Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
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

15). railway crosses any public road good, sufficient, and safe crossings and erect at such points, at a sufficient elevation from such road as to admit a free passage of vehicles of every kind, a sign with large and distinct letters placed thereon, to give notice of the proximity of the railway, and warn persons of the necessity of looking out for trains. This bill requires a railroad corporation constructing or operating a railway to erect at least two such signs, and install a sufficient number of gate arms, gate arm signals, and crossing signal lights designed to flash when a train approaches a crossing, to give notice of the proximity of the railway and warn persons of the necessity of looking out for trains.

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 28, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.

• Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
• Sen. Adrian Dickey REmail
• Sen. Cindy Winckler DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§327G.2

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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 2113 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 349 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 501 · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 501 Relating to required railway crossing signs, signals, and gate arms
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2113 · same title
  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.