Eye On Boise

Long-term debt amendment dead for session

April 14, 2009 6:50 a.m. • 0 comments

Legislation designed to respond to the Frazier decision on municipal and other public debt has stalled, the Times-News reports today, and won’t go forward this session. Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, told reporter Jared Hopkins that the measure, a constitutional amendment that would require a vote of the people in November of 2010 regardless, will be taken up next year; here’s a link to Hopkins’ full story.