Senate Bill 145
Penalties for certain traffic offenses committed while sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and providing a penalty. (FE)
Became law
The governor signed it on Jul 15, 2013. It's .
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Introduced, passed
Apr 17, 2013
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Committee, passed
Approved
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Senate vote, passed
Passed 32 to 0
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Assembly vote, passed
Passed May 7, 2013
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Governor, passed
Signed
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Law, here now
2013 Wisconsin Act 39
Latest entry in the official record, Jul 15, 2013: “Published 7-16-2013”
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Wisconsin Act
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Official term: Act. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
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Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
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Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
Roll call
A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.
Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary
What it does
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Current law requires that the minimum and maximum forfeitures and fines for violations of certain state and local traffic laws be doubled under specified circumstances. Among these, a speeding violation or a reckless driving violation committed in a highway maintenance or construction area or in a utility work area is subject to doubling of the forfeiture or fine.
This bill doubles the minimum and maximum forfeitures for certain speeding violations and the minimum and maximum forfeitures or fines for reckless driving violations committed where sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and the driver knows or should know that sanitation workers are present.
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Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.
Who's behind it
3 senators are its . 2 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.
29 more lawmakers .
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Authors (3)
- Paul F. Farrow · Republican, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Frank G. Lasee · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (29)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Mandela Barnes · Democrat, Assembly
- Kathleen Bernier · Republican, Senate
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Born · Republican, Assembly
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Mary Czaja · Republican, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- John Jagler · Republican, Senate
- Robb Kahl · Democrat, Assembly
- Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
- Joel Kleefisch · Republican, Assembly
- Dale Kooyenga · Republican, Senate
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- John Murtha · Republican, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Kevin Petersen · Republican, Assembly
- Warren Petryk · Republican, Assembly
- Keith Ripp · Republican, Assembly
- Jennifer Shilling · Democrat, Senate
- John Spiros · Republican, Assembly
- Jeffrey Stone · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Larson · Republican, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
- Travis Tranel · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Williams · Republican, Assembly
- Wright, Barca and Tittl
- Josh Zepnick · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
Versions and amendments
Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.
How lawmakers voted
There were 5 votes on this bill.
Senate Committee on Transportation vote to recommend it
Passed, 5 to 0 · May 3, 2013
No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page
Senate vote
Passed, 5 to 0 · May 6, 2013
No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Official motion: “Referred to Joint Committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page
Senate vote
Passed, 5 to 0 · May 6, 2013
No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Official motion: “Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page
Assembly vote on an amendment
Passed, 52 to 38 · May 7, 2013
No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Official motion: “Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 52, Noes 38”. Official record · This vote on its own page
Senate vote to pass it
Passed, 32 to 0 · May 7, 2013 · 1 didn't vote
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D: Democrat, R: Republican
Yes (32)
- Alberta Darling (R, 8)
- Bob Wirch (D, 22)
- Chris Larson (D, 7)
- Dale Schultz (R, 17)
- Dave Hansen (D, 30)
- Frank G. Lasee (R, 1)
- Fred A. Risser (D, 26)
- Glenn Grothman (R, 20)
- Jennifer Shilling (D, 32)
- Jerry Petrowski (R, 29)
- Joe Leibham (R, 9)
- John Lehman (D, 21)
- Jon Erpenbach (D, 27)
- Julie M. Lassa (D, 24)
- Kathleen Vinehout (D, 31)
- Leah Vukmir (R, 5)
- Lena Taylor (D, 4)
- Luther S. Olsen (R, 14)
- Mark Miller (D, 16)
- Mary Lazich (R, 28)
- Neal Kedzie (R, 11)
- Nikiya Harris Dodd (D, 6)
- Paul F. Farrow (R, 33)
- Richard Gudex (R, 18)
- Rob Cowles (R, 2)
- Robert Jauch (D, 25)
- Scott L. Fitzgerald (R, 13)
- Sheila Harsdorf (R, 10)
- Terry Moulton (R, 23)
- Thomas Tiffany (R, 12)
- Tim Carpenter (D, 3)
- Timothy Cullen (D, 15)
Didn't vote (1)
- Michael Ellis (R, 19)
Official motion: “Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page
What happened
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Jul 15, 2013
The new law was published.
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Jul 15, 2013
The governor signed it. It became 2013 Wisconsin Act 39.
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Jul 11, 2013
Sent to the governor.
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May 7, 2013
3 more representatives signed on in support.
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May 7, 2013
The Assembly passed it too.
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May 7, 2013
“Read” (the official wording)
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May 7, 2013
The Assembly received it.
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May 7, 2013
1 more senator signed on in support.
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May 7, 2013
The Senate passed it, 32 to 0.
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May 7, 2013
1 more senator signed on in support.
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May 6, 2013
“Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0” (the official wording)
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May 6, 2013
Sent to the Joint Committee on Finance.
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May 3, 2013
The committee voted to recommend passing it, 5 to 0.
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Apr 30, 2013
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 25, 2013
The committee held a public hearing.
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Apr 17, 2013
Sent to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs.
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Apr 17, 2013
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Apr 17, 2013 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Farrow, Lasee and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Jagler, Murtha, Stone, Kooyenga, Petersen, Tranel, A. Ott, Petryk, Spiros, T. Larson, Ripp, Born, Kleefisch, Hesselbein, Barnes, Williams, Bies, Thiesfeldt, Zepnick, Kahl, Bernier, Kestell, Czaja, Hebl, LeMahieu and Ohnstad
- Apr 17, 2013 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
- Apr 25, 2013 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Apr 30, 2013 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- May 3, 2013 · Senate
Executive action taken
- May 3, 2013 · Senate
Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0
- May 3, 2013 · Senate
Available for scheduling
- May 6, 2013 · Senate
Referred to Joint Committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0
- May 6, 2013 · Senate
Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0
- May 6, 2013 · Senate
Placed on calendar 5-7-2013 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Senator Shilling added as a coauthor
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Read a second time
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Rules suspended
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor
- May 7, 2013 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Kessler, Ohnstad, Goyke, Pasch and Johnson
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Received from Senate
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Read
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Rules suspended and taken up
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Read a second time
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 52, Noes 38
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Rules suspended
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Read a third time and concurred in
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
- May 7, 2013 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
- May 8, 2013 · Senate
Received from Assembly concurred in
- May 10, 2013 · Senate
Report correctly enrolled
- Jul 11, 2013 · Senate
Presented to the Governor on 7-11-2013
- Jul 15, 2013 · Senate
Report approved by the Governor on 7-15-2013. 2013 Wisconsin Act 39
- Jul 15, 2013 · Senate
Published 7-16-2013
Terms on this page
Wisconsin Act
The number a bill gets when it becomes law, like 2025 Wisconsin Act 12.
Official term: Act. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
Roll call
A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.
Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Wisconsin Act
The number a bill gets when it becomes law, like 2025 Wisconsin Act 12.
Official term: Act
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate
Roll call
A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.
Official term: Roll call vote