Regarding driver’s licenses, including the exemption of certain farmers and hired help operating a special truck from the requirement to be licensed as a chauffeur and the optional inclusion of a mark reflecting autism spectrum disorder status on a person’s driver’s license

Sponsored by the House Agriculture Committee

Topics:Agriculture Transportation

Same legislation: HSB 530

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2020
Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
Done: House committeeMarch 3, 2020
Done: Passes the HouseMarch 3, 202079–19
Done: Senate committeeJune 10, 2020
Done: Passes the SenateJune 11, 202049–0
Done: To the GovernorJune 24, 2020
Done: Signed into lawJune 25, 2020

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What’s in it

AI summary Farmers and their employees will no longer need a chauffeur's license when driving certain large trucks for work. This change applies if the farmer owns the truck and uses it only to move their own goods within 100 miles of their land.¹

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Current law provides that a person who operates a motor vehicle in the transportation of passengers for wages, compensation, or hire, or who operates a truck tractor, road tractor, or motor truck weighing more than 16,000 pounds, is considered a chauffeur subject to specific driver’s licensing requirements. This bill amends the definition of “chauffeur” to exclude a farmer or the farmer’s hired help who is 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 100 miles from farmland owned or rented by the farmer as measured by calculating the straight-line distance between the farmland and the destination.

Changed since by amendments S-5132, H-8053; see Amendments.

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Senate subcommittee

Named March 4, 2020. Meeting: Tuesday, March 10 · 10:00 AM · Senate Lobbyist Lounge.

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Iowa Code it changes

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Lobbying

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HSB 530Cleared committee

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