Fighting for your rights and your interests at the Statehouse and beyond.
Access • Advocacy • Results
Fighting for your rights and your interests at the Statehouse and beyond.
Access • Advocacy • Results
Legislative advocacy is our specialty.
Services
The Giles Group LLC provides a full range of government relations and public policy services. Legislative advocacy is our specialty. We can help guide you through the complex and arcane legislative process from beginning to end. We will help you develop strategies, draft legislation, and set up meetings with the right people to achieve your goals. Over the years, we have built strong relationships with Idaho policymakers and established a proven track record of success. Please let us know how we can help you advocate for your ideas and policy goals within the State of Idaho.
Clients
- Idaho Acupuncture Association
- Idaho Chapter of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
- Idaho Midwifery Council
- Idaho Optometric Physicians Association
- Idaho Psychological Association
- Idaho Trial Lawyers Association
- Northwest Career Colleges Idaho
- Valley Regional Transit
- Renewable Northwest
Improving the lives of Moms and Babies
Lance has helped guide the Idaho Midwifery Council through the legislative process to achieve impressive results. For example, he helped in the effort to significantly reduce the initial and annual relicensing fees from $850 per year to $35 per year. This major reduction has made it much easier to practice the profession of midwifery in Idaho and allow midwives to reinvest those funds into their practices.
Most recently, Lance helped the Idaho Midwifery Council draft, introduce, and pass legislation that is good for moms and babies by streamlining and modernizing the existing formulary and make it much easier and faster to add new and improved pharmaceuticals in the future.
The goal of the legislation, which was ultimately signed into law by Idaho Governor Brad Little, was to create an open formulary that does not need to be approved by the Legislature each time a new and better drug is introduced to the market and is also within the scope and practice of midwifery. Thus, moms and babies will no longer have to wait years to benefit from new drugs that can save lives and improve birthing outcomes.
A Team Effort
L-R: Lance Giles, Idaho Senator Ben Toews, licensed midwife and Idaho Midwifery Council member Laurie Hadden, Idaho Governor Brad Little, and licensed midwife and Idaho State Board of Nursing member Katy Rawlins and her daughter Liza Rawlins. Katy holds a baby picture of Liza, who was delivered by a midwife. Photo courtesy of The Giles Group.
"After working closely with Lance over the past 5 years I can honestly say that he has skillfully led our group through several very important transitions. His knowledge and relationships at the state capital are invaluable. He communicates well, offering wise and gentle guidance while always being respectful of our professional needs. I am grateful for his dedication to his work and to his clients."
- Barbara Rawlings, LM/CPM retired
Idaho Midwifery Council Legislative Liaison
Preserving justice for Idahoans
Lance has worked with the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association since 2024 to defeat efforts to provide immunity to pesticide manufacturers whose products might cause cancer or other health issues to Idahoans.
In 2024, Bayer, the giant, multinational pharmaceutical, seed, and pesticide manufacturer, introduced legislation that would have prevented Idahoans from holding pesticide manufacturing companies accountable for damages caused by their products. The purchase of Monsanto, developer of Roundup and Roundup resistant seed, by Bayer in 2018, exposed Bayer to the liability Monsanto owed to users of their products that caused cancers and other health issues. Bayer was trying to limit their liability in Idaho despite continuing to sell the products.
As part of the effort to defeat this legislation, Lance helped to build a diverse coalition of Left-leaning and Far-Right-leaning individuals, organizations and legislators to oppose the bill. The successful effort to kill this legislation was one of the few times in Idaho history that a bill strongly backed by Agriculture, Mining, and Business has ever been defeated in the state Idaho.
Lance and ITLA helped defeat subsequent efforts to pass similar legislation in 2025 and 2026.
photo: View of the Boise skyline and the Boise foothills. © Otto Kitsinger
"Lance Giles brings unmatched expertise, dedication, and genuine care to every client relationship, making him an invaluable partner in navigating government affairs and public policy — and when Lance takes on your fight, he has a track record of delivering results and coming out on top."
- Barbara Jorden, Executive Director, ITLA
Expanding access to behavioral healthcare
Lance has helped the Idaho Psychological Association achieve its many legislative efforts throughout the years. For example, he helped ensure via legislation that Service Extenders (Those who have earned a master’s degree or higher) who work under the supervision of a licensed Idaho psychologist would continue to be paid under health insurance in Idaho. Service Extenders are a critical part of the effort to treat the healthcare needs of Idahoans, because there are simply not enough psychologists to meet the increasing mental and behavioral healthcare demand in Idaho.
Lance also was successful in drafting, introducing and passing legislation to allow Idaho psychologists to join an interstate compact called PSYPACT. This compact makes it much easier for Idahoans to access (often virtually) mental healthcare from Idaho psychologists when they are out of state or if they want to use a PSYPACT psychologist from another state.
This law is very helpful and convenient for Idaho patients and psychologists when the patient is out of state for school, work, military deployment, or some other reason. It is also extremely helpful in group and family situations, when all members of the family are not in Idaho at the same time.
photo: View of the Boise skyline during the Scott Spencer Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic hosted annually at Ann Morrison Park. © Otto Kitsinger
"Lance has been instrumental in helping us with our legislation at the Idaho Psychological Association (IPA). He helped us pass bills related to our interstate compact, PSYPACT, as well as helping us finetune our laws around prescribing psychologists and our extenders. Lance is a pleasure to work with but is also persistent and thorough. I highly recommend him!"
-Lyn McArthur, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and State Advocacy Co-Chair for the Idaho Psychological Association
About The Giles Group
Lance Giles, Founder
Lance has more than 25 years of government relations and public policy experience in the federal, state, nonprofit, and private sector arenas. Prior to founding The Giles Group in 2014, Lance worked for the URS Corp., one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms, as a government relations manager and senior marketing and planning manager in Boise, Idaho, and Houston, Texas.
Contact us at:
The Giles Group P.O. Box 4882 Boise, Idaho 83711 208.972.0972 lance.giles@thegilesgroup.net
