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Arkansas has passed a law prohibiting transgender students in public schools from using the restroom or locker room that aligns with their gender identity, with fines of at least $1,000 for violators and the possibility of private lawsuits from parents if the law is not enforced.

The law, which will take effect on July 1, prohibits “students of the male sex from competing on a team designated for students of the female sex.”

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a measure on March 8 to strengthen an existing ban on private dollars funding election administration in his state.

A new bill in California, SB 345, seeks to protect doctors who provide abortion medication by mail to women in states where the medication, or the procedure itself, is banned.

On February 17, Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) reintroduced a bill that would allow states to exclude abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds.

If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year.

A publicity stunt by a Satanist group in Idaho to perform “gender affirmation rituals” at the state capitol backfired Monday, with the small handful of Satanists who showed up drastically outnumbered by Christian counter-protesters.

One teacher reported being "angry to the point of tears."

Idaho lawmakers have approved a proposal to discuss adding several rural eastern Oregon counties to Idaho, with some seeing the move as an opportunity to access Oregon's resources while others express concerns about the financial and logistical implications of adding a large geographic area with few inhabitants.

Two Idaho lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to administer an mRNA vaccine, specifically citing concerns over the fast-tracked nature and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.