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House Journal: Page 991: Tuesday, March 26, 1996

Regular Calendar
Senate File 2140, a bill for an act increasing the speed limit
on certain highways, requiring a report on safety in
construction zones, and providing an effective date, was taken
up for consideration.
The following amendments, to amendment H-5372 previously
withdrawn, were out of order:

H-5517 filed by Blodgett of Cerro Gordo on March 21, 1996.
H-5545 filed by Kremer of Buchanan on March 25, 1996.
H-5552 filed by Schrader of Marion on March 25, 1996.
H-5590 filed by McCoy of Polk from the floor.
Rants of Woodbury offered amendment H-5485 filed by him as
follows:

H-5485

 1     Amend Senate File 2140, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 4   clause and inserting the following:
 5     "Section 1.  Section 321.210, subsection 2,
 6   paragraph d, Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
 7     d.  The first two speeding violations within any
 8   twelve-month period of ten miles per hour or less over
 9   the legal speed limit in speed zones having a legal
10   speed limit between thirty-four equal to or greater
11   than thirty-five miles per hour and fifty-six miles
12   per hour.
13     Sec. 2.  Section 321.285, subsection 6, unnumbered
14   paragraph 1, Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
15     Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the
16   speed limit for all vehicular traffic on fully
17   controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways
18   including the national system of interstate highways
19   designated by the federal highway administration and
20   this state (23 U.S.C.  "/g" 103 (e)) is sixty-five miles
21   per hour.  The speed limit for vehicular traffic on
22   the national system of interstate highways and on
23   fully controlled-access, divided, multilaned highways
24   is seventy miles per hour.  However, the department or
25   cities political subdivisions with the approval of
the
26   department may establish a lower speed limit upon such
27   for highways located within the corporate limits of
a
28   city jurisdiction of the political subdivision.  For
29   the purposes of this subsection, a fully controlled-
30   access highway is a highway that gives preference to
31   through traffic by providing access connections with
32   selected public roads only and by prohibiting

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