Senate File 2137 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY DOTZLER Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act increasing the speed limit on U.S. highway 20 between 2 interstate 35 and the city of Cedar Falls. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 6026XS 81 5 dea/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsection 6, paragraph a, 1 2 Code Supplement 2005, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 a. Notwithstanding any other speed restrictions, the speed 1 4 limit for all vehicular traffic on fully controlled=access, 1 5 divided, multilaned highways is sixty=five miles per hour. 1 6 However, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic on highways 1 7 that are part of the interstate road system, as defined in 1 8 section 306.3, and the segment of United States highway 20 1 9 between interstate 35 and the city limits of Cedar Falls, is 1 10 seventy miles per hour. The department may establish a speed 1 11 limit of sixty=five miles per hour on certain divided, 1 12 multilaned highways not otherwise described in this paragraph. 1 13 EXPLANATION 1 14 This bill increases the speed limit from 65 miles per hour 1 15 to 70 miles per hour on the portion of U.S. highway 20 between 1 16 interstate 35 and the city of Cedar Falls. Current law 1 17 provides a 65=mile=per=hour speed limit for all divided, 1 18 multilaned highways other than interstates and a 70=mile=per= 1 19 hour speed limit for interstate highways. 1 20 LSB 6026XS 81 1 21 dea:nh/gg/14.1