Relating to the closure of railway crossings for repairs or upgrades, and providing penalties

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
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   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 20, 2025
4. ✓
   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 12, 202548–0
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

25 is subject to a $100 penalty. This bill prohibits a railroad corporation from closing a railway crossing for more than consecutive days for the purpose of repairing or upgrading the crossing, and a corporation is subject to a penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 for each day a crossing is closed after the number of days allowed in the bill. The bill requires a railroad corporation to provide notice about an upcoming crossing closure to the county board of supervisors or city council that has jurisdiction over the crossing, prior to closing the crossing.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named January 15, 2025. On January 23, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
• Sen. Rocky De Witt R
• Sen. Cindy Winckler DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§327G.25

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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Tried before

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

• SF 2111 Relating to the closure of railway crossings for repairs or upgrades, and making penalties…
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · nearly identical
  Cleared committee

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.