After a 90-minute-plus hearing, the Senate Transportation Committee has killed HB 628a, the highway width bill, on a voice vote, but the committee also voted unanimously to call for an interim study committee on the topic. The bill, sponsored by House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, was in response to a 2011 Idaho Supreme Court decision about prescriptive easements for rights-of-way across private land; the committee heard conflicting legal opinions and lots of debate about 100 years of history, public interest and private property rights.