Idaho Legislature likely to focus on education, property tax

Jan 7, 2023 - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Education funding, property tax relief and a tug of war over how best to use Idaho’s whopping budget surplus will be a focus for lawmakers as they gathered in Boise on Monday, Jan 9th for the start of the 2023 legislative session.

As usual, Republicans hold a supermajority in the Idaho Statehouse. But this year, there are a lot of new faces: Roughly 40 out of 105 lawmakers are newly elected.

“They all come with new ideas about how to make Idaho a better place,” Speaker of the House Mike Moyle, a Republican from Star, said Thursday during a legislative preview panel hosted by the Idaho Press Club.

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