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Requiring the department of transportation to ensure equal representation for the development of statewide urban design specifications
Sponsored by the Senate Transportation Committee
Topics:State governmentTransportation
Same legislation: SSB 1139
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 3, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Iowa Department of Transportation currently handles many tasks like planning roads and studying transportation data. This new rule would require the department to make sure both government groups and private organizations have an equal say when creating design plans for cities.1
Read the official explanation
Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is responsible for, among other things, certain planning and programming activities. These responsibilities include planning all modes of transportation to develop an integrated transportation system that provides adequate transportation services for all Iowans; developing and maintaining statistical data; establishing, analyzing, and evaluating alternative transportation policies; coordinating planning efforts across the DOT’s divisions; annually reporting on the condition and details of nonprimary highways; and studying and developing highway transport economics to ensure the availability and productivity of highway transport services. This bill adds to the DOT’s planning and programming responsibilities a requirement to ensure equal representation between governmental and nongovernmental entities in developing statewide urban design specifications.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 18, 2025 (as SSB 1139). On February 25, 2025 it recommended passage.
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