Bill
S 1167
Idaho S 1167 repeals the Weather Modification District law, ending authority to form or tax such districts; emergency effective July 1, 2025, with no current budget impact.
Below is a concise, objective summary of the materials you provided. The documents you supplied contain (at least) two distinct bills with the same number (S 1167) from different jurisdictions; they do not include text matching the title you gave about “repeals the prohibition on fossil fuel equipment and building systems in new buildings.” Please see summaries and a note about the discrepancy at the end.
Status: Passed by the Idaho Legislature and signed by the Governor. Session Law Chapter 254. Effective 7/1/2025.
Purpose and intent
- To repeal the statutory framework authorizing “Weather Modification Districts” in Idaho law (Chapter 43, Title 22, Idaho Code).
- Sponsors/contacts listed in the fiscal note: Senator Tammy Nichols and Representative Tanya Burgoyne.
Key provisions
- Section 1: Repeals Chapter 43, Title 22, Idaho Code (the Weather Modification District chapter) in its entirety.
- Section 2: Declares an emergency and sets the effective date as July 1, 2025.
Fiscal and practical effects
- Fiscal note asserts no negative impact on state, county, or city budgets because the taxing district has not been used since the 1970s and no such districts are currently operating.
- The repeal removes the statutory mechanism for creating or taxing weather modification districts; therefore, unless re-enacted elsewhere, the state would no longer have that specific legal authority in code.
Who is affected
- Direct: Entities or localities that might have relied on Chapter 43 for establishing a weather modification taxing district (none currently in operation).
- Indirect: Any future proposals to form such districts would require new enabling legislation or an alternative legal mechanism.
Procedural/timeline notes
- Legislative history in the materials shows readings, committee actions, passage votes, delivery to and signature by the Governor (signed 04/01/2025), and the emergency effective date of 07/01/2025.
Status: Draft introduced in MA Senate (text appears to be a distinct bill with the same number).
Purpose and intent
- To prohibit research institutions and product-testing facilities in Massachusetts from removing infant nonhuman primates (NHPs) from their biological mothers for research/testing purposes during the first 12 months of life, with limited exceptions for medical welfare.
Key provisions
- Defines terms (commissioner, contract/product testing facility, research institution, nonhuman primate).
- Prohibits removal/separate housing of infant NHPs from their mothers for research/testing from birth through 12 months.
- Allows temporary separation only for medical welfare; requires minimizing distress and prompt reunification when medically appropriate.
- Requires the Massachusetts Department of Public Health commissioner to promulgate regulations and to do so within 90 days of passage; section to take effect 90 days after passage.
Who is affected
- Research institutions, product testing and contract testing facilities in Massachusetts that use NHPs.
Procedural/timeline notes
- Text requests regulatory implementation within 90 days and the substantive prohibition to take effect 90 days after enactment.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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