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SF 48Died when the session ended · January 21, 2021

Relating to golf cart operator exemptions from the state driver’s licensing requirements, and making penalties applicable

Topics:Transportation

Same legislation: HF 30

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2021
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2021
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Local governments can now allow people with physical or mental disabilities to ride in golf carts on city streets even if they do not have a driver's license. To do this, a person with a valid driver's license must be in the golf cart to help operate it. This change applies to cities that choose to allow these riders under their own local rules.1

Read the official explanation

Current law permits the governing body of an incorporated area to allow the operation of golf carts on city streets within the incorporated area by persons possessing a valid driver’s license. This bill permits the governing body of an incorporated area to allow a person with a physical or mental disability who does not possess a valid driver’s license to operate a golf cart so long as a person possessing a valid driver’s license is in the golf cart while it is being operated.247.247 commits a simple misdemeanor punishable by a scheduled fine of $135.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named January 19, 2021. On January 21, 2021 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§321.176§321.247

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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