Bill Description: House Bill 366 would limit who may be appointed to a health district board.

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NOTE: House Bill 366 is related to House Bill 241, introduced earlier in the 2025 Legislative session. 

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House Bill 366 would amend Section 39-411, Idaho Code, to restrict who may serve as a trustee of a district health board. This bill would say that, other than "a physician licensed by the Idaho state board of medicine, if available," all other board trustees must be currently elected county officials. 

Under this bill, "each board of county commissioners in the health district may appoint a county commissioner of such county as a board member." The remaining board seats would be filled in the following order:

1. "A physician licensed by the Idaho state board of medicine, if available," would be appointed by "the boards of county commissioners within each district acting jointly."
2. "A currently elected county official" would be appointed by "the board of county commissioners for the county that provides the greatest amount of funding for the district."
3. Other currently elected county officials would be appointed by "the boards of county commissioners within each district acting jointly."

The bill would also reduce the terms of health district board trustees from five years to two years.

Currently, any trustee may be removed by a "majority vote of all the county commissioners of all the counties located within the district." The bill would increase the vote threshold to a 2/3 majority, making it more difficult for county commissioners to remove a health district board trustee. 

These changes must be understood within the political context of the last five years, where conservative county commissioners have chosen to part ways with leftist authoritarians on health district boards and appoint strong conservatives in their place (including Attorney General Raul Labrador, former Rep. Greg Ferch, and Dr. Ryan Cole) in spite of vocal opposition from leftist agitators. 

House Bill 366 would hamstring these efforts, and force out currently serving health district board members by limiting the pool of potential appointees to county commissioners and other elected county officials.

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