The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-04
DO|NGS INTHE IDAHO
STATE LEGISLATURE
BILLS INTRODUCED AND ACTED
UPON BY THE LAW MAKERS
AT THE STATE CAPITOL
IN THE SENATE
Bills Introduced

S. B. No. 55-By judiciary commit
tee-Adding a new section TO the sta
tutes to require tax collectors TO re-
port to the state department OF public
Investments taxes due or delinquent
on lanas mortgaged to secure loan
of state endowment funds.
S. b. No. 56-By Reid of Boundary
| Amending the compiled statutes re-
lating to the registration and trans
fer OF voters so as to provide that an
elector duly registered in a voting
| precinct need not register again 30
| long as he remains a resident of that
precinct.
S. B. No. 57-By Halferty-An act
to protect big Payette lake and Its
| environs from interference from flood
Ing or draining beyond the natuI al
| high or low water line.
S. b. No. 58-By May and Rigney-
! Requiring managers OF political cam
paigns to keep record OF all con-
| tributions in excess OF $50 providing
tributions by individuals with county
auditors and fixing penalties for viola
tions of the provisions of the act.
S. b. No. 59-By judiciary commit
tee-Making absence for a homestead
for one year prima facie evidence Of
intention to abandon.
S. B. No. 60-By Crooks and Gala
han-An act placing stage and truck
lines under the supervision and reg
ulation of the public utilities commits
sion, requiring them to get certifi-
cate of necessity and convenience TO
operate,
S. B. No. 61-By judiciary commit
tee-Relating to the salaries of cleo
tive officers of cities of the second
class and providing that no salary car
be increased or decreased during the
term for which an official is elected.
S. B. No. 63-By public lands COM
mittee-Amending section 1905 Of the
compiled statutes extending the time
of payment on rent on leases of state
lands, other than mineral lands, to
November l of the year the rental 10
due.
S. B. No. 64-By public lands COM
mittee-An act providing that where
state timber land, exclusive of the
timber, is not worth $40 per acre
the land and timber must be apprais-
ed separately, the land may be pur-
chased on the instalment plan but
timber must bring cash.
S. B. No. 65-By public lands COM
Understanding the compiled stat
utes by transferring from the depart
ment of public investments to the de-
partment of public lands the duty OF
collecting all money due the state on
certificates and contracts for the sale
of state land or timber.
S. B. No. 67-By Newcomb-Empow-
ering boards of county commission
ers to levy = special tax of not more
than one-half of one mill on each dol
lar of taxable property to assist in the
ials now erected or to be erected.
S. B. No. 68-By Notwithstanding
section 31S9 of the compiled statutes
by providing that the state board of |
equalization must determine the valua-
tion of railroad, telegraph and tele- |
phone lines by dividing the total value |
of each of such lines by the number |
Of miles each line has in the state.
S. B. No. 69-By Christensen-Amend-
ing section 3214 of the compiled sta
a
more than rs cents on the 800 val
uation for use by the department of
in which the tax was levied
public works on highways in the
IN THE HOUSE
Bills introduced
H. B. No. 67-By Fuld-Creating the
Warm Springs creek game preserve
n Blaine county.
H. B. No. 69-By Selix, Chapman,
Mehlhaff and Coulter-Providing for
without comment or inter-
,retation in public schools. of selec-
ions from the standard American YER
lion of the bible.
III. B. No. 7O-By IL representatives.
members of three parties-Increasing
,enalties for violation of the prohibit
ion laws and providing that confis-
ated property may not be sold where
he conviction is for unlawful possess
ion as distinguished from possession
With intent to sell.
n b. No. 72-By Egbert-Making
n appropriation of s544.10 from the
ish and game fund to reimburse war
ems and others responsible for fish
nd game licenses through no fault
theirs.
H. B. No. 73-By Brainard, Preston
nd Talboy-Creating teachers re-
irement fund to be made up of l
err cent of the annual salary of teach
RS in the state and repeating chapter
81, laws of 1921, which the supreme
curt held unconstitutional
H. B. No. "a. by state affairs com
section 2906A making
ne rental for leased state lands lien
rior to any other claim or lien there
H. B. No. 75 by appropriations COM
,ittee-Appropriating sSs.2s4.s2 for
ne supreme SQUIRT, s14.065 for the law
braries and s210,700 for district
ourts of the state.
H. b. No. rs, by Campbell-Amend
lg section 4527, compiled statutes.
Iaking assessments of drainage dis .
lets general liens for the purpose of
aging bonded Indebtedness and inter-
1T thereon.
H. B. No. H. by Atkins and Moody
the practice of embalm
H B. No. so, by Elison-Providng
lat it shall be unlawful to drive
otor vehicle by school truck, bus
other vehicle while it is loading or
1OaQlnS passengers ana Iurtner pro- ! n
ding that school trucks shall be la
sled with the number of their dis Y
let and shall stop before crossing a
ilroad track. II
H. B. No. so, by Coulter. Whitney,
Kiger and Brainard-Mak-
g women eligible for any kind of
ry duty. III
Bills Passed II,
H. ]. r. No. by committee on L
ivileses and elections-Proposing to =
mend section 10, article IS, of the n
institution by providing one four , re
ar term county commissioner and 20
10 two-year term commissioners and =,
rther providing for rotating the B
ur-year term commissioner amone wi
e districts. The vote: 55-6-1 ,,e
II. B. No. 26-By MISUNDERSTANDING -
ainage districts to refund their bond +,
Indebtedness The vote: 61-O-1.
H. B. No. S3-By judiciary committee
Recodifylng and revising the sta.
ties pertaining to the state law H.
aries. designating these libraries al
Use, Pocatello and Lewiston and
acing them under the jurisdiction OF
e supreme court. The vote: 5S-9-o
S. B. No. S-By Corey-Amendina
e compiled statutes relating to the
wers of the state board of education
regard to issuance of teachers GER =