Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” looks at the seventh week of this year’s legislative session, as co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz interview House Speaker Scott Bedke; Kunz reports from the Eastern Idaho Water Crisis Symposium in the wake of the settlement agreement regarding the Eastern Snake...
The Idaho Attorney General's office is investigating a political action committee. Spokesman Todd Dvorak tells the Post Register in a story on Friday that the Integrity in Government PAC is being investigated but declined to provide details. Public campaign disclosures show the PAC raised $126,000...
The House State Affairs Committee agreed unanimously today to introduce legislation to repeal a state law that bans depictions of specific simulated sex acts in films or photos at premises with state liquor licenses, replacing it with a law that says licensed premises can’t show…
The Senate has killed legislation proposed by the Idaho Sheriff’s Association to add eight additional crimes to the list of felonies for which gun rights aren’t restored after serving time. The eight: Terrorism, arson, theft by extortion, human trafficking, felony rioting, hijacking, racketeering, and supplying...
The literacy bill that’s had such a rocky path earlier in the session sailed through the House today with just two “no” votes, from Reps. Ron Nate, R-Rexburg, and Heather Scott, R-Blanchard. The measure, HB 526, carries out a recommendation from the governor’s task force…
The House has voted 42-24 in favor of the bill to ban powdered alcohol, HB 331a. Rep. Gayle Batt, R-Wilder, said the state Liquor Division already can decide which products are sold in the state. She cited an example: Alcoholic popsicles. “That was a decision…
Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, has introduced legislation to repeal the laws creating the Idaho Women’s Commission, which hasn’t been funded for the past seven years. “They defunded it but all the code is still in law,” Scott said. “It’s kind of outdated. I just don’t…
After a hearing stretching for nearly two hours, the Senate State Affairs Committee has voted unanimously to send SB 1342, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll’s Bible in schools bill, to the Senate’s 14th Order for amendments. Senators said they wanted to make sure the measure recognizes that…
Legislative budget writers overwhelmingly backed a budget for public health services under the state Department of Health & Welfare this morning that includes $971,100 in state funds and 4 new positions to carry out the state’s suicide prevention plan. It’s a long-sought move that includes…
A unanimous, 16-0 vote in JFAC this morning set the budget for Medicaid for next year, which reflects a 3.4 percent increase in state general funds; 6.2 percent in total funds. The budget, proposed by Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene; and…
There was a major fight over the Fish & Game budget in JFAC this morning after Rep. Jason Monks and Sens. Jim Guthrie and Dean Mortimer tried to derail a $2 million line item to purchase sportsman access to the Clagstone Meadows project in North...
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