House File 2568 - Enrolled
House File 2568
AN ACT
RELATING TO NONVEHICULAR TRAFFIC, INCLUDING PEDESTRIAN
CONVEYANCES AND BICYCLISTS’ RIGHT-OF-WAY AT CERTAIN
CROSSWALKS, AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 321.1, subsection 51, Code 2024, is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 51. “Pedestrian” means any a person afoot or a person using
4 a pedestrian conveyance.
5 Sec. 2. Section 321.1, Code 2024, is amended by adding the
6 following new subsection:
7 NEW SUBSECTION. 51A. “Pedestrian conveyance” means any
8 human-powered device by which a pedestrian may move other
9 than by walking or by which a pedestrian may move another
10 person, including but not limited to a wheelchair, stroller,
11 skateboard, scooter, or other similar device. “Pedestrian
12 conveyance” also includes an electric personal assistive
13 mobility device and any other device used to move a person
14 sitting or standing on the device regardless of whether the
15 device is powered by an electric motor, so long as the electric
16 motor produces less than seven hundred fifty watts. “Pedestrian
17 conveyance” does not include a bicycle.
18 Sec. 3. Section 321.1, subsection 90, paragraph a, Code
19 2024, is amended to read as follows:
20 a. Any device moved by human power, including a low-speed
21 electric bicycle and a pedestrian conveyance.
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22 Sec. 4. Section 321.235A, subsection 2, paragraphs a and b,
23 Code 2024, are amended to read as follows:
24 a. Yield the right-of-way to other pedestrians and
25 human-powered devices.
26 b. Give an audible signal before overtaking and passing a
27 pedestrian or human-powered device.
28 Sec. 5. Section 321.327, subsection 1, Code 2024, is amended
29 to read as follows:
30 1. Where traffic-control signals are not in place
31 or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the
32 right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield,
33 to a pedestrian or a person riding a bicycle crossing the
34 roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked
35 crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in
1 this chapter.
2 Sec. 6. Section 321.366, subsection 1, paragraph g, Code
3 2024, is amended to read as follows:
4 g. Operate Ride a bicycle, skateboard, or other use a
5 pedestrian conveyance, or be a pedestrian, anywhere on a fully
6 controlled-access facility. For purposes of this paragraph,
7 “pedestrian conveyance” means any human-powered device by which
8 a pedestrian may move other than by walking or by which a
9 walking person may move another pedestrian, including but not
10 limited to strollers and wheelchairs.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY AMY SINCLAIR
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 2568, Ninetieth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2024 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 321.1, 321.235A, 321.366
Enrolled: 321.1, 321.235A, 321.366