The Senate Tax Committee has just begun its hearing on HB 463, the governor’s tax-cut bill, which earlier passed the House on a straight party-line vote. Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, is presenting the bill to the Senate panel. You can listen live here...
Longtime Boise bankruptcy attorney Joseph M. Meier has been appointed as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Idaho, to succeed U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jim Pappas, who is completing his 28th year of service. Bankruptcy judges serve 14-year, renewable terms, and…
U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch addressed the Idaho House and Senate today, with both proclaiming that the Trump Administration is being successful in Washington, D.C. in pressing a conservative agenda. “I spent most of the last 10 years fighting against bad ideas that…
The Idaho House today rejected a bid from Rep. Randy Armstrong, R-Inkom, to have the state Endowment Fund Investment Board, which is responsible for investing the state endowment fund, also invest $1 million that a small eastern Idaho city received as a bequest. Armstrong told…
In a first-time pilot project, the Idaho Legislature will take remote testimony on three bills that are up for hearings Monday in the House Education Committee. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. MT; those who’d like to testify must sign up at least 24 hours…
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, who startled security experts at an international security conference in Munich, Germany over the weekend with threats of a clash of “Biblical proportions” between the United States and North Korea, said today that he meant every word of it – but...
The Idaho House has voted 67-1 in favor of HB 429, legislation from Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, to make sure rape victims’ own health insurance isn’t charged for the cost of preparing sexual assault evidence kits – something that has been happening under current law....
JFAC set the budget for the Office of the State Board of Education this morning, and when it came to the proposal from Gov. Butch Otter for a $500,000 study of how universities could integrate their back-office systems to achieve savings and efficiency, the joint...
An Idaho Attorney General’s analysis of HB 536, Rep. Judy Boyle’s trespassing bill, finds that it “appears to be overly broad as it proscribes a great amount of lawful conduct and runs afoul of First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment protections.” The analysis, by Deputy Attorney...
The Idaho House voted 48-20 today in favor of HB 561, legislation from Rep. Jason Monks, R-Nampa, to require that in any future year when state revenue rises by more than 6 percent, personal and corporate income tax rates automatically be cut by one-tenth of...
Legislation to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving cleared an Idaho Senate panel this afternoon an 8-1 vote; the measure also would repeal the state’s 2011 law banning texting while driving. That measure was just too hard to enforce, said Sen. Marv...
A Republican Idaho state senator yelled “abortion is murder” at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces an ethics complaint after a post from an unverified Twitter account told them to discuss “killing babies” with a Democratic lawmaker. Sen. Dan Foreman told The AP on Tuesday...
Idaho's Senate has approved a bill requiring doctors to inform women seeking medical abortions that drug-induced abortions may be halted halfway through, despite physicians saying there's little evidence or science to back up that idea. Proponents of the idea say doctors can...
The House has voted 44-24 in favor of HB 419, Rep. Eric Redman’s anti-Sharia law bill, which seeks to forbid the recognition of any foreign law by Idaho courts. Here's the full vote breakdown and some of what representatives said in the debate...
Rep. Jason Monks, R-Nampa, has spent the past year working with stakeholders including cities and school districts to refine his House-passed legislation from last year seeking to restrict the use of public funds for campaigning. Today, the latest version of his bill cleared the House…
The House State Affairs Committee this morning unexpectedly revived a bill it had killed a day earlier – HB 496, which calls for making the directors of the state departments of Transportation, Parks and Correction serve at the pleasure of the governor, rather than be…
Pornography is “creating a public health crisis,” according to a resolution introduced by an Idaho House committee on Tuesday. “Families are torn apart because of the proliferation of this material,” Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, told the House State Affairs Committee. “Our communities, state and…
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee today killed Sen. Dan Johnson’s alternative tax-cut bill, dumping the Senate tax chairman’s proposal with only one vote in favor of the bill – from House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, D-Boise. Johnson’s bill, HB 558, took Gov. Butch Otter’s...
Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, says it’s about his sixth try, but this time his legislation requiring out-of-state retailers to collect and remit Idaho sales taxes on sales they make to Idaho has cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee – and this time, he’s…
Protesters marched to the Idaho state Capitol today bearing 183 child-sized, symbolic coffins, which they stacked on the Statehouse steps as they called for Idaho lawmakers to repeal the state’s faith-healing exemption, under which parents are immune from criminal or civil liability if they deny...
A state senator shouted at University of Idaho students affiliated with Planned Parenthood trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss birth control and sex education. GOP Sen. Dan Foreman said he would call law enforcement officials if they attempted to visit his office at the Capitol again. The students, who had traveled nearly 300 miles...
After much debate, the House has voted 29-40 on HB 461, Rep. Paul Shepherd’s nullification bill, killing it. Here's how the vote broke down and what lawmakers had to say in the debate...
The Idaho House is now debating, HB 461, Rep. Paul Shepherd’s nullification bill. You can watch live here.
Today is the day when the Idaho House and Senate commemorate their past members who died in the past year; there are quite a few. In the House, this year’s ceremony memorializes former Reps. John Tim Brennan, who served one term in the 1950s; Roger...
In a series of unanimous votes, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this morning set a public school budget for next year that reflects a 5.9 percent, $100 million increase in state general funds to $1.785 billion. There was no debate or dissent, and support for every...
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