This Week’s Legislation Action Alerts 2/6/23

MVLA has compiled this week’s House and Senate alerts in one handy location. We even drafted sample letters to make contacting your legislator super easy. Simply copy the sample letter for each bill listed below, click on the legislator’s name, and paste the letter to email. Then send.

Please send replies to your letters to MVLA: news@mvlibertyalliance.org

HOUSE BILLS

H0001: Post Election Audits

Sponsor: Rep. Julianne Young

Summary: Relating to elections; amending section 34-1203A, Idaho Code to provide requirements for post-election audits and to make technical corrections; and declaring an emergency and providing an effective date.      
    Statement of Purpose from Rep. Julianne Young: “Ensuring that post-election audits of paper ballots are conducted using a hand count of those paper ballots.”

Read additional info here. Read the bill in full here.

SAMPLE LETTER:

State Affairs Committee:

I urge your support for H0001 regarding post-election audits. Given the threats to election integrity across the country in recent years, this bill ensures post-election audits of paper ballots are conducted using hand counting of those paper ballots.

Please reply.

Respectfully,

YOUR NAME HERE

Email to House State Affairs Committee: hstaf@house.idaho.gov

H0002: No Funds for Abortion Act

Sponsor: Rep. Bruce Skaug
Summary: Amends, adds to, and repeals existing law to provide for the withholding of sales and use tax revenues from local government entities that defy state law and refuse to investigate or enforce Idaho criminal abortion statutes.
Additional Information: There are many amendments throughout this bill which establish the legal penalty for violation of the statue. The exemptions provided for in subsection (4) of this section 10 shall not apply to any abortion considered unlawful under section 18-622 or 1118-8804 Idaho Code. Any public officer or employee who knowingly violates the 13 provisions of this section shall be in violation of section 18-5701 Idaho Code for misused of public money and shall be subject to punishment 15 under section 18-5702 of Idaho Code. This bill also does not have introduction date. A co-sponsor of this bill is Lance Clow from Twin Falls. You might chose to send him an email of thanks at LClow@house.idaho.gov.

Read the bill in full here.

SAMPLE LETTER:

House State Affairs Committee:

I urge the Committee’s support for H0002 to withhold sales and use tax revenues from local government entities that defy state law and refuse to investigate or enforce Idaho criminal abortion statutes.

Please reply.

Respectfully,

YOUR NAME HERE

Email to House State Affairs Committee: hstaf@house.idaho.gov

H71: Vulnerable Child Protection Act

Sponsor: Rep. Bruce Skaug

Summary: Bans puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender-affirmation surgery for minors. Anyone found guilty of such felony – if the bill were to become law – would face up to 10 years in prison, according to the bill.

Read the bill in full here.

SAMPLE LETTER:

House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee:

I urge the Committee’s support for the H71 Vulnerable Child Protection Act to ban puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgeries on minors. Not only are these so-called therapies found to cause irreversibly harmful side effects, but even permanent damage to children who were not ready to make fully informed decisions.

Please reply.

Respectfully,

YOUR NAME HERE

Email to House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee: hjud@house.idaho.govsedu@senate.idaho.gov

SENATE BILL

S1038: Freedom in Education Savings Accounts

Sponsor: Sen Tammy Nichols

Summary: This bill allows tax dollars earmarked for education to follow the students, instead of being locked into the Public Education System. This allows parents to home school or send their kids to private religious schools to use their tax dollars for their children’s education, instead of having to pay twice. Additional information here.

Read the bill in full here.

SAMPLE LETTER:

State Education Committee: sedu@senate.idaho.gov

I urge your support for S1038 Freedom in Education Savings Accounts that will allow our tax dollars follow students rather than our broken education system. This bill will empower parents to choose how they want to use their tax dollars to educate their child.

Please reply.

Respectfully,

YOUR NAME HERE

Please send replies to your letters to MVLA: news@mvlibertyalliance.org