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Idaho House introduces school safety immunity, city-officer investigations and controlled-substance bills; referrals set
Summary
The House received committee reports to print and refer several bills, including House Bill 5 on school behavioral threat assessment immunity, House Bill 6 on city-officer investigations and open-meetings provisions, and House Bill 7 on controlled-substance penalties; bills were referred to committees for printing or further action.
Boise — On Jan. 10, 2025, the Idaho House of Representatives recorded committee reports and introduced several bills that the House clerk sent to committees for printing and referral.
The Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee reported House Bill 5, described in committee language as adding a new section 5-3-49 to the Idaho Code to establish provisions regarding immunity for behavioral threat assessment and management teams in schools; the report declares an emergency and provides an effective date. The committee also reported House Bill 6, described as amending Idaho Code to remove a provision regarding violations of the open meetings law, to add a new section (52-38) authorizing investigations and actions against city elected officers by the attorney general, and to revise certain duties of the attorney general; the bill text as read declared an emergency and provided an effective date. House Bill 7 was reported as an act relating to the uniform controlled substances act, amending Idaho Code section 37-27-32 to provide a penalty; it also declared an emergency and provided an effective date.
House Bills 5, 6 and 7 were referred to the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee for printing, the clerk announced. Earlier in the session the House recorded that House Bill 3 had been referred to the Revenue and Taxation Committee and House Bill 4 to the Commerce and Human Resources Committee; those bills were reported as printed by the Judiciary committee and then referred.
The House also recorded a communication from the Senate: Senate officials returned enrolled House Concurrent Resolution 1 and the clerk said it would be referred to the Judiciary and Rules and Administration Committee for delivery to the Secretary of State. Separately, House Concurrent Resolution 2, by the State Affairs Committee and concerning Boise State volleyball, was filed for the third-reading calendar.
The committee reports were read into the House journal and recorded as part of the day’s proceedings; no roll-call votes on the bills were recorded on Jan. 10. The House advanced routine business and scheduled committee meetings: Appropriations, Education, Revenue and Taxation, State Affairs and others listed by the clerk for the coming days.
Announcements on the floor included a Hawthorne Elementary event in which students would talk to astronauts aboard the International Space Station and a recognition that Jan. 9 (as read) was National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. The House closed the session and adjourned until 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.
