Idaho Legislature wraps up business, after a tussle over $100, but does not adjourn

After a marathon day at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise, it appears that $100 and the threat of having to spend any more time with each other broke a legislative impasse over a library budget late Friday night.

But instead of adjourning for the year, legislators voted to take a recess until Thursday.

Shortly before 10:30 p.m. Friday, the Idaho House of Representatives voted 41-21 to pass the 2023 budget for the Idaho Commission for Libraries. The House had killed two previous versions of the budget in the past two days.

The only change between the library commission budget the House killed at about 6:30 p.m. and the budget it passed four hours later was a $100 reduction in federal funding.

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