HF 2125 (LSB 5566YH (4) 86)

HOUSE FILE 2125

BY  BACON

A BILL FOR

An Act increasing the speed limit on rural highways.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsection 3, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Unless otherwise provided in this section or by other speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic shall be fifty-five miles per hour, except if the road is a primary or secondary road surfaced with concrete or asphalt, or a combination of both, that is located in a geographic area that is not part of a federally designated standard metropolitan statistical area, in which case the speed limit shall be sixty miles per hour.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Current law provides that the speed limit on all roads, other than roads located in business, residential, school, or suburban districts, certain secondary roads not paved with concrete or asphalt, and divided multilaned highways, shall be 55 miles per hour. 
   This bill provides that the speed limit on a primary or secondary road surfaced with concrete or asphalt that is located in a geographic area that is not part of a federally designated standard metropolitan statistical area shall be 60 miles per hour.