§ 67-5303 — APPLICATION TO STATE EMPLOYEES

All departments of the state of Idaho and all employees in such departments, except those employees specifically defined as nonclassified, shall be classified employees who are subject to this chapter and to the system of personnel administration it prescribes. All nonclassified employees are subject to conformity with classified positions as set forth in section 59-1603, Idaho Code. Nonclassified employees shall be:
(a) Members of the state legislature and all other officers of the state of Idaho elected by popular vote and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices and employees of the state legislature.
(b) Members of statutory boards and commissions and heads of departments appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governor, deputy directors appointed by the director of a department, and members of advisory boards and councils appointed by the departments.
(c) All employees and officers in the office, and at the residence, of the governor; and all employees and officers in the offices of the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, state controller, and state superintendent of public instruction.
(d) Except as otherwise provided by law, one (1) declared position designated by the appointing authority of a participating department, in addition to those declared to be nonclassified by other provisions of law.
(e) Part-time professional consultants who are paid on a fee basis for any form of legal, medical or other professional service and who are not engaged in the performance of administrative duties for the state.
(f) Judges, temporary referees, receivers and jurors.
(g) All employees of the Idaho supreme court, Idaho court of appeals and district courts.
(h) All employees of the Idaho state bar.
(i) Assistant attorneys general attached to the office of the attorney general.
(j) Officers, members of the teaching staffs of state higher educational institutions, the professional staffs of the office of the state board of education and the Idaho department of education administered by the board of regents and the board of education, all professional staff of the public charter school commission, and the professional staffs of the Idaho division of career technical education and vocational rehabilitation administered by the state board for career technical education. "Teaching staff" includes teachers, coaches, resident directors, librarians and those principally engaged in academic research. The word "officer" means presidents, vice presidents, deans, directors, or employees in positions designated by the state board who receive an annual salary of not less than step A of the pay grade equivalent to three hundred fifty-five (355) Hay points in the state compensation schedule. In consultation with the Idaho division of human resources, the state board of education shall implement policies and procedures for nonclassified employees to conform with section 59-1603, Idaho Code.
(k) Employees of the military division.
(l) Patients, inmates or students employed in a state institution.
(m) Temporary employees.
(n) All employees and officers of the following named commodity commissions, and all employees and officers of any commodity commission created hereafter: the Idaho potato commission, as provided in chapter 12, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho honey commission, as provided in chapter 28, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho bean commission, as provided in chapter 29, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho hop grower’s commission, as provided in chapter 31, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho wheat commission, as provided in chapter 33, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho pea and lentil commission, as provided in chapter 35, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho apple commission, as provided in chapter 36, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho cherry commission, as provided in chapter 37, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho mint commission, as provided in chapter 38, title 22, Idaho Code; the Idaho sheep and goat health board, as provided in chapter 1, title 25, Idaho Code; the state brand inspector, and all district supervisors, as provided in chapter 11, title 25, Idaho Code; the Idaho beef council, as provided in chapter 29, title 25, Idaho Code; and the Idaho dairy products commission, as provided in chapter 31, title 25, Idaho Code.
(o) All inspectors of the fresh fruit and vegetable inspection service of the Idaho department of agriculture, except those positions involved in the management of the program.
(p) All employees of correctional industries within the department of correction.
(q) All deputy administrators and wardens employed by the department of correction. Deputy administrators are defined as only the deputy administrators working directly for the nonclassified division administrators under the director of the department of correction.
(r) All public information positions, with the exception of secretarial positions, in any department.
(s) Any division administrator and all executive employees.
(t) Any regional administrator or division administrator in the department of environmental quality.
(u) All employees of the division of financial management, all employees of the STEM action center, all employees of the office of species conservation, all employees of the office of drug policy, and all employees of the office of energy and mineral resources.
(v) All employees of the Idaho food quality assurance institute.
(w) All employees of the office of the state appellate public defender, pursuant to chapter 59, title 19, Idaho Code, and the office of the state public defender, pursuant to chapter 60, title 19, Idaho Code.
(x) All quality assurance specialists or medical investigators of the Idaho board of medicine.
(y) All pest survey and detection employees and their supervisors hired specifically to carry out activities under the Idaho plant pest act, chapter 20, title 22, Idaho Code, including but not limited to pest survey, detection, and eradication, except those positions involved in the management of the program.
(z) All medical directors employed by the department of health and welfare who are engaged in the practice of medicine, as defined by section 54-1803, Idaho Code, at a state hospital or other treatment facility managed and operated by the department of health and welfare.
(aa) All hearing officers and all other employees of the office of administrative hearings, as provided for in chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.
(bb) All attorneys employed by the division of occupational and professional licenses.

Legislative History

[67-5303, added 1965, ch. 289, sec. 3, p. 746; am. 1969, ch. 171, sec. 1, p. 510; am. 1971, ch. 121, sec. 1, p. 405; am. 1972, ch. 389, sec. 1, p. 1121; am. 1973, ch. 175, sec. 1, p. 385; am. 1973, ch. 307, sec. 1, p. 667; am. 1975, ch. 164, sec. 2, p. 434; am. 1976, ch. 367, sec. 1, p. 1205; am. 1979, ch. 198, sec. 1, p. 573; am. 1981, ch. 133, sec. 2, p. 225; am. 1981, ch. 156, sec. 1, p. 267; am. 1983, ch. 5, sec. 1, p. 19; am. 1986, ch. 133, sec. 2, p. 346; am. 1986, ch. 204, sec. 1, p. 509; am. 1991, ch. 66, sec. 1, p. 160; am. 1991, ch. 216, sec. 1, p. 519; am. 1993, ch. 77, sec. 1, p. 204; am. 1994, ch. 180, sec. 219, p. 556; am. 1995, ch. 365, sec. 4, p. 1278; am. 1997, ch. 302, sec. 2, p. 900; am. 1998, ch. 221, sec. 1, p. 762; am. 1998, ch. 389, sec. 8, p. 1193; am. 1999, ch. 17, sec. 1, p. 24; am. 1999, ch. 329, sec. 27, p. 866; am. 2001, ch. 38, sec. 1, p. 72; am. 2001, ch. 103, sec. 101, p. 341; am. 2002, ch. 188, sec. 1, p. 541; am. 2002, ch. 192, sec. 1, p. 551; am. 2008, ch. 89, sec. 1, p. 247; am. 2011, ch. 30, sec. 1, p. 72; am. 2012, ch. 117, sec. 26, p. 332; am. 2015, ch. 124, sec. 9, p. 316; am. 2016, ch. 25, sec. 45, p. 61; am. 2016, ch. 33, sec. 1, p. 82; am. 2018, ch. 120, sec. 1, p. 256; am. 2022, ch. 60, sec. 8, p. 190; am. 2022, ch. 112, sec. 4, p. 404; am. 2023, ch. 7, sec. 2, p. 16; am. 2023, ch. 182, sec. 6, p. 500; am. 2023, ch. 218, sec. 28, p. 653; am. 2023, ch. 220, sec. 34, p. 679; am. 2024, ch. 270, sec. 7, p. 941; am. 2025, ch. 85, sec. 1, p. 400; am. 2025, ch. 197, sec. 1, p. 902.]