The House has voted 43-25 to not concur in the Senate amendments to HB 599a, the bill to repeal the property tax on business equipment. Those amendments, which the Senate had approved unanimously, would have limited the business tax break to equipment valued at up…
Gov. Butch Otter has signed into law HB 586, the measure on vehicle emission testing to avoid federal sanctions in areas of the state with high levels of air pollution. “Clean air is among Idaho’s most precious resources,” Otter wrote in a signing message. “We…
The House has gone right into debate on SJR 107, the bill regarding local government debt and “ordinary and necessary” expenses. The Senate, meanwhile, has taken up the newly House-passed measure restoring most of the vetoed substance abuse treatment funds.
The Senate has voted 29-4 in favor of HB 680, to let developers set up “community infrastructure districts” to bond for public improvements related to new developments, with the bonds to be paid off by the future residents of the developments. Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg,…
The Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee just met, but HB 688, the local-option tax enabling legislation, had disappeared from its agenda. Instead, the committee quickly passed HB 691, the replacement for the tax-deed sale legislation that Gov. Butch Otter vetoed earlier, and finished its…
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 10-6 to recommend not concurring in the Senate amendments on the personal property tax repeal bill, HB 599, and instead calling for a conference committee to resolve differences between the House and the Senate. The panel’s five…
Now there’s talk of a possible conference committee to resolve differences between the two houses, should the House not concur in the Senate amendments to HB 599, the bill to repeal the personal property tax on business equipment. But there’s also talk that the Legislature…
House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly, has asked the House for unanimous consent to return HB 689, the compromise $68.5 million transportation funding bill, to committee, and no one objected. “We’re nearing the end of the session, and it’s probably time that we work…
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