On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television, co-host Melissa Davlin interviews the three members of the Senate minority leadership; and interviews GOP Senate leader Brent Hill, R-Rexburg. Davlin also has an in-depth report about the legal and constitutional issues surrounding Idaho’s faith healing exemption.…
The House Ways & Means Committee met this afternoon and introduced two new bills: One combining Senate-passed SB 1195 to cut unemployment insurance tax rates for employers with an income tax rate cut of 1/10 of 1 percent on all brackets; and one, which won’t…
The final bill that the House took up this afternoon, before adjourning until Monday morning at 9, was SCR 121, the bill to extend all temporary rules. The lengthy debate focused on just one set of rules within those: The state’s school science standards, which…
The House has unanimously approved the Senate-amended version of bipartisan civil asset forfeiture reform legislation, sending it to the governor’s desk. “I think the heart of the bill is still there,” said Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise. “I think it’s a really important check and balance,…
In view of her many objections to unanimous consent in the House, it was perhaps predictable that when Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, just now asked the House for unanimous consent to change her vote on the previous two bills – she had cast the only…
After passing 28 bills and killing one – where yesterday the House only got to three bills all day – the House has taken a lunch recess, and will be back on the floor at 1:30 p.m. It managed to make it through the entire...
The Senate has adjourned until Monday at 10 a.m. Before bringing down the gavel, Lt. Gov. Brad Little noted that he had the mistaken impression that lawmakers wouldn’t be back next week; as a result, he has other plans, and, “I will not be here…
The House has killed amended legislation regarding motor vehicle service contracts that it had earlier passed, then reconsidered and amended, with the amendments winning unanimous support. The vote was 32-38. SB 1077a, which first was proposed by Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association lobbyist Lance Giles,…
Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, presenting HCR 29 on authorizing the possible state purchase of the HP campus in West Boise, told the Senate, “Today we get to vote on a sweet deal that will bless the lives of generations to come.” Hill recalled...
The Senate has a short calendar today; Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, said they’ll work through what’s on their calendar plus a few bills the House transmits to them this morning, and then adjourn until Monday. “We will not be picking up 1162...
The House put off two bills on its calendar, HB 317 and HB 318, moving them to the bottom of its calendar this morning. Both are “trailer” appropriation bills that are trailing after previously passed legislation, one for the Department of Fish and Game and…
Legislation that had previously passed the Senate unanimously to address property owners faced with squatters has passed the House on a 65-3 vote. It came in response to an incident in Canyon County, in which the owner faced long delays in evicting a squatter who...
The House is back on the floor this morning, and managed to pass its first three bills without any objections from the small group of dissidents who have been demanding full reading on random bills, slowing the process to a halt and preventing the Legislature…
What was to be their closing date Instead has the House in a state The few still defy Though they don’t say why That’s just their right, says Ron Nate.
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