On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” program on Idaho Public Television, I join Jim Weatherby, Bill Manny, and co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz for a discussion of the events of the week, from school levy votes to election filings to legislative happenings. Also, Davlin interviews Sen.…
Idaho is in for a very busy election season this year, with positions from governor down to North Idaho legislative seats drawing multiple candidates prior to today’s 5 p.m. deadline. The state’s primary election is May 20, and voters will have plenty of choices. At…
After a long and sometimes heated hearing, the Senate Resources Committee has voted unanimously to forward the wolf control bill, HB 470, to the full Senate, but it’ll go to the 14th Order for amendments. Sen. Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson, the bill’s sponsor, said an Idaho…
The House and Senate have now both adjourned until Monday. There's still a Senate Resources Committee meeting this afternoon at 1:30, at which HB 470, the controversial $2 million wolf control bill, is among the items on the agenda.
Legislation to impose felony penalties on patients who batter medical workers prompted extended debate in the House today before it finally passed, 42-26; an earlier version of the bill passed the House last year, but died on a tied vote in the Senate. This year’s…
The House has killed legislation that earlier passed the Senate unanimously to increase highway district commissioners’ terms from four years to six years, after an impassioned plea from House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star. Moyle noted that legislators all run for office every two years,…
Controversial House-passed legislation to trim Idaho cities’ power to regulate building design has died a quiet death, after passing the House in late February. The bill, HB 480, won’t receive a hearing in the Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee, Chairman Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, said…
Idaho’s top judges would get pay increases next year ranging from 7.5 percent to 11 percent, under legislation that passed the Senate unanimously on Wednesday and an appropriation that won unanimous approval from the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this morning. “We know over the past few…
On a party-line vote, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee has voted this morning to transfer $24 million to the Budget Stabilization Fund, the state’s main rainy-day savings account, at the end of the fiscal year on July 1; and also to transfer $10 million to the…
The Legislature’s joint budget committee nearly deadlocked this morning over the funding for statewide elected officials’ raises for next year, with a 9-9 tie vote after many members expressed concerns about granting bigger raises to top officials next year than state employees are getting. But…
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