Legislative Action

Vetoed By Governor

HB146 (Revenue and Taxation) Allows Fish and Game Department to exchange information with Tax Commission on residency status of people applying for resident fishing and hunting licenses.

HB204 (Agricultural Affairs) Removes right of a grower to request a refund from the Barley Commission from the assessment on barley.

Signed By Governor

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

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

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.

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

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

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

SB1030 (Judiciary and Rules) Expands Legislature’s authority to issue subpoenae.

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

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

SB1046 (Judiciary and Rules) Extends child support guidelines two years.

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

SB1173 (Resources and Environment) Makes election for supervisors of soil conservation districts fall under uniform consolidated election law.

SB1175 (Resources and Environment) Requires members of Forest Products Commission to meet at least four times per year.

SB1183 (Commerce and Human Resources) Amends law to include Medicare supplement insurance policies within definition of major medical disability policies.

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

SB1194 (Resources and Environment) Rewrites grazing lease conflict bid law but leaves full power over bids in the hands of the Land Board.

SB1225 (Judiciary and Rules) Authorizes Idaho Plumbing Board to certify and prescribe standards for speciality plumbing certification

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

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.

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

SB1269 (Finance) Appropriates $221.5 million overall 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.

SB1156 (Health and Welfare) Provides for reimbursement to physicians for Medicaid-covered services.

HB171 (Education) Allows student to be enrolled in more than one school setting.

HB240 (Business) Provides for an alternative to practical experience for eligibility to apply for barber teacher’s certificate.

HB303 (Education) Eliminates duty of state Board of Education to review decisions by Professional Standards Commission.

SB1255 (State Affairs) Clarifies water laws that certain uses of water do not qualify as an exempt domestic purpose.

SB1257 (Finance) Appropriation to the secretary of state’s office for 1996 operations.

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.

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

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 wilful 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.

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.

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

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

SB1121 (Agricultural Affairs) Adopts Idaho Agricultural Ground Water Quality Protection Program.

SB1064 (Health and Welfare) Provides that Department of Health and Welfare shall not investigate report of child abuse unless the name of person reporting or alleging abuse is supplied to the department.

SB1050 (Judiciary and Rules) Provides for extraterritorial authority of peace officers.

SB1094 (Judiciary and Rules) Provides that restitution ordered by court under the Youth Rehabilitation Act is not limited by another code section.

SB1031 (Judiciary and Rules) Requires rulemaking records under Administrative Procedures Act to be maintained for at least two years.

SB1068 (Health and Welfare) Provides for an investigation of allegations of child abuse in any divorce proceedings or proceedings to modify divorce decree.

SB1076 (Education) Authorizes appeal process to permit additional staff allowance in education support program if existing allowance is insufficient to meet accrediting standards.

SB1082 (Judiciary and Rules) Adopts new chapter on Uniform Commercial Code involving investment securities.

SB1150 (Commerce and Human Resources) Removes recreation vehicles and park trailers from inspection provisions under Department of Labor and Industrial Services.

SB1116 (Transportation) Provides for management of funds of Local Highway Technical Assistance Council.