Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems for hunting, molesting or locating game animals, game birds and furbearing animals.

Appropriates an additional $92,400 to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2016.

Appropriates an additional $92,400 to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for FY 2016. Of this amount, $42,400 is a one-time appropriation from the Rehabilitation Revenue and Refunds Fund for reimbursements received from the Social Security Administration for those clients who are Social Security recipients. In addition, $50,000 is appropriated from the Federal Grant Fund on an ongoing basis for increased moneys received under Title 1 of the Rehabilitation, ComprehensiveServicesandDevelopmentalDisabilitiesActforvocationalrehabilitationservices.

Appropriates an additional $229,300 to the Department of Administration for the Purchasing Program; transfers $176,000 from the Idaho Education Network Fund; and appropriates an additional $461,800 for the Information Technology Program for fiscal year 2016.

Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections and to provide correct terminology and code references.

Amends existing law to provide for compensation of construction managers and general contractors, to provide that certain costs may be incorporated into a contract, to provide that certain bids shall be handled in a particular manner, to clarify how construction managers and general contractors may bid, to provide that certain terms shall be included in certain contracts and to remove a provision relating to compensation.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding suspension, revocation, refusal to continue or denial of licenses.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the content of petitions for annexation into a district; and to revise provisions regarding assessments against annexed lands.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the participation of nonmembers in ground water districts for mitigation purposes and to remove provisions regarding nonmembers deemed participants in districts and collection of a proportional share of costs.

Amends existing law to provide an alternative means of determining a member's proportionate share of the total of all amounts to be assessed; to revise provisions relating to the total dollar amount of certain warrants; and to provide an alternative means of determining certain aggregate ground water rights.

Amends existing law to provide that certain assessments to repay debt must be approved at an election; to provide that certain obligations or contract indebtedness must be submitted to a vote of qualified electors in the district; and to revise provisions regarding judicial examination prior to incurring debt.

Adds to existing law to provide that for specified purposes the interstate system, which shall be considered to consist of specified routes, in Idaho is deemed a noninterstate highway and to provide that for specified purposes the interstate system, which shall be considered to consist of specified routes, in Idaho is deemed a designated state route.

Amends existing law to increase the maximum amount of administrative charges that may be levied.

Amends existing law to revise a reference to a federal act.

Amend Chapter 23, Title 33, Idaho Code, to make necessary updates pursuant to changes in federal regulations impacting the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which governs the Idaho Division of Vocation Rehabilitation (IDVR). Specially, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, P.L. 93-112, 93rd Congress, as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), P.L. 113-128, 113th Congress.

Appropriates to the Department of Juvenile Corrections an additional $296,200 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2016; and reduces the General Fund appropriation to the Department of Juvenile Corrections by $247,000 for fiscal year 2016, for an overall net increase of $49,200 from the General Fund.

Amends existing law to remove reference to an admission or denial hearing and to remove reference to an application by a juvenile offender.

Amends existing law to authorize inspection and copying of certain records relating to water quality.

Adds to existing law to require public notice and opportunity to comment on tentative decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality regarding Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) permits, to provide for appeals of final decisions and for judicial review, to prohibit conflicts of interest; and to provide that provisions of Idaho's Environmental Protection and Health Act shall apply to the IPDES Program and to provide for the enforcement of pretreatment standards.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding delinquency of assessments.

Thislegislationclarifiesthatirrigationdistrictassessmentpaymentsaretimelywhenpostmarkedor received on the due date and that payments due on a weekend are timely if postmarked or received the next business day.