A bill for an act relating to reckless driving and excessive speed, and making penalties applicable.

This bill changes Iowa's definition of reckless driving to include speeding 21 miles per hour or more over the limit, lowering the current threshold of 25 MPH for felony charges when causing death or serious injury. It directly affects drivers who exceed speed limits by 21+ MPH, making such speeding automatically reckless driving (a misdemeanor) rather than a simple speeding violation. Key provisions set 21 MPH over as the new threshold for reckless driving, triggering enhanced penalties: causing death becomes a class C felony (up to 10 years in prison), while causing serious injury becomes a class D felony (up to 5 years). The bill updates existing penalties under Code sections 321.277 and 707.6A without altering the base misdemeanor fines for speeding.