Goedde amendment carries

Senate Education Chairman John Goedde’s amendment to HB 303a, to add in a clause giving school districts flexibility for the next year on use of maintenance funds, has won Senate approval. The Senate then recessed until 2 p.m. Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, said the Senate plans to take up the public school appropriation bills this afternoon, because the House plans to take those bills up first on its afternoon calendar. Senate Republicans also plan a caucus shortly after they reconvene this afternoon.