b'2023 WPMA State Report IPM&CSA continued 2023 Idaho LegislatureThursday, August 3Overview10 a.m.6:30 p.m. .REGISTRATION Open Thank goodness for small favors. or maybe favors that are not so small. We are ever so grateful that the big issues of the 8 a.m.2:30 p.m.Trade Show Set Up 2023 legislative session were interesting to observe, but mostly out of our lane as we like to say. With a new crop of legislators 911 a.m. . SHOOTING at Sun Valley Gun Club (more than half of the body), and more than 70% of the committee (includes Continental Breakfast) chairman new to their jobs, we knew that 2023 would be a wild ride, as it was indeed. But it was our good fortune that for the 123 p.mGENERAL BUSINESS MEETING with Lunch most part, the issues at hand and under debate in 2023 did not directly involve IPM&CSA members or our industry. And were 37 p.mTRADE SHOW OPEN fine with being out of the limelight for a change. No big talk of raising fuel taxes or fighting over the sinsthe lottery, alcohol 5:307 p.m.RECEPTION & Raffle on Trade Show Floorand tobacco, although a few issues did briefly make a showingspecifically vape taxes, which fortunately died by the thinnest 7:15 p.m.of margins in the House Revenue and Taxation committee. By DINNER with Silent & Live Auctions and large the matters of importance to petroleum marketers were scarce or absent in 2023, having been shoved aside by a few Friday, August 4 dominate issues that focused the attention of elected officials, those being education funding, property tax relief, and a myriad 8:00 a.m.of controversial social issues which occupied most of the air in IPM&CSA GOLF TOURNAMENTSun Valleythe room throughout the legislative session. Golf CourseTrail Creek Shotgun start with continental breakfast, lunch and awards to follow IPM&CSA Legislative Agenda:Get your room and registration Now! Industry Issues in 2023Retail/Credit Cards-S1066Swipe fee transactions to exclude sales tax / Electronic payment fees (STATUSIPM&CSA Support / Informational Hearing onlyto be continued in 2024)-H199/H331Electronic smoking products, taxAmends existing law to provide for the taxation of electronic smoking products and devices. (STATUSIPM&CSA Monitoring / Held in cmte) -H245Changes distribution of cigarette and tobacco product taxes to the Central Cancer Registry Fund (STATUSMonitor / LAW) -S1108 / H330Tobacco tax, cigarsAmends existing law to provide for a tobacco tax cap of fifty cents per cigar. (STATUSIPM&CSA Monitor / Did not pass)-Lotteryproposal dropped for 2023Taxes-H292Property Tax Relief (among other things)H292 created the drama of the session, was vetoed by the governor, and in an exceedingly rare action, was overridden by both House and Senate (STATUSIPM&CSA Monitor / LAW)A few Environmental2021 IPM&CSA -S1014DEQAmends existing law to authorize the Director of DEQ to enter Convention eventsinto voluntary contracts and agreements. (STATUSIPM&CSA Monitor / Passed pictured herecmte but was returned to cmte from the floordid not pass)22 www.wpma.com / Post WPMAEXPO 2023'