Idaho Bills
718 bills · 2024 Regular Session
Adds to existing law to provide for fencing and harvest during quarantine and to provide for the application of quarantine.
27 – 7
Adds to existing law to provide for compensation for depredation of livestock by grizzly bear and wolves.
24 – 10
Amends existing law to provide for certain credited state service and utilization of unused paid time off for certain eligible nonclassified officers and employees hired by the Office of the State Public Defender before January 1, 2025.
34 – 0
Amends existing law to provide for outcomes-based funding.
This legislation modernizes Idaho’s K-12 school funding formula by adding an outcomes-based funding component. This is an important shift in school funding, moving from paying exclusively for inputs to including a component that pays for student growth and achievement. It provides a funding framework for school districts and public charter schools to receive funding aligned with statewide student achievement goals, specifically growth and proficiency targets for math (grades 5 through 8) and attaining college and career readiness credentials.
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Adds to existing law to prohibit ballot harvesting, to provide certain exceptions, and to establish penalties for violations.
Joe Alfieri · HD-004A
28 – 6
Amends existing law to revise penalties for domestic violence and attempted strangulation.
33 – 1
Adds to existing law to provide immunity for the security teams of religious organizations.
26 – 9
Amends and adds to existing law to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to support teachers unions.
31 – 38
Adds to existing law to prohibit state agencies from donating to or sponsoring a nongovernmental event or organization and to provide exceptions.
58 – 11
Amends existing law to revise certain requirements for electrical contractors.
21 – 13
Adds to existing law to provide for a notice of rights regarding union membership and to provide a limitation on labor organization access to state and local employee information.
Amends existing law to provide a penalty for possession of marijuana in an amount less than three ounces.
Mike Moyle · HD-010A
Amends existing law to provide for an increased fine for a first violation of overtaking a school bus and misdemeanor penalties for second and subsequent violations.
This legislation updates Idaho Code § 49-1422 and has three specific components. Firstly, it increases the fines associated with illegally passing school buses. Drivers in Idaho have increased the frequency of passing school buses during the boarding and disembarking of children, and the current deployment of flashing lights and the stop arm is not always effective enough. Increasing the fines will be a notable deterrent against unsafe drivingbehavior. Secondly, thislegislationamendsthechargeforafirst-timeoffensefromamisdemeanortoan infraction while maintaining that the second, and any subsequent stop arm convictions, remain a misdemeanor. Currently,therequirementofthedefendantforafirst-timestoparmoffenseistomakeaninitialcourtappearance to plead guilty, a second appearance for a court trial, and a third appearance for sentencing. Reducing the initial chargetoaninfractionallowsthedefendanttheabilitytoresolvethefinesimposedunderthissubsectiononline, or by phone or email. Finally, the draft grants the Department of Education administrative rights to the School Bus Camera Fund. In supporting the efforts to bring more awareness to the seriousness of school bus stop violations, and to support local law enforcement agencies in securing convictions of such offenses, moneys in thefundwillbeappropriatedforthepurposeofschoolbusstoparmcameras, software, equipment, andtraining.
23 – 9
Adds to existing law to provide conditions for the issuance of orders establishing or revising the baseline methodology for determining material injury and to provide for preparation of such orders at any time of the year.
Amends existing law to provide for compensation and a procedure.
This legislation will allow the Wolf Control Board to determine and pay for livestock compensation.
24 – 9
Amends existing law to remove certain provisions for verification of lawful presence to receive public benefits.
This legislation addresses benefits currently available to illegal aliens who come to Idaho. This bill leaves in place access to emergency medical services for illegal aliens currently authorized by the Idaho Code. The bill removes non-emergency health care benefits and some social benefits. The purpose of this legislation is to cause Idaho to not be a magnet that draws illegal aliens to Idaho.
Jordan Redman · HD-003B
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the disclosure of information in certain instances and to authorize access to mental health records of a child in certain instances.
68 – 0
Repeals existing law to remove the Syringe and Needle Exchange Act.
ThislegislationprotectsIdahoansandtheircommunitiesbyrepealingChapter34, Title37, IdahoCode, relating totheSyringeandNeedleExchangeAct. Needleexchangeshavedemonstratedlittleevidencetheyareconduits for substance abuse treatment. Furthermore, there is little evidence that needle exchanges have reduced the number of needle stick injuries in Idaho’s communities. Given these were the key arguments for implementing the Syringe and Needle Exchange Act, this chapter is rightly repealed.
27 – 8
Amends existing law to expand and add to a prohibition against electioneering messages on certain government correspondence.
This legislation further defines 'electioneering message' for tax related correspondences and includes language to restrict electioneering messages on warrants, remittance advice, and memos.
35 – 0
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding the wildfire risk reinsurance and mitigation pool.
Thepurposeofthislegislationistoaddressthechallengesconsumersarefacinginobtainingaffordableproperty coverage due to potential wildfire risk. Property insurers across the country are contracting or withdrawing from certain areas due to an increased concern of wildfire exposure. Some states have seen a significant number of insurers leave the entire state. The issue is driven by the number of forest fires, the high volume of property burnt in other states, the inflationary cost to replace structures, and the skyrocketing cost of reinsurance to mitigate and spread the risk. As insurers contract, it causes market instability. Other insurers are forced to reconsider their market participation. Insurers who stay in less competitive markets face increased additional risks from the concentration of their exposure. The proposal aims to improve and stabilize the market through two approaches. The bill creates an Idaho Wildfire Risk Reinsurance and Mitigation Pool and board. It is modeled after Idaho’s successful High Risk Reinsurance Pool for health carriers and other state mitigation pools. It creates two funds managed by the board. One fund is to provide voluntary reinsurance for insurers who stay in the market in these challenged communities. An insurer would decide whether to cede the risk and pay a premium for the coverage. The second fund is to provide grants to assist consumers in hardening their homes against fire risks. The Pool’s two funds are funded from five sources. 1. Premiums paid by property insurers who voluntarily choosetobuythereinsurancecoverage,2. Futurepremiumtaxdefinedas¼onefourthofpremiumtaxcollected above $135 million, 3. Moneys from the “Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity and Firefighter Protection Act Fund" allocated to the State Fire Marshal in sections 39-8904 and 39-8909, Idaho Code, not utilized for the processing, testing, enforcement and oversight activities under that chapter, 4. Federal grants or appropriations, and 5. A mechanism for an a
Amends and adds to existing law to prohibit the advertising of illegal products and services and to provide for the apportionment of fines.
16 – 18
Amends existing law to define terminology and to provide for the declaration of certain conflicts of interest or familial relationships with respect to service contracts with a homeowner's association.
31 – 3
Amends existing law to revise the definition of “retainable offense.”
This legislation provides a definition of the term "retainable offense," which is used to determine who must provide their fingerprints to an Idaho law enforcement agency, upon being arrested or prosecuted for such an offense. Up until now, the Legislature has delegated its lawmaking power in this regard to the Idaho State Police, which has defined it broadly to include almost all misdemeanor offenses. This is important because, by law, Idaho must share with the federal government the fingerprints processed by Idaho law enforcement agencies. As a result, under the current definition found in Idaho administrative rules, almosteveryIdahoanwhoisarrestedorprosecutedforalmostanymisdemeanorishavinghisorherfingerprints taken and shared with the federal government. This legislation would set the definition in code, such that only those arrested or prosecuted for felonies, misdemeanors which can be punished by greater than six months in jail, and misdemeanors that, upon repeated offenses, are eventually punishable by greater than six months in jail, must have their fingerprints taken.
Amends existing law to provide for the crime of domestic terrorism.
Amends existing law to provide for a scope of review.
The effect of this bill will be to require courts reviewing Administrative Rules to look to interpret the meaning and effect of the rule de novo (without consideraton of previous judicial or agency interpretations). Further, reviewing courts must rule, where an interpretation is in relative doubt, to limit agency power in favor of individual liberty.
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