JFAC has voted unanimously to transfer $500,000 to the Constitutional Defense Fund, which has been drained by lawsuit settlements; and by a 16-4 party-line vote to put $200,000 in state general funds into a new legal defense fund for the Legislature, to be controlled by the Senate president pro-tem and the speaker of the House.

Minority Democrats objected to the new legislative legal fund. "I see this as going to get a third opinion on something that the Attorney General isn't going to give the 'right' opinion,'" said Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum. But they were outvoted.