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Senate convenes, takes up other business as it moves toward transportation bill…

From left, Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, Assistant Majority Leader Chuck Winder, and Majority Caucus Chairman Todd Lakey look over the Senate's calendar before the Idaho Senate convenes on Tuesday morning, March 28, 2017. (Betsy Z. Russell)
By Betsy Z. Russell betsyr@spokesman.com(208) 336-2854

The Senate is in session this morning, and Majority Leader Bart Davis announced that the plan is that it’ll run through several other measures – a memorial calling on the Air Force and Congress to consider locating an F-35 squadron at Gowen Field in Boise; two “trailer” appropriation bills relating to the state’s plan to purchase the HP campus in West Boise; and a concurrence in House-amended Senate bill, SB 1093aaH, on penalties for unlawful entry; before it takes up SB 1206, the transportation funding bill. “That’s our plan. Then we will make some decisions from there,” Davis told the Senate.

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