2016 Regular Session

Appropriates $24,282,700 to the Attorney General for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 205.6; and exempts the Attorney General from object and program transfer limitations.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to establish additional provisions regarding the determination of staff allowance; and to provide an effective date.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Appropriates an additional $5,000,000 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; provides fiscal year 2016 reappropriation for the Forest Legacy Program; appropriates an additional $2,000,000 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2017; and provides legislative intent.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to provide a requirement regarding certain amendments to administrative rules.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to redesignate the Modular Building Advisory Board as the Factory Built Structures Advisory Board and to provide that the board shall have certain powers and duties.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that administrative rules that expire on July 1, 2016, will continue to be effective until July 1, 2017, to provide that administrative rules approved or extended by the adoption of a concurrent resolution shall be effective until July 1, 2017, or until such time as they expire, to provide that rules rejected by concurrent resolution shall be null, void and of no force and effect and to authorize agencies to amend or repeal certain rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Appropriates an additional $2,897,000 for the Permanent Building Fund for fiscal year 2016; authorizes the allocation of funds for specific projects for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $26,729,700 from the Permanent Building Fund for fiscal year 2017; authorizes the allocation of funds for specific projects for fiscal year 2017; provides legislative intent relating to utilization of matching funds; exempts the appropriation from certain provisions; and provides legislative intent relating to reallocation of project savings.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding leadership premiums.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise qualifications for various licensure boards so that all members serve at the pleasure of the Governor and each board has at least one consumer member.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Appropriates $2,969,000 to the Commission for Pardons and Parole for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 33.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to reclassify certain alcohol age offenses as infractions and to provide for penalties.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Amends existing law to appropriate one-quarter of the insurance premium tax exceeding $45 million to the Individual High Risk Reinsurance Pool.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that certain probate and nonprobate transfers are revoked upon divorce.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to provide that a purchaser at a trustee's sale shall be entitled to dispose of titled or nontitled personal property under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for reports by certain state entities, with exceptions, to the Secretary of State under the state sunshine law.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that listed submersible well pumps are approved for use in lakes, rivers, ponds and streams, to provide that certain regulations shall not apply and to provide that the Division of Building Safety shall promulgate rules.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Adds to existing law to provide limited use immunity to a minor who acts in good faith and for a medical emergency, to provide requirements and to allow prosecution for other charges.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Appropriates $67,479,300 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the divisions of Independent Councils, Indirect Support Services, Healthcare Policy Initiatives and Licensing and Certification for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 376.5; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs expenditures for trustee and benefit payments; limits services to available resources; requires a report on VOCA funds; requires a monthly Medicaid tracking report; requires a biannual Medicaid Integrity Unit report; requires quarterly transfer reports; requires monthly vacancy reports; requires a report on the implementation of the SHIP grant; and requires a report on facility licensing and certification.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $104,070,300 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 558.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates an additional $300,000 to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $40,428,500 to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 200; and provides legislative intent regarding use of the Invasive Species Fund.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $37,519,000 to the State Board of Education for community colleges for fiscal year 2017; exempts appropriation object and program transfer limitations; provides legislative intent relating to system-wide expenditures; and requires an update on the Complete College Idaho initiative.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $67,332,600 to the Department of Environmental Quality for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 372; transfers $1.5 million from the Water Pollution Control Fund to the Environmental Remediation Basin Fund; expresses legislative intent regarding an annual report; and expresses legislative intent regarding uses of the Water Pollution Control Fund.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $12,303,000 to the Department of Administration for the Bond Payment Program for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $54,525,400 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 291.1; and exempts certain appropriation object transfer limitations.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $71,849,200 to the Division of Career Technical Education for fiscal year 2017; exempts appropriation object transfer limitations; and reappropriates certain unexpended and unencumbered fund balances.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $1,956,200 to the Commission on the Arts for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 10.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Provides a cash transfer from the Idaho Law Enforcement Fund to the Local Highway Distribution Fund; and provides a cash transfer from the State Highway Fund (dedicated) to the Local Highway Distribution Fund for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates an additional $55,839,00 to the Idaho Transportation Department for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $655,885,100 for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 1,678; expresses legislative intent for continuously appropriated funds; authorizes the transfer of moneys to the Tourism and Promotion Fund; provides reappropriation authority for dedicated funds; provides reappropriation authority for airport development grants; authorizes a transfer of funds for debt service; provides a cash transfer to the GARVEE Debt Service Fund; and provides a cash transfer to the Local Highway Trust Fund.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates and transfers $750,000 from the Economic Recovery Reserve Fund to the Charter School Debt Reserve Fund for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $3,158,500 to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 17.75; provides legislative intent regarding distributions to the districts; and provides legislative intent regarding the use of moneys for North Central Idaho Wildfire Restoration.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to create the Damage Prevention Board and to provide for its duties regarding the prevention of underground facilities damage.

Sponsor: Environment, Energy and Technology Committee

Appropriates and transfers an additional $13,140,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $20,274,700 to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 138; provides a dedicated fund cash transfer; provides notification of a contract renewal or extension; directs continuation of health insurance premium cost sharing with state employees; and provides legislative intent regarding the employee group insurance plan structure.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $14,253,000 to the Idaho State Historical Society for fiscal year 2017; designates moneys for museum renovation and expansion; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 49.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to remove the requirement that election judges must post a correct copy of results at the polling place.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to remove reference to a family allowance.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

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.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to provide that showing films, still pictures, electronic reproductions or other visual reproductions that violate state indecency and obscenity laws or federal laws regarding pornography, indecency or obscenity is prohibited in or on a licensed premises.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that certain sports officials shall review concussion and head injury guidelines and requirements biennially, to require parental written authorization for participation in athletic activities and to provide for monitoring of a student suspected of suffering a concussion prior to the student resuming athletic activities.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide that the board of trustees of a hospital district may appoint certain board members; and to revise provisions regarding a board quorum and vacancies.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide for the dissolution of districts by county commissioners under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding allegations of a violation of parole conditions.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Appropriates $613,471,500 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Operations for fiscal year 2017; amends existing law to increase the salary-based apportionment for classified staff; provides an estimate for discretionary funds per support unit; provides for expenditures for information technology staff; provides for classroom technology; directs the use of moneys for instructional management systems; defines the term "distributed"; and allows for transfers between other divisions.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $2,160,500 to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 22; and exempts appropriation object and program transfer limitations.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding tuition of out-of-district students, county taxes and other financial support.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to define "powdered alcohol," to prohibit the possession, sale, purchase and use of powdered alcohol, to revise criminal penalties and to provide for the revocation of liquor licenses held by violators.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that the Department of Health and Welfare shall compile a list of providers that perform free ultrasounds and shall state that a patient has the right to obtain a free ultrasound, view an ultrasound image and hear heart tone monitoring and to provide that no abortion shall be performed unless the woman is informed that ultrasound imaging and heart tone monitoring are available.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise the requirements and criteria for various hearings and plans required by the Child Protective Act.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Appropriates $286,915,800 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Children's Programs for fiscal year 2017; provides guidance on funds for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy; directs the use of funds for the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program; directs the use of funds for literacy programs and remedial coursework; directs the use of funds for limited English proficiency programs; requiring advanced opportunities reporting; defining the term "distributed."

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to revise acceptable security instruments for worker's compensation insurers.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the regulation of dangerous or at-risk dogs.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Appropriates $15,262,500 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Central Services for fiscal year 2017; directs the use for literacy programs, intervention services, math initiative programs and limited English proficiency programs; directs the use for student assessments; directs the use for performance evaluations; directs the use for wireless technology infrastructure; directs the use for professional development; provides legislative intent related to the use for digital content and credit recovery; provides guidance on year-end reconciliation; provides legislative intent for content and curriculum related to technology; provides direction for the development of an online portal; and defines terms.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the base tax rate; and to revise the formula and maximum weeks of benefit entitlement.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Adds to existing law to create the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Appropriates an additional $5,482,800 to the Public Defense Commission for fiscal year 2017; and authorizes an additional 4.5 full-time equivalent positions.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $18,000,000 from the General Fund and directs the transfer to the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Fund for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that annexation does not change the status of a recreational water and/or sewer district; to provide when director zones are created and for the appointment of a person-at-large; to provide for the creation of board of director zones; and to provide procedures for annexation or withdrawal of an area within a city, with an exception.

Sponsor: Local Government Committee

Amends existing law to provide an exclusion from local government purchasing laws for the acquisition of personal property or services through contracts entered into by the Division of Purchasing of the Department of Administration of the State of Idaho.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to allow transfer of authority and responsibility of handling excess proceeds from tax deed sales to the State Treasurer and to provide duties of the board of county commissioners.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates $565,300 to the Board of Tax Appeals for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 5.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $13,831,200 to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for Health Education Programs for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 24.8; provides a lump sum appropriation for dedicated funds; and reappropriates unexpended and unencumbered dedicated fund balances for the Dental Education Programs.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $103,048,600 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the divisions of Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions for the three divisions to 731.46; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; limits transfers for trustee and benefit payments; provides for program integrity; provides legislative intent on educating children in the department's care; and directs expenditures for Head Start.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $10,312,300 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $15,322,700 to the Idaho State Controller for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 95; provides for the recovery of State Controller service costs to the General Fund; provides certain dedicated fund reappropriation authority; and provides certain General Fund reappropriation authority.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $2,661,600 to the Office of the State Appellate Public Defender for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 23; provides legislative intent for the payment of outside counsel costs; and provides legislative intent for the payment of capital representation costs.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Repeals and amends existing law regarding retention and storage of historical municipal records using photographic and digital media.

Sponsor: Local Government Committee

Appropriates $17,154,500 to Special Programs under the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 42.13; provides for the transfer of any unexpended and unencumbered General Fund moneys to the Opportunity Scholarship Program Account at the end of fiscal year 2016; and provides legislative intent on the level of services by the Geological Survey Program in eastern Idaho.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $855,733,000 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Teachers for fiscal year 2017; directs the use of moneys for professional development; and defines the term "distributed."

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $104,819,200 to the Department of Labor for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 700; and provides legislative intent requiring a report on operations of local Department of Labor offices and services provided.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $4,035,800 to the State Treasurer for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 26; provides for reappropriation authority for the LGIP Fund; provides legislative intent regarding conference-related activities; provides legislative intent regarding payment of bank service fees; and provides legislative intent regarding mitigation of bank service fees.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $97,605,000 to the divisions of Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospitalization, and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions for the three divisions to 695.58; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs expenditures for trustee and benefit payments; provides for program integrity; limits transfers of legislative appropriations; clarifies responsibility for education of certain children in state care; directs an interagency payment; provides legislative intent relating to a crisis center location; requires an annual report on community support for the Idaho Falls Crisis Center; and provides for reappropriation for the Adult Mental Health Program.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $51,402,600 to the Department of Juvenile Corrections for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 412.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to provide that residential care or assisted living facilities may be cited only for violations of a requirement that is specified in applicable law or rule.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions associated with the repurchase of certain equipment from retailers by wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors and to revise provisions regarding sums to be paid for repurchase; and to provide for the purchase price of repair tools in complete and usable condition.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to revise a directive on implementation of the federal REAL ID Act of 2005.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that certain persons may petition for a compromise of the claim of a minor, to provide for the order of priority to make a petition, to authorize a court to pass over a person having priority under certain conditions, to provide requirements for a petition, to authorize a court to take certain actions regarding a compromise, to provide for approval of a compromise and payment and to provide that no filing fee shall be charged for the filing of a petition.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Appropriates $283,400 to the Commission on Hispanic Affairs for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time positions to 3.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $9,289,500 from the General Fund to the Public Health Districts for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to increase the salaries of members of the Public Utilities Commission; to increase the salaries of members of the State Tax Commission; to increase the salaries of members of the Industrial Commission; appropriates an additional $10,700 to the Public Utilities Commission for commissioner salaries; appropriates an additional $13,200 to the State Tax Commission for commissioner salaries; and appropriates an additional $10,400 to the Industrial Commission for commissioner salaries.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "practice of nursing."

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Appropriates $6,316,300 to the Public Utilities Commission for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 52.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $675,400 to the Endowment Fund Investment Board for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 3.7; authorizes continuous appropriation authority for certain costs; and expresses legislative intent with regard to transfers from the earnings reserve funds to the income funds.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to provide that an owner of private property may submit a written request for a regulatory takings analysis with the clerk or the agency or entity taking the regulatory or administrative action and to provide that a private property owner is not required to submit a request under the regulatory takings chapter and the failure to submit a written request shall not prevent or prohibit the private property owner from seeking any legal or equitable remedy including, but not limited to, the payment of just compensation.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and recognizing National Day of the Cowboy.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates $8,582,000 to the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 2017; reappropriates any unexpended and unencumbered balances in the Professional Services Fund; and exempts the appropriation from object transfer limitations.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting that Congress ensure the continued appropriation of funds in the fiscal year 2017 budget to significantly enhance aquatic invasive species prevention efforts and to implement the intent of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends existing law to define "brewery" and "winery"; and to allow persons under 21 to enter or be on the premises of a licensed brewery where beer is consumed.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and authorizing the Legislative Council to appoint a committee to undertake and complete a study of issues relating to public procurement and to make recommendations.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to further define "retailer"; and "retailer engaged in business in this state" for state sales tax purposes for determining a nexus to Idaho; and to reduce personal; and corporate income tax rates.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Adds to existing law to create the Health Grant Program for the Medically Underserved.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Appropriates an additional $400,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Healthcare Policy Initiatives Program for fiscal year 2017; transfers $5,000,000 from the Idaho Millennium Fund to the Idaho Millennium Income Fund; and appropriates an additional $5,000,000 from the Millennium Income Fund for the Health Care Initiatives Program for fiscal year 2017.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and authorizing the Legislative Council to appoint a committee to undertake and complete a study of the foster care system in Idaho and of the Idaho Code provisions governing the conservatorship and guardianship of adults, minors and persons with a developmental disability.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Amends existing law to provide that the right to ship, transport, possess or receive a firearm shall not be restored following felony convictions for certain crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to provide for the Postsecondary Credit Scholarship.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting a certain rule docket of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game relating to the Trapping of Predatory and Unprotected Wildlife and the Taking of Furbearing Animals.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and encouraging every person and government entity in this state to appropriately display the flags of Idaho and the United States.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise the capital gains deduction for cattle, horses or breeding livestock.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and providing for the amendment of Joint Rule 21 regarding provisions relating to certain recorded proceedings.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and supporting the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Inc.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to remove reference to certain electronic copies.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise age provisions associated with the purchase of wildlife management area upland game bird permits.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and proposing an amendment to Joint Rule 20 revising language regarding a transmittal date of a joint resolution.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and endorsing the need for a veterans cemetery in Eastern Idaho.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that two or more wineries may use a winery's licensed premises to host an event under an alcohol beverage catering permit to serve and sell their respective wines at that event.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that certain violations and records of violations shall be vacated and sealed.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Amends existing law to provide for written reports that certain artificial barriers are unsafe and endangering life or property; to provide for inspection; to revise criteria regarding those owners required to submit duplicate plans, drawings and specifications of proposed construction, enlargement, alteration or repair of dams to the director of the Department of Water Resources, to revise provisions regarding professional engineers and the authentication of plans, drawings and specifications and to provide for design and construction criteria.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and providing for the amendment of Joint Rule 18 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Idaho to revise provisions relating to statements of purpose and fiscal notes.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Appropriates $2,233,804,500 for the Medicaid Division in the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 209; provides for transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; limits transfers from trustee and benefit payments; provides legislative intent regarding program integrity; requires monthly Medicaid tracking reports; provides for transfers between programs; requires biannual reports regarding managed care implementation; and requires an annual report on flexible spending authority.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide the Idaho School Safety and Security Act, to provide the Office of School Safety and Security, the Idaho School Safety and Security Advisory Board, and to provide powers and duties of the board.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to provide for the transfer of funds to the Tax Relief Fund, to provide for its uses and to provide for exceptions, to provide for a reduction in certain income tax rates under certain circumstances; to provide for transfers from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Tax Relief Fund; and to provide for the annual legislative review of income and sales tax exemptions, deductions and credits, and to further provide for transfers to the Tax Relief Fund.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to authorize the Public Defense Commission to promulgate rules for indigent defense standards; to require compliance with indigent defense standards, to provide for indigent defense grants, to provide application procedures for indigent defense grants, to provide procedures for noncompliance with indigent defense standards; and to revise reporting requirements.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and authorizing the creation of an interim study committee to study state income tax policy and structure.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide for formal written performance evaluations and when a school district shall be excused and to provide for written evaluations of principals and assistant superintendents.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "research facility."

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting a certain rule docket of the State Board of and State Department of Education relating to Rules Governing Thoroughness.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to provide additional prohibited conduct regarding covenants, conditions or restrictions by homeowner's associations with exceptions.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that any regulation regarding the use, disposition or sale or any prohibition, restriction, fee or taxation of auxiliary containers at the retail, manufacturer or distributor setting shall be done only by statute enacted by the Legislature.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting a certain rule docket of the State Board of and State Department of Education relating to Rules Governing Thoroughness.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Appropriates $28,274,300 to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 155; appropriates and transfers $716,000 from the Revolving Development Fund to the Aquifer Planning and Management Fund; transfers $2,500,000 of the appropriation from the Economic Recovery Reserve Fund to the Secondary Aquifer Planning, Management and Implementation Fund; transfers $5,000,000 of the appropriation from the General Fund to the Secondary Aquifer Planning, Management and Implementation Fund; appropriates and transfers $100,400 from the General Fund to the Priest Lake Outlet Subaccount; and expresses legislative intent concerning the sale of the Pristine Springs property.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Adds to existing law to implement the Right to Try Act regarding investigational drugs, biological products and devices for patients with terminal illnesses.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Provides an effective date for House Bill No. 431, as enacted by the Second Regular Session of the Sixty-third Legislature.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to revise the day of celebration for Idaho Day when March 4 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates $12,707,600 to the Division of Building Safety for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 126.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates $16,691,000 to the Industrial Commission for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 138.25.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to provide that a guardian's authority and responsibility shall terminate upon termination of the guardianship and to revise a provision regarding the resignation of a guardian; and to provide for proceedings for the modification or termination of a guardianship.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Adds to existing law to provide a way for cities or cemetery maintenance districts operating cemeteries to recover and resell unused cemetery lots.

Sponsor: Local Government Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to revise the calculation of the Educational Support Program; to provide for a reading assessment; and to establish provisions regarding literacy intervention programs.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "neglect."

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding tax on the production of wine and on certain grapes and grape juice.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to revise duties of the State Treasurer regarding public endowment funds; and to grant authority for the State Treasurer to invest certain funds otherwise excluded from his duties.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise the duties of the Attorney General regarding investigations and actions against county elected officers in certain criminal law matters.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to provide that no election or confirmation proceedings shall be required when the contract for construction of a hydroelectric plant by an irrigation district does not involve questions of indebtedness incurred by the district.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law relating to the "8 in 6 Program"; and the Mastery Advancement Program; to provide for advanced opportunities and to grant the State Board of Education rulemaking authority.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and supporting the settlement agreement entered into on June 30, 2015, between participating members of the Surface Water Coalition and participating members of the Idaho Ground Water Appropriators, Inc.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding early voting.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to increase the aggregate and per district guarantee limits.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting that the Idaho Water Resource Board address statewide aquifer stabilization and sustainability projects, including managed recharge.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that the Idaho Transportation Department shall promulgate rules to provide insurers an alternative method for verifying motor vehicle insurance policy data; and to provide that failure to comply with specified law regarding uninsured vehicle tracking shall constitute a wrongful practice and subject an insurer to penalties.

Sponsor: Transportation Committee

Amends existing law to clarify when persons shall be entitled to purchase the rights of the district in unredeemed delinquency entries.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends existing law to appropriate funds to the Idaho Bond Bank Authority and to authorize reimbursement of costs incurred by the State Treasurer.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to increase the maximum amount of administrative charges that may be levied.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends existing law to provide that records regarding critical infrastructure of any public agency shall be exempt from disclosure.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "person."

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise definitions.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Amends existing law to revise board compensation provisions.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Amends existing law to revise priority classifications for certain water bodies in regard to the development of total maximum daily load or equivalent processes.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Great Seal of the State of Idaho, and honoring its designer Emma Edwards Green.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates $19,670,900 to the State Liquor Division for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 222.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to provide an alternative means of determining a member's proportionate share of the total of all amounts to be assessed; to revise provisions relating to the total dollar amount of certain warrants; and to provide an alternative means of determining certain aggregate ground water rights.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends, repeals and adds to existing law to create the Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission and charge it with the duties formerly held by the Idaho Emergency Communications Commission and the Statewide Interoperability Executive Council.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates $9,294,600 to Idaho Public Television for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 64.48.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to revise the authorities and duties of the director of the Department of Agriculture regarding beef cattle feeding operations and dairy farms, to provide that certain specified law shall not affect the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to administer and enforce an NPDES permit program; to revise design and construction provisions; to revise provisions regarding nutrient management plans and inspection provisions; to provide for compliance with dairy environmental management plans; to revise provisions regarding unauthorized discharges and releases; to provide the manner in which the Department of Agriculture shall address noncompliance and to provide for civil penalties.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Appropriates $1,808,200 to the Division of Human Resources for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 12; provides legislative intent; and provides guidance on employee compensation.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding civil monetary penalties for providers.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise definitions and provisions regarding the applicability of certain law.

Sponsor: Transportation and Defense Committee

Amends existing law to provide an exception to a certain testing requirement.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to provide a process for claims in the event of damage to bees and beehives by bears.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends existing law to remove obsolete language regarding a federal pilot project.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide that certain assessments to repay debt must be approved at an election; to provide that certain obligations or contract indebtedness must be submitted to a vote of qualified electors in the district; and to revise provisions regarding judicial examination prior to incurring debt.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Adds to existing law to require public notice and opportunity to comment on tentative decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality regarding Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) permits, to provide for appeals of final decisions and for judicial review, to prohibit conflicts of interest; and to provide that provisions of Idaho's Environmental Protection and Health Act shall apply to the IPDES Program and to provide for the enforcement of pretreatment standards.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and recognizing the contributions and accomplishments of Hecla Mining Company and its employees and congratulating Hecla Mining Company on its 125th anniversary.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide for the Environmental Protection Trust, to provide for the Environmental Protection Trust Fund and to provide for the investment of moneys with the Idaho Endowment Fund Investment Board under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to establish provisions regarding the statewide average class size.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to remove language for transferring training funds to the Employment Security Reserve Fund, to revise language describing appropriate uses for the training fund and to extend the sunset provision by four years.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends existing law to revise residency requirements for students of an Idaho public institution of higher education.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the participation of nonmembers in ground water districts for mitigation purposes and to remove provisions regarding nonmembers deemed participants in districts and collection of a proportional share of costs.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Appropriates $8,170,300 to the Department of Finance for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 64; and provides legislative intent relating to certain continuous appropriations.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and opposing any proposals that bar Idaho hunters, anglers and trappers from accessing state endowment trust land on the basis of exclusivity and encouraging the State Board of Land Commissioners to preserve and promote reasonable and equitable access to state endowment trust land for the benefit of all Idahoans.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and honoring Idaho Power Company on its hundredth anniversary.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and resolving that Congress should, by legislative enactment, provide protections for adoption and implementation of state sage-grouse conservation plans by, among other things, making no funds available for use by either the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to implement recent federal land use plan amendments if they are inconsistent with the state's sage-grouse conservation plan for a period of 10 years through and including fiscal year 2026.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting certain rules of the Idaho Wheat Commission relating to Rules of the Idaho Wheat Commission.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and authorizing the Legislative Council to appoint a committee to undertake and complete a study of the state's employee group insurance plan structure and total compensation package, including salary and benefits, and to make recommendations.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Adds to existing law to prohibit the application of foreign laws in Idaho courts in certain instances.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for lands received from the federal government, to provide administration and management criteria, to provide for multiple use and to provide for sustained yield.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that delegates of practitioners and pharmacists may access the database under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Repeals existing law relating to the Youth Education Account.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and urging the United States Department of State to continue the Columbia River Treaty, to consult with British Columbia and the states of the pacific northwest regarding any review of the treaty, and to receive and consider input from British Columbia and the states of the pacific northwest regarding any negotiations with respect to the treaty.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise the list of Schedule II Uniform Controlled Substances.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide that medical examiners or coroners may access information in the prescriptions database.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Repeals and amends existing law relating to the Aquaculture Commission; and providing for the transfer of certain moneys.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Adds to existing law to provide duties of wireless telecommunications carriers regarding emergency situations and to provide duties of the Idaho State Police.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise responsibilities of partnership and to provide for an annual report to the Governor; to revise board of director membership provisions; to revise cochair appointment provisions; and to remove a provision that the executive director be an exempt, full-time position within a department of the Executive Branch.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Amends, repeals and adds to existing law to revise provisions relating to the Idaho Apple Commission.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Repeals existing law relating to regulation of contraceptives and prophylactics.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise license eligibility provisions for resident trainees.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Amends existing law to provide that licensed morticians and funeral directors shall designate the licensed funeral establishment responsible for merchandise or services under prearrangement sales and to provide that the licensed funeral establishment shall maintain all contracts and documents associated with prearrangement sales.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that listed submersible well pumps are approved for use in lakes, rivers, ponds and streams, to provide that certain regulations shall not apply and to provide that the Division of Building Safety shall promulgate rules.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to remove obsolete language; to eliminate officer term limits; and to increase board member compensation.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to allow a certain income tax credit for a charitable contribution to the Idaho STEM Action Center.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting a report on the strategic plan for improving behavioral health treatment from the Department of Health and Welfare.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and requesting that the State Board of Education adopt rules to provide for Idaho state government and Idaho history questions for the civics test given to high school seniors starting with the 2017-18 school year.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Appropriates $59,525,400 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 291.1; exempts certain appropriation object transfer limitations; and provides reappropriation for the Forest Legacy Program.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to provide that certain agreements shall not be considered motor vehicle service contracts or contracts of insurance.

Sponsor: Transportation Committee

Adds to existing law to define terms; and to provide for livestock removal requirements.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Adds to existing law to enact the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise requirements regarding certain written contracts.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Adds to existing law to establish the EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and rejecting a certain rule docket of the State Board of and State Department of Education regarding Rules Governing Thoroughness.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding suspension, revocation, refusal to continue or denial of licenses.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends existing law to provide conditions when the surviving spouse of a qualified veteran may obtain veterans license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation and Defense Committee

Amends existing law to define "retired professional engineer" and "retired professional land surveyor."

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends existing law to remove reference to an admission or denial hearing and to remove reference to an application by a juvenile offender.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Repeals and adds to existing law to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Appropriates $106,070,300 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 558.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide deadlines for conducting raffle drawings; to revise qualifications for Bingo-Raffle Advisory Board members; to reduce the minimum number of board meetings; to authorize approval of electronic bill payment of bingo expenses; and to provide conditions and procedures for the suspension or revocation of licenses.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that pharmacists may prescribe immunizations for persons 6 years or older.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise a reference to a federal act.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding joint custody.

Sponsor: Ways and Means Committee

Amends existing law to clarify that the Department of Administration shall offer a health savings account program, to provide for a health savings account administrator and to provide that state employers shall deposit a certain amount into a health savings account.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and proclaiming March 2016 as Social Work Recognition Month and calling upon all citizens to join with the National Association of Social Workers in celebration and support of the social work profession.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Changes the fiscal year 2016 appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for a net increase of $2,014,500; and authorizes one additional position.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to remove provisions regarding ex officio members of the commission; and to revise provisions regarding nominating committees and petitions for nomination of producer members.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to add certain requirements for registration of a supplier of certain types of durable medical equipment.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to clarify the number of local education agencies identified for a certain initial cohort and to allow the State Department of Education to expend or distribute certain moneys.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding college and career advisors and reporting requirements.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Appropriates an additional $2,114,300 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Benefit Payments Program; and appropriates an additional $1,263,800 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Healthcare Policy Initiatives Program for a total of $3,378,100 for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates an additional $30,667,900 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid; and reduces the appropriation by $9,000,600 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid for a net appropriation increase of $21,667,300 for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to grant psychologists the authority to prescribe certain medications.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide additional requirements for negotiated rulemaking when a rule is submitted to the Legislature.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the calculation for the Educational Support Program.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise certain fee provisions.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for reimbursement of telehealth services.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions for underinsured motor vehicle coverage.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for Idaho Friends of the Orofino High School Mascot license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation and Defense Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for the Idaho Limited Article V Convention Act.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law regarding the Armed Forces and Public Safety Officer Scholarship; and the investment of surplus moneys in the Opportunity Scholarship Program Account.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise a definition.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to revise the makeup of boards and to allow for an elected board; to provide that urban renewal plans be submitted to the State Tax Commission; and to provide for the effect of an ordinance to modify an urban renewal plan.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Adds to existing law to provide requirements for limited lines travel insurance producers.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and recognizing community water fluoridation as a significant public health achievement.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide a cause or violation for the director of the Department of Insurance to suspend, revoke or refuse to issue or to continue a producer license.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and congratulating Idahoan Matt Paradis for his part in Denver Broncos' Super Bowl win.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to clarify the duration and revocation of a power of attorney from a parent or guardian, and to authorize a parent or guardian to delegate certain powers over a minor or person with a developmental disability upon the occurrence of certain conditions.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to revise cigarette wholesaler bonding requirements and to provide an alternative of prepaying the full value of stamps in lieu of posting bond.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for the Adult Degree Completion Scholarship and related provisions and to require the State Board of Education to promulgate certain rules.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to provide that operating property shall not be included in the taxable value for the purpose of making a levy that is to be made against real property only.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to remove an exception to the rule that any taxing district must be formed or organized by the first day of January in order to make a levy for that calendar year.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Repeals existing law relating to the Idaho Women's Commission in the Office of the Governor.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to prohibit sexual battery of an adult and to provide a punishment for sexual battery of an adult; to revise terminology in the definition of "rape" to make it gender neutral, to provide a circumstance where rape can occur and to provide that both males and females are capable of committing rape; and to provide that the Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act shall apply to certain persons who commit sexual battery of an adult.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to revise terminology, to provide clarification regarding competitive circumstances; and to revise provisions regarding notice.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to provide that the right to ship, transport, possess or receive a firearm shall not be restored following felony convictions for certain crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Proposing an amendment to Section 7, Article IX, of the Constitution of the State of Idaho, relating to the State Board of Land Commissioners to remove the Attorney General and add the State Treasurer to the board.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to replace references to professional-technical education with career technical education.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise certain required reclamation activities; to revise bond amount provisions and to provide for written notice by the State Board of Land Commissioners to an operator of rejection of a request for bond release upon the board's determination that the requirements of a reclamation plan or permanent closure plan have not been met.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Appropriates an additional $92,400 to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to clarify that peace officers may issue a citation for certain persons and to provide that peace officers shall accompany a vehicle to an inspection station in certain instances; and to revise penalties.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Appropriates an additional $511,600 for State Hospital South for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Repeals and amends existing law relating to the Commission on Pesticide Management; removing reference to the commission and providing for the transfer of certain moneys.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Appropriates to the Department of Juvenile Corrections an additional $296,200 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2016; and reduces the General Fund appropriation to the Department of Juvenile Corrections by $247,000 for fiscal year 2016, for an overall net increase of $49,200 from the General Fund.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and recognizing Idaho peace officers for their service to the state.

Sponsor: Fred Martin

Stating findings of the Legislature and endorsing the need for a second veterans cemetery in Eastern Idaho.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that consent to adoption is required from certain courts; to provide certain notice and reporting requirements; to provide requirements regarding notification to relatives; to provide for judicial approval of all matters regarding the custody of certain children, including the placement and change in placement of such children; to provide additional requirements regarding case plans; to provide that certain adoptions must be sanctioned by the court; to provide for judicial approval of certain determinations and to revise and establish provisions regarding the placement priority and considerations for certain children; and to establish provisions regarding a removal and change in foster home placement.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide that for tax deed purposes the term "encumbrances" does not include easements, highways and rights-of-way.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise conditions under which special license plate programs shall be discontinued.

Sponsor: Transportation and Defense Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding admission or detention in certain facilities.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to prohibit certain provisions in contracts between governmental entities and design professionals.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Amends existing law to exempt certain hand tools up to $100 from the sales and use tax and to remove reference to a definition.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to add paddleboards and similar vessels to the list of watercraft that are taxable to nonresident purchasers.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Appropriates an additional $1,300,000 to the Secretary of State for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Amends existing law to add sales of food products by Idaho chapters of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America or the Boy Scouts of America to the definition of "occasional sales" exempt from sales tax.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to change the filing deadline to apply for a hardship application with the Board of Equalization.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide exceptions to certain prohibited activities associated with the Comprehensive State Water Plan; to provide that certain provisions of specified law shall not apply to prospecting and small-scale suction dredge mining and to preclude certain prohibition of prospecting and small-scale suction dredge mining; to revise provisions regarding exploration using certain suction dredges; and to provide that small-scale suction dredge mining shall be exempt from specified regulation.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that sexual exploitation of a child by certain electronic means shall be a misdemeanor in certain instances and a felony in certain instances and that proceedings shall fall under the Juvenile Corrections Act.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that the Idaho State Police Forensic Services Laboratory shall test sexual assault evidence kits, to provide duties for health care facilities and local law enforcement, to provide procedures for testing kits, to provide for retention of kits, to provide for independent review of kits in certain instances, to provide for rules for a tracking process of kits, to provide that Idaho State Police Forensic Services shall provide kits to certain parties, to provide reporting and auditing requirements for untested kits, to provide for victim notification and to provide for reporting requirements.

Sponsor: Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

Adds to existing law to establish the Office of the Inspector General.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the Public Education Stabilization Fund, to provide for an annual transfer of certain moneys from the General Fund to the Public Education Stabilization Fund, to provide conditions for such transfer; and to revise an amount to be transferred from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise conditions when an executive session is authorized regarding the acquisition, sale or lease of an interest in real property by a public agency.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to prohibit Fish and Game Commission members from participating in any drawings for controlled hunt permits and from participating in any controlled hunts.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Repeals and adds to existing law to provide when the Bible is permitted to be used in the public schools.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that life insurers shall offer lapse or termination protection to holders of life insurance policies.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Adds to existing law to prohibit unfair practices by insurance companies in auto body repair, with exceptions.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Adds to existing law to provide that any vehicle shall be subject to inspection for dyed diesel fuel in the motor vehicle's diesel fuel tank under specified conditions.

Sponsor: Transportation Committee

Amends existing law to revise the maximum civil penalties for safety violations of pipeline facilities and gas transportation; to revise the factors to be considered in determining the amount of the civil penalty to be assessed or compromised and to revise the permitted use of the civil penalty or compromised amount.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to revise procedures for the consolidation of cemetery maintenance districts.

Sponsor: Local Government Committee

Amends existing law to remove a certain qualification requirement of school electors and to revise provisions regarding elections of trustees.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding controlled hunts; and to provide for contracts with private entities to conduct drawings for controlled hunt permits.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Adds to existing law to provide legislative intent on gender neutral language.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide a procedure regarding applications for permits or certain authorizations to drill or treat wells; to provide that the Department of Lands shall have specified responsibilities associated with spacing units and unit operations, to revise provisions regarding the integration of tracts and integration orders and to provide for the confidentiality of certain information; and to revise and to set forth provisions and procedures associated with rulemaking, complaints, application for orders, petitions, orders and appeals.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the Tuition Lock Plan for undergraduate students; and to provide for the Tuition Lock Stabilization Account in the Higher Education Stabilization Fund.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to revise definitions; to require reporting in all state and local elections and ballot measures in this state and to provide that reports shall be made to certain persons; and to remove a certain exception regarding elections of school district trustees.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to provide that the Board of Licensure of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors shall promulgate certain rules; and to provide that records of survey shall have certain minimum requirements.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Appropriates an additional $1,808,100 to the Department of Labor for the State Longitudinal Data System, a fraud prevention award, and other activities for fiscal year 2016.

Sponsor: Appropriations Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for the licensure of medical laboratory science practitioners.

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Appropriates an additional $379,000 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2016; and authorizes 3.33 additional full-time equivalent positions.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Appropriates an additional $80,000 to the Board of Dentistry for fiscal year 2016; appropriates an additional $21,100 to the Board of Pharmacy for fiscal year 2016; and authorizes an additional position to the Board of Pharmacy.

Sponsor: Finance Committee

Amends existing law to update references to the Internal Revenue Code and to add language regarding marriage.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends existing law to require notice and a public hearing prior to a taxing district budgeting a forgone increase.

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Stating findings of the Legislature and supporting the settlement agreement entered into on June 30, 2015, between participating members of the Surface Water Coalition and participating members of the Idaho Ground Water Appropriators, Inc.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for community college trustee zones and related provisions; to revise provisions regarding the addition of territory to community college districts; to revise provisions regarding trustees of Community College Districts; and to revise provisions regarding an appeal from an order of the State Board of Education.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding certain government vehicles exempt from certain markings; and to revise a provision regarding lighting on Idaho State Police vehicles.

Sponsor: Judiciary and Rules Committee

Amends existing law to provide an exception to a certain testing requirement.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "practice of nursing."

Sponsor: Health and Welfare Committee

Amends existing law to provide for remittance of funds from the Motorbike Recreation Account to counties with an off-highway vehicle program and to provide how those moneys may be used.

Sponsor: Transportation and Defense Committee

Amends existing law to provide that neither an employer nor a surety shall be required to pay medical fees in excess of those provided by the Industrial Commission.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Amends existing law to allow for compensation of massage therapy students as part of a tuition work-off program where such program has been established by the teaching institution.

Sponsor: Business Committee

Amends existing law regarding the general powers of the board of trustees of each community college district.

Sponsor: Education Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for online voter registration.

Sponsor: John McCrostie

Proposing an amendment to Article I of the Constitution of the State of Idaho by the addition of a new Section 24 regarding the rights and responsibilities of the sexes.

Sponsor: Melissa Wintrow

Repeals and adds to existing law to rewrite the law for awarding public works contracts and to revise residence preference status.

Sponsor: Paulette Jordan

Amends existing law to revise eligibility requirements.

Sponsor: Susan Chew

Adds to existing law to create the Idaho Tax Review Commission, to provide for members and terms; and to provide that the commission shall review exemptions to the sales and use tax.

Sponsor: Paulette Jordan

Amends existing law to provide for the Tuition Stabilization Account in the Higher Education Stabilization Fund.

Sponsor: Paulette Jordan

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the duties of the executive director; and to remove reference to invoices being supplied by the commission.

Sponsor: Agricultural Affairs Committee

Adds to existing law to provide for the Quality Educator Loan Assistance Program Act and related provisions.

Sponsor: Donna Pence

Adds to existing law to provide duties of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction regarding the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

Sponsor: Ronald Nate

Amends existing law to revise minimum wage calculations for employees, tipped employees and employees under the age of 20.

Sponsor: Mathew Erpelding

Adds to existing law to provide an income tax credit based on a percent of the federal earned income tax credit claimed on an individual's federal tax return.

Sponsor: Mathew Erpelding

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the display of license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation Committee

Amends existing law to establish provisions regarding torture of companion animals, to provide that certain officers may take possession of companion animals subjected to torture; and to establish provisions regarding penalties for certain violations.

Sponsor: Ilana Rubel

Amends existing law to revise officer authorization provisions regarding certain inspections and searches.

Sponsor: Resources and Conservation Committee

Amends existing law to increase certain penalties for the illegal killing, possession or waste of certain game animals.

Sponsor: Resources and Environment Committee

Adds to existing law to direct the commission to make certain payment to the Idaho Horse Council under specified conditions.

Sponsor: State Affairs Committee

Amends existing law to update references to the Internal Revenue Code and to remove a definition of "marriage."

Sponsor: Revenue and Taxation Committee

Amends and adds to existing law to provide Medicaid eligibility standards and for certain low-income individuals certain medical assistance.

Sponsor: Dan Schmidt

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that the state shall expand Medicaid eligibility to certain persons.

Sponsor: Dan Schmidt

Amends and adds to existing law to authorize the Idaho Transportation Department to issue driving privilege cards to certain individuals.

Sponsor: Grant Burgoyne

Amends existing law to remove references to a park model.

Sponsor: Commerce and Human Resources Committee

Appropriates $24,282,700 to the Attorney General for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 205.6; and exempts the Attorney General from object and program transfer limitations.

Appropriates, distributes and transfers a total of $9,587,000 from the Idaho Millennium Income Fund for fiscal year 2017; provides that certain unexpended and unencumbered moneys shall revert to the Idaho Millennium Income Fund at the end of fiscal year 2017; and provides that any remaining unexpended and unencumbered moneys in the Idaho Millennium Income Fund shall be transferred to the Idaho Millennium Permanent Endowment Fund at the end of fiscal year 2017.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that caregivers exercise a certain standard of care.

Amends existing law to define "brewery" and "winery"; and to allow persons under 21 to enter or be on the premises of a licensed brewery where beer is consumed.

Amends existing law to appropriate one-quarter of the insurance premium tax exceeding $45 million to the Individual High Risk Reinsurance Pool.

Adds to existing law to provide that administrative rules that expire on July 1, 2016, will continue to be effective until July 1, 2017, to provide that administrative rules approved or extended by the adoption of a concurrent resolution shall be effective until July 1, 2017, or until such time as they expire, to provide that rules rejected by concurrent resolution shall be null, void and of no force and effect and to authorize agencies to amend or repeal certain rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Amends existing law to redesignate the Modular Building Advisory Board as the Factory Built Structures Advisory Board and to provide that the board shall have certain powers and duties.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise the makeup of boards and to allow for an elected board; to provide that urban renewal plans be submitted to the State Tax Commission; and to provide the effect of an ordinance to modify an urban renewal plan.

Adds to existing law to provide procedures for counties to declare and demand abatement of a catastrophic public nuisance.

Appropriates an additional $5,000,000 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; provides fiscal year 2016 reappropriation for the Forest Legacy Program; appropriates an additional $2,000,000 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2017; and provides legislative intent.

Appropriates $556,135,800 to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for college and universities and the Office of the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2017; provides certain reappropriation authority; provides legislative intent for systemwide needs; provides legislative intent for the Complete College Idaho initiative; provides legislative intent for a cybersecurity lab in conjunction with the Idaho National Lab; and exempts appropriation object and program transfer limitations.

Amends existing law to provide that a purchaser at a trustee's sale shall be entitled to dispose of titled or nontitled personal property under certain conditions.

Amends existing law to provide an additional allocation amount for certain Career Technical Education instructional staff.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that consent to adoption is required from certain courts; to provide certain notice and reporting requirements; to provide requirements regarding notification to relatives; to provide for judicial approval of all matters regarding the custody of certain children; to provide additional requirements regarding case plans; to provide that certain adoptions must be sanctioned by the court; to provide for judicial approval of certain determinations and to revise and establish provisions regarding the placement priority and considerations for certain children; and to establish provisions regarding a removal and change in foster home placement.

Adds to existing law to provide limited use immunity to a minor who acts in good faith and for a medical emergency, to provide requirements and to allow prosecution for other charges.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that certain probate and nonprobate transfers are revoked upon divorce.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding leadership premiums.

Appropriates $54,525,400 to the Department of Lands for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 291.1; and exempts certain appropriation object transfer limitations.

Appropriates and transfers $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Constitutional Defense Fund in fiscal year 2016; and appropriates $971,700 from the General Fund to the Department of Administration for the Purchasing Program for fiscal year 2016.

Appropriates $67,479,300 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the divisions of Independent Councils, Indirect Support Services, Healthcare Policy Initiatives and Licensing and Certification for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 376.5; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs expenditures for trustee and benefit payments; limits services to available resources; requires a report on VOCA funds; requires a monthly Medicaid tracking report; requires a biannual Medicaid Integrity Unit report; requires quarterly transfer reports; requires monthly vacancy reports; requires a report on the implementation of the SHIP grant; and requires a report on facility licensing and certification.

Appropriates $71,849,200 to the Division of Career Technical Education for fiscal year 2017; exempts appropriation object transfer limitations; and reappropriates certain unexpended and unencumbered fund balances.

Amends and adds to existing law to create the Damage Prevention Board and to provide for its duties regarding the prevention of underground facilities damage.

Appropriates $2,342,000 to the Idaho State Capitol Commission for fiscal year 2017; provides a cash transfer; provides certain reappropriation authority; and provides legislative intent.

Appropriates additional funding for the Public Schools Support Program/Division of Children's Programs; appropriates additional funding for the Public Schools Support Program/Division of Operations; reduces the appropriation to the Public School Support Program/Division of Central Services; and appropriates additional funding to the Office of the State Board of Education.

Appropriates and transfers an additional $13,140,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $20,274,700 to the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 138; provides a dedicated fund cash transfer; provides notification of a contract renewal or extension; directs continuation of health insurance premium cost sharing with state employees; and provides legislative intent regarding the employee group insurance plan structure.

Appropriates $37,519,000 to the State Board of Education for community colleges for fiscal year 2017; exempts appropriation object and program transfer limitations; provides legislative intent relating to system-wide expenditures; and requires an update on the Complete College Idaho initiative.

Provides a cash transfer from the Idaho Law Enforcement Fund to the Local Highway Distribution Fund; and provides a cash transfer from the State Highway Fund (dedicated) to the Local Highway Distribution Fund for fiscal year 2016.

Appropriates $3,158,500 to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 17.75; provides legislative intent regarding distributions to the districts; and provides legislative intent regarding the use of moneys for North Central Idaho Wildfire Restoration.

Appropriates $240,321,600 to the Department of Correction for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 1,972.85.

Reduces the fiscal year 2016 appropriation by $5,500,000; appropriates $38,190,800 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 142; and provides legislative intent related to school district broadband services.

Appropriates $104,070,300 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 558.

Appropriates an additional $300,000 to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $40,428,500 to the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 200; and provides legislative intent regarding use of the Invasive Species Fund.

Amends existing law to provide a sales and use tax exemption for the sale, lease, purchase or use of fixed-wing aircraft primarily used as an air tactical group supervisor platform under contract with a governmental entity for wildfire activity.

Adds to existing law to prohibit certain acts regarding agricultural facilities and operations, to provide for violations and penalties, and to clarify that specified provisions shall not be construed to limit a court's power to order restitution or to limit civil actions and remedies.

Amends existing law to provide that the Department of Health and Welfare shall compile a list of providers that perform free ultrasounds and shall state that a patient has the right to obtain a free ultrasound, view an ultrasound image and hear heart tone monitoring and to provide that no abortion shall be performed unless the woman is informed that ultrasound imaging and heart tone monitoring are available.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the base tax rate; and to revise the formula and maximum weeks of benefit entitlement.

Appropriates $2,160,500 to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 22; and exempts appropriation object and program transfer limitations.

Appropriates $286,915,800 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Children's Programs for fiscal year 2017; provides guidance on funds for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy; directs the use of funds for the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program; directs the use of funds for literacy programs and remedial coursework; directs the use of funds for limited English proficiency programs; requiring advanced opportunities reporting; defining the term "distributed."

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.

Amends existing law to provide for the dissolution of districts by county commissioners under certain conditions.

Amends existing law to define "powdered alcohol," to prohibit the possession, sale, purchase and use of powdered alcohol, to revise criminal penalties and to provide for the revocation of liquor licenses held by violators.

Appropriates to the Supreme Court an additional $2,949,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2017; reduces the appropriation to the Supreme Court by $2,949,000 from the Drug Court, Mental Health Court and Family Court Services Fund for fiscal year 2017; and exempts the appropriation from object and program transfer limitations.

Amends existing law to increase the time a renewed judgment on a lien may be continued for certain judgments.

Appropriates $18,000,000 from the General Fund and directs the transfer to the Catastrophic Health Care Cost Fund for fiscal year 2017.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding alcohol beverage catering permits.

Amends existing law to provide that certain sports officials shall review concussion and head injury guidelines and requirements biennially, to require parental written authorization for participation in athletic activities and to provide for monitoring of a student suspected of suffering a concussion prior to the student resuming athletic activities.

Amends existing law regarding elections for school district board trustees.

Amends existing law to remove the requirement that election judges must post a correct copy of results at the polling place.

Amends existing law to provide that the board of trustees of a hospital district may appoint certain board members; and to revise provisions regarding a board quorum and vacancies.

Amends existing law to provide that whenever any person makes an expenditure for the purpose of financing communications expressly advocating the election, approval or defeat of a person standing for election to the position of precinct committeeman through any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, direct mailing or any other type of general public political advertising, the person responsible for such communication shall be clearly indicated on such communication.

Amends existing law to provide that compensation shall be payable for disability or death resulting from certain firefighter occupational diseases, to provide a presumption of proximate causation between specified diseases and employment as a firefighter, to provide for rebuttal of the presumption, to provide for the demonstration of causal connection, to provide that the presumption shall not apply under certain circumstances and to clarify that employment shall be within the State of Idaho.

Amends and adds to existing law regarding public charter schools.

Appropriates and transfers $8,000,000 from the General Fund to the Legislative Legal Defense Fund in fiscal year 2016.

Amends existing law to provide an exclusion from local government purchasing laws for the acquisition of personal property or services through contracts entered into by the Division of Purchasing of the Department of Administration of the State of Idaho.

Adds to existing law to establish the Industry Partner Fund and related provisions, to grant rulemaking authority and to provide reporting requirements.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the regulation of dangerous or at-risk dogs.

Amends existing law to provide that a rebuttable presumption of irreparable harm is established under certain circumstances.

Amends existing law to provide that residential care or assisted living facilities may be cited only for violations of a requirement that is specified in applicable law or rule.

Appropriates $9,289,500 from the General Fund to the Public Health Districts for fiscal year 2017.

Appropriates $27,791,900 to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 152.5.

Appropriates $17,154,500 to Special Programs under the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 42.13; provides for the transfer of any unexpended and unencumbered General Fund moneys to the Opportunity Scholarship Program Account at the end of fiscal year 2016; and provides legislative intent on the level of services by the Geological Survey Program in eastern Idaho.

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to revise provisions regarding the experience and education multiplier; the career ladder; a district's salary-based apportionment; and eligibility for an Idaho professional endorsement.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the use of certain highways by all-terrain, utility type and specialty off-highway vehicles and motorbikes.

Appropriates $13,831,200 to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho for Health Education Programs for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 24.8; provides a lump sum appropriation for dedicated funds; and reappropriates unexpended and unencumbered dedicated fund balances for the Dental Education Programs.

Appropriates $39,630,900 to the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 150.89; permits the department to exceed the 10% transfer limitations between programs for certain project grants; and provides carryover authority for the Capital Development Program.

Amends existing law to revise references to federal law; and to revise the funding mechanism for the State Independent Living Council.

Appropriates $42,650,200 to the Idaho State Tax Commission for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 451.

Appropriates $86,798,500 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Administrators for fiscal year 2017; amends existing law to increase the salary-based apportionment for administrators; and limits the amount distributed for school district and charter school continuous improvement planning and training.

Amends existing law to provide that certain persons may petition for a compromise of the claim of a minor, to provide for the order of priority to make a petition, to authorize a court to pass over a person having priority under certain conditions, to provide requirements for a petition, to authorize a court to take certain actions regarding a compromise, to provide for approval of a compromise and payment and to provide that no filing fee shall be charged for the filing of a petition.

Appropriates $283,400 to the Commission on Hispanic Affairs for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time positions to 3.

Appropriates $4,660,600 to the Office of Drug Policy for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 6.

Appropriates $565,300 to the Board of Tax Appeals for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 5.

Appropriates $51,402,600 to the Department of Juvenile Corrections for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 412.

Appropriates $12,570,600 to the Commission on Aging for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 13; requires a management review implementation report; and requires a region three Area Agency on Aging report to be submitted quarterly.

Appropriates $13,878,400 to the Office of Species Conservation for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 12.63; and expresses legislative intent with regard to sage-grouse conservation actions.

Amends existing law to revise provisions associated with the repurchase of certain equipment from retailers by wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors and to revise provisions regarding sums to be paid for repurchase; and to provide for the purchase price of repair tools in complete and usable condition.

Appropriates $10,312,300 for the Public Schools Educational Support Program/Division of Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind for fiscal year 2017.

Amends existing law to allow transfer of authority and responsibility of handling excess proceeds from tax deed sales to the State Treasurer and to provide duties of the board of county commissioners.

Appropriates $170,000 to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 3; and authorizes lump sum spending authority.

Appropriates $103,048,600 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the divisions of Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions for the three divisions to 731.46; provides for General Fund transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; limits transfers for trustee and benefit payments; provides for program integrity; provides legislative intent on educating children in the department's care; and directs expenditures for Head Start.

Appropriates $2,337,200 to the Lava Hot Springs Foundation for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 13.8.

Amends existing law to provide that money to administer public defense may be appropriated from certain funds.

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to provide for the Postsecondary Credit Scholarship.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that sexual exploitation of a child by certain electronic means shall be a misdemeanor in certain instances and a felony in certain instances and that proceedings shall fall under the Juvenile Corrections Act and to provide that a minor who receives content and reports it to certain persons shall not be guilty of a crime.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide the Idaho School Safety and Security Act, to provide the Office of School Safety and Security, the Idaho School Safety and Security Advisory Board, and to provide powers and duties of the board.

Appropriates $28,274,300 to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 155; appropriates and transfers $716,000 from the Revolving Development Fund to the Aquifer Planning and Management Fund; transfers $2,500,000 of the appropriation from the Economic Recovery Reserve Fund to the Secondary Aquifer Planning, Management and Implementation Fund; transfers $5,000,000 of the appropriation from the General Fund to the Secondary Aquifer Planning, Management and Implementation Fund; appropriates and transfers $100,400 from the General Fund to the Priest Lake Outlet Subaccount; and expresses legislative intent concerning the sale of the Pristine Springs property.

Appropriates $2,233,804,500 for the Medicaid Division in the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 209; provides for transfers to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; limits transfers from trustee and benefit payments; provides legislative intent regarding program integrity; requires monthly Medicaid tracking reports; provides for transfers between programs; requires biannual reports regarding managed care implementation; and requires an annual report on flexible spending authority.

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.

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to exempt certain solar energy property from property tax; to levy a solar energy tax; to provide for its distribution; to add a limitation on a taxing district's budget requests; and to clarify which property is subject to the gross receipts tax.

Amends existing law to provide that the Idaho Geological Survey shall preserve and use samples and records deposited with it, to provide for reports of determinations and identifications specific to the samples and records; to authorize specified uses of information derived from samples and records; to provide that the Idaho Geological Survey shall share certain information with the Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the Department of Lands; and to provide for the sharing of records and information between the commission, the department, the Idaho Geological Survey and other state agencies.

Amends existing law to provide that certain violations and records of violations shall be vacated and sealed.

Amends existing law to provide for formal written performance evaluations and when a school district shall be excused and to provide for written evaluations of principals and assistant superintendents.

Amends existing law to provide additional prohibited conduct regarding covenants, conditions or restrictions by homeowner's associations with exceptions.

Amends existing law to provide that the board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a certain policy and to allow certain students to possess and use certain medications and supplies.

Adds to existing law to provide that a pharmacist who dispenses a biological product shall communicate certain information to the prescriber.

Amends existing law to provide that the State Appellate Public Defender shall provide representation for certain interlocutory appeals and to revise provisions relating to post-conviction relief and habeas corpus proceedings.

Amends existing law to remove reference to certain electronic copies.

Amends existing law to provide what the notice of claim of lien must include; and to provide that a notice of claim of lien will be deemed by the Secretary of State to meet the requirements of a farm products financing statement.

Amends existing law to clarify that the Fish and Game Commission shall prescribe and administer education programs in trapping.

Repeals and adds to existing law regarding the duties of the Adjutant General.

Adds to existing law to implement the Right to Try Act regarding investigational drugs, biological products and devices for patients with terminal illnesses.

Amends existing law to provide that certain services will be reimbursed at 91% of the current Medicare rate.

Amends existing law to provide that a person or entity operating a canal or conduit for irrigation or other beneficial uses authorized by a water right that permits water to be diverted from a natural watercourse for such purposes shall not be required to obtain an additional water right for the incidental use of that same water where the water is diverted for irrigation or other beneficial use and thereafter used to generate hydroelectricity in the canal or conduit, to provide conditions, to provide that the incidental hydropower use shall be junior to and fully subordinated to all existing and future uses, and shall be nonconsumptive and to provide for certain written notice.

Amends existing law to revise the definition of "person."

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding delinquency of assessments.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that the Idaho Transportation Department shall promulgate rules to provide insurers an alternative method for verifying motor vehicle insurance policy data; and to provide that failure to comply with specified law regarding uninsured vehicle tracking shall constitute a wrongful practice and subject an insurer to penalties.

Appropriates $16,691,000 to the Industrial Commission for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 138.25.

Amends existing law to revise board compensation provisions.

Amends existing law to revise the day of celebration for Idaho Day when March 4 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

Repeals and adds to existing law to prohibit nonconsensual common law liens.

Repeals and adds to existing law regarding reading instruction and intervention.

Adds to existing law to provide that the Idaho State Police Forensic Services Laboratory shall test sexual assault evidence kits, to provide duties for health care facilities and local law enforcement, to provide procedures for testing kits, to provide for retention of kits, to provide for independent review of kits in certain instances, to provide for rules for a tracking process of kits, to provide that Idaho State Police Forensic Services shall provide kits to certain parties, to provide reporting and auditing requirements for untested kits, to provide for victim notification and to provide for reporting requirements.

Amends existing law to clarify when persons shall be entitled to purchase the rights of the district in unredeemed delinquency entries.

Appropriates $9,556,900 to the Department of Insurance for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 73.5.

Amends existing law to provide additional requirements regarding certain schools and colleges.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding examinations and a candidate who fails an examination, and to provide that the licensure board may issue a restricted license to engineering faculty under certain conditions.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise duties of the State Treasurer regarding public endowment funds; and to grant authority for the State Treasurer to invest certain funds otherwise excluded from his duties.

Adds to existing law to establish the Computer Science Initiative for Public Schools.

Appropriates $12,707,600 to the Division of Building Safety for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 126.

Amends existing law to provide for license renewal.

Amends existing law to provide that a guardian's authority and responsibility shall terminate upon termination of the guardianship and to revise a provision regarding the resignation of a guardian; and to provide for proceedings for the modification or termination of a guardianship.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding early voting.

Amends and adds to existing law to provide that the Idaho State Department of Agriculture shall be the delegated authority to regulate certain activities if specified conditions are met.

Amends existing law to redesignate the Euthanasia Task Force as the Committee on Humane Euthanasia.

Amends existing law to provide that certain assessments to repay debt must be approved at an election; to provide that certain obligations or contract indebtedness must be submitted to a vote of qualified electors in the district; and to revise provisions regarding judicial examination prior to incurring debt.

Repeals and amends existing law regarding license renewal and reinstatement.

Amends existing law to provide an alternative means of determining a member's proportionate share of the total of all amounts to be assessed; to revise provisions relating to the total dollar amount of certain warrants; and to provide an alternative means of determining certain aggregate ground water rights.

Appropriates $7,583,800 to the Regulatory Boards for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 68.

Amends existing law to revise definitions and provisions regarding the applicability of certain law.

Amends existing law regarding the general powers of the board of trustees of each community college district.

Appropriates an additional $3,500,000 from the Federal Grant Fund to the Military Division for the Federal/State Agreements Program for fiscal year 2016; appropriates $69,685,700 to the Military Division for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 319.8; and grants a continuous appropriation for the Bureau of Homeland Security's Miscellaneous Revenue Fund for the purpose of covering incurred costs arising out of hazardous substance incidents.

Repeals, amends and adds to existing law to revise the authorities and duties of the director of the Department of Agriculture regarding beef cattle feeding operations and dairy farms, to provide that certain specified law shall not affect the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to administer and enforce an NPDES permit program; to revise design and construction provisions; to revise provisions regarding nutrient management plans and inspection provisions; to provide for compliance with dairy environmental management plans; to revise provisions regarding unauthorized discharges and releases; to provide the manner in which the Department of Agriculture shall address noncompliance and to provide for civil penalties.

Repeals and amends existing law relating to license renewal and reinstatement.

Amends existing law to provide a process for claims in the event of damage to bees and beehives by bears.

Adds to existing law to require public notice and opportunity to comment on tentative decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality regarding Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) permits, to provide for appeals of final decisions and for judicial review, to prohibit conflicts of interest; and to provide that provisions of Idaho's Environmental Protection and Health Act shall apply to the IPDES Program and to provide for the enforcement of pretreatment standards.

Amends existing law to revise residency requirements for students of an Idaho public institution of higher education.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the participation of nonmembers in ground water districts for mitigation purposes and to remove provisions regarding nonmembers deemed participants in districts and collection of a proportional share of costs.

Amends existing law to provide for the Environmental Protection Trust, to provide for the Environmental Protection Trust Fund and to provide for the investment of moneys with the Idaho Endowment Fund Investment Board under certain conditions.

Amends existing law to provide that the Idaho Transportation Department shall provide new plates bearing the same number or, if requested by the owner, the next available number, as it applies to certain vehicles for purposes of specified provisions of law.

Amends existing law to revise priority classifications for certain water bodies in regard to the development of total maximum daily load or equivalent processes.

Appropriates $8,170,300 to the Department of Finance for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 64; and provides legislative intent relating to certain continuous appropriations.

Amends, repeals and adds to existing law to revise provisions relating to the Idaho Apple Commission.

Amends existing law to revise obsolete language and to prohibit political subdivisions from establishing minimum wages higher than the minimum wages provided by state law.

Amends existing law to allow a certain income tax credit for a charitable contribution to the Idaho STEM Action Center.

Repeals and amends existing law relating to the Aquaculture Commission; and providing for the transfer of certain moneys.

Repeals, amends, and adds to existing law relating to the Patient Freedom of Information Act.

Amends existing law to remove the requirement that a certain report be submitted to the State Department of Education.

Amends existing law to provide that licensed morticians and funeral directors shall designate the licensed funeral establishment responsible for merchandise or services under prearrangement sales and to provide that the licensed funeral establishment shall maintain all contracts and documents associated with prearrangement sales.

Amends existing law to define terms; and to provide that certain clinics, centers or institutions may accept donations of and dispense medications.

Amends existing law to revise the treatment of unclaimed College Savings Program accounts and to authorize the management of those accounts by the College Savings Program Board under certain conditions.

Amends existing law to remove obsolete language; to eliminate officer term limits; and to increase board member compensation.

Amends existing law to provide an exception to the requirement that every domestic insurer must have and maintain its principal place of business and home office in this state.

Amends and adds to existing law to revise and establish provisions regarding the residence requirements of fire protection commissioners; to provide requirements regarding the Board of Fire Protection Commissioners' responsibility to revise subdistricts; and to establish a process to decrease the size of a fire protection board.

Amends existing law to clarify persons who may possess legend drugs.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding allowable lengths of certain vehicles, overhangs and extensions of loads.

Amends existing law to revise how insurance policies are valued.

Adds to existing law to direct the commission to make a certain payment to the Idaho Horse Council under specified conditions.

Appropriates to the Department of Correction an additional $1,146,500 from the General Fund, $441,100 from dedicated funds, and $263,700 from federal funds for a total of $1,851,300 for fiscal year 2016; and reduces the General Fund appropriation to the Department of Correction by $3,029,900 for fiscal year 2016. These changes represent a net reduction of $1,883,400 in the General Fund and an overall net reduction of $1,178,600 in all funds.

Appropriates $7,825,800 to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho for fiscal year 2017; limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 66; and provides legislative intent.

Amends existing law to revise requirements regarding certain written contracts.

Repeals and adds to existing law to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact.

Amends existing law to make codifier's corrections and to provide correct terminology and code references.

Amends existing law to remove provisions regarding the removal of the director of the Idaho Transportation Department by the Idaho Transportation Board.

Amends existing law to provide conditions when the surviving spouse of a qualified veteran may obtain veterans license plates.

Amends existing law to require notice and a public hearing prior to a taxing district budgeting a forgone increase.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding suspension, revocation, refusal to continue or denial of licenses.

Adds to existing law to provide that for specified purposes the interstate system, which shall be considered to consist of specified routes, in Idaho is deemed a noninterstate highway and to provide that for specified purposes the interstate system, which shall be considered to consist of specified routes, in Idaho is deemed a designated state route.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding council membership.

Amends existing law to provide for compensation of construction managers and general contractors, to provide that certain costs may be incorporated into a contract, to provide that certain bids shall be handled in a particular manner, to clarify how construction managers and general contractors may bid, to provide that certain terms shall be included in certain contracts and to remove a provision relating to compensation.

Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding college and career advisors and reporting requirements.

Appropriates an additional $30,667,900 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid; and reduces the appropriation by $9,000,600 to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid for a net appropriation increase of $21,667,300 for fiscal year 2016.

Amends existing law to clarify the number of local education agencies identified for a certain initial cohort and to allow the State Department of Education to expend or distribute certain moneys.

Amends existing law regarding the Armed Forces and Public Safety Officer Scholarship; and the investment of surplus moneys in the Opportunity Scholarship Program Account.

Amends existing law to revise cigarette wholesaler bonding requirements and to provide an alternative of prepaying the full value of stamps in lieu of posting bond.

Amends existing law to revise the deadline by which an employer must report certain information to the State Tax Commission and to provide a time period for employers to correct any errors in an electronic filing.

Appropriates an additional $484,900 to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2016.

Appropriates an additional $92,400 to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired for fiscal year 2016.

Amends existing law to revise certain required reclamation activities; to revise bond amount provisions and to provide for written notice by the State Board of Land Commissioners to an operator of rejection of a request for bond release upon the board's determination that the requirements of a reclamation plan or permanent closure plan have not been met.

Amends existing law to replace references to professional-technical education with career technical education.

Appropriates to the Department of Juvenile Corrections an additional $296,200 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2016; and reduces the General Fund appropriation to the Department of Juvenile Corrections by $247,000 for fiscal year 2016, for an overall net increase of $49,200 from the General Fund.

Amends existing law to provide an appeals process for a taxpayer when an assessor has determined that a property no longer meets the criteria of forest land.

Amends existing law to change the filing deadline to apply for a hardship application with the Board of Equalization.

Amends existing law to exempt certain hand tools up to $100 from the sales and use tax and to remove reference to a definition.

Amends existing law to remove a requirement that the Tax Commission provide certain property valuation information by school district; and to clarify a past code reference.

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.

Appropriates an additional $1,638,700 to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2016.

Appropriates an additional $80,000 to the Board of Dentistry for fiscal year 2016; appropriates an additional $21,100 to the Board of Pharmacy for fiscal year 2016; and authorizes an additional position to the Board of Pharmacy.

Appropriates and transfers $324,000 from the General Fund to the Pest Control Deficiency Fund.

Amends existing law to update references to the Internal Revenue Code and to add language regarding marriage.