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SENATE CALENDAR
February 23, 2012 10 A.M. 46th Legislative Day
10TH ORDER
Sponsor Gubernatorial Appointment
Senator Darrington Sara B. Thomas as the State Appellate Public Defender J&R
BILLS ON SECOND READING
Sponsor Number Description
Senator Smyser H 407 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - BUILDING SAFETY - Amends existing law relating to the Division of Building Safety to revise provisions relating to certain personnel of the Idaho Building Code Board and to provide that regional managers shall be nonclassified employees.
Senator Smyser H 408 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - ELECTRICAL BOARD - Amends existing law relating to the Idaho Electrical Board to revise provisions relating to presiding officials of the board.
Senator Smyser H 409 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - BUILDING SAFETY DIVISION - Amends existing law relating to the Division of Building Safety to revise provisions relating to a certain board's member compensation.
Senator Davis H 469 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - CONVEYANCES IN BUILDINGS - Amends existing law to revise regulation and standards for certain buildings.
Senator Tippets H 473 by TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE - MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER'S LICENSES - IDENTIFICATION CARDS - Amends existing law relating to motor vehicle driver's licenses and identification cards to revise provisions relating to an examination; to revise provisions relating to the expiration and renewal of certain driver's licenses, to revise provisions relating to extension of certain driver's licenses; and to revise provisions relating to the expiration and renewal of certain identification cards.
Senator Winder H 417 by REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE - SALES TAX - Amends existing law relating to sales tax to provide that materials, parts and components installed on certain aircraft are exempt.
Senator LeFavour H 393aa by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - RURAL HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND PHYSICIAN INCENTIVE - Amends and repeals existing law relating to rural health care access and physician incentive to provide for the Physician Incentive Fund to be administered by the Department of Health and Welfare; to provide for the Joint Health Care Access and Physician Incentive Grant Review Board; to provide for the scope of rural health care access and physician incentive grant support; to provide for grants to physicians for qualified medical education debt repayments; to provide for rural health care access grant awards and to provide for physician incentive grant awards; to provide for categories of grants; to provide requirements and criteria for grant awards; to provide for applications; to provide a schedule for awards, to provide for the disbursal of approved rural health care access grants and rural physician incentive grants.
BILLS ON THIRD READING
Sponsor Number Description
Senator Heider SJR 104
HD 3-2 		by RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - RIGHTS TO HUNT, FISH AND TRAP - Proposing a new section to the Constitution of the State of Idaho to provide that the rights to hunt, fish and trap are a valued part of the heritage of the State of Idaho and shall forever be preserved for the people through the laws, rules and proclamations of the state; and to provide that the rights set forth do not create a right to trespass on private property, shall not affect rights to divert, appropriate and use water, and shall not lead to a diminution of other private rights.
Senator Brackett S 1303
HD 		by AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - ANIMALS - Amends existing law relating to animals to provide that specified conduct under certain circumstances shall constitute a felony; to provide for penalties; and to provide that other specified conduct shall constitute misdemeanors.
Senator Corder S 1312
HD 		by TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE - MOTOR VEHICLES - Amends existing law relating to motor vehicles to provide that specified operating fees shall not apply to certain construction equipment, forestry equipment and lawn and grounds equipment.
Senator Hammond S 1316 by LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TAXATION COMMITTEE - PUBLIC FUNDS - Adds to existing law relating to public funds to authorize treasurers for public hospital districts and treasurers for county hospitals to invest funds generated from operational revenues in certain investments; and to provide that such authorization shall not be construed to enlarge or expand powers of treasurers for public hospital districts or county hospitals to invest funds generated through ad valorem taxes, assessments or levies outside the scope of investments enumerated in specified law.
Senator Goedde S 1327 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - EDUCATION - Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions relating to delivery of a contract, to provide that a designee of the board may declare a position vacant, to revise provisions relating to a district court order and provisions relating to the district placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or unpaid suspension; to eliminate language relating to a reduction in force, to revise provisions relating to a category B contract and to revise a date; to revise a provision relating to certificated employees employed pursuant to a grandfathered renewable contract and to revise provisions relating to reassignment of an administrative employee; to revise provisions relating to final offers of settlement, and to revise provisions relating to the subject matter of negotiations and to provide for rules.
Senator Goedde S 1328 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - EDUCATION - Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions relating to criteria for the distribution of certain moneys; to revise provisions relating to postsecondary credits of dual credit courses and to revise a provision relating to counting average daily attendance; to establish provisions providing that parents or guardians shall not have the right to enroll a student in an online course without certain permission and to establish provisions relating to online course providers reporting average daily attendance.
Senator Goedde S 1329 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - EDUCATION - Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions relating to certain obligations to retirement and social security benefits; to revise a provision relating to pay for performance bonuses for student achievement growth and to revise certain dates relating to certain certificated employees' new employment contracts, and to establish a provision relating to certain administrative employees' award of pay for performance shares.
Senator Corder S 1255aa by HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE - RECORDS EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE - Amends existing law relating to records exempt from disclosure to provide that records of investigations prepared by the Department of Health and Welfare shall be exempt from disclosure unless otherwise provided by agency rule.
Senator Bock S 1277aa by HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE - DIETITIANS - Amends existing law relating to dietitians to revise the Dietetic Licensure Board member compensation.
Senator Corder H 358aaS by REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE - PROPERTY TAX - Amends existing law to revise property tax law to authorize the county auditor to notify various political subdivisions and to provide valuation statements the third Monday of July.
Senator Mortimer H 382
HD 		by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - EDUCATION - PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ACCOUNT - Amends existing law relating to the Professional Studies Account to remove a reference to state appropriations.
Senator Mortimer H 383 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - IDAHO OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Amends existing law relating to education and the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship Program to revise provisions relating to administrative costs of the program.
Senator Fulcher H 385 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - COMMUNITY COLLEGES - Amends existing law relating to community colleges to revise terminology, to revise provisions relating to moneys credited to the Community College Account and to provide that the State Treasurer shall make certain disbursements and to revise provisions relating to disbursement of funds from the State Community College Account.
Senator Smyser H 412 by AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - GRAPE GROWERS - WINE PRODUCERS - Amends and adds to existing law relating to the Idaho Grape Growers and Wine Producers Commission to revise the powers and duties of the commission; and to provide for powers associated with the promotion of Idaho grape products.
Senator Keough H 367 by TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE - FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY - Adds to existing law relating to federal transit authority funding to establish provisions relating to designated recipients for Federal Transit Administration funding.
Senator LeFavour H 394 by EDUCATION COMMITTEE - EDUCATION - Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel, to revise provisions relating to purpose, to provide for assumptions, to provide definitions, to establish provisions relating to duties of member jurisdictions, to establish provisions relating to procedures for member participation and to establish and revise provisions relating to other aspects of the interstate agreement.
Senator Lodge H 402 by JUDICIARY, RULES, AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE - BRAND BOARD - Amends existing law relating to the State Brand Board to provide that the State Brand Inspector and personnel of the State Brand Inspector's office shall be employed by the Idaho State Police; to provide that the State Brand Inspector shall have supervision over employees and to provide that the State Brand Inspector and personnel of the State Brand Inspector's office shall be governed by the policies and rules of the state of Idaho and the Idaho State Police concerning personnel disciplinary matters.
Senator Goedde H 418 by COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE - PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM - Amends existing law relating to the Public Employee Retirement System to revise a definition.
Senator Fulcher H 391 by STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - PRIMARY ELECTION - Amends existing law to delete reference to the Presidential Preference Primary.
Senator Tippets H 374 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS - Amends existing law relating to engineers and surveyors to provide that only certain persons may qualify for assignment to examinations for initial certification and licensure and to provide exceptions, to provide conditions relating to postponement of action on applications for assignment to examinations and for release of scores; to grant authority to investigate the validity of examination irregularities and to invalidate applicant scores; to remove requirements relating to applications for licensure and certification and to grant board authority to postpone action on applications for licensure by comity in certain circumstances.
Senator Tippets H 375 by BUSINESS COMMITTEE - PLATS AND VACATIONS - Amends existing law relating to plats and vacations to revise conditions under which a governing body may direct the county surveyor or contract with a professional land surveyor in private practice to set interior monuments for a subdivision, to provide conditions under which a substitute professional land surveyor may assume responsible charge for setting interior monuments for a subdivision and to provide conditions under which a substitute professional land surveyor is required to file a record of survey.
Senator Werk H 438 by REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE - INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT - Amends existing law to revise the state income tax credit for the investment tax credit regarding property that has a situs in Idaho.
Senator Lodge H 369 by TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE - MILITARY DIVISION - Adds to existing law to create the Military Division Support Fund in the State Treasury.
Senator McKenzie S 1285 by STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - LOTTERY COMMISSION - Amends existing law to revise how transfers of lottery dividends are made.
Senator Stennett S 1286 by STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - BINGO AND RAFFLES - Amends existing law to revise the allowed expenditure percentages for charitable bingo licensees and to revise the allowed expenditure percentage for charitable raffle licensees.
Senator Heider S 1289 by RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS - Amends existing law relating to irrigation districts to revise provisions relating to certain appeal procedures.
Senator Tippets S 1290 by RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - DRAINAGE DISTRICTS - Amends existing law relating to drainage districts to provide for reapportionment of certain benefits and to revise provisions relating to the apportionment of estimates of the cost of maintenance of drainage districts' drainage systems.
Senator Hammond H 405 by HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE - ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES - Amends and adds to existing law relating to electronic cigarettes to establish provisions relating to the possession, distribution or use of electronic cigarettes by minors.
Senator Keough S 1333 by FINANCE COMMITTEE - APPROPRIATION - SECRETARY OF STATE - Appropriates $200,000 to the Secretary of State for fiscal year 2012 to pay for a voter information campaign.
Senator Bock S 1294 by HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE - MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT - Amends and adds to existing law relating to the Medical Consent and Natural Death Act to revise provisions relating to people with mental illness or developmental disability; to revise provisions relating to people who may consent to their own care; and to revise provisions relating to people who may give consent to care for others.
Senator Toryanski S 1299 by JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE - MILITARY EDUCATION - Adds to existing law relating to military education training and service to provide that the State Board of Education, the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho, the Board of Trustees of certain community colleges and the State Board for Professional-Technical Education shall develop policies relating to the award of academic credit for certain military education, training or service; and to provide that each of the professional and occupational licensing boards within the Department of Self-Governing Agencies may accept certain military education, training or service toward the qualifications to receive licensure, certification or registration.
Senator Bair S 1256 by RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE - SPECIAL BIG GAME AUCTION TAGS - Amends existing law relating to fish and game to provide for special big game auction tags designated as Governor's wildlife partnership tags.
14TH ORDER
Sponsor Number Description
Senator McKenzie S 1231 by STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAM - Amends existing law to provide for a one year waiver from the Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program upon certain events occurring.