State Affairs skips public records bill, takes up community college trustee zones bill

The House State Affairs Committee, which had been scheduled to take up HB 388 this morning, a proposal from Secretary of State Lawerence Denney for new public records exemptions to protect certain contact information in candidate and PAC filings, has put that off. “We’re going to hold off on HB 388 for a few days,” Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, announced. “It’s been reported that there’s a lot of ghosts in the legislation and so we’ve got to get those out of it.”

The committee is now hearing HB 387, Rep. Greg Chaney’s bill to require community college trustees to be from five designated zones; you can listen live here . “It helps ensure that we guard against taxation without representation,” Chaney told the committee. He said four of the five College of Southern Idaho trustees have Twin Falls addresses; four of the five North Idaho College trustees have Coeur d’Alene addresses; and said he believes that western Ada County and Canyon County are under-represented on the College of Western Idaho board.