SF 213 (LSB 1821XS (3) 86)

SENATE FILE 213

BY  ZAUN, BEHN, SCHULTZ, CHELGREN, FEENSTRA, ROZENBOOM, and SINCLAIR

A BILL FOR

An Act increasing the speed limit on the interstate road system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.285, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways is sixty-five miles per hour. However, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on highways that are part of the interstate road system, as defined in section 306.3, is seventy seventy-five miles per hour. The department may establish a speed limit of sixty-five miles per hour on certain divided, multilaned highways not otherwise described in this paragraph.
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 highways that are part of the interstate road system is 70 miles per hour. This bill increases the speed limit on highways that are part of the interstate road system to 75 miles per hour.