They've had 11 weeks to get something done.
But instead Lotto lawmakers are trying
to push through a property tax l
or we're trying to push througha
property tax bill here at the 11th hour.
So we've got some breaking news
when it comes to this cause.
Joe Paris has been following ths
closely when it comes to property tax
and what's happening at the State House.
So where do we stand?
Will we see some property tax relief?
Well, just in the last few minu,
Brian, we found the answer is y,
the Idahoans will be getting property tax.
And it's something that they've
talked about really all session long.
As we've established though,
lawmakers, they didn't need to s
property tax in order to adjour.
Idaho Democrats and Republicans,
they told me early today that is
something that they both want t.
They say doing nothing on propey
tax in the face of major attention on
the topic was never really an on
politically. I mean, you know,
and just personally, you know,
I just heard from so many peopl,
you know, seniors who are being
priced out of their homes.
I mean, personally,
I I would not feel comfortable
leaving the building to my,
you know, in terms of facing my
constituents unless we did someg
really serious on property taxe.
I hope we find a solution and wl
see what happens with the Senate
and the veto override they've g.
They'll have a vote.
And that I hope today or tomorrw
once they have that vote,
you'll know if we've got
solved or if we've got to,
you know try to do another bill.
So we have to wait and see what happens
in the sent with the veto overr.
So the Senate veto override
holds a lot of power right now,
and if you missed it,
the House and Senate,
they both passed property tax
legislation by a large margin.
Governor little saw issues with.
The Idaho House addressed
those with the trailer bill,
and then they voted to
override the governor's veto.
Makes it a lot simpler.
Gets us out of here a lot faste.
We'll have to do a couple trailr
bills to fix a couple of issuest
we're concerns of the governors.
There's one trailer bill followg
to address his concerns because
we because he brought up some
good points we want to be sure o
address those and and and I thik
you could actually end up with e
property tax relief because if t
bill passes you've got the schol
facilities fund and there's stil
a little money sitting around he
we could stuff in there which wd
help give more property tax rel.
So. So it gives us some options
if it gets overridden.
So now we're kind of back to
Ground Zero where you know
we're either going to end up.
With a dangerous property tax
bill that I think's gonna
give rise to serious problems.
Or we could be here,
be here for a very long time.
While they hammered out
OK, well, they hammered it out in just a
short time ago as we were getting on the air.
The Idaho Senate, they approved an override
to Governor Little's veto on House Bill 292.
That's the controversial
property tax relief package.
And we can actually take a look
right now at the Idaho Senate.
You can see that's the Lieutenant governor
Scott Bedke presiding over the Senate as
they are working late into the evening.
But we do now know that 292 the
property tax package that will become
law and we will get reaction and
what this means in the coming d.
But we do know that the governor's office,
I actually just spoke with them
a few minutes ago.
They tell me that they were pusg
for meaningful property tax relf
and that they saw some issues
with the original Bill 292.
But now that the legislature,
the House and the Senate has
addressed the issues that the
governor saw that they're good h
the the override veto so to spe,
the governor calling it meaningl
property tax relief.
His office telling me that it'st
the full amount they are hoping to get,
but it's very close to that.
So that basically is a a check
mark on on the governors,
I guess his agenda for the year.
But there's still a lot going down at the
Statehouse right now and the question is,
is this chaos at the end of the
session to get major legislation
done or is this weeks of work cg
to fruition as you can imagine t
depends who you ask down there.
For months we were just sitting
here going on and on about banng
books and going after librariand
going after trans kids and banng
drag shows and all of this socil
issue nonsense that is not goino
help people pay their bills or p
their kids get a better educati.
And we kept pushing and pushingo
give proper time and energy and focus
to real bread and butter issues.
Unfortunately, those were all
left at the very last minute.
If you watch what happened
this year on the property tax,
the House introduced those bills early,
and 292 is just a combination oa
whole bunch of people's ideas and so.
I think that you know,
the public gets frustrated and I don't
blame him because we all want it done now.
But sometimes these issues haves
it soup yet I guess is the sayig
I like to say have we got to the
point where it's ready to eat at
cooked long enough dude long en,
simmered long enough whatever.
Is it to the point that it's rey
to go and that and that's what u
deal with Protex especially sine
they're so dead gum confusing.
So the property tax meal is reay
to digest Brian and we'll find
out if the people Idaho end up
liking it or not real quickly.
I just want to say as they
are trying to wrap up,
we did just learn they're introducing.
One more item tomorrow on sexual
exhibitions that will be heard
at 8:00 o'clock in the morning,
tomorrow morning.
So as lawmakers are wrapping up,
we are seeing some new things
still introduced tomorrow
that have to do with morality
going through tomorrow.
All right. Thanks, Joe.