Committee advances bill raising petition signature threshold for library districts
The committee voted to advance House Bill 212 to the floor; the bill would change library district petition requirements from a flat 50 signatures to 20% of qualified electors in the affected district, a change proponents said would reduce election costs for counties.
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Representative Doug Pickett (Dist. 27) presented House Bill 212 to change petition requirements for library‑district formation elections from a fixed 50 qualified signatures to a threshold equal to 20% of the qualified electors in the district. Pickett said the change responds to a Minidoka County petition that cost about $25,000 to run as a single‑subject election and would align the statute with other petitioning rules.
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