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‘We’ve got to fund it’

Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, shares a laugh with JFAC member Rep. Cliff Bayer, R-Boise, on Monday afternoon. The joint budget committee, which delayed meeting last week, is set to meet Tuesday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, shares a laugh with JFAC member Rep. Cliff Bayer, R-Boise, on Monday afternoon. The joint budget committee, which delayed meeting last week, is set to meet Tuesday morning. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

When JFAC meets in the morning, it'll take up new versions of the 25 vetoed budget bills, according to Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, along with action to "fill the holes" created by Senate amendments to HB 256 and HB 262, on public school funding. The House introduced a new bill today that seeks to undo some of those Senate changes; asked about that, Cameron said, "They don't have anything better to do, I guess." The House agreed this morning by unanimous consent to concur in the Senate amendments to the two bills, though it hasn't yet given the amended bills final passage. "Based on what we've done, we've got to fund it," Cameron said.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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