Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding threatening school violence and to provide that certain acts shall be a felony.

This legislation will update the current statute to provide for a misdemeanor charge to willful threats of violence directed at schools, school activity venues, school buses, school staff and/or school students, regardless of the point of origin, and delivered by any means of communication. This legislation further provides for charging of a felony if a person is found in possession of dangerous weapons, and defined in the section, in the furtherance of carrying out threat and after first having made such a threat. This legislation contains an emergency clause.