Through administrative rules an agency interprets, prescribes, and implements statutory law or policy; and clarifies, standardizes, or establishes its procedure or practice requirements.
Each year’s administrative code is archived annually, dating back to 1996.
The History Notes are an annual compilation of rules sections affected by each year’s legislative review.
All executive orders of the governor are published in the bulletin and archived annually.
All legislative concurrent resolutions effecting final rules are part of the code and are archived annually.
The Idaho Administrative Bulletin is a monthly publication consisting of all administrative rulemaking documents, supporting documents, executive orders of the governor, and all other documents required by the APA.
All Idaho Administrative Bulletins are archived annually, dating back to 1995.
The bulletin publication schedule establishes deadlines for a rulemaking to properly go through the rulemaking process and be reviewed by the upcoming legislature for approval.
Legal notices of proposed rules, found in each bulletin, are published in Idaho newspapers.
The abridged index includes all current and active rulemakings.
The cumulative index includes all rulemakings by agency since 1993.
The Idaho Administrative Procedure Act governs the rulemaking process in Idaho.
The rule writers manual is a guide to Idaho’s rulemaking process.
Explore templates, forms, and other supporting documents required for rulemaking in Idaho.
Explore Idaho’s one-stop-shop for all scheduled rulemaking meetings and hearings open to the public.
Each rule chapter active on July 1, 2026, will be reviewed by the legislature between 2026 and 2034. This review will then be repeated on a similar staggered schedule every eight years.
Review books containing all pending and/or temporary rules submitted to the upcoming legislature for review by committee.
Each compilation of legislative review books are archived annually, dating back to 2010.
Legislative Services Office conducts an analysis of each proposed rule for the germane committee during the interim.
