Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Senate has voted to remedy a special-use permit problem, passing HB 691 and sending the bill to the governor. Senators called the bill a shotgun wedding that married a fix for a recent Idaho Supreme Court decision that undermined thousands of existing special-use permits with new rules governing wind farms. The bill passed 31-3 Wednesday; it earlier passed the House 59-10. In January, a Supreme Court ruling in a Teton County case threw Idaho's 35-year history of special-use permitting into question. Bill sponsor Sen. Tim Corder says a remedy was needed, to keep decades of land-use planning from descending into chaos. But House members also demanded the bill include new public-notice requirements meant to govern industrial wind farms. The combination, something Sen. Elliot Werk of Boise called one of those "funny" little peculiarities that emerge in bills during a legislative session's waning days, was inserted by turbine foes.