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

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 20, 2025
4. ✓
   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 12, 202548–0
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   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

25 is subject to a $100 fine. This bill requires a railway corporation to provide notice of a railway crossing closure for repairs or upgrades to the governmental entity that has jurisdiction over the crossing not fewer than days prior to closing the crossing, unless the closure could not reasonably be anticipated days in advance or in the event of an emergency. The notice must include an estimated date by which the repairs or upgrades will be completed. If the repairs or upgrades will be completed after the initial estimated completion date, the railway corporation is also required to notify the governmental entity as soon as practicable.

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

House subcommittee

Named January 20, 2026. On January 29, 2026 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Brent Siegrist REmail
• Rep. Daniel Gosa DEmail
• Rep. Devon Wood REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§327G.26

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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

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