Idaho Bills

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.

Amends existing law regarding lifetime hunting and fishing licenses.

RS33646 / H0855 This legislation changes the requirement to purchase lifetime hunting licenses. It requires a person to have lived in the state for 5 years instead of 6 months before purchasing a lifetime license.

Amends existing law to establish an Idaho residency requirement to receive funds from ICAR.

This legislation clarifies in the Idaho Consumer Asset Recovery Fund (ICAR) a person must be an Idaho resident, or a resident at the time of a vehicle purchase, in order to file a claim for loss or damages in connection with the purchase or lease of a vehicle, by reason of any fraud in the transaction.

Amends existing law to provide for parental rights in medical decisions.

RS33615 / H0860 This legislation provides updates to the Medical Parental Rights bill that was passed in 2024. Amongst other things, this legislation makes clear that no individual acting reasonably under the circumstances shall be found in violation by furnishing nonemergency first aid services and care to a minor child appearing or represented to be sick or injured. This legislation addresses waivers and makes clear that signing a blanket consent waiver is optional. This legislation addresses the concerns of the hospitals and treating minors whose parents cannot be found but whose child has sustained serious bodily harm. This legislation clarifies that evidence can be collected that is related to an allegation of a crime against the child. This legislation also addresses the 988 number and clarifies that a 2nd follow up phone call can be made back to the child who first called the 988 Idaho crisis and suicide hotline. This legislation repeals conflicting language, including language the Attorney General’s office had suggested.

Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections.

RS33175 / H0893 The purpose of this legislation is to make codifier and technical corrections to the Idaho Code. During the course of a session, the same code sections and chapters might be amended multiple times in different bills. These amendments cannot always be cleanly reconciled and incorporated into the Idaho Code. Rather, the changes can result in inconsistent numbering of statutes, irregular grammar, and “surplus punctuation” — for example, a comma that was not itself deleted in any bill but was associated with deleted language. In the annual Codifier bill, the Legislative Services Office corrects any such irregularities and also makes other technical corrections to the Idaho Code, such as revising grammar and punctuation, correcting inaccurate code references, and updating archaic language. Codifier and technical corrections are not substantive in nature and will not change the meaning or effect of any section or chapter being amended. This is merely “cleanup” legislation, intended to provide clarity to readers of the Idaho Code.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the Idaho Parental Choice Tax Credit.

RS33779 / H0934 This legislation makes technical corrections to Idaho Code Section 63-3029N. Specifically, it clarifies that an eligible student may be 5 to 18 years of age at any time during the tax year; that tutoring must be for academic instruction; that advance payments may be claimed only initially; that funds are to be paid from the state refund account; what constitutes enrollment; and that curriculum may be obtained from one or more vendors, so long as the combined curriculum encompasses academic instruction. The legislation also deletes a code provision that is no longer needed and a reference to a code section that no longer exists.

Amends existing law to revise the definition of “obscene material” and to revise the definition of “lewd matter.”

In 2024 the Idaho Legislature passed, H710- The Children’s and Library Protection Act. The proposed amendment would prohibit public schools and libraries from making available to minors any material containing erotic depictions of nudity, depictions of sexual conduct, or explicit descriptions of sexual conduct. The proposed amendment would maintain the law’s current enforcement scheme entailing civil penalties enforced by private parties, county prosecutors, and the Attorney General. The proposed amendment would maintain the law’s current enforcement scheme entailing civil penalties enforced by private parties, county prosecutors, and the Attorney General.

Relates to the appropriation from the Idaho Millennium Income Fund for fiscal year 2027.

RS33749 / H0942 This is the FY 2027 appropriation bill for the Idaho Millennium Income Fund based on the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Millennium Fund Committee pursuant to Section 67-1806, Idaho Code. The Millennium Funds are moneys received from tobacco companies as part of the Master Settlement Agreement that requires tobacco companies to pay states a calculated amount each year in perpetuity to account for lies made regarding the health issues with tobacco use. Each year Idaho receives about $24 million from the settlement. Moneys are used pursuant to the appropriation with the stated intent of providing services for Idaho's youth for behavioral health programs. For FY 2027, funding is recommended as follows: -$150,000 ongoing to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Kamiah Recovery Center (Upriver Youth Leadership Council Recovery Center) to strengthen health outcomes and broaden access to recovery tools. -$692,200 onetime to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Idaho Children's Trust Fund to subgrant funds for community-based projects to strengthen families and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect. -$1,000,000 onetime to the Department of Juvenile Corrections to support Idaho's existing Safe Teen Assessment Centers by stabilizing staffing and core operations across 12 centers. -$3,000,000 onetime to the Department of Health and Welfare to support 10 children's advocacy centers. -$5,000,000 onetime to the Office of Drug Policy to fund a statewide drug awareness media campaign. In addition to the recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Millennium Fund Committee, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a onetime $30,000 appropriation to the Department of Juvenile Corrections to restore funding for statewide training and coordination for school resource officers (SRO's).

States findings of the Legislature and supports various water projects within Water District 1.

The Purpose of this Concurrent Resolution is to formally recognize the hydrologic and economic importance of Idaho Water Resource Board District 1. The resolution specifically identifies and supports the continuation of water infrastructure projects in the district. Furthermore, the legislation declares that proactive funding for these projects and future projects is fiscally responsible to protect aquifers, safeguard the tourism economy, and prevent catastrophic infrastructure failures.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding sales by certain licensed brewers.

This legislation changes the number of remote retail locations a brewery can have from one to two. Also, this legislation allows one retail location at the licensed main production brewery.

Amends existing law to prohibit certain in-person instruction in schools on election day.

This legislation clarifies the following when public school buildings are used as polling places to ensure student safety: 1) No in-person student instruction in school district buildings designated as polling locations. 2) In-person instruction may occur in other school district buildings not designated as a polling place. To allow school boards to make necessary adjustments to school schedules, this bill takes effect on January 1, 2028.

States findings of the Legislature, supports certain Department of Insurance efforts, and requests federal guidance.

This memorial expresses the Idaho Legislature’s support for the Idaho Department of Insurance and its efforts to address unfair or disruptive market practices and protect Idaho seniors on Medicare. The memorial requests that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provide clear federal guidance regarding oversight, post-approval market changes, and practices that may affect plan availability, producer compensation, and consumer access during the annual enrollment period. Clear guidance will help protect seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries and promote a stable insurance market.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding inappropriate online behavior by students and to prescribe a process for student discipline by the school district or public charter school.

This legislation creates a new section in Idaho Code, section 33-512E, to define what constitutes inappropriate online behavior by a student toward a public school employee or other person, and provides for corresponding disciplinary measures.

Amends existing law to provide that certain records of the Department of Juvenile Corrections shall be exempt from disclosure.

This legislation amends Idaho Code 74-105 regarding public record exemptions and adds exemptions for safety and security purposes for the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections.

Amends existing law to provide that the State Controller shall publish a list of asset forfeitures and to provide that law enforcement shall report asset forfeiture information to the State Controller.

This bill creates a new duty for the State Controller: to store, maintain, and publish a current list of asset forfeitures. This information is already being documented by law enforcement so now state and local law enforcement agencies will include the state controller’s office when reporting their information to the local prosecutors.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding certain placement and movement on the career ladder.

RS33654 / H0849 Under current law, industry professionals entering the K–12 system to teach in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs are placed on the Career Ladder at a level commensurate with their verified years of industry experience. However, once placed, these educators must receive four years of proficient or higher professional evaluations before advancing to the next rung of the Career Ladder. This legislation provides that eligible CTE educators may advance to the next Career Ladder rung after receiving one qualifying year of a proficient or higher professional evaluation. The legislation also extends this same placement and advancement structure to qualified Pupil Service Staff entering the K–12 system from the private sector. Licensed professionals—including, but not limited to, school psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, audiologists, school counselors, school social workers, speech language pathologists, and school nurses—will have their verified years of relevant professional experience recognized for initial Career Ladder placement and may advance after one year of a proficient or higher professional evaluation. This change ensures appropriate recognition of experienced professionals entering public education while maintaining accountability through Idaho’s professional evaluation standards.

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding unmanned aircraft systems near Department of Correction facilities.

This legislation amends Idaho Code with the addition of a new section 20-251, Idaho Code to define terms and to establish provisions regarding unmanned aircraft near Department of Corrections facilities. Department of Corrections or law enforcement officers may take reasonable measures against unmanned vehicles operating in a nefarious manner in the proximity of restricted airspace within this state. Any person operating within the restricted airspace of a correctional facility will be guilty of a misdemeanor and will be fined a minimum of $2000 to a maximum of $5000 or imprisoned for not more than one year.