The House Ways & Means Committee met on short notice this afternoon, and introduced three new vehicle registration fee increase bills. These are much, much smaller than Gov. Butch Otter’s earlier proposal for funding a road maintenance backlog, however, and less than half the magnitude…
The Senate has just recessed until 4:30 this afternoon, before taking up any of the bills on its 3rd reading calendar, as both parties are going into caucus. Meanwhile, the House had computer problems yesterday when it tried to come back on the floor after…
In a complicated deal designed to address the fight between spring water users and groundwater users in the Magic Valley, the state has hatched a plan to buy out a 400-acre fish farm, Pristine Springs, in partnership with the city of Twin Falls and area…
The vote was unanimous as JFAC took another look at the conversion of a Prison Industries Enhancement warehouse at the Idaho Correction Center into a 304-bed minimum custody drug treatment this morning, and approved it. The panel backed a $4,675,500 supplemental appropriation for the current…
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