What changed in HF 2372

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Section 1. Section 321.1, subsection 8, 321.189, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new paragraph: subsection:

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10. Autism spectrum disorder status. A licensee who has an autism spectrum disorder, as defined in section 514C.28, may request that the license be marked to reflect the licensee’s autism spectrum disorder status on the face of the license when the licensee applies for the issuance or renewal of a license. The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A establishing criteria under which a license may be marked, including requiring the licensee to submit medical proof of the licensee’s autism spectrum disorder status. When a driver’s license is so marked, the licensee’s autism spectrum disorder status shall be noted in the electronic database used by the department and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver’s license information. The department, in consultation with the mental health and disability services commission, shall develop educational media to raise awareness of a licensee’s ability to request the license be marked to reflect the licensee’s autism spectrum disorder status.

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2. Section 321.190, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:

NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.

(6) An applicant for a nonoperator’s identification card who has an autism spectrum disorder, as defined in section 514C.28, may request that the card be marked to reflect the applicant’s autism spectrum disorder status on the face of the card when the applicant applies for the issuance or renewal of a card. The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A establishing criteria under which a card may be marked, including requiring the applicant to submit medical proof of the applicant’s autism spectrum disorder status. The department, in consultation with the mental health and disability services commission, shall develop educational media to raise awareness of an applicant’s ability to request the card be marked to reflect the applicant’s autism spectrum disorder status.

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3. Section 321.1, subsection 8, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:

NEW PARAGRAPH. 0e. A farmer or the farmer’s hired help help, who is eighteen years of age or older, is not a chauffeur when operating a special truck owned by the farmer and used exclusively to transport the farmer’s own products or property to a destination no more than one hundred miles from farmland owned or rented by the farmer as measured by calculating the straight-line distance between the farmland and the destination.