Bill Text: IA HF571 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the use of special minors' driver's licenses to travel to extracurricular activities not held at a school. (Formerly HF 34)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-03 - Referred to Transportation. H.J. 753. [HF571 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF571-Introduced.html

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House File 571 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                     TRANSPORTATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 34)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the use of special minors' driver's licenses
  2    to travel to extracurricular activities not held at a
  3    school.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 321.194, subsection 1, paragraph
  1  2 a, subparagraph (1), Code 2015, is amended by striking the
  1  3 subparagraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
  1  4    (1)  During the hours of 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. over the
  1  5 most direct and accessible route between any of the following:
  1  6    (a)  The licensee's residence and schools of enrollment.
  1  7    (b)  The licensee's residence and the closest school bus stop
  1  8 or stop for a public transportation service.
  1  9    (c)  The licensee's schools of enrollment, for the purpose
  1 10 of attending duly scheduled courses of instruction and
  1 11 extracurricular activities within the school district.
  1 12    (d)  The licensee's residence or schools of enrollment and
  1 13 any other location within the licensee's school district, for
  1 14 the purpose of participating in an extracurricular activity
  1 15 recognized by an organization registered with the department of
  1 16 education for the purposes of extracurricular interscholastic
  1 17 competition. If the extracurricular activity is conducted
  1 18 under a sharing agreement between the licensee's school of
  1 19 enrollment and a school in a contiguous school district, the
  1 20 licensee may also travel to any location within the contiguous
  1 21 school district for the purpose of participating in the
  1 22 extracurricular activity.
  1 23    Sec. 2.  Section 321.194, subsection 1, paragraph a,
  1 24 subparagraph (2), Code 2015, is amended by striking the
  1 25 subparagraph.
  1 26    Sec. 3.  Section 321.194, subsection 1, paragraph a,
  1 27 subparagraphs (3) and (4), Code 2015, are amended to read as
  1 28 follows:
  1 29    (3)  (2)  To a service station for the purpose of refueling,
  1 30 so long as the service station is the station closest to the
  1 31 route the licensee is traveling on under subparagraph (1) or
  1 32 (2).
  1 33    (4)  (3)  At any time when the licensee is accompanied in
  1 34 accordance with section 321.180B, subsection 1.
  1 35                           EXPLANATION
  2  1 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2  2 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2  3    This bill relates to the use of special minors' driver's
  2  4 licenses to travel to extracurricular activities not held at a
  2  5 school.
  2  6    Current law provides that during the hours of 5:00 a.m. to
  2  7 10:00 p.m., a licensee may travel from the licensee's residence
  2  8 or school of enrollment to another school for the purpose of
  2  9 participating in extracurricular activities conducted under a
  2 10 sharing agreement with the licensee's school of enrollment.
  2 11    The bill reorganizes the structure of the Code provision
  2 12 to enhance readability. In addition, the  bill expands the
  2 13 provision to allow a licensee to travel to any location within
  2 14 the licensee's school district at which an extracurricular
  2 15 activity is being held for the purpose of participating in
  2 16 the activity. If the extracurricular activity is conducted
  2 17 under a sharing agreement between the licensee's school of
  2 18 enrollment and a school in a contiguous school district, the
  2 19 licensee may also travel to any location within the contiguous
  2 20 school district for the purpose of participating in the
  2 21 extracurricular activity.
  2 22    The bill also expands the provision to include all
  2 23 extracurricular activities recognized by organizations
  2 24 registered with the department of education for the purposes
  2 25 of extracurricular interscholastic competition. Those
  2 26 organizations currently include the Iowa high school athletic
  2 27 association, the Iowa girls' high school athletic union, the
  2 28 Iowa high school music association, the Iowa high school speech
  2 29 association, and the unified Iowa high school activities
  2 30 federation.
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