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Relating to raw farm products for purposes of increased gross weight for motor vehicles transporting such products on this state’s public highways
Sponsored by the Senate Transportation Committee
Topics:AgricultureTransportationLivestock & confinements
Same legislation: SSB 1109
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 24, 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 General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
BACKGROUND. Current law prohibits a person from operating a motor truck, trailer, truck tractor, road tractor, or semitrailer having a gross weight that exceeds the vehicle’s registered gross weight by percent. An exception allows such a vehicle transporting certain loads associated with farming to operate on the public highways so long as the gross weight does not exceed the vehicle’s registered gross weight by percent. Loads subject to this exemption include raw farm products, fertilizers, raw dairy products, livestock, live poultry, and eggs.
Read the full explanation
47). Another statutory exemption provides that cracked or ground grain may be considered a raw farm product if it is being directly delivered between farms for purposes of cracking or grinding. BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill codifies the list of raw farm products adopted by DOT rule entitled to be transported subject to the additional percent registered gross weight exception. The bill strikes the statutory terms raw dairy products, livestock, live poultry, and eggs from the statutory exemptions and adds them into the codified list of raw farm products. The bill also adds manure, soybean meal, and wet or dry distillers grains to that list. DOT may adopt rules setting forth additional raw farm products subject to the exception. In addition, the bill adds soil amendments, defined in the bill, to the list of loads subject to the exception.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
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Named January 15, 2026. On January 20, 2026 it recommended passage.
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