Bill Text: IA SF67 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special minor's driver's license who attend a public school, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 233.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-03 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 233. S.J. 255. [SF67 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2021-SF67-Introduced.html
Senate File 67 - Introduced SENATE FILE 67 BY COURNOYER A BILL FOR An Act regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special 1 minor’s driver’s license who attend a public school, and 2 making penalties applicable. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1703XS (2) 89 th/ns
S.F. 67 Section 1. Section 321.194, subsection 2, paragraph a, 1 subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (b), Code 2021, is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 (b) Over the most direct and accessible route between 4 the licensee’s residence or school of enrollment and a site, 5 facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of 6 enrollment, for the purpose of participating in extracurricular 7 activities conducted under a sharing agreement with the 8 licensee’s school of enrollment or conducted at a site, 9 facility, or school designated by the licensee’s school 10 district for the accommodation of the school’s extracurricular 11 activities, provided the site, facility, or school is within 12 the licensee’s school district of enrollment or is within a 13 school district contiguous to the licensee’s school district of 14 enrollment driving distance between the point of origin and the 15 destination is no more than fifty miles . 16 EXPLANATION 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 18 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 19 Under current law, a person issued a special minor’s 20 driver’s license who attends a public school is allowed to 21 operate a motor vehicle between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 22 10:00 p.m. to, among other locations, a site, facility, or 23 school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for 24 certain extracurricular activities if the site, facility, or 25 school is within the licensee’s school district of enrollment 26 or is within a school district contiguous to the licensee’s 27 school district of enrollment. 28 This bill instead allows the licensee to operate a motor 29 vehicle during such hours to a site, facility, or school 30 that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for certain 31 extracurricular activities provided the driving distance 32 between the point of origin and the destination is no more than 33 50 miles. Licensees who attend a nonpublic school currently 34 operate under a similar 50-mile restriction. A violation of 35 -1- LSB 1703XS (2) 89 th/ns 1/ 2
S.F. 67 Code section 321.194 is punishable by a scheduled fine of $70. 1 -2- LSB 1703XS (2) 89 th/ns 2/ 2
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