Relating to the display of registration plates on motor vehicles

Sponsored by the Senate Transportation Committee

Topics:Transportation

Same legislation: SF 42

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2019
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2019
Done: Senate committeeFebruary 7, 2019
Done: Passes the SenateApril 1, 201934–14
Done: House committeeApril 8, 2019
Done: Passes the HouseApril 17, 2019
Stopped: To the GovernorDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

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37(1) if the suspected violation involves a motor vehicle required to display two registration plates, one in the front and the other in the rear, and the suspected violation is based on the motor vehicle displaying only one registration plate in the rear. Such a suspected violation is enforceable by a peace officer only when the driver of the motor vehicle has been stopped or detained for a suspected violation of another provision or law. Since 1997, Iowa has allowed certain motor vehicles which are model year 1948 or older, and certain reconstructed or specially constructed vehicles built to resemble vehicles which are model year 1948 or older, to display one registration plate on the rear of the vehicle if the other registration plate issued to the vehicle is carried in the vehicle at all times when the vehicle is operated on a public highway.

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Trucks registered for more than five tons, autocycles, motorcycles, and truck tractors are excluded from the provision. The bill instead applies the provision to motor vehicles registered as antique vehicles and motor vehicles that would require modifications including but not limited to adding or mounting hardware, drilling, or adding adhesives in order to secure a front registration plate.115, a motor vehicle may register as an antique vehicle if the vehicle is 25 years old or older. The bill does not amend the list of vehicles excluded from the provision under current law.

Changed since by amendment H-1150; see Amendments.

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House subcommittee

Named April 2, 2019. On April 3, 2019 it recommended passage.

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Fiscal note

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Senate File 227 as amended by the House will not have a measurable fiscal impact on the State, as current law will still require persons with vehicles 25 model years old or older to purchase two registration plates, but allow them to display only one. The cost for the DOT and the DPS to conduct the study as required in the Bill cannot be determined at this time.

Motor Vehicles, Front License Plates, Older Model Years · April 19, 2019
Motor Vehicles, Front License Plates, Older Model Years · February 22, 2019

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Amends§321.37

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88th General Assembly

SF 42Renumbered SF 227Passed a chamberfrom SF 42

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SF 419Passed a chamber89th GA

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SF 419 Relating to the display of registration plates on motor vehicles
89th General Assembly · Passed Senate
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