Scott Herndon News and Updates
Conservative Budget Victory This Week
Budget reform is a huge victory for conservative governance, and the Idaho Freedom Caucus and other conservatives proved that we can put together a winning coalition among Republicans.
How the Idaho Legislature Spends Your Money
How the State of Idaho takes and spends your money. What is the role of your state senator and representative?
Wrong for Idaho – Ranked Choice Voting
Progressive Democrats are leading a campaign to push a ballot initiative that will fundamentally change Idaho’s election laws. They want to eliminate the influence of Idaho’s Republican Party by eliminating party primaries and implementing Ranked Choice Voting.
National News narrative and the 2nd amendment
NBC News will be doing a story about Idaho’s Republican politics headed into the 2024 election. Naturally, there will be a spin. I visited with a news anchor recently and explain my view and what we plan to do to advance the 2nd amendment in the next Idaho session.
Idaho Health and Welfare Breaks the Law
An Idaho Legislative Services audit has found that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare broke the law when it administered $70 million of federally funded childcare grants authorized by the Idaho legislature.
Herndon Delivers Property Tax Relief
$317.4 million of property tax relief is coming to Idaho’s property tax payers. This is true tax relief and happened because Republicans in the Senate and the House override the governor’s veto and passed House Bill 292.
Should the Idaho legislature meet in special session for presidential primary election?
The Idaho legislature eliminated the 2024 presidential primary election during the last session in a bill I opposed. There is a little time to restore it before the Idaho Republican Party will have to choose a caucus for 2024.
Idaho Legislature Cancels Presidential Primary Election
in March 2023 the Idaho legislature passed House Bill 138 that eliminated the Presidential primary election. Senator Scott Herndon voted against H138. In an emergency response, the Idaho GOP has now chosen a Presidential Caucus for 2024.
Scott Herndon fights for the 2nd Amendment
The Idaho Supreme Court allows a huge legal loophole against the 2nd amendment in their decision in Herndon v. Sandpoint. Senator Herndon will now pursue a legislative solution.
Successes and Failures of the 2023 Idaho Legislative Session
As a freshman legislator I navigated 8 policy bills to become law, but several of my attempted policy changes did not make it across the finish line.