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Idaho House advances multiple maintenance and enhancement budgets, approves cap on off‑session spending
Summary
The Idaho House passed a package of maintenance and enhancement appropriations on March 13, including measures restoring rescissions for constitutional officers and funding cybersecurity and tax‑system work. Lawmakers debated transparency of consolidated budgets, use of federal funds and consolidation of IT staff.
The Idaho House of Representatives on March 13 advanced a cluster of maintenance and enhancement appropriations and passed a bill limiting 'noncognizable' off‑session spending.
House members suspended the rules to consider a sequence of appropriation measures, moving House Bills 8‑66, 8‑67, 8‑68, 8‑69, 8‑70, 8‑71 and 8‑35 for immediate consideration. Sponsors described the measures as maintenance budgets or targeted enhancements: restoring prior rescissions, funding pension software completion, restoring services for blind and visually impaired Idahoans, modernizing state IT and adding resources for tax‑system operations.
Supporters said the measures restore necessary functions and use a mix of general and dedicated funds. The sponsor of the Office of Information Technology Services package told colleagues the bill includes a general‑fund enterprise cybersecurity hardware and…
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