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Republican Rep. Jason Monks addresses the House State Affairs Committee on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho. Lawmakers introduced a bill that is a third attempt to pass legislation to trim an Idaho governor's powers during an emergency such as the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

House has new bill to trim Idaho governor’s emergency powers

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

CORRECTS TO MELALEUCA, NOT MELELUCCA - This Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 photo shows Frank VanderSloot at a table on the fourth floor of the Idaho Statehouse in Boise. The 71-year-old billionaire founder of wellness shopping club Melaleuca says legislation is needed to protect families from unethical medical debt collectors. He's asking lawmakers to support his Idaho Patient Act that would require doctors and medical facilities to make bills timely and clear. It would also limit how much attorneys can get paid in specific circumstances involving medical debt collection. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

Billionaire touts bill to limit medical debt attorney fees

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

FILE - This July 18, 2013 aerial file photo shows the mixed ownership of forests north of the Clearwater River, including Potlatch private forest, Idaho State Endowment Lands and Clearwater National Forest, in Idaho. A panel of lawmakers formed to monitor how federal laws affect Idaho's sovereignty and report back to the Legislature has created three subcommittees to examine federal lands, education, and health and welfare. Republican Rep. Jason Monks, co-chair of the Committee on Federalism, said Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 that the federal lands subcommittee is not a repeat of an interim committee from several years that ran up big attorney fees while trying to find a way for the state to take control of federal lands. (Rocky Barker/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Idaho legislative committee eyes federal lands, education

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Bill would create Idaho committee to study federal laws

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