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‘EMS in Idaho is broken’: Lawmakers move to reform underfunded emergency services

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 22, 2023

In rural Idaho, most emergency medical service providers are volunteers, and some services are funded by bake sales or other community fundraisers. That’s because the state doesn’t deem emergency medical services (EMS) essential, the way it does police and fire services, so local EMS providers rely on a patchwork of resources, with no statewide coordination of coverage. Meanwhile, population ...

News >  Pacific NW

Bill that prohibits gender-neutral bathroom requirements in contracts clears Idaho Senate

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 8, 2023

An Idaho bill that would bar local governments from requiring contractors to provide transgender people access to restrooms that align with their gender identities cleared a major hurdle Wednesday. The bill, from Sen. Scott Herndon, R-Sagle, would block state and local governments from requiring that public works contractors provide access to restrooms, showers or changing rooms “on any basis ...
News >  Pacific NW

Idaho Republican pitches jail time for ‘trafficking’ a minor to get an abortion

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 8, 2023

People who travel with a minor to another state for an abortion, or help a minor obtain an abortion-inducing drug, would face at least two years in prison under a new Idaho bill. The legislation, from Rep. Barbara Ehardt, R-Idaho Falls, would update Idaho’s anti-human trafficking code to include “recruiting, harboring, or transporting a pregnant minor with the intent” to procure an abortion, ...
News >  Idaho

Idaho Launch faces another fight in Senate after narrow escape from House

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 8, 2023

Feb. 7—TWIN FALLS — Gov. Brad Little's push to ramp up education spending, one of his budget priorities for the 2023 legislative session, emerged from the Idaho House of Representatives looking like a schoolboy who got roughed up but still won the recess football game. Another bruising contest likely awaits in the Senate. House Bill 24, which would expand the Idaho Launch program to include an ...
News >  Pacific NW

Records show powerful, wealthy funders outside Idaho back school choice campaign

The national special interests groups who have poured millions of dollars into efforts to make education savings account programs a reality in states like Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Wisconsin and New Hampshire are the same donors who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during Idaho’s midterm election to ensure school choice-friendly legislators occupied as many seats as possible in the Idaho Legislature, records show.

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