Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding the Project Choice program fee and the transfer of those funds to the General Fund in certain instances.

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026
IN THE SENATE
SENATE BILL NO. 1360
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AN ACT	1
RELATING TO THE PROJECT CHOICE PROGRAM FEE; AMENDING SECTION 49-454, IDAHO	2
CODE, TO REVISE A PROVISION REGARDING THE PROJECT CHOICE PROGRAM FEE;	3
AMENDING SECTION 67-2914, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN MONEYS IN	4
THE IDAHO LAW ENFORCEMENT FUND SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE GENERAL FUND;	5
PROVIDING SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EF-	6
FECTIVE DATE.	7
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:	8
SECTION 1. That Section 49-454, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby	9
amended to read as follows:	10
49-454. PROJECT CHOICE FEE. (1) A project choice program fee of three	11
dollars ($3.00) eight dollars ($8.00) shall be collected in addition to each	12
registration fee assessed pursuant to section 49-402(1), (2) or (3), 49-411,	13
49-412 or 49-434(1), Idaho Code. Such fees shall be deposited to the Idaho	14
law enforcement fund established in section 67-2914, Idaho Code.	15
(2) The project choice program fee shall be collected and deposited	16
pursuant to subsection (1) of this section for registrations for calendar	17
year 2007 and thereafter.	18
(3) The project choice fee shall be used, subject to appropriation,	19
exclusively for the purposes of creating a career ladder within the Idaho	20
state police and to provide salaries to encourage the hiring and retention	21
of trained and qualified employees for Idaho state police positions. Idaho	22
state police personnel who have participated in and benefited from the use of	23
the project choice fee, as of July 1, 2010, shall continue to participate in	24
and benefit from the project choice fee while employed by the Idaho state po-	25
lice. Provided however, that beginning July 1, 2010, the use of the project	26
choice fee shall be restricted in the following manner: the project choice	27
fee shall be used exclusively for the purposes of creating a career ladder	28
for commissioned officers, dispatch personnel and forensic personnel within	29
the Idaho state police; and to provide salaries to encourage the hiring and	30
retention of trained and qualified commissioned officers, dispatch person-	31
nel and forensic personnel.	32
SECTION 2. That Section 67-2914, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby	33
amended to read as follows:	34
67-2914. IDAHO LAW ENFORCEMENT FUND ESTABLISHED. (1) For the purposes	35
of the Idaho state police, there is established in the state treasury of the	36
state of Idaho the Idaho law enforcement fund, to which shall be deposited	37
funds as provided by law.	38
(2) At the beginning of each fiscal year, moneys derived from the	39
project choice program fee, as provided in section 49-454, Idaho Code, that	40

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are in the Idaho law enforcement fund and that exceed two hundred percent	1
(200%) of that fiscal year's appropriation, as certified by the state trea-	2
surer, shall be transferred to the general fund.	3
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this act are hereby declared	4
to be severable and if any provision of this act or the application of such	5
provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid for any reason,	6
such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of	7
this act.	8
SECTION 4. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby	9
declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after	10
July 1, 2026.	11

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