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Amendment H-1161 to HF 904
Relating to motor vehicle accident reports, including the amount of property damage necessary for a report, the period in which a law enforcement officer must forward a report to the department of transportation, and resulting suspensions of driver’s licenses, registrations, and operating privileges
Adopted · March 25, 2025
Filed March 24, 2025 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment lowers the amount of property damage required to file a report from $7,500 to $5,500. It also changes the rules for when all-terrain vehicle accidents must be reported.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, line 5, by striking “seven thousand five hundred” and inserting “five thousand five hundred”
- Page 1, after line 17 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 321A.5, subsection 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
- The department shall, immediately or within sixty days after the receipt of a report of a motor vehicle accident within this state which has resulted in bodily injury or death to any person, or property damage to the property of any one person in the amount of one five thousand five hundred dollars or more, suspend the license of each operator and all registrations of each owner of a motor vehicle in any manner involved in the accident, and if the operator is a nonresident the privilege of operating a motor vehicle within this state, and if the owner is a nonresident the privilege of the use within this state of any motor vehicle owned by the owner, unless the operator or owner or both shall deposit security in a sum which shall be sufficient in the judgment of the department to satisfy any judgment or judgments for damages resulting from the accident as may be recovered against the operator or owner; provided notice of the suspension shall be sent by the department to the operator and owner not less than ten days prior to the effective date of the suspension and shall state the amount required as security. Sec. ___. Section 321I.11, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 321I.11 Accident reports. If an all-terrain vehicle is involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to anyone any person, or property damage amounting to one five thousand five hundred dollars or more, either the operator or someone acting for the operator shall immediately notify the county sheriff or another law enforcement agency in the state. If the accident occurred on public land, public ice, or a designated riding trail under the jurisdiction of the commission, the operator shall file with the commission a report of the accident, within seventy-two hours, containing information as the commission may require. All other accidents shall be reported as required under section 321.266 .”
- Title page, line 2, by striking “report and” and inserting “report,”
- Title page, line 4, after “transportation” by inserting “, and resulting suspensions of driver’s licenses, registrations, and operating privileges”
- By renumbering as necessary.