Senate File 43 - Introduced SENATE FILE 43 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 1709XS (2) 86 ns/nh

S.F. 43 Section 1. Section 321.285, subsection 3, Code 2015, 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 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 7 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 8 This bill increases the speed limit from 55 to 60 miles per 9 hour on hard surface roads that are not subject to other speed 10 restrictions. The new speed limit applies on primary roads 11 other than certain divided, multilaned highways with a speed 12 limit of 65 miles per hour and on interstates, where the speed 13 limit is typically 70 miles per hour. The new speed limit also 14 applies on secondary roads surfaced with concrete or asphalt. 15 Under the bill, the department of transportation retains the 16 authority to lower the speed limit on any part of the primary 17 road system, and counties retain the right to lower the speed 18 limit on secondary roads. 19 -1- LSB 1709XS (2) 86 ns/nh 1/ 1