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• Bills seek changes to Idaho’s ‘conscience law’

  February 22, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – There are now three bills seeking to amend Idaho’s “conscience law” to protect patients’ living wills and advance care directives from being overridden by a caregiver as they’re …

• Eye on Boise: ‘Conscience law’ living will tweak stalls

  February 6, 2011 in Idaho on Page B10 BOISE – Legislation to amend the “conscience law” Idaho passed last year to make sure it doesn’t authorize violations of living wills may die without a hearing. House State Affairs …

• Vestal: Hart ethics panel holdout Loertscher has a point

  December 17, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A7 Tom Loertscher is the one guy on the Idaho House Ethics Committee who wants to leave Phil Hart alone. How about Hart’s unpaid half-million in taxes and lame, I’m-a-legislator excuses? … 2

• Board of Tax Appeals rules Hart missed deadline

    August 26, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho’s state Board of Tax Appeals has rejected state Rep. Phil Hart’s appeal of an order to pay $53,000 in back state income taxes, penalties and interest, saying … 1

• Ethics committee to investigate Hart

  June 30, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A5 Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney has appointed an ethics committee to investigate the conduct of Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol.

• House GOP votes to stop 1 percent pension hike

  February 19, 2010 in Idaho The Republican-dominated House voted 48-19 to block Idaho government retirees from getting a 1 percent pension raise, saying it was necessary to protect the $10 billion fund. 3

• Panel agrees to block cost-of-living boost

  February 19, 2010 in Idaho Idaho lawmakers reversed course Thursday and voted to pass the same legislation blocking a cost-of-living increase for state retirees that they’d just killed a day earlier.