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LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 491
BY JUDICIARY, RULES AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO IMMUNITY OF PERSONS GIVING EMERGENCY FIRST AID; AMENDING SECTION
3 5-330, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE PROVISIONS REGARDING IMMUNITY OF PERSONS
4 GIVING EMERGENCY FIRST AID FROM DAMAGE CLAIMS; AND DECLARING AN EMER-
5 GENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
7 SECTION 1. That Section 5-330, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
8 amended to read as follows:
9 5-330. IMMUNITY OF PERSONS GIVING EMERGENCY FIRST AID FROM DAMAGE
10 CLAIM. That no action shall lie or be maintained for civil damages in any
11 court of this state against any person or persons, or group of persons, who
12 in good faith and without compensation, being at, or stopping at the scene
13 of an accident or emergency, including a mental health or suicidal crisis,
14 offers and administers emergency first aid, or emergency medical attention,
15 or emergency psychological attention, including responding to suicidal
16 thoughts, to any person or persons injured in such accident or emergency
17 unless it can be shown that the person or persons offering or administering
18 emergency first aid, or emergency medical attention, or emergency psycho-
19 logical attention is guilty of gross negligence in the care or treatment of
20 said injured person or persons or has treated them in a grossly negligent
21 manner. The immunity described herein shall cease upon delivery of the in-
22 jured person to either a generally recognized hospital for treatment of ill
23 or injured persons, or upon assumption of treatment in the office or facility
24 of any person undertaking to treat said injured person or persons, or upon
25 delivery of said injured person or persons into custody of an ambulance at-
26 tendant.
27 SECTION 2. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby
28 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after
29 July 1, 2026.Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record.