Here’s a transportation funding bill that cleared the House…
Legislation to sell commemorative gold medallions to benefit the state highway account has passed the House on a 44-19 vote. "We should be creative and industrious and proactive and bold, and we should have tools like this in our toolbox ... to address highway funding," Rep. Russ Mathews, R-Idaho Falls, told the House. He said he's heard from "people anxious and willing to purchase medallions." Rep. George Eskridge, R-Dover, spoke against the bill, saying he feared the new transportation medallions would compete with the state's existing silver medallions that benefit veterans. Others questioned how the state could effectively market the medallions But Mathews said, "I'm confident that we could initially sell quite a few." The bill now moves to the Senate.
