The Idaho House voted 48-20 today in favor of HB 561, legislation from Rep. Jason Monks, R-Nampa, to require that in any future year when state revenue rises by more than 6 percent, personal and corporate income tax rates automatically be cut by one-tenth of...
Legislation to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving cleared an Idaho Senate panel this afternoon an 8-1 vote; the measure also would repeal the state’s 2011 law banning texting while driving. That measure was just too hard to enforce, said Sen. Marv...
A Republican Idaho state senator yelled “abortion is murder” at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces an ethics complaint after a post from an unverified Twitter account told them to discuss “killing babies” with a Democratic lawmaker. Sen. Dan Foreman told The AP on Tuesday...
Idaho's Senate has approved a bill requiring doctors to inform women seeking medical abortions that drug-induced abortions may be halted halfway through, despite physicians saying there's little evidence or science to back up that idea. Proponents of the idea say doctors can...
The House has voted 44-24 in favor of HB 419, Rep. Eric Redman’s anti-Sharia law bill, which seeks to forbid the recognition of any foreign law by Idaho courts. Here's the full vote breakdown and some of what representatives said in the debate...
Rep. Jason Monks, R-Nampa, has spent the past year working with stakeholders including cities and school districts to refine his House-passed legislation from last year seeking to restrict the use of public funds for campaigning. Today, the latest version of his bill cleared the House…
The House State Affairs Committee this morning unexpectedly revived a bill it had killed a day earlier – HB 496, which calls for making the directors of the state departments of Transportation, Parks and Correction serve at the pleasure of the governor, rather than be…
Pornography is “creating a public health crisis,” according to a resolution introduced by an Idaho House committee on Tuesday. “Families are torn apart because of the proliferation of this material,” Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, told the House State Affairs Committee. “Our communities, state and…
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