Bill Text: IA SF115 | 2013-2014 | 85th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to intermediate driver's licenses and special minor's licenses, making a penalty applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1019.) Effective 1-1-14.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - END OF 2013 ACTIONS [SF115 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2013-SF115-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 115
AN ACT
RELATING TO INTERMEDIATE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND SPECIAL MINOR’S
LICENSES, MAKING A PENALTY APPLICABLE, AND INCLUDING
EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 321.180B, subsection 2, Code 2013, is
amended to read as follows:
2. Intermediate license.
a. The department may issue an intermediate driver’s license
to a person sixteen or seventeen years of age who possesses an
instruction permit issued under subsection 1 or a comparable
instruction permit issued by another state for a minimum of
six twelve months immediately preceding application, and
who presents an affidavit signed by a parent, guardian, or
custodian on a form to be provided by the department that the
permittee has accumulated a total of twenty hours of street
or highway driving of which two hours were conducted after
sunset and before sunrise and the street or highway driving was
with the permittee’s parent, guardian, custodian, instructor,
a person certified by the department, or a person at least
twenty-five years of age who had written permission from a
parent, guardian, or custodian to accompany the permittee, and
whose driving privileges have not been suspended, revoked,
or barred under this chapter or chapter 321J during, and who
has been accident and violation free continuously for, the
six-month period immediately preceding the application for an
intermediate license. An applicant for an intermediate license
must meet the requirements of section 321.186 , including
satisfactory completion of driver education as required in
section 321.178 , and payment of the required license fee before

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an intermediate license will be issued. A person issued an
intermediate license must limit the number of passengers in
the motor vehicle when the intermediate licensee is operating
the motor vehicle to the number of passenger safety belts. In
addition, unless waived by the person’s parent or guardian at
the time the intermediate license is issued, for the first
six months following issuance of the license, a person issued
an intermediate license must limit the number of unrelated
minor passengers in the motor vehicle when the intermediate
licensee is operating the motor vehicle to one, except when
the intermediate licensee is accompanied in accordance with
subsection 1. For purposes of this subsection, “unrelated
minor passenger” means a passenger who is under eighteen years
of age and who is not a sibling of the driver, a stepsibling
of the driver, or a child who resides in the same household
as the driver. The department shall prescribe the form
for waiver of the six-month restriction on unrelated minor
passengers, which may be in an electronic format, and shall
designate characteristics for the intermediate license that
shall distinguish between an intermediate license that includes
the six-month restriction on unrelated minor passengers and
an intermediate license that does not include the six-month
restriction on unrelated minor passengers.
b. Except as otherwise provided, a person issued an
intermediate license under this subsection who is operating a
motor vehicle between the hours of 12:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
must be accompanied by a person issued a driver’s license
valid for the vehicle operated who is the parent, guardian, or
custodian of the permittee intermediate licensee , a member of
the permittee’s intermediate licensee’s immediate family if the
family member is at least twenty-one years of age, an approved
driver education instructor, a prospective driver education
instructor who is enrolled in a practitioner preparation
program with a safety education program approved by the state
board of education, or a person at least twenty-five years of
age if written permission is granted by the parent, guardian,
or custodian, and who is actually occupying a seat beside the
driver. However, a licensee may operate a vehicle to and from
school-related extracurricular activities and work without an
accompanying driver between the hours of 12:30 a.m. and 5:00
a.m. if such the licensee possesses a waiver on a form to be
provided by the department. An accompanying driver is not
required between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m.

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Sec. 2. Section 321.194, subsection 1, Code 2013, is amended
by adding the following new paragraph:
NEW PARAGRAPH . 0b. Unless accompanied in accordance with
section 321.180B, subsection 1, a person issued a driver’s
license pursuant to this section must limit the number of
unrelated minor passengers in the motor vehicle when the
licensee is operating the motor vehicle to one. For purposes
of this section, “unrelated minor passenger” means a passenger
who is under eighteen years of age and who is not a sibling of
the driver, a stepsibling of the driver, or a child who resides
in the same household as the driver.
Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect January 1,
2014.
______________________________
PAM JOCHUM
President of the Senate
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KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 115, Eighty-fifth General Assembly.
______________________________
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2013
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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor