BOISE â As Idahoâs legislative session inched toward qualifying as the longest in state history, the House on Tuesday passed Rep. Mike Moyleâs newly unveiled property tax bill with bipartisan opposition; three new bills trimming the governorâs emergency powers cleared a Senate committee and a fourth was introduced; and yet another new bill was introduced to target voter initiatives.
HOW THEY VOTED
Here’s how Treasure Valley representatives voted on HB 389, Rep. Mike Moyle’s controversial, wide-ranging and newly unveiled property tax bill:
Voting yes: Reps. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale; Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell; Brent Crane, R-Nampa; Gayann DeMordaunt, R-Eagle; Greg Ferch, R-Boise; Codi Galloway, R-Boise; Steven Harris, R-Meridian; James Holtzclaw, R-Meridian; Ryan Kerby, R-New Plymouth; Jason Monks, R-Meridian; Mike Moyle, R-Star; Joe Palmer, R-Meridian; Scott Syme, R-Caldwell; and John Vander Woude, R-Nampa.
Idaho Senate Passes Bill to Prevent Teaching Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
The Idaho Senate on Monday passed a bill to prevent the teaching of critical race theory in public schools and universities in the Gem State.
The bill, H 377 (pdf), was passed largely along party lines by 27-8. One Republican senator, Dan Johnson, joined Democrats in opposing the bill.
The bill mandates that no public schools “shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to” critical race theory or similar tenets, such as “that individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.”
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The left has gotten hysterical again. This time, it’s over a bill currently going through the Idaho legislature that would ban schools from “indoctrinating” students. Leftists claim it bans the teaching of critical race theory. It does not. What it does is make it legal to teach all points of view.
You can imagine how that’s going over on the left.
Several earlier versions of the bill did, indeed, ban critical race theory from being taught. But the final version voted on by the Senate on Tuesday took a much more ecumenical view of teaching history.
28 Apr 2021
The Idaho House and Senate have approved legislation that would prohibit schools from compelling K-12 and higher education students to affirm or adopt the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The bill is now on the desk of Gov. Brad Little (R), awaiting his signature.
The Idaho Senate passed HB 377 with a vote of 27-8, following a 57-12 vote in the state House.
CRT investigator and writer Christopher Rufo tweeted the news that the Idaho House had passed the bill “banning critical race theory indoctrination in the state’s public schools”:
BREAKING: The Idaho state House has passed a bill banning critical race theory indoctrination in the state s public schools. The legislation would prohibit schools from promoting race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation. Onward! pic.twitter.com/ZPR5Y7LqWr