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Eye On Boise archive for Feb. 2018

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7, 2018




Move to amend tax-cut bill fails, 24-46

As the House debates HB 463, the governor’s income tax-cut bill, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, interrupted with a motion to send the bill to general orders for amendment. Scott said she wanted the bill sent to the amending order “to add grocery tax repeal and...

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House to vote on big tax-cut bill today

House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, informed the House this morning that the governor's income tax-cut bill, HB 463, will be moved up the calendar and debated and voted on today. Otherwise, it would have been the 11th bill on House's 3rd Reading Calendar today.

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No vote today on con-con

The House State Affairs Committee took another three hours of public testimony today on the proposal to call for an Article V convention of states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but concluded its meeting today without taking a vote on the measure. The…

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TUESDAY, FEB. 6, 2018




Sen. Dean Mortimer, R-Idaho Falls, chairman of the Senate Education Committee (Betsy Z. Russell)

Of rules, concurrence and science standards...

The intricacies of the state’s administrative rules process create this twist to tomorrow’s House Education Committee consideration of school science standards: It may not matter what the panel does. Last year, because the House committee insisted on deleting five sections regarding climate change from the…

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