That was really, really weird. The House, on a motion from GOP Caucus Chairman John Vander Woude, R-Nampa, reconsidered the 38-32 vote this morning by which it passed HB 100, the bill to do away with a special retirement perk that sharply boosts the pensions...
It was a bit anticlimactic after the big fights in past years, but the House has easily passed HB 177, the bill to require parental consent for teens under 18 to use artificial tanning beds, and banning their use for those age 13 and younger.…
The Idaho Senate has passed SB 1066, Sen. Chuck Winder’s bill to give political parties the option for a March presidential primary election at state taxpayer expense – with an estimated cost of $2 million – in addition to the May primary. The bill passed…
After much debate, the House has passed HB 100, to remove a special retirement perk that sharply boosts the pensions of longtime lawmakers who, late in their careers, do brief stints in high-paying state jobs, by counting all their years of legislative service as if...
Seven senators remained outside the Senate chamber this morning as guest chaplain Rajan Zed delivered today’s opening invocation, a Hindu prayer, then took their seats immediately after it was done. The seven: Sens. Vick, Nonini, Nuxoll, Den Hartog, Rice, Patrick, and Siddoway. Vick had previously...
The House State Affairs Committee has approved HB 155, legislation from Rep. Linden Bateman, R-Idaho Falls, raising fines for violations of the Idaho Open Meeting Law. The vote sends the bill to the full House for consideration.
House Majority Leader Mike Moyle’s bill to end the twice-a-year daylight saving time changes in Idaho has run into a problem: By engineering the change to occur on July 1, it would put Idaho into permanent daylight saving time, rather than permanent standard time. And…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers on a Senate committee advanced to the full Senate a bill that will give the public access to oil and natural gas production records and that more closely follows national standards.…
Far from leaving them in the dark without service, the demise of Idaho’s multimillion-dollar statewide school broadband network has brought several North Idaho school districts better service at a lower cost. “We’re getting more bandwidth now than we did before,” said Seth Deniston, technology director…
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