Idaho Bills

Proposes an amendment to Joint Rule 11 to provide that the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee shall be cochairmen of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.

This resolution amends the joint rules of the Idaho House of Representatives and the Senate. In doing so, it provides a Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee (JFAC) exception to the provision in the joint rules that states that the Senate committee chairman will chair all joint committees of the House and Senate. Putting this JFACexceptionintothejointrulesisneededtoalignthejointruleswithdecadesofsuccessfulpractice,inwhich the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee have functioned as co-equal JFAC co-chairs.