Idaho Bills

Amends language added by House Bill 645 regarding the Portable Benefit Plan Act.

RS33734 / H0931 This is a trailer bill to HB645. HB645 created the portable Benefit Plan Act. This legislation simply removes the definition of Department. The Department of Insuance was not directed to do anything within the bill so the reference is not necessary and would create confusion if left within the act.

Amends and adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program integrity measures and verification.

This legislation strengthens the integrity of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by implementing rigorous verification and data-matching protocols. The bill requires the Department of Health and Welfare to establish data-sharing agreements with state and federal agencies to monitor lottery winnings, incarceration status, death records, and out-of-state EBT transactions to ensure benefits are reserved for eligible residents. Additionally, the act limits the use of broad-based categorical eligibility, mandates more frequent certification periods for unstable households, and requires public reporting on fraud investigations and improper payments to improve program transparency and accountability. These provisions ensure Idaho is in compliance with the changes implemented in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Amends and adds to existing law to consolidate provisions regarding denturitry licensure.

RS33752 / H0935 This legislation would consolidate the regulatory oversight of denturitry within the Idaho State Board of Dentistry by transferring authority from the existing independent Board of Denturitry. Under this model, denturitry would remain a distinct licensed profession with its own scope of practice and licensure requirements, but would be regulated under a unified dental board structure, similar to successful approaches adopted in other states. This structural realignment promotes administrative efficiency, fosters interprofessional collaboration, and strengthens regulatory consistency across oral health professions in Idaho.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the formation of community infrastructure districts.

RS33763 / H0926 Community Infrastructure Districts (CID) were created by the legislature in 2008 to ensure that new development pays for required public infrastructure without shifting those costs to existing taxpayers. The legislation aligns county and city authority by allowing counties to form a CID in unincorporated areas outside a city’s comprehensive plan, ensuring that counties have access to the same infrastructure financing mechanism already available to cities when they serve as the primary land-use authority.

Relates to the appropriation and transfer of moneys in the state treasury for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

This bill addresses several cash transfers into the General Fund for FY 2026 and 2027. The source of cash transfers include: (1.) the Strategic Initiatives Program Fund; (2.) the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship Fund; (3.) the Permanent Building Fund; (4.) the Water Pollution Control Fund; and (5.) the In-Demand Careers Fund.

Amends existing law to revise terminology and to revise provisions regarding restraint and nonjudicial punishment in the Model State Code of Military Justice.

This legislation seeks to amend and update the Idaho Code of Military Justice (ICMJ) to further enhance commanders’ ability to maintain good order and discipline, enhance access to constitutional protections for accused, and remove antiquated and inapplicable language. The ICMJ currently contains various provisions that are incompatible with the IDNG when operating in a Title 32 or State active-duty status, therefore hindering the IDNG’s ability to properly administer military justice. To remedy this issue, the revisions will 1) promote consistency in the application of military justice; 2) enhance ICMJ’s compatibility with IDNG operations; and 3) empower subordinate commanders to conduct military justice by removing technical/legal barriers, which will improve good order and discipline at the lowest level. Key changes include: removing the promotion authority requirement for a commander to initiate non-judicial punishment (NJP), which will allow lower level commanders to use NJP; removing a member’s ability to turndown NJP unless restriction on liberty is sought by a commander; making Summary Courts- Martial mandatory to provide for quick and cost effective punitive review of members’ misconduct; removing inapplicable language pertaining to naval and other services; and removing unconstitutional arrest and seizure given the Idaho Supreme Court decision in State v Clarke.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding apportionment of the Highway Distribution Account, to remove a limitation regarding revenues received from fuel taxes, and to revise a provision regarding the distribution of the tax on special fuels.

This legislation streamlines the distribution process for vehicle registration fees and fuel taxes. It updates the Highway Distribution Account (HDA) distribution to treat all user fee funds the same, a 60% state and 40% local split. 2015 legislation added a process where new gas tax revenue would be tracked separately from traditional revenue. In 2019, legislation passed to gradually shift the Idaho State Police (ISP) funding away from the HDA and replace it with money from the state's general fund. The shift was implemented over a five-year period from FY21 to FY25. There is no longer a need to track items separately after ISP was removed. This legislation does not change any current revenue sources to the HDA or the 60/40 split; it updates statute to reflect the current process. The legislation also ensures bridge safety. It increases the local bridge inspection account from $175,000 annually to $300,000 annually in dedicated funds by a gas tax transfer to keep the fund solvent for FY27 and beyond. The cost of bridge inspections and number of inspections has increased over time. The $175,000 amount is no longer sufficient to cover the needs for inspections.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding coverage of anticancer medications under health benefit plans.

The purpose of this legislation is to create co-insurance parity for cancer treatment patient cost regardless of treatment being intravenously administered, injected, or orally taken. The legislation directs the Department of Insurance to ensure state regulated health plans, when anti-cancer medication is covered by a health plan, to provide patients access to orally administered anti-cancer medications at a co-insurance rate no more than the cost to access injected or intravenously administered medication.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding contract requirements for state-supported medical and veterinary students.

This bill requires individuals who utilize state appropriated funds for purposes of attending a veterinary school to return to work in Idaho for a period of four years and devote thirty percent of their annual working time, or six hundred hours, to agriculture animals for those four years.

States findings of the Legislature and directs the Medicaid Review Panel to study the implementation of comprehensive Medicaid managed care.

In March of 2025, the Idaho Legislature voted to submit state plan amendments and federal waivers to the Center for Medicaid Services to implement comprehensive Medicaid managed care in Idaho. In 2024, the Medicaid Legislative Review Panel was established to review contracts related to Medicaid. A transition of Medicaid delivery to a comprehensive managed care system is a momentous task and a highly complex undertaking. The use of additional knowledge and services to accomplish this will require the retention of the services of a consultant or analyst. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has already begun this undertaking and the Idaho Legislature seeks to become an equal partner with them.

Amends and repeals existing law to remove reference to outdated or unnecessary provisions.

To ensure that state laws are streamlined, up-to-date, and essential for the citizens of Idaho, while best serving 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 or updates 19 sections of Idaho Code in Title 39 related to the Department of Environmental Quality. Repeals include references to outdated definitions and plans, including the Big Payette Lake Water Quality Council Act in which the established council completed its statutorily required plan in 1998; the plan has full force and effect of law. A local nonprofit continues the water quality efforts at Big Payette Lake, but is not statutorily established by the Act.

Amends existing law to provide that there shall be no statute of limitations for certain felonies.

This legislation amends Section 19-401, Idaho Code, to expand the list of serious felony offenses for which there is no statute of limitations. Specifically, the bill adds aggravated lewd conduct with a child (as defined in Sections 18-1508B and 18-1508C, Idaho Code) and the producing or making of sexually exploitative material (as defined in Section 18-1507(2)(b), Idaho Code) to the crimes that may be prosecuted at any time after their commission. By removing the time bar for these specific offenses, this legislation ensures that perpetrators of aggravated child sex crimes and those involved in the production of exploitative materials can be held accountable regardless of when the crime was committed or when the evidence is discovered. These additions align the treatment of these severe crimes with other offenses currently lacking a statute of limitations, such as murder, voluntary manslaughter, and certain categories of rape.

States findings of the Legislature and recognizes the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations that are overtly hostile to the people and institutions of the State of Idaho.

This resolution will recognize the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American Islamic Relations as terrorist organizations that are overtly hostile to the people and institutions of the State Of Idaho. The objective is for the Legislature to acknowledge the status of these organizations as transnational terrorist organizations when considering future legislation, include regarding purchasing or acquiring land in the State of Idaho.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2027.

RS33822 / S1437 This is a FY 2027 appropriation bill for the Idaho State Police. It addresses the fiscal impact of S1226, which added two misdemeanors of sexual battery and domestic violence to the list of crimes for which collection of a DNA sample and thumbprint impression are required.