Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the State Appellate Public Defender for fiscal year 2023.

ThisisaFY2023supplementalappropriationbillfortheStateAppellatePublicDefender. Itprovidesadditional funding to pay for conflict capital attorneys, a mitigation expert, an investigator, and other related expenses. These costs are associated with the capital cases it received as a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Shinn v. Ramirez, 142 S.Ct. 1718 (2022); anticipated costs associated with the capital murder trials of Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell set for April 3, 2023; and an evidentiary hearing in Jonathan Renfro v. State of Idaho, CV17-9393 (Kootenai County).

Relates to the appropriation to the State Appellate Public Defender for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

This is the FY 2024 original appropriation bill for the State Appellate Public Defender. It appropriates a total of $3,951,000 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 26.00. The bill funds three line items, which provides additional funds for a Capital Litigation Attorney, a parity salary increase for state appellate public defenders, and funds for an agency-wide 7.5% CEC. Also included in this bill is a onetime FY 2023 supplemental, which provides $67,500 for additional electronic records storage capacity. A supplemental for capital cases was approved earlier this session and sent out as a separate bill.