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Department of Insurance and DOPL preview 2025 rule dockets to House Business Committee
Summary
Officials from the Idaho Department of Insurance and the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses briefed the House Business Committee on multiple rule dockets the agencies will present this session.
Departmental staff on Wednesday gave the House Business Committee an overview of rule dockets that will come before the panel during the session.
For the Idaho Department of Insurance, Dean Cameron, director, said the department reviews roughly 20 percent of its rules each year and has proposed changes to four rules after negotiated rulemaking with industry: life settlements (cleanup to remove duplicative language), title insurance (updates to money‑transfer processes), surplus lines (clarifying board role and removing duplicative statutory language) and a fire‑code related rule that was amended after last year's concerns about penalties. Cameron said that the department will return with dockets for detailed committee consideration.
Katie Stewart, bureau chief for the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL), outlined more than a dozen DOPL dockets scheduled for this session. Items include adoption of the 2024 NFPA edition and a 2,000‑hour work‑experience alignment for the Liquefied Petroleum Gas board; reciprocity and lowered continuing‑education hours for professional engineers and land surveyors; a logging safety chapter that the bureau described as “long in part because the Statute provides the framework for the logging safety program to set in standard for safety operations” and thus is more instructional than other chapters; and several fee adjustments undertaken pursuant to Senate Bill 1442 (examples: Morticians fees up 20 percent; Real Estate Commission fees reduced by 15 percent; building permit fee reductions). Stewart said DOPL prepared a crosswalk document to show where rules were moved or deleted and that the agency expects to finalize 0‑based regulation this session, one year ahead of the five‑year deadline.
Committee members were briefed that next week the panel will review docket materials line‑by‑line; the committee may accept an entire docket, reject an entire docket, or reject an identifiable section of a docket but cannot edit individual words in statute. The committee will hold public hearings and negotiated rulemaking outcomes will be brought back for action.
