many of them elderly and on a fixed income. The Governor called a special session of the legislature in September 2022, where among other things, the legislature created a flat tax and gave another income tax rebate. While headlines of $500M rebates look good politically, the rebate is not...
Betsy Z Russell
First legislative and statewide elections held. First session of the Idaho Legislature meets.1891 -Great Seal of the State of Idaho, a design drawn by Miss Emma Edwards, with the Latin motto "Esto Perpetua" adopted. Idaho forest reserves created. Boise's electric street railway commences operatio...
Read HJM 14 in its entirety at legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2018/legislation/hjm014. HJM 14 sponsors Rep. Van Burtenshaw (R-Terreton) and Sen. Jeff Siddoway (R-Terreton) did not respond to requests for comment before press time.
Idaho schools will soon be unable to require staff and students to use a transgender student’s name and pronouns under legislation signed this week by the state’s Republican Gov. Brad Little. Idaho House Bill 538, which passed the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature by w...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit granted the Idaho legislature's request to enforce the law while litigation continued. But after reviewing the panel's decision, the full 9th Circuit reinstated the lower court's injunction in October. The appeals court se...
Tours:https://legislature.idaho.gov/capitol/tours/ Old Idaho Penitentiary 2445 N. Penitentiary Road Built in 1870 and used until 1973. At first it was Territorial Prison. Later used as Idaho’s only state prison. The gardens and rose beds are in good condition – as they were at the begi...
Day after day, she showed up to the statehouse for rallies, testimony and other community organizing. By the time the bill was signed into law by Little—along with another anti-trans bill—other state legislatures had already shut down due to the coronavirus. ...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Organizers of an education funding initiative have asked to have the measure pulled from the November ballot after the Idaho Legislature last week passed a massive tax cut and education spending bill that made the initiative moot.
The Idaholegislature passed a bill this week to carry out the death penalty for sex crimes against children younger than 12. Another bill permitting prosecutors to bring sexual exploitation charges against producers of child pornography using artificial intelligence (AI) also ...