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Relating to the payment of costs by railroad track owners and railroad corporations for certain railroad construction, maintenance, and other related projects
Sponsored by Sen. Tom Shipley (R)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- 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 Railroad companies will now have to pay for all the costs of maintaining crossings and warning devices themselves. They can no longer receive money from the state or local government to help with these projects. If a railroad company sells its land to someone else, they must pay for any necessary improvements before or during that transfer.1
Read the official explanation
F.15 —— signals and gate arms at railway and highway crossings at grade).81). A railroad corporation is eligible to agree with the department of transportation (DOT) and the local government entity with jurisdiction over the relevant area about certain costs, and the DOT must assist with the project by paying a portion of the cost for the work, if moneys are available, from the highway railroad grade crossing surface repair fund. This bill requires the owner of a railroad track or a railroad corporation, as applicable, to bear the cost of the responsibilities detailed in the bill without assistance from the DOT or another governmental entity. The bill requires a railroad corporation that transfers a railroad right-of-way to a person who is not a railroad corporation to pay the costs associated with the related right-of-way improvements prior to the transfer, or on a schedule agreed to by the transferee. The bill strikes or repeals all provisions relating to the highway grade crossing safety fund and the highway railroad grade crossing surface repair fund. Any moneys remaining in the repealed funds are transferred to the road use tax fund.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2025. On January 27, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§312.2§327F.13§327G.11§327G.15§327G.24§327G.30§327G.81
Lobbying
1 for · 6 against · 7 undecided · Who →
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91st General Assembly
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2114 Relating to the payment of costs by railroad track owners and railroad corporations for ce…90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 403 Relating to the payment of costs by railroad track owners and railroad corporations for ce…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 500 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 500 Relating to the payment of costs by railroad track owners and railroad corporations for ce…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2114 · same titleCleared committee
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