Bill Text: IA SF289 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Subcommittee: Zumbach, Anderson, and Bowman. S.J. 371. [SF289 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF289-Introduced.html

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Senate File 289 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  ZAUN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act increasing 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 2017, 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 seventy=five miles per hour. The
  1  9 department may establish a speed limit of sixty=five miles per
  1 10 hour on certain divided, multilaned highways not otherwise
  1 11 described in this paragraph.
  1 12                           EXPLANATION
  1 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 14 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 15    Current law provides that the speed limit on highways that
  1 16 are part of the interstate road system is 70 miles per hour.
  1 17 This bill increases the speed limit on highways that are part
  1 18 of the interstate road system to 75 miles per hour.
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