Idaho Bills
635 bills · 2023 Regular Session
Amends existing law to define “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
This legislation amends Section 74-101, Idaho Code, regarding public records. This bill seeks to align Idaho Code with Idaho Court decisions regarding the protection of personal privacy weighed against the public right to access. Idaho values the personal privacy of all citizens, and wants to ensure no citizen is further exposed or left in a vulnerable position due to the release of information.
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Amends existing law to limit funding regarding the Transportation Expansion and Congestion Mitigation Fund to the expansion of travel lanes and congestion mitigation.
This legislation amends Idaho Code, Section 40-720, to provide that funding within the Transportation Expansion and Congestion Mitigation Program shall be limited to the expansion of travel lanes and congestion mitigation.
Amends existing law to clarify the uses that may be made of certain funds by special purpose taxing districts.
28 – 7
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding who may be present at sessions of a grand jury.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the monetary threshold for grand theft.
Amends and repeals existing law to prohibit the use of student IDs for personal identification at polling places and to prohibit personal affidavits in lieu of personal identification.
Amends existing law to establish a policy regarding maintenance, construction, and development of bridges and highways.
This legislation amends Idaho Code, Section 40-708, to provide for the maintenance, construction, and development of local bridges and highways.
Amends existing law to revise the definition of “daylight hours” with respect to certain drivers.
33 – 0
Amends existing law to provide for the issuance of special placards together with disabled veteran license plates.
33 – 0
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the income tax credit for capital investment.
27 – 7
Adds to existing law to provide for mental and behavioral health care.
32 – 3
Adds to existing law to provide that no counselor or therapist will be required to counsel or serve a client regarding goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist.
57 – 13
Amends existing law to provide that a residential care or assisted living facility resident shall be entitled to in-person visitation subject to certain precautions.
This legislation amends Section 39-3316, Idaho Code, to provide for in-person visitation rights.
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Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding obsolete websites.
This legislation removes dead or unnecessary URL links in 45-1506C and 45-1602. The legislation also removes obsolete language from 45-1602.
34 – 0
Adds to existing law to provide that reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect falsely is a misdemeanor.
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Amends existing law to revise penalties for trafficking in heroin and to provide penalties for trafficking in fentanyl.
Ted Hill · HD-014A
Amends and repeals existing law to remove the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, to place the Office of Performance Evaluations under the Legislative Council, and to revise the office's duties.
This legislation eliminates the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee and reassigns oversight of the Office of Performance Evaluation to the Legislative Council.
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Adds to existing law to prohibit requiring, for certain purposes, a COVID-19 vaccine or a vaccine offered under emergency use authorization.
Adds to existing law to provide for the display of the national motto in certain circumstances.
Ben Adams · SD-012
Repeals and adds to existing law to provide authority to administer CPR or use an automated external defibrillator and to provide legal immunity.
This bill is to encourage greater access of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in the public by removing undue regulations for persons or businesses that have an AED. It adds stronger immunity protections (commonly called “Good Samaritan laws”) for AEDs.
Adds to existing law to authorize counseling services to an adult receiving service through a drug or mental health court.
This bill clarifies that licensed counselors can work in Idaho drug courts and mental health courts, even if the counselors have a past criminal conviction. Current rules at the Department of Health and Welfare prohibit licensed counselors with certain convictions from serving clients in those courts. So this bill gives DHW direction to remove the prohibition specifically for professional counseling services through Idaho’s treatment courts.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding voting by absentee ballot.
This legislation sets specific requirements for the use of absentee ballots. With the increased use of Absentee ballots—as high as 30% of the vote total in the most recent election—it is important that we specify the reason and purpose of the absentee ballots. Though the use of absentee ballots has been expanded in recent years, largely because of the Covid-19 scare, its original intent was to provide access to voters who were physically unable to vote for reasons beyond their control. Its use was never intended as a convenience, which is what it has most recently become. Broadening the use of absentee ballots also opens Idaho up to potential voter fraud, astheCommissiononFederalElectionReformdeclared“absenteeballotsremainthelargestsourceofpotential voter fraud,” a concern reiterated by voting equipment manufacturer ES & S. This legislation addresses those issues by eliminating no-excuse absentee ballots, while preserving the rights of those unable to vote in person because of reasons beyond their control.
Cindy Carlson · SD-007
Amends and adds to existing law to provide sales tax moneys to replace certain homeowner property taxes.
The purpose of this bill is to provide property tax relief to Idaho homeowners on their primary residence. The bill will dedicate 4.5% of annual sales tax revenues, providing a subtraction from each homeowner’s total property tax bill. For the year 2023, the amount of $150 million will be appropriated from FY 2023 General Fund surplus to begin this relief in the first year after passage of the bill.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the homeowner exemption.
PROPERTY TAX FAIRNESS ACT From 2006-2016, the homeowner's property tax exemption was indexed annually, consistent with the sales prices of Idaho homes. In 2016, indexing was removed from the formula resulting in a significant shift of the property tax burden to owner-occupied residential properties. Conversely, non-homeowner properties have enjoyed significant property tax reductions during this time, to the detriment of the homeowner. The Property Tax Fairness Act restores an annual index, based on the sales prices of Idaho homes, to calculate the maximum homeowner's exemption amount and establishes an initial exemption of $224,360, as if the indexing factor had not been removed in 2016. The legislation reestablishes the homeowner's exemption amount as an accurate representation of sales prices of Idaho single family residences. To promote property tax fairness to all categories of owner-occupied properties, irrespective of differences in assessed values, the percentage of assessed valuation eligible for exemption increases from 50% to 55%, so long as it does not exceed $224,360 in 2024, with the indexing factor starting thereafter. This legislation will recalibrate and restore a fair balance of property tax distribution between operating, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and residential properties.
Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding evidence of a taxpayer's expenditures.
James Ruchti · SD-029
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