The Senate has just voted 23-11 in favor of HJR 5, the new constitutional amendment regarding local government debt – but that wasn’t enough. The measure needed 24 votes to have the needed two-thirds to ask voters to amend the constitution. So that measure is dead. Now, the Senate, too, is preparing to adjourn sine die, which means, “without a day.”
Betsy Z. Russell covers Idaho news from The Spokesman-Review's bureau in Boise.
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