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KTEC bill passes Senate, goes to governor

HB 236, the bill to allow the Kootenai Technical Education Campus, a joint project of three North Idaho school districts, to start construction a year earlier by lifting a requirement to wait until all money from a tax levy has been collected first, has passed the Senate on a 34-1 vote, and now heads to the governor's desk. This is the second version of the bill, after the first aroused concerns in a House committee. This one drew questions yesterday in the full Senate, causing a day's delay before it was taken up. Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, said the bill is written in such a way that "there's no obligation to the state should a shortfall occur." Essentially, the bill puts the risk on the contractor; contractors testified at an earlier committee hearing that they were OK with that.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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