HF 766 (LSB 2439HV (5) 91)

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE WINDOW TINT, AND MAKING  PENALTIES APPLICABLE.  

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.438, subsection 2, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  a.  A person shall not operate on the highway a motor vehicle equipped with a front windshield, a any of the following: 
   (1)  A front windshield that meets a minimum standard of transparency of less than seventy percent light transmittance.
   (2)  A side window to the immediate right or left of the driver, or a sidewing forward of and to the left or right of the driver which is excessively dark or reflective so that it is difficult for a person outside the motor vehicle to see into the motor vehicle through the windshield, window, or sidewing, that meets a minimum standard of transparency of less than fifty percent light transmittance.
   a.  The department shall adopt rules establishing a minimum measurable standard of transparency which shall apply to violations of this subsection.
   b.  This subsection does not apply to a person who operates a motor vehicle owned or leased by a federal, state, or local 

law enforcement agency if the operation is part of the person’s official duties.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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AMY SINCLAIR
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 766, Ninety-first General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2026

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor