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BOISE — A consensus bill that restricts eligibility for the state/county indigent health care program earned a favorable recommendation from the Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee on Thursday. ....
We are halfway through the session and the more controversial bills are beginning to show up in the committees. In the Senate State Affairs Committee, we heard and sent to print Senate Bill 1135 (S1135). This bill was brought by the Idaho Association of School Administrators and allows school employees who have an enhanced concealed weapons license to be able to carry a firearm on school property. The conditions and requirements of an employee that wants to carry will be set and authorized by local school boards. This will include training requirements and letting local law enforcement know who is carrying. This is a good addition because in the event of a school shooting, law enforcement needs to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. ....
Talk about gaslighting. How else would you describe Republican legislators who transformed the Gem State into a child care desert before turning on working families and their kids? Before killing a $6 million federal grant to promote quality early childhood learning by a 36-to-34 vote, they managed to drown one of the partners involved - the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children - in a wave of innuendo. But what else could these culture warriors do? Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, couldn’t defend Idaho’s sorry record as one of six states that doesn’t lift a finger to help young children secure quality care. Not only has it refused to spend its own resources, but the state has frequently slapped away offers of assistance from the federal government. Even Idaho’s perennial counterparts in the national bottom of the basement - notably Mississippi and Alabama - are doing much more. ....
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