Transcript Highlights:

• , and for non-Vehicle Code infractions allows for a non-custodial warrant to be issued.
• And fines, bench warrants, nor the jail time did anything to help me fix... ...fines, bench warrants,
• As an advocate, I've seen California move away from the use of infraction bench warrants in response
• More than a dozen counties reported that they don't use warrants.
• exponentially more likely to be arrested on bench warrants.

Committee: Senate Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:

• I mean, the courts have the warrant fund. They could be doing anything out of the warrant fund.
• thought was for warrants.
• So, there's no longer any difference between issuing a warrant and paying a warrant.
• Warrant issuing and refocus on state agency roles in the warrant process.
• And the CFA, if they cancel, has either to cancel the warrant or pay the warrant.

Committee: Senate Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• So if there's a warrant article or if the opposite hasn't been... if the warrant article goes in that
• So if there's a warrant article or if the opposite hasn't been... if the warrant article goes in that
• So if there's a warrant article or if the opposite hasn't been... if the warrant article goes in that
• So if there's a warrant article or if the opposite hasn't been... if the warrant article goes in that
• Only if the warrant article...

Committee: House Education Funding

Transcript Highlights:

• Everybody that is released, we run a warrants check.
• </c> that is released, we run a warrants that is released, we run a warrants check.<00:16:16.959><c>
• , and no-knock warrants in the state of Maryland.
• And the fourth thing it does is it bans no-knock warrants. quotas.
• </c> without a warrant. without a warrant.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> warrant for arrest. warrant for arrest.
• </c> request a warrant for arrest. Okay. request a warrant for arrest. Okay.
• </c> could issue an arrest warrant. could issue an arrest warrant.
• . warrant. warrant.
• </c> to you if you had this arrest warrant? to you if you had this arrest warrant?

Transcript Highlights:

• their recommendations to the select board, and the select board then moved it from there onto the warrant
• We needed 100 signatures to place this article on the warrant for special town meeting.
• The warrant article for the recall election provision was published in full in the town warrant, including
• The legislative body of the town voted in favor of the recall warrant article.
• The legislative body of the town voted in favor of the recall warrant article.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Election Laws

Transcript Highlights:

• As you already know, a deficiency fund and the corresponding deficiency warrant acts somewhat like a
• The first is a request for deficiency warrant for exotic species response.
• So I suspect we're here to talk about deficiency warrant and invasive species.
• So I suspect we're here to talk about deficiency warrant and invasive species.
• So I suspect we're here to talk about deficiency warrant and invasive species.

Summary: The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee heard presentations on the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and the State Liquor Division. For Agriculture, legislative staff reviewed the agency’s structure, staffing, dedicated funds, and FY 2026–2027 budget requests, including pay adjustments, replacement items, IT hardware, a reappropriation for the Resilient Food Systems Grant, and two major one-time requests: a deficiency warrant for exotic pest response and a supplemental appropriation for quagga mussel treatment. Director Chanel Tewalt emphasized the history and urgency of Idaho’s invasive species program, described the state’s rapid response to quagga mussels, and explained how the program uses inspections, stations, chemicals, and other tools to reduce risk. Members asked about grant timing, vehicle replacement, signage costs, research into alternative treatments, chemical costs, possible use of sturgeon, and whether budget cuts would affect inspection stations; the director said some station openings or hours could be delayed or reduced, but priority would be given to border crossings and higher-risk locations. The committee then reviewed the State Liquor Division budget. Staff outlined the division’s dedicated-fund operations, personnel levels, statutory distributions, and FY 2027 requests for inflation, replacement items, and IT/security equipment, all recommended by the governor. Director Andrew Arulenandum said his priorities were safety, legal exposure, and operational continuity, citing a store shelving collapse and warehouse safety needs as reasons for some requests. Members asked about a policy proposal to restrict bulk lottery ticket purchases by out-of-state syndicates, the division’s pricing and markup structure, and whether Idaho might move away from a state-run liquor model. The director and his staff said the lottery restriction would not have a fiscal impact, that the markup is standardized, and that while the division remains open to efficiency ideas, the current control-state structure is intended to support revenue and temperance. The meeting ended with notice that the committee would return the next day to take action on FY 2027 maintenance budgets.

Transcript Highlights:

• French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across the United States in the early 1800s in search
• We have a sacred compact with the men and women who serve, and will never stop searching for the ones
• That is why today I reintroduced a resolution that urges our trading partners to aid in the search and
• Speaker, we will never stop searching until all our service members are brought home.
• </c> Speaker, we will never stop searching Speaker, we will never stop searching until<00:08:56.800><

Bills: HR747 , HR719 , HB5371

Keywords: courthouse construction, federal regulations, urban development, government spending, judicial facilities, political violence, Charlie Kirk, civil discourse, freedom of speech, unity, political extremism, condemnation, Civic engagement, continuing resolution, appropriations, fiscal year 2026, omnibus, government funding, federal budget, USDA

Transcript Highlights:

• I believe under the sub that I propose, we changed that section to actually pull in the judicial warrant
• the authority when entering a residence for the sole purpose, because we changed it to the judicial warrant
• If a person is experiencing a mental health crisis, the general exceptions to the warrant requirement
• We actually cross-reference the judicial warrant statute and ordered and referenced civil commitment
• We actually cross-reference the judicial warrant statute and ordered and referenced civil commitment

Summary: The Law and Justice Committee met on February 3rd to take executive action on several bills and gubernatorial appointments. The committee first considered Senate Bill 5925, which would expand Attorney General investigative authority through civil investigative demands. Members debated amendments to limit the bill’s reach, including protections for small businesses, exclusions for law enforcement use-of-force matters, and changes to appeal deadlines. Amendment Charlie was adopted, Amendment Delta failed, Amendment Alpha failed, and Amendment Echo was withdrawn. The bill then received a due pass recommendation to the Rules Committee. The committee next worked through Senate Bill 6086 on judicial officer safety and threat assessments. A proposed substitute retained threat-assessment provisions while removing some personal-information and consultant-related sections. Amendment Foxtrot 1, which would have removed security consultant authority, was not adopted, and the proposed substitute was approved and sent to the Rules Committee. Senate Bill 6074, concerning reinstituting parole, was narrowed in a proposed substitute to create a parole reinstitution work group with legislative appointment authority and a 2027 reporting deadline; an amendment adding victim advocate members was adopted, and the bill advanced to the Rules Committee. The committee also considered Senate Bill 6296 on involuntary treatment. The proposed substitute made multiple changes to enforcement, prosecutor representation, peace officer duties, intimate partner definitions, and firearms-related provisions. Amendments to remove firearm-related changes and to clarify officer liability and home-entry authority were debated; Kilo-2 and Kilo-3 were not adopted, and the proposed substitute ultimately passed and was sent to the Ways and Means Committee. The committee then confirmed several gubernatorial appointments, including Kristen Ferrer, Lisa Mannion, Kate Ben Ward, and Rochelle Cleland, and concluded by thanking staff and adjourning at the house-of-origin policy cutoff.

Transcript Highlights:

• So if you go online, right, and you search for a vehicle and it says a $50,000... fees and all those
• So if you go online, right, and you search for a vehicle and it says a 50,000, You go online, right,
• and you search for a vehicle, and it says a $50,000 vehicle.
• still deeply analyzing the most recent amendments, we believe robust stakeholder conversations are warranted

Summary: The committee first took up SB 712, which would expand California’s smog-check exemption for classic vehicles by adding model years 1976 through 1986 in phases, with a sunset in 2032. The author and supporters, including lowrider advocates and the Specialty Equipment Market Association, argued the bill would preserve car culture, support a small class of rarely driven collector vehicles, and reduce burdens on owners who struggle to find equipment for older smog tests. Opponents, including air district officials, the American Lung Association, and other environmental groups, warned the bill would weaken an important emissions-control program and increase pollution. After discussion, the committee adopted the motion to do pass as amended to Appropriations on a roll call vote of 10-0, with the roll held open for additional votes. The committee then heard SB 800, which requires Caltrans, working with local governments, to assess mitigation measures for suicide prevention on locally owned overpasses crossing state highways. The bill was presented as a response to recent tragedies in Rancho Cucamonga and was supported by local officials, health organizations, and suicide-prevention advocates, who said the measure would help identify high-risk locations and lead to life-saving interventions. There was no registered opposition. The committee members expressed support, and SB 800 was passed to Appropriations on a unanimous roll call vote, with the roll held open. Next, the committee considered SB 30, which would prohibit California public entities from selling, donating, or transferring decommissioned diesel locomotives and railroad equipment with Tier 1 or older engines unless the engine is removed, while allowing Tier 2 and newer transfers under certain conditions. The author and supporters framed the bill as a climate and public-health measure to prevent older, dirtier locomotives from continuing to pollute elsewhere, while transit agencies opposed it, arguing it could limit useful transfers of equipment that still supports passenger service and could be better handled through case-by-case air-quality review. After debate, the committee voted 6-4 to pass SB 30 as amended to Appropriations, with the roll held open for later additions. The committee also heard SB 791, which replaces the flat dealer document processing charge cap with a 1% fee capped at $350, along with new disclosure requirements. Dealers and industry groups supported the bill as a way to recover costs and improve transparency, while consumer advocates opposed it as an unjustified increase that would burden buyers. The committee approved SB 791 on a 8-? roll call vote and held the roll open. The meeting then moved on to SB 34, a port-air-quality bill presented by Senator Richardson, but the transcript ends during testimony and debate on that measure.

Transcript Highlights:

• And if a case does warrant formal discipline and is sent to the Attorney General's Office for prosecution
• Sometimes it’s a search firm.
• A quick Google search revealed that Santa Rosa, a 42-square-mile city with 175,000 people, had 130 massage
• A quick Google search revealed that Santa Rosa, a 42-square-mile city with 175,000 people, had 130 massage

Summary: The joint sunset oversight hearing reviewed five regulatory entities: the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Psychology, the Physician Assistant Board, the Podiatric Medical Board, and the California Massage Therapy Council. Across the hearing, each entity described recent accomplishments, licensing and enforcement workload, workforce shortages, and efforts to modernize processes. Common themes included streamlining licensure, expanding access to care, addressing telehealth or emerging technology, and balancing consumer protection with workforce needs. For the Board of Behavioral Sciences, members discussed workforce shortages in mental health, supervision barriers, telehealth confidentiality, AI in therapy, interstate compacts, school-based services, and military spouse licensure. The board said it has expanded outreach, improved licensing processes, and created temporary practice authority tracking, while also expressing concern about counseling compacts and emphasizing California-specific law, ethics, and cultural competency. Public commenters supported the board’s work and the possible move to a national MFT exam, while also urging more resources. The Board of Psychology highlighted fee adjustments, streamlined licensure pathways, enforcement process improvements, new CPD requirements, and proposed changes including a psychotherapist-client privilege exception for investigations. Committee members and public witnesses focused heavily on that privilege proposal, with some members opposing it as too broad and privacy-invasive, while the board argued it is needed to obtain records in bias and sexual misconduct cases. The board also discussed workforce shortages, processing improvements, and the use of inactive status for psychological associates. The Physician Assistant Board reported growth in the PA workforce and education programs, SB 697 implementation, and financial pressure from rising enforcement costs. The main policy debate centered on physician-to-PA ratios and practice agreements, with board representatives and many public commenters arguing that current restrictions limit access to care, especially in rural areas, while the California Medical Association defended the need for explicit ratios and agreements. The board also discussed AI, fee increases, and tracking temporary practice authority. The Podiatric Medical Board described licensing and renewal reforms, residency expansion, enforcement support, and budget constraints, while public testimony raised concerns about a proposed fee increase and about reimbursement parity and practice recognition for podiatrists. Finally, the California Massage Therapy Council defended the certification model over licensure, citing lower costs, local government collaboration, anti-trafficking work, and its role in vetting applications and disciplining bad actors; no formal votes or final actions were taken during this portion of the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• for and we want you to serve that warrant on them.'
• They do train a deputy who serves a warrant. They don't contact ICE." ICE contacts them.
• But maybe another way of pondering the question is: If somebody has been served one of these warrants
• So, in this Curry County hypothetical, please take this warrant and deliver it.
• , went and served the warrant.

Committee: House Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• Bingham County has warrant service officer. Caribou has warrant service officer.
• model, Washington County warrant service officer, and the Gooding County Sheriff's Office has the warrant
• law enforcement executes warrants in our community and an ICE administrative warrant?
• In addition to criminal warrants that they may issue, they also have administrative warrants, and those
• Under the warrant service officer structure, they're trained in how to serve those warrants, but they

Summary: The committee heard a presentation from University of Idaho representatives on the university’s land-grant mission and its role in federalism, followed by detailed overviews of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Natural Resources. Speakers described the Morrill, Hatch, and Smith-Lever Acts, the university’s history, and examples of research, extension, and workforce training in agriculture, engineering, law, forestry, fire science, and youth programs such as 4-H. They highlighted facilities and programs including research stations, the Idaho Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, the deep soil ecotron, the Wildland Fire Center, the experimental forest, and the policy analysis group, while also noting the impact of federal and state funding delays and cuts on staffing and research capacity. Committee members asked about several current issues, including quagga mussels, screw worm, chronic wasting disease, and the effects of funding cuts. University officials said they were not actively researching some of those wildlife and livestock disease issues but were willing to help if capacity and funding allowed. They also said budget reductions had caused real losses, including layoffs and reduced programs, and that federal grant delays had disrupted research timelines. The committee also raised questions about conflicts of interest and university employees’ outside work; the university said it has annual conflict-of-interest and conflict-of-commitment training and review procedures. The committee then heard from Bonneville County Sheriff Sam Hulse and the Idaho Sheriffs Association on the federal 287(g) immigration partnership program. Hulse argued that participation should remain voluntary and locally controlled, describing the different 287(g) models, the training and liability concerns, and the distinction between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement. He said Idaho agencies already cooperate with ICE in other ways and that mandatory participation could create staffing, legal, and community-trust problems. Members asked about costs, liability, detention standards, and whether deputies lose local control under task force arrangements; Hulse said the answer depends on the specific model and operation, and he emphasized the need for local discretion. Later, the committee took testimony on the long-running bighorn sheep and domestic sheep conflict affecting western Idaho grazing allotments. Idaho Wool Growers representatives and affected ranchers described the history of state legislation, federal litigation, and the closure of grazing areas after bighorn sheep transplants, which they said cut livestock operations in half and caused major financial and personal hardship. They argued that the state and federal agencies had not lived up to assurances that permittees would be held harmless, and they urged continued attention to the issue. No formal votes or committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• The department defers to the attorney general on warrant verification procedures.
• The department defers to the attorney general on warrant verification procedures.
• The department defers to the attorney general on warrant verification procedures.
• </c><00:20:57.039><c> verification</c> attorney general on warrant verification attorney general on warrant
• </c><00:26:11.520><c> and</c><00:26:11.840><c> has</c> warrant and a judicial warrant and has warrant

Bills: HB1577 , HB1870

Committee: Senate Government Operations

Summary: The committee reconvened on March 19, 2026, for decision-making on measures heard earlier in the week. It first took up HB 812 on agriculture, agreeing to move it forward with amendments and a Senate draft, and then HB 2388 on public notice, which was also passed with amendments after concerns about transparency and the need for local newspaper notice on Maui were discussed. HB 1414 on procurement and HB 2469 on a regular session review working group were both deferred to March 24 for further work with the author, while HB 322 on voter registration was deferred indefinitely in favor of a Senate vehicle. The committee then heard HB 1577, which would create a statewide emergency safety profile system pilot program and working group for 911. Testimony from disability advocates, emergency medical services, and others strongly supported the bill, emphasizing benefits for people without smartphones, better sharing of medical and emergency information, and improved response in the field. Committee members and witnesses discussed whether the 911 Board already had the authority to implement the system without legislation, and the bill was not immediately acted on in the portion of the transcript provided. The final major item was HB 1870 on protected community locations. Testimony in support came from the University of Hawaii, the Legal Clinic, immigrant-rights groups, public health advocates, and many individuals, while the Department of Education supported the measure but requested clarity on federal compliance and raised concerns about a 1,000-foot perimeter beyond campus. Supporters said the bill would protect sensitive locations and help immigrant families feel safe accessing schools, health care, and other services. No final vote on HB 1870 is shown in the transcript excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• And what we're seeing is that, for example, if a petition warrant article, once a warrant article is
• on the warrant, that they're warrant articles.
• </c> warrant article shall not be changed. warrant article shall not be changed.
• ><c> the</c><05:54:29.280><c> warrant</c> once a warrant article is on the warrant once a warrant article
• </c><05:54:31.920><c> It</c> that they're warrant articles. It that they're warrant articles.

Committee: House Municipal and County Government

Transcript Highlights:

• from a time equal to the time given to a governing body or a budget committee to introduce their warrant
• article from a time petitioned warrant article from a time equal<02:15:24.079><c> to</c><02:15:24.320
• </c><02:15:30.800><c> article</c><02:15:31.679><c> to</c><02:15:32.000><c> a</c> introduce their warrant
• article to a introduce their warrant article to a minimum<02:15:33.040><c> of</c><02:15:33.440><c> 10
• Others came fleeing war, poverty, persecution, or simply searching for the promise that America holds

Transcript Highlights:

• A fire or police chief to explain to a town in a town meeting why a warrant article that would fund new
• And I think we're trying to avoid pure advocacy of a warrant article as opposed to laying out the pros
• And I think we're trying to avoid pure advocacy of a warrant article as opposed to laying out the pros
• And I think we're trying to avoid pure advocacy of a warrant article as opposed to laying out the pros
• And I think we're trying to avoid pure advocacy of a warrant article as opposed to laying out the pros

Committee: House Election Law

Transcript Highlights:

• And three is the actual issuing of an arrest warrant.
• And one of them, you said, issued civil warrants of arrest. Right.
• And so you're not giving the House sergeants a new authority for civil arrest without a warrant.
• and a civil warrant are separate.
• Item three is if there's an arrest warrant, all law enforcement...

Bills: HB18 , SB 54 , SB 10 , HR76 , HR77 , HR78 , HR82 , HR83 , HR88 , HR89 , HR93 , HR94 , HR95 , HR98 , HR101 , HR102 , HR104 , HR105 , HR107 , HR108 , HR109 , HR110 , HR111 , HR112 , HR113 , HR123 , HR125 , HR79 , HR80 , HR81 , HR84 , HR85 , HR86 , HR87 , HR90 , HR91 , HR92 , HR96 , HR97 , HR100 , HR103 , HR106 , HR114 , HR115 , HR116 , HR117 , HR118 , HR119 , HR120 , HR121 , HR122 , HR124 , HB18 , SB54 , SB10 , HB8

Transcript Highlights:

• I use the post of the regular warrant.
• Chair, again, the order of warrant articles on a warrant is strictly at the discretion of the selectmen
• ,</c><01:52:11.040><c> you</c> moving of items on the warrant, you moving of items on the warrant, you
• </c><01:52:33.040><c> we</c> and say, "Okay, well this warrant we and say, "Okay, well this warrant we
• </c> a vote to reorder the uh warrant a vote to reorder the uh warrant articles<01:53:33.280><c> at</

Committee: Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• When someone has the authority to stop you, detain you, search you, use force against you, separate your
• Officers can still investigate crimes, execute warrants, make arrests, and protect public safety.
• make</c><00:20:19.520><c> arrests,</c><00:20:20.000><c> and</c><00:20:20.559><c> pro</c> execute warrants
• , make arrests, and pro execute warrants, make arrests, and pro protect<00:20:21.039><c> public</c><00
• tab of the bill page on the General Assembly website and can be pulled up through the bill number search