House File 2156 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY PETTENGILL, BAILEY, KELLEY, and HORBACH Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act establishing a minimum speed limit for interstate highways 2 and making a penalty applicable. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5846YH 82 5 dea/nh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsection 6, paragraph d, 1 2 Code Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 d. The minimum speed limit is fifty=five miles per hour 1 4 for all vehicular traffic on a highway with a maximum speed 1 5 limit of seventy miles per hour. A minimum speed may be 1 6 established by the department ontheother highways referred 1 7 to in this subsection if warranted by engineering and traffic 1 8 investigations. 1 9 Sec. 2. Section 805.8A, subsection 5, Code 2007, is 1 10 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 11 NEW PARAGRAPH. f. For a violation of the minimum speed 1 12 requirement under section 321.285, subsection 6, paragraph 1 13 "d", the scheduled fine is thirty=five dollars. 1 14 EXPLANATION 1 15 This bill establishes a minimum speed limit of 55 miles per 1 16 hour for highways where the maximum speed limit is 70 miles 1 17 per hour. Currently, interstate highways are the only roads 1 18 in Iowa with a 70=mile=per=hour speed limit. 1 19 A violation of the minimum speed limit is punishable as a 1 20 scheduled violation, subject to a $35 fine. 1 21 LSB 5846YH 82 1 22 dea/nh/8