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Day care licensing bill heads to Senate’s amending order to be ‘tweaked’

HB 129, the bill making various changes to Idaho's day-care licensing law, has been sent to the Senate's amending order, after a hearing that stretched for more than two hours this afternoon in the Senate Health & Welfare Committee. "There's a few things that need to be tweaked," said committee Vice Chairwoman Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle. "We need something that's usable, that everybody can agree on, and I think if we can amend it and fix it so that the providers are happy, the Senate's happy, the House is happy, we've gained." After Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll's substitute motion to pass the bill as-is failed on a voice vote, Broadsword's motion to send it to the 14th Order for amendment passed. Sen. Les Bock, D-Boise, said he's confident senators can find "a compromise that will work, and I don't think it will be that difficult."



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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