Idaho Bills
4 bills · 2016 Regular Session
Appropriates $77,449,600 to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 572.85.
Appropriates a total of $77,449,600 to the Idaho State Police for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 572.85. The bill includes funding for the employer's share of increased benefit costs; replacement items; changes made in the statewide cost allocation plan; an ongoing 3% merit-based increase in employee compensation for permanent employees to be distributed at the discretion of agency heads; and the 27th payroll. Line items include: $558,100 to realign personnel costs between the Project CHOICE Fund and the Idaho Law Enforcement Fund for moneys borrowed against Project CHOICE; $967,900 to replace regional communication center radio/phone console and recording systems; $179,000 to implement a pay retention plan for regional communication officers; $257,000 to hire four additional staff in support of the regional communications centers; $257,200 to hire two new forensic scientists and upgrade two classified part-time forensic scientists to full-time; $194,300 to provide furnishings and moving services for the new facility in Pocatello that is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2017; $318,800 to hire two additional investigators; $42,000 for Forensic Service software suite maintenance; $1,400,000 to replace the current Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)/National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS); $200,000 in federal spending authority for a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program grant; $60,000 in equitable share federal funds to purchase undercover equipment; $160,000 in federal funding received by the Idaho Statistical Analysis Center; and $18,700 to cover the department's share of the negotiated rent increases for repeater sites located on endowment trust lands.
59 – 9
Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting a certain rule docket of the Idaho State Police relating to Rules Governing Alcohol Beverage Control.
Members of the Second Regular Session of the Sixty-third Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that IDAPA 11.05.01, the Idaho State Police, Rules Governing Alcohol Beverage Control, adopted as a pending rule under Docket Number 11-0501-1401, the entire rulemaking docket, be, and the same is hereby rejected and declared null, void and of no force and effect.
62 – 5
Reduces the General Fund appropriation to the Idaho State Police by $16,400 for fiscal year 2016; and appropriates and transfers up to $16,400 from the General Fund to the Federal Grant Fund for fiscal year 2016.
35 – 0
Appropriates an additional $222,300 from the General Fund to the Idaho State Police for the Forensic Services Program for fiscal year 2017; and authorizes an additional 3 full-time equivalent positions.
Appropriates an additional $222,300 from the General Fund to the Idaho State Police for the Forensic Services Program for fiscal year 2017; and authorizes an additional three (3) full-time equivalent positions.
34 – 0