Idaho Bills

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.

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program for fiscal year 2027.

This is the FY 2027 maintenance appropriation for the Public School Support Program which includes the six divisions for Teachers, Student Support, the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, Facilities, Central Services, and the Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind. The bill includes standard adjustments for personnel benefit costs, contract inflation, and statewide cost allocation.

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.

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding preemption of firearms regulation, to provide a penalty, and to provide for a cause of action.

RS33761 / S1430 This legislation provides for a civil penalty and permanent injunction for any Idaho county, city, agency, board or other political subdivision of the state willfully and knowingly violating state statutes regarding firearms, ammunition, or components. Provides for Attorney General thirty (30) day notification to the offending entity to cure the violation before court proceedings may proceed.

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.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2027.

RS33814 / S1434 This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Welfare provides enhancements to the FY 2027 maintenance budget that include a reduction from federal funds and an increase to the General Fund to account for the shift in SNAP administration costs (enhancement #18), costs of implementing Medicaid Expansion work and community engagement requirements (enhancement #19), and the cost of system updates to track Medicaid eligibility determinations (enhancement #20). All three enhancements are related to H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act). Enhancements #19 and 20 are also related to House Bill 345 of 2025.

Relates to the appropriation to the Public Schools Educational Support Program's Division of the Idaho Digital Learning Academy for fiscal year 2027.

RS33823 / S1438 This appropriation to the Public School Support Program's Idaho Digital Learning Academy provides a reduction to the FY 2027 program maintenance budget, restricts access to PESF for FY 2027, and adds reporting requirements.

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 and adds to existing law to provide for an initiative petition to raise or lower the property tax budgets for fire protection districts and ambulance service districts and to revise provisions regarding certain property tax budget limits.

RS33842C1 / H0959 This legislation addresses the limitations HB 389 (2021) places on the growth of property taxes for fire protection districts and ambulance service districts. These constraints have prevented these districts in a small number of fast-growing areas from being able to keep up with the public safety service demands of their growing populations. Specifically, this legislation: 1. Increases the cap on overall property tax growth fire protection districts and ambulance service districts from 8% to 15%, if enough new construction and annexed territory has been added to cover the cost of these extra property taxes. 2. Provides that new construction and annexations are added to property tax budgets of fire protection districts and ambulance service districts based on the prior year’s levy rate, rather than the estimated current year levy rate. 3. Prohibits the accumulation of additional future foregone property tax balances in fire protection and ambulance service districts. Foregone property tax balances from prior to 2026 may continue to be retained and used in the future, under statutory limitations. 4. Provides a new voter initiative process for fire protection districts and ambulance service districts that would allow voters to increase or reduce property tax budgets, using the same threshold for passage that the law currently provides for voters to increase property taxes beyond statutory limits (two-thirds vote).

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.