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In this week's newsletter:

• IDHW director faces scrutiny over Medicaid budget
• Bill up for vote to penalize cities that won't enforce abortion law
• Bills printed on false CPS reporting, ending gov't event sponsorships
• House passes first bill updating election audit requirements
• Victimization among Idahoans with developmental disabilities

Idaho Reports airs Friday at 8 p.m. on Idaho Public Television.

Up for vote in the House: bill to penalize cities that won't enforce state's criminal abortion law

The House State Affairs Committee moved forward a bill that would amend the state's "No Public Funds for Abortion Act" to withhold sales tax funds from local governments that refuse to comply with the state's criminal abortion law.

New bills introduced this week on CPS reports, government event sponsorships

One in four Idahoans, or roughly 369,000 people, live with a disability. For those people, the rate of violent victimization is nearly four times higher than those without a disability, according to the recent report. Only about 38% of those violent victimizations will be reported, while the rate is closer to 45% for people without disabilities.

Many of those people feel like they don't have anyone to tell, and when they do tell someone, they often don't feel believed. When some sought out counseling, counselors frequently said that their experiences didn’t really happen.

“The saddest part, I think, that I left with from all of those interviews was a sense that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities felt like this is just the way it is,” Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities director Christine Pisani said.

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