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H0554aa.............................................by AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS
HORSE OWNERS - ASSESSMENT - Amends existing law to provide for a referendum
to determine whether horse owners support an increase from one dollar to
three dollars in the per head assessment for funding the Idaho Horse Board;
to provide requirements for a referendum to determine whether the
assessment should continue; to provide a three dollar assessment per horse;
and to provide that the assessment shall revert to one dollar if so voted
at the referendum.
02/11 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/14 Rpt prt - to Agric Aff
02/25 Rpt out - to Gen Ord
02/29 Rpt out amen - to engros
03/01 Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
03/02 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/07 3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 59-8-3
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough(Barraclough), Bell, Bieter, Black, Boe,
Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase, Cheirrett, Clark, Crow, Cuddy,
Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Hadley,
Hammond, Hansen(23), Hansen(29), Henbest, Hornbeck, Jaquet, Jones,
Kellogg, Kendell, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley,
Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moss, Moyle, Pomeroy, Reynolds, Ringo,
Robison, Sali, Sellman, Shepherd, Smith, Smylie, Stevenson,
Stoicheff, Stone, Taylor, Tilman, Trail, Wood, Zimmermann, Mr Speaker
NAYS -- Barrett, Geddes, Gould, Judd, McKague, Pearce, Ridinger,
Schaefer
Absent and excused -- Kempton, Pischner, Wheeler
Floor Sponsor - Montgomery
Title apvd - to Senate
03/08 Senate intro - 1st rdg as amen - to Agric Aff
03/14 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg as amen
03/15 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/29 3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 27-3-5
AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
Crow, Danielson, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Ingram,
Ipsen, King-Barrutia, Lee, McLaughlin, Richardson, Riggs, Risch,
Sandy, Schroeder, Sorensen, Thorne, Wheeler, Williams
NAYS--Hawkins, Stegner, Whitworth
Absent and excused--Geddes, Keough, Noh, Parry, Stennett
Floor Sponsor - Deide
Title apvd - to House
03/30 To enrol
03/31 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
04/03 Pres signed - to Governor
04/14 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 312
Effective: 07/01/00
H0554
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 554, As Amended
BY AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO HORSE OWNERS; AMENDING SECTION 25-2510, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR
3 A REFERENDUM TO DETERMINE WHETHER HORSE OWNERS SUPPORT AN INCREASE FROM
4 ONE DOLLAR TO THREE DOLLARS IN THE PER HEAD ASSESSMENT FOR FUNDING THE
5 IDAHO HORSE BOARD, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR A REFERENDUM TO DETERMINE
6 WHETHER THE ASSESSMENT TO FUND THE IDAHO HORSE BOARD SHOULD CONTINUE AND
7 TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AND AMENDING SECTION 25-2505, IDAHO CODE,
8 TO PROVIDE THE ASSESSMENT PER HORSE SHALL BE THREE DOLLARS AND TO PROVIDE
9 THAT THE ASSESSMENT SHALL REVERT TO ONE DOLLAR IF SO VOTED AT THE REFEREN-
10 DUM.
11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
12 SECTION 1. That Section 25-2510, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
13 amended to read as follows:
14 25-2510. REFERENDUM FOR HORSE OWNERS. (1) After five (5) Within three (3)
15 years from the effective date of this section July 1, 2000, a referendum shall
16 be held to determine if horse owners favor an increase from one dollar ($1.00)
17 to three dollars ($3.00) in the continuation of the mandatory provisions
18 assessment prescribed in section 25-2505, Idaho Code. The question shall be
19 submitted to all horse owners who had a brand inspection the year prior to the
20 referendum. The brand board shall provide a ballot at the time of the brand
21 inspection. Horse owners who have been issued a lifetime brand inspection sub-
22 sequent to the effective date of this amendment after July 1, 2000, are also
23 eligible to participate in the referendum and may do so by requesting a ballot
24 from the Idaho horse board. Voting shall be by secret ballots upon which the
25 words "Do you favor the continuation of a the increase from one dollar ($1.00)
26 to three dollars ($3.00) in the mandatory assessment to fund the Idaho Horse
27 Board?" are printed with a square before each of the printed words "YES" and
28 "NO" with directions to insert an "X" mark in the square before the proposi-
29 tion which the voter favors. If a majority of the referendum vote is in favor
30 of continuing the mandatory program assessment of three dollars ($3.00), the
31 provisions of section 25-2505, Idaho Code, shall be extended indefinitely or
32 until such time that the horse board deems it necessary to hold another refer-
33 endum on the issue. If a majority of the referendum vote is against the three
34 dollar ($3.00) assessment provided in section 25-2505, Idaho Code, the assess-
35 ment shall revert to one dollar ($1.00) on the date the director of the
36 department of agriculture announces the results of the referendum.
37 (2) After five (5) years from the effective date of the referendum
38 required in the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, and every five
39 (5) years thereafter, a referendum on the continuation of the mandatory
40 assessment to fund the Idaho horse board may be held at the petition of horse
41 owners, or at the request of the Idaho horse board. The question shall be sub-
42 mitted to all horse owners who paid an assessment the year before the referen-
43 dum and by owners who hold a lifetime brand inspection issued since July 1,
2
1 1993. The question shall be submitted by secret ballots upon which the words,
2 "Do you favor the continuation of a mandatory assessment to fund the Idaho
3 Horse Board?" are printed with a square before each of the printed words "YES"
4 and "NO" with directions to insert an "X" mark in the square before the ques-
5 tion which the voter favors. If a majority of the referendum vote is in favor
6 of continuing the mandatory assessment, all of the provisions of chapter 25,
7 title 25, Idaho Code, shall continue. If a majority of the referendum vote is
8 against continuing the mandatory assessment, the assessment imposed in section
9 25-2505, Idaho Code, shall cease to be mandatory on the date the director of
10 the department of agriculture announces the results of the referendum vote.
11 The procedures necessary to initiate a referendum under the provisions of this
12 subsection are as follows:
13 (a) A referendum shall be held if the Idaho department of agriculture
14 receives a petition requesting such a referendum signed by ten percent
15 (10%) or more of horse owners who have had a brand inspection, in either
16 of the two (2) immediate past years; or
17 (b) A referendum shall be held if the Idaho department of agriculture
18 receives a written request for such referendum from the Idaho horse board.
19 (3) (a) Any referendum shall be conducted only among owners who paid an
20 assessment the year prior to the referendum and by owners who hold a lifetime
21 brand inspection issued since 1993. held pursuant to subsections (1) and (2)
22 of this section shall be conducted as follows:
23 (ba) Any referendum must be supervised by the Idaho department of agri-
24 culture.
25 (cb) Any referendum shall be held, and the result determined and declared
26 by the director of the department of agriculture, and recorded in the
27 office of the secretary of state.
28 (dc) Notice of any referendum must be given by the Idaho horse board in a
29 manner determined by it. The ballots must be prepared by the Idaho horse
30 board and forwarded to eligible owners. as prescribed in subsection (1) of
31 this section. Returned ballots shall be delivered to the Idaho department
32 of agriculture, main office, Boise, Idaho, on or before July 20 of the
33 year of the referendum.
34 (ed) The Idaho horse board shall pay the costs of any referendum.
35 SECTION 2. That Section 25-2505, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
36 amended to read as follows:
37 25-2505. ASSESSMENTS -- COLLECTION. (1) There is hereby levied and
38 imposed upon all horses an assessment of not more than one three dollars
39 ($13.00) per head to be paid by the owner. The assessment shall revert to one
40 dollar ($1.00) if the referendum held as provided in section 25-2510(1), Idaho
41 Code, results in a majority vote opposing the three dollar ($3.00) assessment.
42 A reversion to a one dollar ($1.00) assessment shall be effective on the date
43 the director of the department of agriculture announces, as provided in sec-
44 tion 25-2510, Idaho Code, that the referendum resulted in a majority vote
45 opposing the three dollar ($3.00) assessment.
46 (2) The assessment levied and imposed in this section shall be collected
47 on all brand inspections completed on horses in the state of Idaho.
48 (3) The state brand inspector shall collect the assessment in addition
49 to, at the same time, and in the same manner as the fee charged for state
50 brand inspections. The assessment so collected belongs to and shall be paid to
51 the Idaho horse board, either directly or later by remittance together with a
52 report detailing collection of the assessment. The board shall reimburse the
53 state brand inspector for the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for
3
1 such collection, in an amount determined by the board and the inspector.
AH0554
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
Moved by Jones
Seconded by Montgomery
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE AMENDMENT TO H.B. NO. 554
1 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1
2 On page 1 of the printed bill, in line 14, delete "Within five (5)" and
3 insert: "five (5) Within three (3)".
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 09805
The purpose of this proposed legislation is to raise the mandatory check-off for
horse owners in the state of Idaho from one ($1.00) to three ($3.00) dollars per
head. The assessment is collected at the time the horse is brand inspected. The
monies are utilized by the Idaho Horse Board for promotion, research, and
education purposes. The increase in the check-off must be approved by horse
owners through a referendum that must be held before July 1, 2005.
FISCAL IMPACT
Annual inspections by the Department of Brands for horses in the state of Idaho
are between 18,000-20,000 head per year. Therefore, this proposed legislation
would have an impact on the equine industry of approximately $36,000-$40,000
per year.
Contact: Earl Lilley, Idaho Horse Council
365-3176
Stan Boyd
344-2271
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/ FISCAL NOTE H 554