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:
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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 on the other 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
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