Idaho Bills

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding homeowner's associations and to provide for joint ownership associations.

RS33713 / H0963 This legislation clarifies the definition of a quorum for HOA meetings. It also creates a Joint Ownership Association (JOA), which is similar to an HOA for managing common property but without the authority to regulate aesthetics or enforce other restrictions on homeowners. Every 10 years, current HOAs members will vote whether to keep their HOA or convert to a JOA. New neighborhoods can form a JOA from inception instead forming an HOA.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding medical mandates.

Restores medical freedom for all Idahoans by repealing school and daycare vaccine mandate language. Changes the immunization reminder information system back to opt in, which it was in the beginning of its creation. It is a privacy violation for an individual’s confidential medical records to be retained by the state without their knowledge and consent. Makes minor updates and improvements to the Medical Freedom Act, including adding a private right of action for a person whose rights are violated.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses.

This legislation establishes a unified, Division wide disciplinary framework for all boards, commissions, committees, and programs administered by the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses. By consolidating duplicative and inconsistent disciplinary provisions currently scattered across numerous practice acts, the bill creates a single procedural section that standardizes how complaints are processed, how investigations are conducted, what due process protections apply, and how sanctions are imposed. While substantive grounds for discipline will continue to be defined in each profession’s governing statute or standards of practice, this new framework ensures consistency in enforcement processes across all licensed professions regulated by the Division. The proposal preserves and clarifies key enforcement tools such as subpoenas, injunctions, license suspensions, administrative fines, and confidential informal resolutions while ensuring they are applied consistently. It also affirms DOPL’s jurisdiction over expired licenses, permits action against licensees who fail to cooperate with investigations, and provides mechanisms for referring serious violations for criminal prosecution. Complaint intake and file management procedures are formalized to improve transparency, accuracy, and administrative efficiency. All formal discipline will continue to proceed under the contested case provisions of the Idaho Administrative Procedure Act, ensuring due process rights are maintained.

Amends existing law to provide that certain persons may be banned from the Capitol building, the Supreme Court building, Capitol Mall properties, and multiagency facilities.

The Department of Administration and the Idaho State Police jointly provide security for the Capitol Mall. The proposed legislation enhances this security by empowering the Director of the Idaho Department of Administration and the Idaho State Police (plus their representatives) to ban disruptive or non-compliant individuals from entering the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings for up to one year; imposes time limits on how long “symbolic tents” and other structures may remain erected in the Capitol Mall; and formally defines “camping,” while still permitting side‑free canopies for shelter. Additionally, it broadens the scope of property that may be held for at least 90-days.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the failure to use safety restraints as evidence in civil actions to limit an injured party's damages.

This legislation is intended to avoid misinterpretation of section 49-673(8), Idaho Code, by clarifying that the failure to use a seatbelt cannot be used as evidence for the purpose of limiting an injured person’s damages.”

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding public school building plan reviews.

This legislation streamlines the permitting process for school facilities by eliminating the requirement that districts obtain plan approval before advertising for bids and by requiring permitting authorities to complete an initial plan review within 30 days of submission.

Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding medical neglect for children and vulnerable adults.

This legislation amends Title 16, Idaho Code, to revise the definition of medical neglect as it applies to minor children and vulnerable adults and to affirm the rights of parents and guardians in healthcare decision-making.

Adds to existing law to provide for managed recreation opportunities on state endowment lands.

RS33739 / H0910 Idaho Department of Lands does so many things well including fire suppression, timber management and GNA coordination. As recreational opportunities and demands on endowment lands become more frequent it will be difficult to stay ahead of those demands with one full-time recreation staffer statewide. It is unlikely that the Idaho will stand up a full-time recreation bureau for the Department of Lands. This legislation provides the statutory authority for Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and Idaho Department of Lands to jointly provide recreational opportunities on state endowment lands without infringing on legacy uses of those lands.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding permit and license fees.

This legislative proposal increases alcohol licensing and permit fees over a period of three years across the board to balance the effects of SB 1120, SB1421, and amendments to Idaho Code 23-903. The amendments to the statute prohibit the ability of any new liquor license issued after July 1, 2023, to be sold or transferred, and any existing license prior to July 1, 2023, to be sold or transferred one time under certain conditions. Therefore, it eliminated ABC’s ability to continue to collect the 10% transfer fee in the future when these licenses are sold. Historically, liquor license transfer fees were a large percentage of ABC’s dedicated funding. ABC has seen a dramatic decrease in liquor license transfer fees being collected post FY 23 by 47%. In addition, research indicates that alcohol licensing fees in Title 23 for beer, wine, and liquor-by-the-drink licenses have not been increased, in most cases for decades, since they were initially set by the legislature.

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.