Rep. Ron Nate, R-Rexburg, proposed new legislation in the House Ways & Means Committee today to allow government agencies to publish legal notices on their websites, if they choose, rather than in a newspaper. Luker said he proposed similar legislation earlier, and the House Local...

It’s been an item much in play in the negotiations between the House and Senate over transportation funding, and was addressed in, for example, SB 1188, the “kitchen sink” bill that the Senate defeated last week. So explanations are in order. Idaho financed its Capitol...

In her Sunday column, Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports that the 2017 Idaho Legislature is growing restive as the session drags on. A large part of the problem is the antics by state Rep. Heather Scott & allies to delay votes by demanding a full reading of House bills. Another part is lawmakers who want something done about roads.

On Friday’s Idaho Reports, I had a moment of doubt, in which I said I wasn’t sure if the Senate has passed the JFAC-approved bill to allocate $52 million–virtually the entire state budget surplus built up so far this year – to emergency road repairs around the state. I’ve checked, and the bill, SB 1141, passed the Senate on March 9. Since then...

Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, presenting HCR 29 on authorizing the possible state purchase of the HP campus in West Boise, told the Senate, “Today we get to vote on a sweet deal that will bless the lives of generations to come.” Hill recalled...

Legislation that had previously passed the Senate unanimously to address property owners faced with squatters has passed the House on a 65-3 vote. It came in response to an incident in Canyon County, in which the owner faced long delays in evicting a squatter who...

What was to be their closing date Instead has the House in a state The few still defy Though they don’t say why That’s just their right, says Ron Nate.

Idaho House members hijacked the Senate-passed unemployment tax rate cut on Thursday and decided to amend it to add an income tax cut into the bill.