Legislative Action

Signed By Governor

SB1217 (State Affairs) Consolidates state legal services under the attorney general’s offices.

SB1084 (Judiciary and Rules) Amends laws dealing with defendant’s rights in capital punishment cases and clarifies right to ask for a new attorney to handle appeals.

HB175 (Judiciary, Rules and Administration) Expands the rights of victims in criminal cases.

HB42 (Speaker) Clarifies filing requirement of motor carriers and provides uniform per-vehicle fee.

HB188 (Transportation and Defense) Revises requirements for administration of motor fuels tax.

HB193 (Business) Authorizes the use of debit credit cards for purchases at colleges and universities.

HB194 (Business) Provides alternatives to Accountancy Board based upon an investigative report of a complaint.

HB239 (Business) Clarifies authority of insurance director over the divisions of the department and insurance examiners.

HB241 (Business) Clarifies the use of information by insurance director in judicial or administrative proceedings.

HB242 (Business) Amends laws on the use of forms for insurance policies and contracts.

HB243 (Business) Requires director of the Department of Insurance to impose same sanctions on insurers licensed in another state as are imposed on insurers licensed in this state.

HB130 (Revenue and Taxation) Removes time limits on collection and enforcement of sales taxes collected by a retailer.

HB132 (Revenue and Taxation) Clarifies definitions and computation of state income tax for individuals and certain corporations.

HB174 (Business) Provides that individual exempt from funeral director licensing requirements shall not perform the functions of a licensed mortician or funeral director unless licensed as required by law.

HB207 (Agricultural Affairs) Renames grazing boards, increases terms of members and clarifies procedures.

HB260 (Transportation and Defense) Allows county employees to attend military training and receive county pay less payments from the military.

HB270 (State Affairs) Requires independent candidates to file at same time as party candidates for primary election.

SB1060 (Judiciary and Rules) States that Idaho State Police is a division of the Department of Law Enforcement and under direct supervision of the department director.

SB1074 (Commerce and Human Resources) Requires director of Department of Insurance to accept certain deposits by out-of-state title insurers to meet Idaho deposit requirements.

SB1097 (State Affairs) Brings special district elections into conformity with consolidated election dates.

SB1103 (Local Government and Taxation) Amends laws on establishment of public library districts.

SB1109 (Commerce and Human Resources) Authorizes Public Employee Retirement System to administer a supplemental retirement plan.

SB1117 (Transportation) Makes technical amendments in laws covering rights-of-way.

SB1119 (Transportation) Provides additional criteria, definitions and penalties for operation of variable load suspension axles.

SB1120 (Agricultural Affairs) Clarifies false or fraudulent information penalties in the Brand Inspection Law.

SB1122 (Agricultural Affairs) Adopts Idaho Agricultural Ground Water Quality Protection Program.

SB1125 (Resources and Environment) Brings irrigation district elections into conformity with Consolidated Election Law.

SB1130 (State Affairs) Amends ministerial duties of secretary of state’s office on general business corporations and limited partnerships.

SB1135 (Health and Welfare) Amends laws on fees for hazardous wastes rendered nonhazardous.

SB1145 (Health and Welfare) Authorizes court, in divorce actions, to consider the grandparents for custody of children under certain circumstances.

SB1181 (Local Government and Taxation) Provides that counties can charge a fee for the actual cost of maintaining a computerized mapping system.

SB1232 (Finance) Appropriation to Public Utilities Commission for 1996 operations.

Sent To Governor

SB1136 (Transportation) Provides authority for port of entry personnel to seize and detain vehicles.

SB1228 (Judiciary and Rules) Clarifies that hearing is not required on recommendations for probation for prisoners under 180-day jurisdiction of the courts.

SB1140 (Education) Authorizes school superintendent to extend temporary suspension of student by a principal.

SB1189 (Education) Amends laws requiring expulsion and immediate suspension of student carrying concealed firearm onto school grounds.

SB1024 (Education) Allows a district to deny enrollment to student who has been expelled or denied enrollment in another school district.

SB1163 (Judiciary and Rules) Continues specified administrative rules in effect until July 1, 1996.

SB1229 (State Affairs) Allows special licence plates to be issued to persons with a disability or parent or guardian of a dependent child with a disability.

SB1235 (State Affairs) Provides procedures for holding recall elections for highway district commissioners.

SB1261 (Finance) Appropriates $6.4 million to Department of Labor and Industrial Services for 1996 operations.

SB1262 (Finance) Appropriates $36.7 million for vocational education in 1996 budget.

SB1263 (Finance) Appropriates $20.5 million to Department of Agriculture for 1996 operations.

SB1264 (Finance) Appropriates $6 million for the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind for 1996 operations.

SB1265 (Finance) Appropriates $18.9 million for Idaho court system for 1996 operations.

SB1266 (Finance) Appropriates $2.68 million for Idaho Educational Public Broadcasting System for 1996 operations.

SB1269 (Finance) Appropriates $221.5 million from general fund for 1996 operations of the higher education system.

SB1271 (Finance) Appropriates $7.5 million for 1996 operations of public health districts.

SB1272 (Finance) Appropriates $12.6 million for 1996 operations of the Military Division.

SB1273 (Finance) Appropriates $3.3 million to State Library Board for 1996 operations.

SB1177 (Local Government and Taxation) Amends laws dealing with recreation districts and planned unit developments.

SB1238 (State Affairs) Authorizes counties to create a county building construction fund without an election to meet critical needs for justice or law enforcement buildings.

SB1078 (Education) Increases factor by which a school district is reimbursed for costs of driver education programs.

HB215 (Local Government) Provides that elected officers of special districts are subject to recall election.

HB167 (Judiciary, Rules and Administration) Clarifies that only when a prisoner is jailed solely for willful nonpayment of a fine can he or she discharge the fine at the rate of $35 per day of incarceration.

HB308 (Education) Upgrades standards for school buses.

HB63 (Speaker) Specifies the types of proceedings used for collection of child support.

HB52 (Speaker) Streamlines procedures for transmitted child support payments to the child caretaker.

HB358 (Appropriations) Makes an emergency $187,000 appropriation to the new Department of Juvenile Corrections for initial operations this spring.

HB359 (Appropriations) Allocates $7.9 million for 1996 operations of the state Liquor Dispensary.

HB360 (Appropriations) Allocates $44.700 for 1996 operations of the Commission on Women’s Programs.

HB361 (Appropriations) Allocates $1.3 million for 1996 operations of the state treasurer’s office.

HB59 (Speaker) Sets up guidelines for state attempts to determine paternity.

HB60 (Speaker) Reduces the penalty from $1,000 to $300 for employers refusing to withhold child support payments from worker checks in compliance with a withholding order.

HB227 (Judiciary, Rules and Administration) Clarifies procedures for collecting judgments.

HB312 (Ways and Means) Sets up procedures for handling court-ordered payments to minors or incompetent people.

HB337 (Ways and Means) Includes a series of thefts as part of a common scheme in the grand theft statute.

HB350 (Ways and Means) Allows release of juvenile record to a school district under certain circumstances.

HB265 (Agricultural Affairs) Sets up affordable procedure to accommodate repair of leaking artesian wells.

HB323 (Ways and Means) Sets up a system for creating groundwater districts in the state’s campaign to manage its critical water resources.

HB284 (Ways and Means) Sets up a system to create water measurement districts to help users comply with new measurement laws.

HB109 (Judiciary, Rules and Administration) Requires counseling and treatment upon conviction of committing domestic violence.

HB269 (State Affairs) Makes confidential certain records of port districts.

HB329 (State Affairs) Sets restrictions on city franchise taxes on utilities.

HB316 (State Affairs) Expands electionday registration to all elections.

HB315 (State Affairs) Repeals the requirement for an advisory vote of the electorate before legislative ratification of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

HB346 (Revenue and Taxation) Exempts resale of telephone services from the definition of utility.

HB301 (Revenue and Taxation) Exempts sales of rooms at the Ronald McDonald House from the hotel-motel room tax.

HB198 (Revenue and Taxation) Allows damaged property to be removed from the property tax rolls.

HB282 (State Affairs) Allows creation of joint city-county hospital districts.

HB286 (State Affairs) Allows cities to convey a lease of a city hospital to a nonprofit corporation.

HB247 (Local Government) Establishes a system of county business licenses.

HB183 (Revenue and Taxation) Diverts revenue from 5 cents of the cigarette tax to the new juvenile justice system.

Killed By House

SB1017 (Local Government and Taxation) Authorizes adoption of optional forms of county government.

HB349 (State Affairs) Requires formal contract bids on projects with estimated cost of $35,000 instead of $5,000; requires local government to account for costs on all works.

Introduced In House

HB388 (Appropriations) Appropriates $5.6 million for health education programs under state Board of Education for 1996 operations.

HB389 (Appropriations) Appropriates $33.1 million to Department of Health and Welfare for direct and indirect veterans services for 1996 operations.

HB390 (Ways and Means) Creates Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to deal with claims that state laws create unfunded mandates on other units of government.

Introduced In Senate

SB1287 (Finance) Allocates $4.4 million for special programs in the higher education system.