HB 193a, the pro-megaloads bill designed to block lawsuits targeting big loads on Idaho roads, has cleared the House as amended in the Senate, on a 55-12 vote. "It'll help hopefully to curtail some lawsuits and save the state some money," Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, the bill's sponsor, told the House. Earlier in the week when he asked the House to concur in the Senate amendments, Harwood said, "I feel like we sent 'em over a bear and they sent me back the rug, but I want to concur with this." The Senate's changes to the bill altered it from a required bond from anyone suing of 5 percent of the insured value of the load, to a judge's option to require such a bond of up to 10 percent of that value. The bill now moves to the governor's desk.