Relating to close-clearance warning devices along railroad tracks

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2023
Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 15, 2023
Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: House committee
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

Under current law, the owner of a railroad track is required to place a warning device at a location where the close clearance between the track and a building, machinery, trees, brush, or other object is such that the building, machinery, trees, brush, or other object physically impedes a person who is lawfully riding the side of a train in the course of the person’s duties in service to a railroad company from clearing the building, machinery, trees, brush, or other object. The warning device must be placed in a location which provides adequate notice to a person riding the side of a train so that the person may prepare for the close clearance.

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This bill requires the warning device to also be placed a reasonable distance from the close-clearance area. By operation of law, a violation of the bill is a schedule “one” penalty, a fine of $100 per violation.

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Senate subcommittee

Named February 15, 2023. On February 23, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§327F.13

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Lobbying

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