Panel introduces 2 major highway bills

The Senate Judiciary Committee has just introduced two versions of what could be this year’s “going-home bill” – two transportation funding packages, both calling for hundreds of millions of dollars in new GARVEE bonding to pay for major highway upgrades in Idaho. One of the bills includes just the GARVEE bonding, to take total bonding up to $300 million. The other couples that move with a series of other major provisions. Senate Transportation Chairman Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson, who proposed both bills, said after he left the committee room, “We owe it to the people of Idaho to address the highway situation, and this is an honest effort to do that”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.