Legislative Action

Signed by governor

HB318 (Revenue and Taxation) - Authorizes electronic fund transfer for certain taxes and fees.

HB331 (Education) - Recognizes transferability of credits from Western Governors University.

HB368 (Appropriations) - Allocates $705 million for 1998 state aid to public schools.

SB1085 (State Affairs) - Allows the governor to appoint a chairman of the Tax Commission.

SB1114 (Local Government and Taxation) - Eliminates public works license for contractors doing work during a declared emergency.

SB1115 (Health and Welfare) - Sets up a state framework for regulating managed health care organizations.

SB1121 (Transportation) - Requires handicapped license plate holders to be regularly recertified.

SB1133 (Local Government and Taxation) - Requires any tax settlements over $50,000 to be approved by at least two tax commissioners.

SB1165 (Health and Welfare) - Limits indigent medical care payment for nonresidents to only those from states making indigent medical care payments for Idaho residents.

SB1169 (Education) - Requires school districts to include actual expenditures of two previous years in advertising proposed budget.

SB1170 (Education) - Requires contracts for all school bus routes in a district to be bid at the same time.

SB1176 (Local Government and Taxation) - Sets standards for income tax form checkoff donations to remain on form.

SB1238 (State Affairs) - Permits state lottery payments to tribes under gaming compacts.

SB1239 (State Affairs) - Limits local government snow removal responsibility to only roads it has jurisdiction over.

SB1241 (State Affairs) - Shifts the Soil Conservation Commission from the Lands Department to the Agriculture Department.

SB1244 (State Affairs) - Exempts the Western Governors University from state proprietary school regulations.

SB1259 (Finance) - Allocates $110.6 million for 1998 operations of the Welfare Division.

SB1261 (Finance) - Allocates $9.2 million for 1998 operations of the Commission on Aging.

SB1262 (Finance) - Allocates $500,500 for 1998 operations of the Endowment Fund Investment Board.

SB1263 (Finance) - Allocates $8.1 million for 1998 operations of the Liquor Dispensary.

SB1264 (Finance) - Allocates $1.4 million for 1998 operations of the governor’s office.

SB1265 (Finance) - Allocates $6.1 million for 1998 operations of the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

SB1150 (Commerce and Human Resources) - Creates a state regulatory framework for managed care operations.

SB1271 (Judiciary and Rules) - Creates a Coeur d’Alene River Basin Commission to facilitate heavy metals clean up.

HB55 (Simpson) - Reduces from eight to six years the experience needed to take the land surveyor examination.

HB57 (Simpson) - Updates Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors law.

HB131 (State Affairs) - Allows Idaho Housing and Finance Association to issue tax exempt bonds for nonprofit facilities owned by nonprofit corporations.

HB313 (State Affairs) - Allows state to comply with federally mandated telecommunications deregulation.

HB364 (Appropriations) - Allocates $12.3 million for 1998 state aid to community colleges.

Revived by Senate, sent to governor

HB230 (Business) - Shifts registration requirement from agents to collection agencies.

Killed by Senate

HB233 (State Affairs) - Requires the state to use federal reimbursement rates for employee lodging.

Sent to governor

HB7 (Simpson) - Clarifies that gambling is prohibited in establishments licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.

HB399 (State Affairs) - Requires electric utilities to report customer cost information.

HB367 (State Affairs) - Allows local governments to regulate public rights-of-way regarding telecommunications facilities.

HB123 (State Affairs) - Diverts money in the Racing Commission Free Fund over $400,000 to owner-breeder awards and tracks.

HB122 (State Affairs) - Brings city initiative and referendum signature requirements in line with those for counties.

HB379 (Ways and Means) - Redefines real property for trust deeds.

HB349 (Revenue and Taxation) - Exempts media measurement services from the sales tax.

HB355 (Revenue and Taxation) - Allows special elections to increase property tax budgeting base in fire protection districts experiencing rapid expansion.

HB304 (Revenue and Taxation) - Establishes circumstances where no penalty is imposed for tax evasion.

HB321 (Revenue and Taxation) - Clarifies unclaimed property law.

HB347 (Revenue and Taxation) - Imposes income tax on lottery winnings.

HB271 (Transportation and Defense) - Increases the maximum salary for highway district commissioners.