Introducing: Bill Track 50
The 2019 legislative session is upon us and the Capitol Building is a flurry of activity in the hopes that good legislation will be passed, bad legislation shot down, and common ground found. As the voice for Idaho’s sportsmen and women during Idaho’s legislative session, IWF will be present each day to ensure the values of healthy wildlife and habitat and your hunting and angling opportunities are upheld.
After requests from hundreds of sportsmen, we are excited to introduce a new tool that will keep you more engaged and up to date, providing:
Real time tracking of legislation affecting hunters and anglers, fish and wildlife, access and public lands.
A sportsman score card for state legislators, calculated by a nonpartisan computing system at the end of each legislative session.
“Last year, a legislator told me the Trespass Bill was a bad one, but that he voted for it because his colleagues asked him to. Not only is that not how representative democracy works, it is an all-too-common dismissal to explain away bad votes. With this tool there is no explaining away a vote. It will stand alone without explanation, their votes speaking for themselves. We will be able to clearly see whether legislators stand with sportsmen or not,” says IWF’s Brian Brooks of this new tool for Idaho sportsmen.
Bill Tracker 50 is an automated system that allows you to keep track of legislation while also seeing how your local legislator voted on bills and issues. We’ll add IWF’s stance on each issue and provide you a link to the bill to see for yourself. Bill Track 50 is used by organizations on all points of the political spectrum and will automatically update as processes move along during the legislative session. Want to know how your local elected official voted on the Trespass Bill? Curious as to the stages that an anti-public land bill is currently in? These questions and more can all be answered with the click of a button on Bill Track 50.
Be sure to bookmark our bill tracker webpage to visit any time during or after the legislative session to get yourself up to speed with what’s affecting wildlife, public land, and hunting & angling during Idaho’s 65th legislative session.
Staying informed can be tough work and we’re excited for this new tool that will make it easier to be an engaged sportsman or woman, in turn giving you more time in the duck blind, the chukar hills or sipping something warm with friends and family at the ice fishing hole.
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