{"id":6256,"date":"2012-04-03T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:19:13","slug":"lawmakers-approve-342-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/03\/lawmakers-approve-342-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Approve 342 Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6273\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The 2012 Legislature left town March 29.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/Stormclouds_TomKellyPhoto_Flickr.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6273\" title=\"Storms Over the Capitol\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/Stormclouds_TomKellyPhoto_Flickr-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/Stormclouds_TomKellyPhoto_Flickr-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/Stormclouds_TomKellyPhoto_Flickr-620x372.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/Stormclouds_TomKellyPhoto_Flickr.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tom Kelly \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2012 Legislature left town March 29.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Idaho Legislature put its stamp of approval on 342 bills this year, more than half of the measures introduced, according to legislative services.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.idaho.gov\/priorities\/2012%20Legislative%20Session\/Bills%20Signed%20by%20the%20Governor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">has signed<\/a> <del><\/del>a fraction of them, 182.\u00a0 The session ended last Thursday. That means Otter has ten days\u00a0<del><\/del>to sign or veto bills he received post-session. \u00a0After that they\u00a0automatically become law without his signature. The governor has five days to sign or veto if he received the bill when the Legislature<strong><\/strong> was still in session.<\/p>\n<p>The governor hasn&#8217;t vetoed anything so far this year, but he has allowed <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.idaho.gov\/priorities\/2012%20Legislative%20Session\/Bills%20Law%20Without%20Signature2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">four bills to become law without his approval<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.idaho.gov\/elect\/bluebook\/2012\/04_legislative.pdf\">Data going back to 1959<\/a> shows the Idaho Legislature typically approved somewhere between 300-400 bills during a regular session.<\/p>\n<p>[spreadsheet key=&#8221;0AiLU6Cs5LWZIdGp5a1B0bEduSTB3YloyQ2Q5cmZHOUE&#8221; source=&#8221;Idaho Blue Book&#8221; sheet=0 filter=0 paginate=0 sortable=0]<\/p>\n<p>You can track Gov. Otter&#8217;s action on legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.idaho.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*2012 data is preliminary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Legislature put its stamp of approval on 342 bills this year, more than half of the measures introduced, according to legislative services. As of today, Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter has signed a fraction of them, 182.\u00a0 The session ended last Thursday. That means Otter has ten days\u00a0to sign or veto bills he received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121],"tags":[235,27],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}