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Committee splits on home-energy rebates package; approves Speed Council request but full package faces house vote

2490734 · February 21, 2025
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Summary

JFAC debated and ultimately approved a plan to accept federal home-energy rebate funding and to add a $481,100 general-fund position for a Speed Council, while rejecting a substitute motion that sought to strip federal funding from the package.

The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee considered a governor-request and agency-request package to accept federal home energy rebates (federal American Inflation Reduction Act funds) for Idaho and to create a one-person Speed Council funded at $481,100 from the general fund.

Kellen McGurkin, budget analyst, told members that the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources requested roughly $24.5 million in federal appropriation to administer home-energy rebate and electrification programs and $82,000 in dedicated funds, with the…

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