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It's never a good thing when #Idaho lands in the national news.
#Vouchers for private schools - big mistake.
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A bill aimed at ending the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs is dead. Latino Idahoans make up 14% of the state’s population [288,765 people]. #idpol #idleg
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The Idaho Legislature's plans to cut $22M from Medicaid disability services stalled today. #idleg #idpol
A new bill that would allow prospective jurors to get out of jury duty by instead volunteering as an election poll worker is heading to Gov. Brad Little’s desk for final consideration. #idleg #idpol
HB 730 in Idaho is still making its way through the Senate and could lead to these kinds of issues. Tell your senator to vote NO on HB 730. #idleg idahocapitalsun.com/2026/03/02/r...
Law enforcement organizations overwhelmingly opposed the bill, arguing it was an overstep by the state and that agencies were already voluntarily cooperating with immigration agents. #idleg #idpol
Bill creates more problems than it solves; was opposed by Idaho law enforcement groups.
#Idleg regularly ignores reason and expertise to pass its culture war bills. #idpol
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The Idaho House widely passed a bill to criminalize “willfully” entering public and government bathrooms and changing rooms designated for another sex.
The bill would effectively block transgender people from using their preferred public bathrooms in Idaho. #idleg #idpol
In other Monday news, the House passed a bill that would make violations of the state's bathroom law a criminal offense. #idaho #idleg www.idahoednews.org/top-news/sta...
In other Monday news, the House passed a bill that would make violations of the state's bathroom law a criminal offense. #idaho #idleg www.idahoednews.org/top-news/sta...
The bill would effectively block transgender people from using their preferred public bathrooms in Idaho, expanding on the state’s transgender bathroom ban in public schools. #idleg #idpol
First offense: misdemeanor, punishable by one year in prison. Second offense: a felony, punishable by five years in prison. #idpol #idleg
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Idaho was awarded millions in federal funding to improve rural health care, but exactly how the state will use that money remains a debate among the #idleg.
Meanwhile, leaders at rural hospitals are increasingly concerned the state may lose out on the money as those hospitals face critical needs.
Hello! This morning, my focus is on Senate State Affairs and House State Affairs. #idpol #idleg
SSA- HB 659 287g agreements and SB 1356 County Highway Districts (changing elections to at-large).
HSA- Single-family home, Foreign Persons introduction and HJM 19 Dept of Ed elimination.
“The voters have it within their power to make these things go away,” Matsusaka says. “The irony is that they’d likely have to pass an initiative on the ballot to do it.” #idpol #idleg
Things are heating up at the Legislature. If you're in Idaho, here's what to know and how new bills could affect you
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The Idaho GOP requires their legislators to sign a pledge to uphold the party platform. They don't all comply, but most do. My opponent does.
This platform reads like an AI summary of Project 2025, if the AI was trained on sermons from Westboro Baptist Church. #IDleg #IDpol
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An Idaho House committee on Friday rejected a bill meant to repeal vaccine requirements, but which critics said could have restricted access to medical care. #idleg #idpol
An Idaho House committee on Friday rejected a bill meant to repeal vaccine requirements, but which critics said could have restricted access to medical care. #idleg #idpol
If you read one thing today, please read this from @pfannyyy.bsky.social . After you read it…pause and reflect on it. These deaths could have been prevented.
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Morning! Senate State Affairs hearing on HB 561 (flag bill) at 8am, Medical Mandates cont. in HHW at 8:30, and looks like Ways and Means has a replacement for HB 743 (forcing loc gov to follow laws bill).
Also tracking HB 872 Ballots, Elections in HSA but might not get to hear. #idleg #idpol
Four patients have died after the Idaho — facing budget shortfall — cut a mobile treatment program for people with severe mental illness. #idleg #idpol
Providers say the recent death of a man in his 40s marks the fourth death among patients who were receiving mobile, specialized treatment in less than four months since an Idaho Medicaid contractor cut the service, called Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT. #idleg #idpol
An impassioned debate from one of Idaho’s most experienced state legislators brought the Idaho Senate to a standstill Thursday and set the stage for the chamber to kill a budget that would impose budget cuts on health and human services programs. #idleg #idpol
Proving again, perhaps for those in the back plugging their ears like defiant toddlers, that the “modern” extremists in the #idleg are not, in fact “pro-life” at all 🤬
Targeting the most vulnerable amongst us is DEPLORABLE 🤬 That’s what they are good at 😒
Without debate, the Idaho House passed on a party-line vote Thursday a bill that calls for nearly $22 million in budget cuts to Medicaid disability services. #idpol #idleg