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2017 Legislature wasn’t that long

This year’s legislative session certainly felt extremely long – endless, at times – but according to the Sine Die Report, which is now out, it was actually the fourth-shortest session in the past 10 years. The 80-day session was five days longer than last year’s 75-day session, but nine days shorter than the 89-day 2015 session. The only sessions in the past decade that were shorter than this year’s were 2016; 2014 (74 days); and 2010 (78 days).

The longest Idaho legislative session in the past decade was 2009’s 117-day marathon. In both 2011 and 2013, the session ran for 88 days.

The session with the greatest number of bills enacted into law over the past decade was 2008, with 410, compared to this year’s 337. That year, the session ran for 87 days/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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