Relating to the display of a validation sticker on a vehicle registration plate

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2025
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2025
Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2025
Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 257
Next: House committee
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Became SF 257 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 257 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary If you receive a new registration sticker early, you do not have to put it on your license plate right away. The sticker only needs to be displayed once your current registration officially expires. This rule ensures that using an early sticker does not cancel out your current valid registration.¹

Read the official explanation

Under current law, the department of transportation is authorized to issue validation stickers in lieu of new registration plates each registration year. The validation sticker indicates a vehicle is properly registered for the registration year described on the sticker when it is displayed on the vehicle’s registration plate. A person is authorized to apply to renew the registration of a vehicle one month prior to the expiration of the current registration year, and must apply for renewal no later than the last day of the month following the month of registration to avoid a penalty. 39, a person is not considered to be driving a motor vehicle with an expired registration for a period of one month following the expiration date of the vehicle registration, which is indicated on a validation sticker.34(1) requires, as part of a transfer, the owner of a vehicle to immediately affix registration plates retained by the owner to another vehicle owned or acquired by the owner, provided the owner complies with provisions regulating the process required for new title and registration upon transfer of ownership of a vehicle.39.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed²

Senate subcommittee

Named January 28, 2025. On February 5, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§321.34

How the Code works³

Lobbying

0 for · 0 against · 6 undecided · Who →

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Tried before

SF 2310Cleared committee90th GA SF 2140Renumbered90th GA

91st General Assembly

SF 135Renumbered SF 257Became lawfrom SF 135

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

SF 2140 Relating to the display of a validation sticker on a vehicle registration plate
90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2310 · same title
Cleared committee
SF 2310 Relating to the display of a validation sticker on a vehicle registration plate
90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
Cleared committee

Matched by wording or an identical title.