Following today’s House vote to pass the tax conformity bill, the House went at ease for a bit of a tongue-in-cheek ceremony: The “crow,” a statue of a crow that’s ceremonially passed to the House member who gets the least support on a bill or motion, was carried from its former custodian, Rep. Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, to Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, for getting just eight votes on her motion to “lay on the table” the conformity bill, HB 425.

That’s a rarely used parliamentary maneuver that requires a majority vote to pass, then tables the bill and keeps it from being taken back up without two-thirds approval. That was the move used in committee last spring to kill the child support enforcement bill, which then led to a special session to pass an amended version.

Scott accepted the crow in good spirits, and posed for pictures with it as her fellow lawmakers snapped away with their phones. 

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