Lobbying firm adds Colby Cameron to staff
POSTED: Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 08:22 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Colby Cameron, Idaho Legislature, Sullivan Reberger & Eiguren
Sullivan Reberger Eiguren has announced the addition of legislative affairs professional Colby Cameron to its team.
Cameron will assist partners Patrick Sullivan, Phil Reberger and Roy Eiguren with representing client affairs to the Idaho Legislature and other government entities in the retail, environmental, education, transportation, energy and health care sectors.
From 2008-2010, Cameron worked for Sullivan Reberger [...]
Despite threat, Idaho’s Exergy sticks by projects
POSTED: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 08:22 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: alternative energy, Exergy, Idaho Legislature, Roy Eiguren
A wind energy industry lobbyist pushing to extend Idaho’s sales tax rebate for alternative power developers made it clear: If the extension died, Roy Eiguren told lawmakers on April 7, so would hundreds of millions worth of his company’s projects.
“Your client would announce tomorrow that they are canceling those projects?” asked Sen. Joe Stegner, R-Lewiston.
“That [...]
Wind industry setback won’t derail PUC process
POSTED: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 06:17 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: alternative energy, Gene Fadness, Idaho Legislature, PUC, PURPA
Idaho’s wind industry suffered a setback but didn’t die as a result of a tax incentive failing in the state Legislature.
Lawmakers killed a bill that would have extended a sales-tax rebate set to expire June 30.
“It’s very important to the financials,” said Peter Richardson, an Eagle-based attorney who represents wind developers. “Six percent of the [...]
Idaho Senate kills much-debated energy rebate
POSTED: Monday, April 11, 2011 at 07:25 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: alternative energy, Idaho Legislature, Tax Rebate
Lobbyists for wind energy companies stood in shocked disbelief April 7 after the Idaho Senate narrowly killed a measure to extend a sales tax rebate for alternative energy. The expected deal had been hashed out between lawmakers, utilities and wind developers in closed-door negotiations that dominated the final month of the 2011 Legislature.
The 18-17 vote [...]
Hire One Act passes
POSTED: Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 02:54 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Idaho Legislature
The Idaho Legislature passed a jobs-incentive bill April 7, the final day of the legislative session.
The Hire One Act provides tax credits to employers who hire. It sets three levels of qualification for refundable income tax credits based on how the employer is rated by the state Department of Labor for payment of unemployment insurance [...]
Bill would give foreclosed owners two weeks’ notice 
POSTED: Monday, April 4, 2011 at 08:49 AM PTBY: Dave Goins
Tags: Idaho Attorney General's Office, Idaho Legislature, subprime mortgage loan crisis
With the wreckage from America’s subprime mortgage loan crisis still floating in, the Idaho Attorney General’s office has proposed a bill an official with the agency says would aid Idaho consumers threatened by property foreclosures.
The House Business Committee on March 29 fast-tracked the bill to the House floor’s second reading calendar, as the Idaho Legislature [...]
Interest rate on highway bonds may inch up
POSTED: Friday, April 1, 2011 at 09:14 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Fitch Ratings, Idaho Housing and Finance Association, Idaho Legislature, Idaho Transportation Department
The type of bond Idaho uses to pay for highway construction is in danger of being downgraded by a major rating agency, but any increase in cost to the state probably would be small.
Fitch Ratings revised its outlook on grant-anticipation bonds, which are backed by revenue states expect to receive from the federal government, from [...]
Medicaid claims malfunction could cost Idaho
POSTED: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 03:36 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: Idaho Legislature, Medicaid, Molina Medicaid Solutions
Idaho’s new, problem-plagued Medicaid claims processing system may cost taxpayers millions of dollars, according to a report released March 29 by legislative auditors who concluded that neither Idaho health officials, the software company nor Medicaid providers were adequately prepared for the switch last year.
After California-based Molina Medicaid Solutions took over the $106 million contract in [...]
Micron pushes exemptions from disclosing business property
POSTED: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 01:36 PM PTBY: Dave Goins
Tags: Idaho Legislature, Idaho State Tax Commission, Micron Technology
It was dubbed the “Micron secrecy” bill by one state lawmaker.
Nonetheless, House Bill 239 – which would exempt all Idaho businesses from the requirements of a proposed agency rule for public disclosure of personal property for businesses – gained the blessing of the Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee meeting on March 29.
“It was enough [...]
Budget cutters went against some constituents on cigarette tax
POSTED: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 08:35 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: cigarette tax hike, Idaho Legislature
In recent days, Rep. Cameron Wheeler has fielded numerous phone calls from voters in his eastern Idaho district that took him a little off-guard.
“They told me, ‘Vote for the cigarette tax increase,’” said Wheeler, R-Ririe, of the callers’ message. “I told them, ‘There isn’t anything to vote for.’”
The people lighting up Wheeler’s House floor phone’s [...]
