Betsy Russell reports that House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, introduced legislation in the committee he chairs this morning as an alternative to a bill that’s already passed the Senate unanimously, and that would have eliminated all future-year teacher salary cuts to pay for “Students Come First” reforms including laptop computers and other technology boosts, and a merit-pay bonus program for teachers. Nonini’s new bill would only eliminate next year’s cuts – which already have been effectively eliminated in the budget set for public schools for next year by “backfilling” the cuts with other state general funds.