Adds to existing law to provide for studies regarding efficient and safe highway linkages.

The purpose of this act is to prioritize and advance current Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) studies designed to assess and guide improvements to Idaho’s highway infrastructure. This legislation directs the Idaho Department of Transportation to undertake and complete a study of the traffic corridors of existing State Highway 55, existing State Highway 16, and existing State Highway 95, a bypass route for I-84 linking the communities of Nampa and Caldwell south to Kuna, eastward to I-84 near Blacks Creek and of potential alternativeroutesforsafevehiculartravelbetweencentralIdahoandtheTreasureValley. Theactalsodirectsthe department to incorporate completed and on-going studies of these corridors, and to have the studies completed by July 1, 2027.