Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on how Idaho senators took a $20 million road-funding bill from the House on Tuesday and turned it into a phased-in, $127 million plan, in hopes of wrapping up a legislative session that’s now the 12th…
The Senate has voted 22-13 in favor of HB 312a, the amended version of the transportation funding bill from the House. The measure now goes back to the House for possible concurrence in the amendments.
The Senate is now debating the newly amended HB 312a. From the debate: Sen. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, said, “I would just suggest that haste makes mistakes. We first saw this bill a few hours ago. … If we pass this, my constituents will never be...
Senate Democrats tried to get HB 312a, the just-amended transportation bill, sent back to the Senate Transportation Committee for a hearing, but their move failed on a 7-27, straight party-line vote. Now, the Senate is preparing to vote on the amended bill; it’s just waiting...
The two proposed amendments to HB 312 from Senate Democrats, to allocate some funding to public transportation and to cancel proposed fee hikes for hybrid and electric vehicles, both were voted down on lopsided voice votes, which appeared to run along party lines. Then, voice...
Senate Transportation Chairman Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson, is presenting his amendments now; they’re co-sponsored by Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint. They would add an additional $15 registration fee for all automobiles and trucks, on top of the increases already proposed in HB 312, raising the total amount...
Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb, D-Boise, told the Senate that her proposed amendment to HB 312 “would free up $10 million to be used to advance mobility and transit considerations throughout the state of Idaho.” She said, “As part of a 21st Century transportation vision, Idaho needs...
Four sets of possible amendments to HB 312, the transportation funding bill, have now been distributed to senators, as they prepare for their amending order; some are lengthy. “This is going to be one of the more interesting committee of the wholes that I‘ve ever...
The Senate was supposed to convene more than half an hour ago, to take up amendments to the House-passed transportation funding bill, HB 312. But there have been delays, fits and starts. They were in session a moment ago, but a delayed Senate Assistant Majority…
The House has voted 60-9 in favor of HB 324, the new version of Rep. Linden Bateman’s bill to raise fines for Idaho Open Meeting Law violations. The earlier bill, HB 155, earlier passed the House on a 58-11 vote, but was amended in the…
The Senate will go into its amending order this morning, but won’t take up HB 312, the House-passed transportation funding bill, Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis just announced. Instead, it’ll take that measure up this afternoon, when it again will go into the 14th Order...
The pair of Peregrine falcons that makes its home in a nest box high atop a downtown Boise skyscraper has something special to guard in the box now: Four eggs. The Peregrine Fund and Idaho Fish & Game report that both the mama and papa…
After much discussion, the Senate State Affairs Committee has approved HB 318, Rep. Steven Miller’s resort-city event center special liquor license bill, on a 5-3 vote. Sen. Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, said the bill doesn’t adequately define terms including “conference” and “event.” Sen. Brent Hill,…
The Senate State Affairs Committee voted unanimously this morning to endorse an interim legislative committee to examine Idaho’s state purchasing procedures; to back a new version of a resolution on human rights and religious freedom in Turkey; and to introduce a direct primary care pilot...
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