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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 407

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Relating to: snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, and funding for supplemental snowmobile trail aids. (FE)

Excise tax Gasoline — Taxation Natural resources, department of — Recreation and boating Snowmobile

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law prohibits a person from operating a snowmobile in this state unless

the snowmobile is covered by a public-use or private-use registration issued by the

Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or is exempt from registration. A person

who owns a snowmobile is generally exempt from snowmobile registration

requirements in this state if the snowmobile is covered by a valid registration in

another state or country.

Under current law, a person who owns a snowmobile that is not registered in

this state or is exempt from registration must display a trail use sticker issued by

DNR on the snowmobile. The fee for this sticker issued for a snowmobile that is

exempt from registration is $34.25. This bill, with limited exceptions, requires all

snowmobiles to display a trail use sticker, regardless of whether the snowmobile is

registered in this state. The bill provides that the fee for a trail use sticker issued

for a snowmobile that is registered in this state is $14.25 if the snowmobile is owned

by a snowmobile club member and $34.25 if the owner does not belong to a

snowmobile club.

The bill also increases the fee for trail use stickers issued to persons who own

snowmobiles that are exempt from registration from $34.25 to $44.25. In addition,

the bill provides that there is no fee for a trail use sticker issued for any snowmobile

that is at least 25 years old.

Current law requires DNR to calculate an amount equal to the number of trail

use stickers issued by DNR in the previous fiscal year to owners of snowmobiles that

are exempt from registration multiplied by $32 and to credit this amount to an

appropriation account that funds aids to counties for activities such as trail

development and maintenance. This bill changes the amount of the multiplier for

purposes of this calculation to $44.25.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Bies (R) , Born (R) , Brooks (R) , Czaja (R) , Danou (D) , Endsley (R) , Hesselbein (D) , Hulsey (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kahl (D) , Knodl (R) , Kolste (D) , LeMahieu (R) , Milroy (D) , Murphy (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petryk (R) , Ripp (R) , Swearingen (R) , T. Larson (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wachs (D) , Weatherston (R) , Weininger (R) , Wright (D)

16 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Erpenbach (D) , Gudex (R) , Hansen (D) , Harsdorf (R) , Jauch (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Lassa (D) , Lehman (D) , Leibham (R) , Nerison (R) , Olsen (R) , Shilling (D) , T. Cullen (D) , Tittl (R) , Vinehout (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 4 adoption recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Jan 30, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 5 adoption recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Jan 30, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Jan 30, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 89, Noes 6

Passed 89–6 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

Aye · 89

Not voting · 4

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Feb 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 14, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 1

Passed 31–1 Mar 18, 2014 official source full page

Nay · 1

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Oct 4, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Czaja, Danou, Ballweg, Bernier, Bies, Endsley, Hesselbein, Hulsey, Jorgensen, Kahl, Kolste, T. Larson, LeMahieu, Milroy, Murphy, A. Ott, Ohnstad, Petryk, Ripp, Wachs, Weatherston, Weininger, Swearingen, Brooks, Wright, Born, Knodl and Thiesfeldt; cosponsored by Senators Gudex, Jauch, Cowles, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harsdorf, Lassa, Leibham, Olsen, Shilling, L. Taylor, Vinehout and Lehman

  2. Oct 4, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Tourism

  3. Oct 17, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Czaja

  4. Oct 21, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Oct 28, 2013 · Assembly

    Representative Nerison added as a coauthor

  6. Nov 13, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Dec 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Representative Tittl added as a coauthor

  8. Dec 9, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Czaja

  9. Jan 13, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representative Czaja

  10. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 4 offered by Representative Kaufert

  11. Jan 15, 2014 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  12. Jan 15, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 5 offered by Committee on Tourism

  13. Jan 30, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 4 adoption recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  14. Jan 30, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 5 adoption recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  15. Jan 30, 2014 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Tourism, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  16. Jan 30, 2014 · Assembly

    Referred to Joint Committee on Finance

  17. Feb 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  18. Feb 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  19. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  20. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  21. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  22. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up

  23. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  24. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  25. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 89, Noes 6

  28. Feb 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 21, 2014 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  30. Feb 24, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  31. Feb 24, 2014 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  32. Mar 14, 2014 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  33. Mar 14, 2014 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-18-2014 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  34. Mar 18, 2014 · Senate

    Read a second time

  35. Mar 18, 2014 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  36. Mar 18, 2014 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  37. Mar 18, 2014 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 1

  38. Mar 18, 2014 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  39. Mar 18, 2014 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  40. Mar 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-19-2014

  41. Mar 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-19-2014

  42. Mar 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-19-2014. 2013 Wisconsin Act 142

  43. Mar 19, 2014 · Assembly

    Published 3-20-2014