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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 422: Relating to additional penalties for certain violations against bicyclists causing serious injury or death committed by a person operating a motor vehicle

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

281(1) prohibits a person operating a motor vehicle from steering the vehicle unreasonably close to or toward a person riding a bicycle on a highway, including the roadway or the shoulder adjacent to the roadway.281(1) is $325.482A sets forth additional penalties applicable when a person is convicted of operating a motor vehicle in violation of certain Code sections in Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road) if such violation causes serious injury to or the death of another person.

Sponsors

Public Safety (companion To Sf 16 By Lofgren) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Bicycle Coalition; Iowa Police Chief Association (FKA Iowa Police Executive Forum); Iowa State Bar Association

In plain words

  1. February 22, 2023Filed in the House

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF422