2024 Year-End Report
OAH’s 2024 Year-End Report has been released – read it here!
Office of Administrative Hearings
OAH’s 2024 Year-End Report has been released – read it here!
On March 30, 2023, Gov. Little signed SB1023, which legislation provides some refinements to OAH’s enabling legislation. The four primary highlights of this legislation, which will go into effect on July 1, are as follows:
– SB1023 adds refinements to OAH’s organizational set-up, to include: 1) formally adds OAH to the Department of Self-Governing Agencies list in I.C. sec. 67-2604; 2) makes OAH employees non-classified employees under I.C. 67-5303 (like judges, Deputies Attorney General, and the State Appellate Public Defender’s office); and 3) permits OAH to utilize outside counsel under I.C. sec. 67-1406 (similar to, e.g., the various agriculture commissions, the Idaho State Bar, and the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses).
In advance of the Office of Administrative Hearings’ assumption of the conducting of Department of Health and Welfare contested case hearings, Chief Administrative Hearing Officer Bryan A. Nickels has issued General Order No. 1, which relates to Idaho Rule of Administrative Procedure 800 (effective July 1, 2024) and the application of the Department of Health and Welfare’s prior contested case rules under IDAPA 16.05.03.
A revised Code of Conduct – addressing a statutory change in the last legislative session and further develop of Canon 4 – has been issued, with an effective date of August 18, 2023. This Code of Conduct governs all OAH hearing officers. The revised Code of Conduct is available
