Bills › 88th General Assembly
SSB 1045
Topics:Transportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 5, 2019
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 184
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 184 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 184 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
RAW FOREST PRODUCTS. This bill allows the department of transportation (DOT) and local authorities to issue annual permits authorizing a vehicle or combination of vehicles to transport divisible loads of raw forest products from fields to storage, processing, or other commercial facilities. The annual permit fee is $175.7.7 limits the gross weight on any one axle to 20,000 pounds and the gross weight on any one tandem axle having at least four tires to 46,000 pounds.457. The bill also prohibits a vehicle or combination of vehicles for which a permit is issued under the bill from traveling on any portion of the interstate highway system.
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_____ vehicle’s origin or destination, as applicable. The bill defines “raw forest products” to mean logs, pilings, posts, poles, cordwood products, wood chips, sawdust, pulpwood, intermediary lumber, fuel wood, mulch, tree bark, and Christmas trees not altered by a manufacturing process off the land, sawmill, or factory from which the products were taken. SHIPPING CONTAINERS.457; the container is sealed for international shipment and is either in route for export to a foreign country or in route to the container’s destination from a foreign country; and documentation, such as a bill of lading or another similar document, is carried in the vehicle, in written or electronic form, that ties the container being moved to the container listed in the documentation using the unique container number marked on the container. The bill requires the documentation to clearly state the foreign country of origin or destination, and to be provided to a peace officer upon request.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 24, 2019. On January 30, 2019 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§321E.26
Lobbying
4 for · 10 against · 20 undecided · Who →