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Republican leadership announced Friday a House bill that would make sweeping changes to Idaho’s property tax will not move forward this session.

The Legislature’s budget-setting committee has passed on a request by Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin for extra money to pay a private attorney she hired in a public records dispute.

Legislation preventing most private and public entities in Idaho from discriminating against people who haven’t received the coronavirus vaccine has cleared a Senate panel.

An Idaho lawmaker has introduced a bill that would lift the licensing requirements for professional hair braiders after three women filed a federal lawsuit over the braiding rules.

The top Republican in the Idaho Senate says a House-approved bill to fine librarians $1,000 and send them to jail for a year for checking out material to a minor that could harm them is dead.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law legislation prompted by the deaths of three Idaho Army National Guard pilots killed in a helicopter crash during a training exercise last year.

A House panel of Idaho lawmakers has approved a bill that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy by allowing extended family members of the patient to sue a doctor who performs one.

The Idaho House has voted to prohibit gender reassignment surgeries and gender-affirming health care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.

Legislation with the potential to fine Idaho librarians $1,000 and send them to jail for a year for checking out material to a minor that could harm them cleared the House.

In the Senate, a bill was passed with strong support for the legislative session to end no later than the last Friday in March.