HF 886 (LSB 2442HV (2) 91)

HOUSE FILE 886

BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 614)

(As Amended and Passed by the House 2025-03-19)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the improvement of United States highway 30, including prioritization by the state transportation commission and restrictions on associated use of eminent domain.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  306.48  Eminent domain power restricted.
   The department shall not exercise the power of eminent domain, including as provided in chapters 6A and 6B, to acquire land necessary to expand the two-lane portions of United States highway 30 in accordance with a plan adopted under section 307A.2, subsections 3 and 5, until the department expends all reasonable alternatives, if the land is part of a century farm, as defined in section 403.17, subsection 10, or is residential real property, as defined in section 535B.1.
    Sec. 2.  Section 307A.2, subsection 5, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  Identify, within the primary road system, a network of commercial and industrial highways in accordance with section 313.2A. The improvement of this network shall be considered in the development of the long-range program and plan of improvements under this section.  The commission shall prioritize the improvement of the segment of the highway known as United States highway 30 which crosses this state from the Missouri river west of Missouri Valley to the Mississippi river east of Clinton and shall include in its long-range program under subsection 3 plans to expand all portions of the highway consisting of two-lane roadways to four-lane divided roadways until the entire length of the highway is made up of four-lane divided roadways.