Ag protection bill still waiting in committee

After being printed, a bill out of the Idaho House Ways and Means committee introducing amendments to Idaho’s 2024 Agricultural Protection Area (APA) legislation has been sitting at the Local Government committee desk since Feb. 17, and hasn’t shown up on the committee’s agenda.

 Late last fall, Washington County’s commissioners followed the state’s new requirement of adding the APA law to the county’s zoning ordinance, along with appointing a required three-member citizen advisory board specific to APA application considerations.