Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to revise the tax levy rate on property for a county justice fund.

The county justice levy was established to allow counties to levy a dedicated property tax to fund county justice related services including sheriffs patrol, jail operations, juvenile detention, misdemeanor and juvenile probation, prosecution, public defense, and certain court related personnel costs. The current statutory levy limit for the county justice levy is twenty hundredths of a percent of a taxable market value (.002). Thirty-two counties currently levy a justice levy. Of these 32 counties, 16 are at or near statutory levy limits, thus capping their ability to raise revenues to pay for necessary justice related services. This legislation will increase the statutory limit on the county justice levy to twenty-five hundredths of a percent of taxable market value (.0025).