SF 186 (LSB 1029SV (1) 88)

SENATE FILE 186

BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 43)

A BILL FOR

An Act to increase the maximum capacity of certain motor vehicles operated by school district employees to transport children to activity events or from school to home in unusual situations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.1, subsection 69, paragraph d, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  Designed New motor vehicles designed to carry not more than nine persons as passengers or used and designed to carry not more than eleven passengers, either school owned or privately owned, which are used to transport pupils to activity events in which the pupils are participants or used to transport pupils to their homes in case of illness or other emergency situations. The vehicles operated under the provisions of this paragraph shall be operated by employees of the school district who are specifically approved by the local superintendent of schools for the assignment.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill adds to the exemptions from the definition of “school bus” motor vehicles designed to carry not more than 11 passengers.
   Such vehicles can only be used to transport pupils to activity events the pupils are participating in or to transport a pupil home due to illness or an emergency situation.