Bill Text: IA HF2248 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the speed limit on the interstate road system.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-16 - Passed subcommittee. [HF2248 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2248-Introduced.html

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House File 2248 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  BACON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the speed limit on the interstate road
  2    system.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed
  1  4 limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled=access,
  1  5 divided, multilaned highways is sixty=five miles per hour.
  1  6 However, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on highways
  1  7 that are part of the interstate road system, as defined in
  1  8 section 306.3, is seventy miles per hour, except the department
  1  9 may establish a speed limit of seventy=five miles per hour on
  1 10 highways that are part of the interstate road system on the
  1 11 department's own motion or in response to a recommendation
  1 12 of a metropolitan or regional planning commission or council
  1 13 of governments. The department may establish a speed limit
  1 14 of sixty=five miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned
  1 15 highways not otherwise described in this paragraph.
  1 16                           EXPLANATION
  1 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 18 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 19    Under current law, the speed limit on interstate highways
  1 20 is 70 miles per hour. This bill allows the department of
  1 21 transportation (DOT) to establish a speed limit of 75 miles
  1 22 per hour on interstate highways on the DOT's own motion or in
  1 23 response to a recommendation of a metropolitan or regional
  1 24 planning commission or council of governments.
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