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Health and Welfare director presents RS 31827 to repeal 150 obsolete code sections
Summary
Alex Adams, director of Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, presented RS 31827 to the House Health and Welfare Committee, describing it as a large cleanup that would repeal about 150 obsolete statutory sections with no fiscal impact.
Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the House Health and Welfare Committee that RS 31827 would repeal roughly 150 obsolete or inactive statutory sections and update cross-references in state code.
“This bill... hacks through 150 sections of what I would call zombie programs — programs and grants that haven't been funded since the cold war,” Adams said, asking members to send RS 31827 to print. He told the committee the repeal package had an estimated fiscal impact of $0.00 because the listed programs were not operational.
Adams described the bill as a transparency and housekeeping measure intended to make state statutes easier to navigate and to remove references to long-defunct committees and grants. Representative McCain moved to introduce RS 31827; the committee voted to introduce the RS on a voice vote.
No substantive programmatic changes or new funding were included in the committee's discussion; members asked only to confirm that the affected sections were inactive and not funded.
