Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the catastrophic search subaccount in the Search and Rescue Fund.

Relates to the appropriation to the Idaho State Police for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Division of Idaho State Police and POST Academy provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes fleet services positions, a special investigations unit for Department of Correction facilities, forensic deputy lab manager, highway distribution account fund shift, sexual kit initiative investigators, a Idaho Law Enforcement Telecommunications (ILETS) disaster recovery database, digital forensics team personnel transfer, federal funds shift, federal grant for Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) compliance, a technical records specialist, replacement items, IT modernization, IT hardware, and a 6% targeted salary increase for commissioned officers and forensics personnel. Also included is a supplemental appropriation for FY 2025 for a remote housing unit. The agency request included four (4.00) FTP and $757,300 for a special investigations unit for IDOC, which was reduced by one (1.00) FTP and $187,000 from the agency request. The agency also requested $168,100 for DNA collection legislation, which was not funded.