House Bill 599 Summary

• Creates the Idaho Child Abduction Prevention Act as a new chapter in Title 32, Idaho Code, establishing a legal framework for courts to prevent wrongful removal or retention of children.

• Allows courts to order abduction prevention measures on their own motion or upon petition by a party with custody rights if there is a credible risk of child abduction.

• Establishes 13 risk factors for courts to consider when determining abduction risk, including prior abduction attempts, threats, suspicious financial activities, international ties, and countries non-compliant with the Hague Convention on international child abduction.

• Authorizes courts to impose specific preventive conditions such as travel restrictions, passport surrender requirements, supervised visitation, bond requirements, and warrants to take physical custody of children when imminent wrongful removal is credible.

• Abduction prevention orders remain in effect until the earliest of: the time stated in the order, the child's emancipation, the child reaching 18 years of age, or when the order is modified or revoked by a court with jurisdiction.

• Act becomes effective July 1, 2022.