Rep. Brian Cronin, D-Boise, asked Luna aide Jason Hancock about what he called the "most bizarre" provisions of SB 1108, on page 15, the extensive rules and requirements regarding providing all teachers each year with a list of available liability insurance providers, and requiring every teacher to certify on the first day of school that he or she has received the list. Cronin asked if there's been a problem with teachers being sued and not having liability insurance, and asked,. "Why not just post this information on the department's website? ... Is this related to the fact that the IEA does provide liability insurance to its members?"

Hancock responded, "I don't think think teachers are widely aware that there are other options." He said the state Department of Education's website "doesn't get that much traffic." Rep. Donna Pence, D-Gooding, asked, "Currently don't school districts provide liability insurance for all of their teachers?" Hancock responded that there is a "tort levy" that provides liability insurance for all school district staff, but he doesn't know what that covers.

Rep. Reed DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, questioned the assumption that the state will save $6 million by eliminating "double funding" of students through elimination of the 99 percent funding floor for school districts. "Obviously in a situation where a child moves out of state, we're not double-funding," he said. "I think we need to be really careful there in terms of that $6 million number." Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, said his school districts loses students "at the whim of the U.S. Air Force," and the kids go anywhere in the world, not to another Idaho school district where the state would also be funding them. "So I'm struggling with that provision," he said.

DeMordaunt also questioned why the bill provides for mediation, but makes it non-binding. Hancock said said that "goes back to accountability."