The House is now debating HB 197, legislation from Rep. Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot, to undo a 2006 state promise to four school districts that, at the time, received very little state funding because they collected so much comparatively in local property taxes. Those four districts, Blaine County, McCall-Donnelly, Avery and Swan Falls, were permitted to keep their basic property tax levies in place, essentially "grandfathering" them in when the rest of the state's school districts had their local maintenance and operations property tax levy replaced with state funding. Lake's bill would require local voters to approve those basic levies every two years, just like supplemental override levies.

Lake told the House the Idaho Farm Bureau supports the change. "We simply believe as a matter of principle the taxpayers should have the ability to vote," he said. Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum, said, "A promise had been made. ... We now see that this promise is being reneged on. ... We talk about local control, but when it comes to local control, we may give it and we may not."