Removing the requirement to obtain a permit for vehicles or combinations of vehicles of excessive size transporting divisible loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding that meet certain width, height, and length requirements

Sponsored by the House Transportation Committee

Topics:Agriculture Transportation Livestock & confinements

Same legislation: HSB 525

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2020
Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
Done: House committeeFebruary 24, 2020
Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 24, 202095–1
Done: Senate committeeMarch 4, 2020
Done: Passes the SenateJune 5, 202049–0
Done: To the GovernorJune 16, 2020
Done: Signed into lawJune 17, 2020

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What’s in it

AI summary Drivers carrying large loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged animal bedding would no longer use an annual permit to move these items on highways. Instead, the law would simply allow these specific types of vehicles to be wider, longer, and taller than standard vehicles. This change allows farmers and transporters to move these materials without needing to prove they have a special or emergency situation.¹

Read the official explanation

Current law provides that vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting divisible loads in excess of the width, length, or height restrictions of Code chapter 321 may only be moved on highways if there is a special or emergency situation that warrants the issuance of a special permit by the department of transportation or permit-issuing authority. However, an annual permit is available for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting divisible loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding in excess of the width, length, or height restrictions of Code chapter 321 without a finding of a special or emergency situation if the vehicle or combination of vehicles meets certain width, length, and height requirements. Current law also provides that implements of husbandry transporting hay, straw, or stover are not subject to the permit requirements of Code chapter 321E due to the width of the vehicle. This bill eliminates the annual permit allowing a vehicle or combination of vehicles transporting a divisible load of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding in excess of the width, length, or height restrictions of Code chapter 321 to be moved on highways without a finding of a special or emergency situation. Instead, the bill increases the width, length, and height restrictions of Code chapter 321 for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting divisible loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding. Under the bill, vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting divisible loads of hay, straw, stover, or bagged livestock bedding are allowed to be moved on highways so long as such vehicles do not have an overall width exceeding feet inches, an overall length not exceeding feet, and an overall height not exceeding feet inches. A violation of the width, length, and height restrictions of Code chapter 321 is a simple misdemeanor punishable by a scheduled fine of $200.

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Senate subcommittee

Named February 26, 2020. On March 3, 2020 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§321.454 §321.456 §321.457 §321E.29

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Lobbying

6 for · 0 against · 14 undecided · Who →

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HSB 525Cleared committee

88th General Assembly

HF 2310Became law