Title 67 — STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE AFFAIRS

67-429A. State-tribal gaming compacts. (1) The governor or his designee may represent the state of Idaho in any gaming negotiations the state is requested to participate in pursuant to 25 U.S.C. section 2701 et seq. The director of legislative services or his designee may attend …

67-429B. Authorized tribal video gaming machines. (1) Indian tribes are authorized to conduct gaming using tribal video gaming machines pursuant to state-tribal gaming compacts which specifically permit their use. A tribal video gaming machine may be used to conduct gaming only b…

67-429C. Amendment of state-tribal gaming compacts. (1) Any tribe with an existing state-tribal gaming compact may amend its compact through the procedure set forth in subsection (2) below to incorporate all of the following terms: (a) As clarified by this compact amendment, the …

67-429D. Audit of legislative department. Beginning with the two (2) year period of fiscal years 2013 and 2014 and for each succeeding biennium, the council shall engage the services of a certified public accountant to audit the fiscal affairs of the legislative department. Expen…

67-430. Meetings — Quorum — Notice — Report to legislature. The council shall meet as often as may be necessary for the proper performance of its duties; provided, however, that it shall meet at least two (2) times each year. Such meetings may be held at various places within the…

67-431. Compensation and expenses. Members of the council and the committees thereof shall be reimbursed for actual expenses necessarily incurred in attending meetings and in the performance of their official duties in accordance with the rates established by the citizens’ commit…

67-432. Joint finance-appropriations committee — Creation — Members. There is hereby created the joint finance-appropriations committee which shall consist of the members of the senate finance committee and the members of the house appropriations committee. Vacancies on the commi…

67-433. Officers — Adoption of rules of procedure — Subcommittees — Meetings. The committee shall have the same officers as the senate finance committee and the house appropriations committee and, during the interim when the legislature is not in session, it shall adopt its own r…

67-435. Powers and duties. (1) The joint finance-appropriations committee shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To review the executive budget and the budget requests of each state department, agency and institution, including requests for construction of capital improv…

67-437. Departments, agencies, and institutions to submit information. All departments, agencies and institutions of state government which are required by section 67-3502, Idaho Code, to submit reports of actual and estimated receipts and expenditures to the division of financia…

67-438. Inquisitorial authority. In the discharge of any duty herein imposed, the committee shall have the authority to examine and inspect all properties, equipment, facilities, files, records and accounts of any state office, department, institution, board, committee, commissio…

67-439. Enforcement of subpoenas. In case of the failure on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued in behalf of the committee, or on the refusal of any witness to testify to any matters regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, it shall be the duty of th…

67-440. Fees and mileage of witnesses. Each witness who appears before the committee by its order, other than a state official or employee, shall receive for his attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of record, which shall be audited and …

67-448. committee on uniform accounting and transparency for local governmental entities. (1) In order to provide for uniform and transparent financial data of local governmental entities to better inform lawmakers, decision-makers, and citizens, there is hereby established the c…

67-450A. Charges for audit. The annual appropriation to the office of legislative services from the general fund shall provide for authorized audits and services to general fund departments, agencies, commissions, or institutions without charge to the unit receiving such services…

67-450B. Independent financial audits of LOCAL governmental entities — Filing requirements. (1)(a) The requirements set forth in this section are minimum audit requirements for all local governmental entities, and include, without limitation, all cities, counties, authorities and…

67-450C. Independent financial audits of affiliated organizations to state governmental agencies or entities — Filing requirements. (1) The requirements set forth in section 67-450B(2), Idaho Code, are minimum audit requirements for all affiliated organizations to state governmen…

67-450D. independent financial audits — designated entities. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Idaho Code relating to audit requirements regarding the entities designated in this section, beginning on July 1, 2021, the requirements set forth in section 67-450B(2), I…

67-451. Legislative account created — Duties of controller — Disbursements from account — Report of disbursements. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the legislative account. The legislative account shall consist of such moneys as are placed into it by other approp…

67-451A. LEGISLATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND CREATED. There is hereby created in the state treasury the legislative legal defense fund. The legislative legal defense fund shall consist of such moneys as are placed into it by appropriations and shall be continuously appropriated to the…

67-452. Membership in pacific fisheries legislative task force. The legislative council, joining with the presiding officers of other jurisdictions, shall appoint, respectively two (2) senators, one (1) from the majority party and one (1) from the minority party, and two (2) memb…

67-453. Statements regarding proposed constitutional amendments. (1) Whenever the legislature shall have directed the submission of a proposal to amend the constitution of the state of Idaho to the electors, the legislative council shall, not less than one hundred twenty (120) da…

67-454. Subcommittees for review of administrative rules — Meetings regarding rules. For the purposes of review of proposed administrative rules pursuant to chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, germane joint subcommittees are hereby authorized and created. The speaker of the house o…

67-455. Governor’s housing committee — Governor’s residence fund. (1) There is hereby created the governor’s housing committee consisting of five (5) appointed members. The following public officials shall each appoint one (1) member to serve on the committee: the president pro t…

67-455A. Committee may acquire and dispose of property. (1) The governor’s housing committee may accept grants, gifts or donations of any kind from any private or public source related to the acquisition, construction, remodel, furnishing, equipping or maintenance of a governor’s…

67-456. Special committee on criminal Justice Reinvestment Oversight. (1) In order to maintain continuous oversight of the Idaho criminal justice reinvestment initiative and related issues, there is hereby established a special legislative committee on justice reinvestment oversi…

67-457. Joint legislative oversight committee — Creation. There is hereby created the joint legislative oversight committee which shall be appointed as follows: the president pro tempore of the senate shall appoint majority party members of the senate, the senate minority leader …

67-458. Definitions. For the purposes of sections 67-457 through 67-464, Idaho Code: (1) "Committee" means the joint legislative oversight committee. (2) "Performance audit or evaluation" shall mean an examination of the effectiveness of the administration, the efficiency and the…

67-459. Term of membership and organization of committee. All members appointed to the joint legislative oversight committee shall serve for a term as provided by the legislative council. The committee shall meet no later than thirty (30) days after appointment by the legislative…

67-460. Powers of committee. The joint legislative oversight committee shall have the following powers: (1) To direct the director of legislative performance evaluations in accordance with section 67-461, Idaho Code, to review the performance of any state agency or program and to…

67-461. Conduct of and issuance of performance evaluation reports. (1) In conducting a performance evaluation, the director of legislative performance evaluations shall obtain an overview of the operations of the agency or program. (a) The survey phase will develop background inf…

67-462. Recording testimony under oath. Whenever making a performance evaluation, the committee may require that testimony be given under oath, which may be administered by the chairman or by a person authorized by law to administer oaths, and may require that the testimony be re…

67-463. Assistance. The office of the attorney general, the office of the state controller and the administrator of the division of financial management are authorized to assist the joint legislative oversight committee in its conduct of performance evaluations if the committee a…

67-464. Quorum. There shall be no business transacted, including adoption of a rule or procedure, without the presence of a quorum of the committee and no action shall be valid unless approved by the majority of those members present and voting and entered upon the minutes of the…

67-465. intervention in actions regarding an Idaho statute. (1) When a party to an action challenges in state or federal court the constitutionality of an Idaho statute, facially or as applied, challenges an Idaho statute as violating or being preempted by federal law, or otherwi…

67-466. reports to the legislature. All reports required by Idaho Code to be submitted to the legislature or to any committee, group, or member of the legislature shall, in addition to any other requirements regarding delivery, also be submitted to the legislative services office…

67-501. Endorsement of bills. Every bill must, as soon as delivered to the governor, be endorsed as follows: "This bill was received by the governor this …. day of …., ….."

67-502. Approval of bills. When the governor approves a bill he must set his name thereto, with the date of his approval.

67-503. Passage of bills over veto — Authentication. When a bill has passed both houses of the legislature, and is returned by the governor without his signature and with objections thereto, and upon a reconsideration passes both houses by a two-thirds (2/3) vote, it must be auth…

67-504. Return of bill during adjournment. If, on the day the governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto to the house in which it originated, that house has adjourned for the day (but not for the session), he may deliver the bill with h…

67-505. Bills not returned. Every bill which has passed both houses of the legislature, and has not been returned by the governor within five (5) days, thereby becoming a law, is authenticated by the governor causing the fact to be certified thereon by the secretary of state in t…

67-506. Designation of laws by chapters. Each act of the legislature shall, on becoming a law, be designated as "Chapter …. of the Laws of ….," adding its chapter number and the year in which it becomes a law; and in respect to each session of the legislature, the laws enacted at…

67-507. Proposal of constitutional amendments. Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed by joint resolution in either house of the legislature of this state, and if the same shall be voted for by two-thirds (2/3) of all the members of each of the two (2) houses, voting sepa…

67-508. Enrollment and preservation of constitutional amendments. Whenever any amendments to the Constitution shall have been proposed to and adopted by the electors of this state, as by this and the preceding section provided, the same shall be enrolled and numbered in the order…

67-509. Publication of legislative journals and session laws — Distribution and report. (1) On the first legislative day or as soon thereafter as the speaker shall have been elected, it shall be the duty of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representativ…

67-510. Statutes and resolutions — When effective. No act shall take effect until July 1 of the year of the regular session or sixty (60) days from the end of the session at which the same shall have been passed, whichever date occurs last, except in case of emergency, which emer…

67-511. Effect of amendment. Where a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended form; but the portions which are not altered are to be considered as having been the law from the time when they were enac…

67-512. Repeal of repealing act. No act or part of an act, repealed by another act of the legislature, is revived by the repeal of the repealing act without express words reviving such repealed act or part of an act.

67-513. Repeal of penal law. The repeal of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the prosecution and punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so repealed, unless the intention to bar such prosecution and punishment is expressly dec…

67-514. Titles to bills. The title to each legislative bill shall contain a specific phrase which expresses the subject matter of the bill. Such phrase may be the short title of the act, and shall be used in legislative journals to identify the bill upon introduction, along with …