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Hill Saw Controversial Veto

Idaho Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill said he saw the controversial SB 1011 veto on April 3, but did not take possession of the bill. Sen. Hill, R-Rexburg, said the governor had called to inform him that he intended to veto the bill on April 3, but he wasn't going to release that information until April 6. Technically the legal deadline to physically deliver the bill to the Senate was April 4. If the veto was in fact invalid because of the delay in delivery, SB 1011 would automatically become law.  If SB 1011 becomes law, it would ban historic horse racing machines as a form of legal gaming in Idaho on July 1. Hill said after the phone call, he went to the governor's office later that afternoon to make sure that the press wouldn't have access to the veto over the Easter weekend/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Do you think Gov. Otter's veto will stand?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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