Senate readies for urban renewal amendments
Rep. Vito Barbieri's bill to require an additional hearing at urban renewal districts has been pulled from the Senate's amending order and sent back to the Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee. Sen. Joe Stegner, R-Lewiston, the committee chairman, said, "The sponsor admits that the wording is somewhat conflicted in that bill in terms of what it wants to do. ... Unfortunately we really were unable to clarify that. No amendments have come forth." So HB 110 was returned to committee, by unanimous consent of the Senate. The Senate now is moving into its amending order and plans to make amendments to the larger urban renewal bill, HB 95.