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Committee introduces bill to move laboratory rules from IDAPA into statute and allow market-rate lab fees
Summary
Representative David Levitt presented RS 32,210 to codify longstanding laboratory rules into statute and to authorize the state lab to charge testing fees at market rates; the committee voted to introduce the measure.
BOISE — The House Health and Welfare Committee introduced RS 32,210 on a motion after Representative David Levitt (R., Dist. 25) said the bill transfers several laboratory-related administrative rules from IDAPA into statute and includes a change to allow state laboratory testing fees to be charged at market rates.
Levitt told the committee RS 32,210 moves provisions currently in IDAPA — including provisions on clinical laboratory quality assurance, clandestine drug laboratory cleanup, and state laboratory fees — into statute. “This bill does not introduce any new regulations or impose additional burdens beyond what is already required under existing code and rule,” he said.
Levitt said the bill includes a “key adjustment” in which the state lab would be authorized to charge testing fees at market rates “that do not disadvantage entities offering similar services.” He argued that under the previous rule structure some state fees were set below market rates and “interfered with the free market.”
Representative Jordan Redmond moved to introduce RS 32,210; the committee approved the introduction by voice vote and the measure was recorded as introduced. No amendments or further committee directions were recorded during the introduction.
The bill sponsor said the IDAPA rules date back decades and the transfer is intended to place longstanding administrative requirements into statute rather than creating new obligations.
