SENATE FILE 2006

BY  JOHNSON

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to driver’s license requirements for persons operating farm tractors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  321.176C  Tractor operators exempt from commercial driver’s license requirements.
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person is not required to have a commercial driver’s license in order to operate a farm tractor. The department shall not adopt by rule any federal regulation in contravention of this section.
EXPLANATION
   Under current law, a person is not required to have a driver’s license in order to operate a farm tractor or implement of husbandry to or from the home farm buildings to any adjacent or nearby farmland for the exclusive purpose of conducting farm operations. This bill prohibits requiring a commercial driver’s license for any operation of a farm tractor. The bill further provides that if federal regulations ever require a person to have a commercial driver’s license in order to operate a farm tractor, the department of transportation shall not adopt such a federal regulation by rule.