Bicycle Safety Bill Passes Iowa Senate – Now Needs Help In House
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The Bicycle safety bill passed in the Senate, but will be dead in the House without your help. Please join us in supporting five-foot passing, safe following distance, door zone safety, yielding to the most vulnerable at intersections, to name a few.
Please e-mail four people with your support:
1. Speaker Pat Murphy from Dubuque – Pat.Murphy@legis.state.ia.us
2. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy from Des Moines – Kevin.Mccarthy@legis.state.ia.us
3. Transportation Chair Brian Quirk New Hampton – Brian.Quirk@legis.state.ia.us
4. And your state representative:
You can find contact info. for your legislators here:
www.legis.state.ia.us/FindLeg/
You can also call them at: 515-281-3221
Senate File 117 passed the Iowa Senate last week on a 30-17 vote.
Yeas, 30: Appel Dotzler Jochum Schmitz Bartz Dvorsky Kibbie Schoenjahn Beall Fraise Kreiman Seng Bolkcom Gronstal McCoy Stewart Courtney Hancock Olive Warnstadt Dandekar Heckroth Quirmbach Wilhelm Danielson Hogg Ragan Dearden Horn Rielly
Nays, 17: Behn Hamerlinck Noble Wieck Black Hartsuch Reynolds Zaun Boettger Houser Seymour Feenstra Kapucian Sodders Hahn Kettering Ward
Please thank your Senators that voted yes.
You can read more about the bill here:
If you want this to pass, please urge your State Senator and Representative to vote yes. Let them know why a 5-foot passing distance is important to you and your family, how important this is to your kids, kids in your neighborhood, and kids biking to school. Please let us know if you hear from your legislators. We are keeping a running tally.
This bicycle safety bill is an investment in the future of cycling in Iowa. It will be a step in making Iowa more bicycle friendly. The legislation would give additional tools in teaching driver’s education classes how to share the road with bicycles, it will also give more enforcement tools to law enforcement. The bill won’t magically make our roads safer, but it is one important step to truly embracing safe and complete streets. Senator Dotzler (D-Waterloo) summed it up when he said if this bill helped teach anyone in driver’s education and “saved one life, it would be worth it.”
Thank you for helping to make Iowa a more bicycle friendly state. A few minutes of your time to send a few emails could make all the difference in the world. Please keep us informed of any information or feedback you receive.
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