Wendy Jaquet

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state_house=Idaho
state=Idaho
district=25th
term_start=1995
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date of birth= Birth date and age|1943|9|16|
place of birth=Seattle, Washington
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spouse=Jim Jaquet
residence=Ketchum
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party=Democratic
website= [http://www.wendyjaquet.com www.wendyjaquet.com]

Wendy Jaquet (born September 16, 1943) is an American politician form Idaho. A member of the Idaho House of Representatives, she currently serves as Minority Leader, leading the Democratic caucus. She represents District 25, which comprises all of Blaine, Camas, Lincoln, and Gooding counties. Representative Jaquet serves on the House Revenue and Taxation Committee and the Engergy, Environment and Technology Committee. In previous sessions Jaquet has served on the Health and Welfare, Judiciary and Rules, Environmental Affairs, Education, Agriculture, Natural Resources and State Affairs Committees. As the House Democratic Leader, Representative Jaquet also serves on Legislative Council and the House Ways and Means Committee. The latter is a leadership committee which approves legislation for printing late in the session. Legislative Council establishes the policies and procedures for the upcoming legislative session and evaluates the prior sessions for improvements. In her first term Jaquet served on the interim committee on County Optional Forms of Government. She has served on Governor Batt’s Medicaid Reform Committee, a review of the Personnel System, the interim committee on Property Rights, the Reading Committee, the 2002 Olympic Committee and the Governor’s Council on Adolescent Pregnancy. She was appointed to the Governor’s Safe Schools Committee, the County CAFO Committee, she co-chaired the Rules rewrite of the Children’s Treatment efforts, served on the Privacy interim committee, and the Governor’s Committee on Rural Economic Development, the Sales Tax Evaluation Task Force, and the Natural Resources and Property Taxes Committees. She's is currently serving on the Engergy Interim Committee.

Prior to serving in the Idaho Legislature, Representative Jaquet was the Executive Director of the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber of Commerce during a period of membership and financial growth and success. Jaquet coordinated the very successful Ketchum Wagon Days and served as Grand Marshall in September, 2001.

Representative Jaquet and her husband Jim who retired as Ketchum’s City Administrator are originally from Seattle having both attended the University of Washington and obtaining degrees in Political Science and graduate degrees in Public Administration. Their two married sons, Michael and Brian, currently live and work in San Mateo and New York City.

Representative Jaquet is especially proud of her legislative accomplishments which include the following:

Providing life insurers pay interest on death benefits

Preventing health insurers from exempting recreation injuries from benefits

Provide exception to 21 years of age requirement to legally enter or remain on premises licensed to serve alcohol at theaters during live performances

Repeal term limits for planning and zoning commissioners with concurrence of 2/3 vote of governing board

Change death row inmate solitary confinement to maximum security at director’s discretion

Adding Hepatitis B to the list of required immunizations for preschoolers

Obtaining funding for the Gooding school district special needs center (with Stennett and Ridinger)

Providing for early teacher retirement

Allowing dessert wines in restaurants with beer/wine licenses (with Clark)

Allowing cities to set speed limits on state highways within city boundaries (with Ridinger)

Doubling the penalty if domestic abuse is committed in front of a child

Creating a misdemeanor citation for curfew violations

Enabling legislation to allow counties to bond for open space and wildlife protection (with Kempton)

Enabling legislation to allow implementation of a transferrable development right, TDR, effort

Creating the Idaho Reading Initiative with a bi-partisan committee

Creating the requirement for disclosure for push-poll phone calls

Demolishing the Gooding TB hospital (with Stennett, Ridinger, Bell)

Establishing mediation as a tool for planning and zoning disputes

Creating a tax deduction for the purchase of long term care (with Cameron)

Creating an interim study committee on e-commerce (with Newcomb)

Introducing legislation to permit cities, counties, and school districts to join state health plan to reduce premium costs.

External links

* [http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=2861 Project Vote Smart - Wendy S. Jaquet] profile
*"Follow the Money" - Wendy Jaquet
** [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=101956 2008] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=84117 2006] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=75652 2004] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=3247 2002] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=29308 2000] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=29074 1998] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=28836 1996] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=28607 1994] campaign contributions