Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, has a new bill up for introduction in the House Ways & Means Committee today that he said is "our last gasp before the session is over" to try to block implementation in Idaho of the federal health care reform law. Barbieri sponsored legislation that passed the House seeking to nullify the federal law; it was killed in a Senate committee. Under the new bill, he said, "We're again trying to direct the state agencies to wait until the Supreme Court decision on the ... Florida case with (Judge) Vinson." He said, "We just want to stop things in their tracks until the Supreme Court rules. We're hoping that may rush the process so that we can get a resolution in the Supreme Court."

Ways & Means is scheduled to meet today "at the call of the chair;" no time has been identified. House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, said the leadership panel likely would meet around noon.