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May 12 The Idaho House of Representatives voted Wednesday afternoon to temporarily adjourn the legislative session, returning later in the year to address redistricting.
The House voted 55-8-6 to adopt House Concurrent Resolution 23, a Ways and Means Committee resolution introduced last week that would allow the Legislature to recess until Sept. 1 at the latest. The speaker of the House and president of the Senate would be able to call the lawmakers back into session at any point prior to Sept. 1.
The resolution was then introduced in the Senate and sent to the Senate State Affairs Committee. The Senate has recessed for the second time Wednesday evening until 8 p.m. without voting on the resolution.
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Guns-in-schools bills wonât move this legislative session
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During a March 2020 hearing, Senate State Affairs Committee chairwoman Patti Anne Lodge eyes a line of activists against gun violence ready to testify against a guns-in-schools bill. | Sami Edge, Idaho EdNews
BOISE Two competing guns-in-schools bills will not get a hearing in the waning days of the 2021 legislative session.
âThis sessionâs over,â Senate State Affairs Committee Chair Patti Anne Lodge, R-Caldwell, told Idaho Education News. âI am not having another committee hearing.â
In an interview Friday â one day after a shooting at Rigby Middle School, which left two students and a school custodian injured â Lodge emphasized the need to train teachers and school staff so they know how to respond to a crisis. And on Thursday, Rigbyâs training worked, Lodge said; a teacher was able to disarm and detain the suspect, fem