The most significant budget request in the Medicaid budget for next year isn’t the biggest in dollars. In fact, the request to transform Idaho’s children’s mental health services – for children with serious emotional disturbances – calls for hardly any increase in state spending next year. But it will result in more than tripling...
Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today’s tax-cut legislation, which cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee this morning on a party-line vote and headed to the full House. The measure, from House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, would lower the…
House Resources Chairman Marc Gibbs, R-Grace, says he’s not holding the Idaho Fish & Game Department’s proposed fee increase hostage – he just wants the department to first propose solutions to increased depredation that Idaho farmers and ranchers have been seeing from the state’s increased…
An Idaho House panel has introduced legislation that would expand the list of the worst kind of felons banned from owning firearms. Lawmakers spiked a similar effort last year after Republicans opposed including felony convictions for arson, racketeering and rioting as qualifiers to lose one's right to own firearms...
House Resources Chairman Marcus Gibbs, R-Grace, has “returned two Idaho Fish & Game legislative proposals to the Fish & Game Commission,” including the department’s fee-increase proposal, saying neither will receive an introductory hearing in his committee, according to a news release from Fish & Game.…
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 14-2, a straight party-line vote with all Republicans in favor and both Democrats dissenting, in favor of HB 67, Rep. Mike Moyle’s bill to lower Idaho’s top personal and corporate income tax rates from 7.4 percent to...
This morning in the House Rev & Tax Committee, House Majority Leader Mike Moyle’s bill to cut individual and corporate income taxes is up for its hearing. Before it got to that, the panel agreed to introduce a bill from Rep. Clark Kauffman, R-Filer, to...
As budget hearings continue this week on health and human services programs, Idaho’s Division of Child Welfare is requesting a 20 percent increase in the stipends paid to foster parents for caring for children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned or who are unsafe…
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