councils found in Senate Bill 1268, as well as $56,473,700 for the FY 2025 original appropriation for the Indirect Support Services Division, for a total increase of $56,614,100. Table 1 shows all the adjustments leading to the FY 2025 total budget for Other Programs. Additionally, Table 1 shows the mid-year adjustments to the FY 2024 budget for Indirect Support Services, and Licensing and Certification. Mid-year adjustments include a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures for the Medicaid Program Integrity Unit and for inflationary items, onetime funding for the agency's federal cost allocation plan, and a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures for contract nurses. The total increase to the FY 2024 budget is $296,400.