Committee deadlocks on bill requiring legislative convening to end state disaster declarations

Representative Elaine Price, R-District 4, presented House Bill 344 to clarify that a state disaster emergency declared under Idaho Code would not continue beyond 60 days from the date of the declaration unless the legislature, convened in a special session, acts to continue it. Price said the bill is intended to preserve the legislature’s coequal authority by ensuring the legislature may end a declaration.