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 morning without any of a small group of dissident Republicans objecting to waiving reading of a bill.

Have the dissidents’ concerns been addressed? It’s unclear. Whenever a bill sponsor asked to waive further reading today, they carefully recited the Senate’s formal language for doing so, which dissident Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, maintains is the only constitutionally correct way to waive full reading of a bill.

Meanwhile, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, put up an angry Facebook post last night a little after 10 p.m., saying, “What is the IDAHO STATE LEGISLATURE waiting for? The grocery tax bill (H67aa) has PASSED the senate and is sitting on the DESK of the Speaker of the House. Please let House members know where you stand on REPEALING the GROCERY TAX bill. LET IT BE HEARD AND VOTED ON!”

Bedke did hold the bill at the desk yesterday around 11:30 a.m., but an hour later, he said that was just a procedural step and he planned to send it to a House committee for review of the Senate amendments, as has been his practice with Senate-amended House bills.

This morning around 10 a.m., Scott posted a new Facebook statement, saying, “Success! The bill will be heard in committee Monday!!!” and calling on her supporters to contact lawmakers about it. The House Revenue &  Taxation Committee has posted an agenda showing it'll hear the amended bill Monday at 1:30, and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle will present it.

The House still has six more bills on its 3^rd Reading Calendar, and its 2^nd Reading Calendar – which would require a two-thirds vote to suspend rules to take up today – currently has 15 bills on it, including the Idaho State Police budget bill, several trailer appropriation bills, and major civil asset reform legislation that’s passed both houses, but still needs House concurrence in Senate amendments.

The House Ways & Means Committee has scheduled a meeting when the House finishes its afternoon session today, with an agenda that includes a new bill that would incorporate Senate-passed legislation, SB 1195, to cut the unemployment insurance tax that Idaho employers pay, and a proposed 1/10 of 1 percent income tax cut to all of Idaho’s income tax brackets. House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, led a move in the House Revenue & Taxation Committee yesterday to add the $27.9 million income tax cut to the unemployment insurance bill, and the committee backed him on an 11-5 vote; the new bill apparently would do the same thing in a new bill, rather than taking up SB 1195 on the House’s amending order.