SF 67 (LSB 1703XS (2) 89)

SENATE FILE 67

BY  COURNOYER

A BILL FOR

An Act regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special minor’s driver’s license who attend a public school, and making penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.194, subsection 2, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (b), Code 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  Over the most direct and accessible route between the licensee’s residence or school of enrollment and a site, facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment, for the purpose of participating in extracurricular activities conducted under a sharing agreement with the licensee’s school of enrollment or conducted at a site, facility, or school designated by the licensee’s school district for the accommodation of the school’s extracurricular activities, provided the site, facility, or school is within the licensee’s school district of enrollment or is within a school district contiguous to the licensee’s school district of enrollment driving distance between the point of origin and the destination is no more than fifty miles.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Under current law, a person issued a special minor’s driver’s license who attends a public school is allowed to operate a motor vehicle between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. to, among other locations, a site, facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for certain extracurricular activities if the site, facility, or school is within the licensee’s school district of enrollment or is within a school district contiguous to the licensee’s school district of enrollment. 
   This bill instead allows the licensee to operate a motor vehicle during such hours to a site, facility, or school that is not the licensee’s school of enrollment for certain extracurricular activities provided the driving distance between the point of origin and the destination is no more than 50 miles. Licensees who attend a nonpublic school currently operate under a similar 50-mile restriction. A violation of Code section 321.194 is punishable by a scheduled fine of $70.