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1:30 The Montana House advanced the “Save Women’s Sports Act” out of committee 11-8 on a near party-line vote Jan. 21. Montana house bill 112 is nearly an exact copy of Idaho house bill 500, the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” passed into law last year but currently stalled on a temporary injunction issued in August ahead of a hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The bills require transgender athletes to compete on teams which align with their sex at birth. Montana’s ...

House passes resolution to quash COVID-19 limits on gatherings Updated at Share This Rep. Barbara Ehardt speaks to the Idaho House of Representatives on the proposed resolution to nullify limits to gatherings in response to COVID-19. | Screenshot BOISE — A resolution to quash limits on gatherings in response to COVID-19 will now go to the Senate after the House of Representatives voted to pass it. The resolution passed 55-15, with three of the no votes coming from Republicans. Voting resu...

Lawmakers taking another swing to pass bill that will compensate the wrongfully convicted Updated at Share This Rep. Doug Ricks and Christopher Tapp in 2020. | Courtesy Idaho Innocence Project IDAHO FALLS — Idaho lawmakers are taking another crack to pass a bill that will compensate people wrongfully convicted of crimes. Last year, Gov. Brad Little vetoed a bill passed by the House and Senate that would have given tens of thousands of dollars to those wrongfully convicted. Sen. Doug Ricks,...

HELENA — The Montana House on Monday held a committee hearing on two bills that focus on transgender young people, echoing similar efforts underway in other states. One of the bills would prohibit doctors from providing transgender youth certain gender-related medical treatment. Another would bar trans students from participating on school sports teams of the gender with which they identify. Proponents said the bills would defend trans children from life-altering medical procedures they ca...

Montana lawmakers hear bills on transgender athletes, transition Montana lawmakers held a lengthy hearing Monday on a pair of bills that would create new restrictions around transgender youth. By: Jonathon Ambarian and last updated 2021-01-18 17:13:41-05 HELENA — Montana lawmakers held a lengthy hearing Monday on a pair of bills that would create new restrictions around transgender youth. The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on House Bills 112 and 113, both sponsor...

MT House committee discusses bills on transgender athletes and gender transition procedures By: Jonathon Ambarian and last updated 2021-01-18 20:28:26-05 HELENA — Montana lawmakers held a lengthy hearing Monday on a pair of bills that would create new restrictions around transgender youth. The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on House Bills 112 and 113, both sponsored by Rep. John Fuller, a Republican from Kalispell. HB 112 would require public schools and colleges...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana House on Monday held a committee hearing on two bills that focus on transgender young people, echoing similar efforts underway in other states. One of the bills would prohibit doctors from providing transgender youth certain gender-related medical treatment. Another would bar trans students from participating on school sports teams of the gender with which they identify. Proponents said the bills would defend...

Montana lawmakers held a lengthy hearing Monday on a pair of bills that would create new restrictions around transgender youth.

Kevin Richert IdahoEdNews.org BOISE — From across the nation — and from a wide variety of viewpoints — opponents urged a federal court to strike down Idaho’s ban on transgender athletes. On Monday, attorneys filed 10 separate briefs opposing Idaho’s first-in-the-nation transgender athletics law, now before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The one-day flurry of filings — known in legal lexicon as “amicus curiae” or “friend of the cou...

IDAHO FALLS — A’lana Marmel had insurance. It was a last resort policy — one that might not help a ton with routine doctor visits, but would keep the single mother of two afloat if an emergency struck. Catastrophic insurance, as brokers call it. Then Marmel needed surgery. It could wait. So she did. A year later, she had her medically necessary but not time-sensitive surgery — an ovarian mass found to be benign once removed — after Medicaid expansion took effect in Idah...