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Senate Commerce advances interchange-fee change, forwards Whitworth nomination and prints staff-classification bill

2657988 · February 4, 2025
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At a short Idaho State Senate Commerce Committee meeting, senators voted to send RS 32,039 (interchange-fee change) and RS 31,780 (classification of certain attorneys) to print, recommended the gubernatorial appointment of Joshua Whitworth to the Percy Board to the full Senate for confirmation, and approved committee minutes.

At a brief meeting of the Idaho State Senate Commerce Committee, members voted to send RS 32,039 — a measure that would exclude state and local sales taxes and gratuities from the base used to calculate credit- and debit-card interchange fees — to print, advanced RS 31,780 on classification of certain state attorneys to print, recommended the governor's appointment of Joshua Whitworth to the Percy Board to the full Senate for confirmation, and approved committee minutes from Jan. 28, 2025.

The interchange proposal was presented by Senator Mark Harris, Legislative District 35. Harris said the…

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