Senate File 11 - Introduced SENATE FILE 11 BY ANDERSON A BILL FOR An Act increasing the default speed limit on hard surface roads 1 to sixty miles per hour. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1545XS (1) 85 dea/nh

S.F. 11 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsection 3, Code 2013, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 3. Unless otherwise provided in this section or by other 3 speed restrictions, the speed limit for all vehicular traffic 4 shall be fifty-five sixty miles per hour. 5 EXPLANATION 6 This bill increases the speed limit from 55 to 60 miles per 7 hour on hard surface roads that are not subject to other speed 8 restrictions. The new speed limit applies on primary roads 9 other than certain divided, multilaned highways with a speed 10 limit of 65 miles per hour and on interstates, where the speed 11 limit is typically 70 miles per hour. The new speed limit also 12 applies on secondary roads surfaced with concrete or asphalt. 13 Under the bill, the department of transportation retains the 14 authority to lower the speed limit on any part of the primary 15 road system, and counties retain the right to lower the speed 16 limit on secondary roads. 17 -1- LSB 1545XS (1) 85 dea/nh 1/ 1