LANDLORDS AND TENANTS – Amends and adds to existing law to remove a provision regarding coverture and to reorganize a chapter.

Idaho's S 1043 reorganizes landlord-tenant laws while adding a key policy change: it prohibits local governments from enacting rent control ordinances. The bill redesignates multiple existing sections for clarity (e.g., moving sections 55-304-55-314) and removes outdated references to "coverture" (historical legal concepts about married women's property rights). Its most significant provision, new Section 55-306, explicitly states that local governments cannot mandate participation in federal housing programs or regulate rents for private residential property. This law directly affects local municipalities seeking to implement rent control and landlords operating in unregulated rental markets, effective July 1, 2025.