Idaho Bills

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for a licensed midwife to obtain and administer medication indicated for maternal care or neonatal care if a midwife possesses requisite education, training, and experience.

This legislation will improve the practice of midwifery in the state of Idaho by removing unnecessary barriers and by deleting obsolete language regarding the formulary for licensed midwives.

Adds to existing law to provide for the Idaho Student Safety and Educator Disclosure Act.

RS33743 / S1412 This legislation creates the Idaho Student Safety and Educator Disclosure Act to strengthen transparency and reporting requirements related to misconduct involving students. While Idaho Code §33-1210 governs the transfer of personnel files between school districts, this legislation clarifies reporting obligations and requires disclosure of pending investigations, resignations during investigations, and disciplinary actions involving misconduct when hiring individuals who will work with students. The bill also clarifies that educational entities may not conduct internal investigations in lieu of reporting suspected child abuse as required by Idaho law and requires that resignations, terminations, or administrative leave occurring during investigations of misconduct involving students be referred to the Idaho Professional Standards Commission for review.

Amends and repeals existing law to revise provisions regarding the Board of Health and Welfare, substate administrative regions, and regional behavioral health boards.

This legislation removes obsolete language in Idaho Code 56-1002 referencing substate administrative regions and directors of those regions. These positions have been vacant for a number of years. With increased legislative oversight of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare the Board of Health and Welfare will be eliminated. Additionally, this legislation addresses duplication of duties by repealing regional behavioral health boards. Powers and duties of these regional behavioral health boards will become the responsibility of the regional health boards.

Repeals and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding proceeds derived from criminal notoriety.

This legislation modernizes Idaho law to ensure criminals do not profit from the publicity of their crimes while providing victims an opportunity to recover restitution or civil damages. It establishes a limited escrow process for proceeds derived from criminal notoriety, gives victims notice and time to pursue lawful claims, and places distribution decisions under court oversight. The bill regulates only economic proceeds and includes explicit protections to ensure compliance with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Idaho Constitution.

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to provide for the Podiatric Medical Practice Act.

This legislation would transfer regulatory authority for the practice of podiatric medicine from the independent Board of Podiatry to the Idaho State Board of Medicine and eliminate the Board of Podiatry’s current rules chapter by moving any substantive provisions to the appropriate statutes. Under this framework, podiatrists would be licensed and regulated within the Board of Medicine’s existing statutory processes. The proposal includes a provision to add a licensed podiatrist to the Board of Medicine, thus preserving profession-specific expertise within the broader medical regulatory structure. This change brings Idaho into alignment with a growing number of states that regulate podiatry as a recognized subspecialty of medicine rather than as a separately governed profession. The consolidation is intended to promote regulatory consistency and improve administrative efficiency within the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses.

Amends existing law to provide for the sale of hemp products intended for human ingestion or inhalation.

RS33680 / H0879 This legislation clarifies that establishments offering certain hemp products for retail sale are subject to the authorities of the existing Industrial Hemp Research and Development Act (Idaho Code 22-1705).

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding voting by persons convicted of felonies in other states.

This legislation amends Section 18-310, Idaho Code Dealing with voting. This legislation revises a provision regarding voting by a person convicted of felonies in other States including treason and declaring an emergency and providing an effective date.

Amends and adds to existing law to establish a white and black license plate.

This legislation would create one new license plate that will be all white with black lettering. The word “Idaho” will be placed on the top. Proceeds from the sale of this specialty plate will go to the Idaho State Police Law Enforcement Fund Project Choice for the purpose of supporting state trooper salaries and a portion going to the state highway account to cover administrative costs. In addition to the regular registration fees, the initial issuance fee for the specialty white and black license plate will be $70 with $65 going to the law enforcement fund and $5 going to the state highway account. The renewal fee will be $50 with $45 going to the law enforcement fund and $5 going to the state highway account.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Correction for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

RS33672 / S1388 This appropriation to the Department of Correction provides a supplemental appropriation to the FY 2026 budget and enhancements to the FY 2027 maintenance budget. FY 2027 enhancements include Replacement Items, Population Forecast Adjustments, and OITS Hardware. FY 2026 supplementals include Hepatitis-C Spending Authority, Offender Housing, and a Medical Services Adjustment.

Repeals existing law to remove outdated or unnecessary provisions.

To ensure that state laws are streamlined, up-to-date, and essential for the citizens of Idaho, while best serving the public health, safety, and welfare, the Legislature approved the Idaho Code Cleanup Act, H14 in the 2025 legislative session. Submitted sections of Idaho Code were reviewed for repeal consideration by the DOGE Task Force on the criteria of obsolete, outdated, and unnecessary. This bill repeals 30 sections of Idaho Code in Title 38 and Title 58 pertaining to the Idaho Department of Lands and floating timber and Town Site Claims. Transporting logs by floating them down river is no longer common practice. The town site claim framework dates to the territorial era.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding the taxation of partnership income.

This legislation deals with tax audits of partnerships, subchapter S corporations and other pass through entities. These entities do not directly pay income taxes. Rather, each entity calculates the income, deductions and credits associated with its business activities for its partners/shareholders/members and provides a K-1 to each one. The responsibility for filing and paying taxes associated with the K-1 passes through from the entity to the partners/shareholders/members who include the K-1 information in filing their own tax returns. If there is an error in the calculations contained in the K-1, traditionally a taxing authority such as the IRS or the State Tax Commission has to adjust the income, deductions and credits for each individual taxpayer, a process that can require many audits of the taxpayers who are the partners/shareholders/members. The IRS has adopted a process to audit the entity itself for large pass through entities with more than one hundred partners/shareholders/members and other entities that elect to have the audit done at the entity level, have the entity itself pay any deficiency or receive any refund necessary to adjust to the error and pass those results back to their partners/shareholders/members. Through this legislation, Idaho would adopt a similar mechanism to coordinate with IRS adjustments of partnerships that use the entity level audit process. This avoids the multiple audit problem and should be a significant savings of time, money and headaches for both the taxpayer and the tax collector.

States findings of the Legislature and asks Idahoans to recognize a day of fasting and prayer on March 1, 2026.

Since the founding of our county, leaders have called on Divine Providence through fasting and prayer for guidance and blessings. This resolution asks Idahoans to fast and pray on March 1, 2026 for Divine guidance and to help leaders find honorable and virtuous solutions for the problems facing our country and our state; and to fast and pray for moisture to replenish our water supplies.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding educational staff, teachers, and certificates.

This bill updates and clarifies key definitions in Idaho education law to provide a clear, consistent picture of administrative, instructional, and other staff roles for the purposes of state funding and accountability. This bill creates statutory definitions and aligns them with current practice, credentialing, and the career ladder. It also corrects code references across multiple sections to ensure coherent implementation in funding formulas, evaluations, facilities distributions, and program administration. These clarifications improve transparency, support accurate allocation of state funds, and help districts apply policies uniformly statewide.