Bill Text: IA SF43 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act increasing the default speed limit on hard surface roads to sixty miles per hour.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-21 - Subcommittee, Horn, Brase, and Kraayenbrink. S.J. 129. [SF43 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF43-Introduced.html

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Senate File 43 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  ANDERSON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act increasing the default speed limit on hard surface roads
  2    to sixty miles per hour.
  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 3, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  Unless otherwise provided in this section or by other
  1  4 speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic
  1  5 shall be fifty=five sixty miles per hour.
  1  6                           EXPLANATION
  1  7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  9    This bill increases the speed limit from 55 to 60 miles per
  1 10 hour on hard surface roads that are not subject to other speed
  1 11 restrictions.  The new speed limit applies on primary roads
  1 12 other than certain divided, multilaned highways with a speed
  1 13 limit of 65 miles per hour and on interstates, where the speed
  1 14 limit is typically 70 miles per hour.  The new speed limit also
  1 15 applies on secondary roads surfaced with concrete or asphalt.
  1 16 Under the bill, the department of transportation retains the
  1 17 authority to lower the speed limit on any part of the primary
  1 18 road system, and counties retain the right to lower the speed
  1 19 limit on secondary roads.
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