The House Revenue & Taxation Committee today killed Sen. Dan Johnson’s alternative tax-cut bill, dumping the Senate tax chairman’s proposal with only one vote in favor of the bill – from House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, D-Boise. Johnson’s bill, HB 558, took Gov. Butch Otter’s...
Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, says it’s about his sixth try, but this time his legislation requiring out-of-state retailers to collect and remit Idaho sales taxes on sales they make to Idaho has cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee – and this time, he’s…
Protesters marched to the Idaho state Capitol today bearing 183 child-sized, symbolic coffins, which they stacked on the Statehouse steps as they called for Idaho lawmakers to repeal the state’s faith-healing exemption, under which parents are immune from criminal or civil liability if they deny...
A state senator shouted at University of Idaho students affiliated with Planned Parenthood trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss birth control and sex education. GOP Sen. Dan Foreman said he would call law enforcement officials if they attempted to visit his office at the Capitol again. The students, who had traveled nearly 300 miles...
After much debate, the House has voted 29-40 on HB 461, Rep. Paul Shepherd’s nullification bill, killing it. Here's how the vote broke down and what lawmakers had to say in the debate...
The Idaho House is now debating, HB 461, Rep. Paul Shepherd’s nullification bill. You can watch live here.
Today is the day when the Idaho House and Senate commemorate their past members who died in the past year; there are quite a few. In the House, this year’s ceremony memorializes former Reps. John Tim Brennan, who served one term in the 1950s; Roger...
In a series of unanimous votes, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee this morning set a public school budget for next year that reflects a 5.9 percent, $100 million increase in state general funds to $1.785 billion. There was no debate or dissent, and support for every...
This morning, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will set the single largest piece of Idaho’s state budget – the K-12 public schools budget. Here, JFAC Co-Chair Rep. Maxine Bell, R-Jerome, talks with Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, who is among the JFAC members who’s been crafting…
An Idaho lawmaker has proposed inserting a mental health exception in a 2014 felony battery law that protects health care workers. The Idaho Statesman reports Republican State Rep. Christy Perry last week introduced a bill that would amend the law so that it cannot be used to charge people who were in treatment...
Gov. Butch Otter says he welcomes debate over competing tax-cut bills. "I fully expected competing pieces of legislation," he said. Also: Otter on the 'dirty 30' and the House to consider a controversial trespassing bill...
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