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Committee approves expanding 'Dig Once' rules to county highway districts to coordinate broadband installs
Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 300 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation. The bill would extend the state's "Dig Once" coordination policy to single countywide highway districts, aiming to standardize trenching rules and reduce repeated road cuts for broadband deployment.
Representative John Van der Rata (District 22) presented House Bill 300, saying the bill would expand Idaho's existing Dig Once policy to include single county highway districts so that when roads are dug for broadband installation "everybody has a chance to put their infrastructure in the same ditch that's being dug." He told the committee the measure removes microtrenching language from an earlier version and focuses on nondiscriminatory, competitively neutral rules.
Amanda Moore, senior regional director of operations for Sparklight in the Northwest, testified in support. She said Sparklight…
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