HSB 530 (LSB 5134HC (2) 88)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE BILL BY CHAIRPERSON PAUSTIAN)

A BILL FOR

An Act exempting certain farmers and hired help operating a truck tractor from the requirement to be licensed as a chauffeur.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.1, subsection 8, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0e.  A farmer or the farmer’s hired help is not a chauffeur when operating a truck tractor owned by the farmer and used exclusively to transport the farmer’s own products or property to a destination no more than one hundred miles from farmland owned or rented by the farmer as measured by calculating the straight-line distance between the farmland and the destination.
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 a person who operates a motor vehicle in the transportation of passengers for wages, compensation, or hire, or who operates a truck tractor, road tractor, or motor truck weighing more than 16,000 pounds, is considered a chauffeur subject to specific driver’s licensing requirements. This bill amends the definition of “chauffeur” to exclude a farmer or the farmer’s hired help who is operating a truck tractor owned by the farmer and used exclusively to transport the farmer’s own products or property to a destination no more than 100 miles from farmland owned or rented by the farmer as measured by calculating the straight-line distance between the farmland and the destination.