Senate Bill 327
Snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, calculating the estimated snowmobile gas tax payment, and funding for supplemental snowmobile trail aids. (FE)
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Oct 2, 2013
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 8, 2014: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
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What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
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. A public-use registration is valid for two years and a private-use registration is valid until ownership of the snowmobile is transferred.
This bill eliminates the two-year registration period for a public-use registration and provides that a public-use registration is valid until ownership of the snowmobile is transferred. The bill also lowers the public-use registration fee from $30 to $15.
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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 is $34.25. This bill 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.
Under current law, DNR provides funding from the snowmobile account in the conservation fund for snowmobile regulation purposes including aids to counties for activities such as snowmobile trail development and maintenance and law enforcement. Currently, these activities are funded by snowmobile fees and by moneys transferred from the transportation fund to the conservation fund. The amount of this transfer equals the estimated snowmobile gas tax formula. The estimated snowmobile gas tax formula amount is based on an estimate of the amount of excise tax paid on gasoline by operators of all snowmobiles registered in this state.
Beginning with fiscal year 2016-17, this bill bases the estimated snowmobile gas tax formula on an estimate of the excise tax paid on gasoline by operators of registered snowmobiles in this state who are issued a trail use sticker.
Current law also requires DNR to calculate an amount equal to the number of trail use stickers issued by DNR in the previous fiscal year 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 basis on which DNR must calculate the amount to be credited to that appropriation. Under the bill, DNR must credit an amount equal to the number of trail use stickers issued in the previous fiscal year to owners of snowmobiles that are exempt from registration multiplied by $34.25.
Who's behind it
14 senators are its . 9 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.
29 more lawmakers .
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Authors (14)
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Jon Erpenbach · Democrat, Senate
- Richard Gudex · Republican, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Sheila Harsdorf · Republican, Senate
- Robert Jauch · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Julie M. Lassa · Democrat, Senate
- John Lehman · Democrat, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
- Jennifer Shilling · Democrat, Senate
- Timothy Cullen · Democrat, Senate
- Kathleen Vinehout · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (29)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Kathleen Bernier · Republican, Senate
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Born · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Czaja · Republican, Assembly
- Chris Danou · Democrat, Assembly
- Mike Endsley · Republican, Assembly
- Paul F. Farrow · Republican, Senate
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- Brett Hulsey · Democrat, Assembly
- Andy Jorgensen · Democrat, Assembly
- Robb Kahl · Democrat, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Debra Kolste · Democrat, Assembly
- Daniel LeMahieu · Republican, Assembly
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Dave Murphy · Republican, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Warren Petryk · Republican, Assembly
- Keith Ripp · Republican, Assembly
- Rob Swearingen · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Larson · Republican, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
- Dana Wachs · Democrat, Assembly
- Thomas Weatherston · Republican, Assembly
- Chad Weininger · Republican, Assembly
- Mandy Wright · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 8, 2014
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Jan 9, 2014
1 more senator signed on in support.
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Nov 25, 2013
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Oct 2, 2013
Sent to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Small Business, and Tourism.
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Oct 2, 2013
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Oct 2, 2013 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Gudex, Jauch, Erpenbach, Shilling, L. Taylor, Harsdorf, Leibham, Hansen, T. Cullen, Lassa, Vinehout, Olsen, Cowles and Lehman; cosponsored by Representatives Czaja, Danou, Kahl, Murphy, T. Larson, Ballweg, Wachs, Jorgensen, A. Ott, Bies, Bernier, Ohnstad, Thiesfeldt, Petryk, Hesselbein, Kolste, Hulsey, Milroy, Weininger, Ripp, Weatherston, Endsley, LeMahieu, Swearingen, Brooks, Wright, Born and Knodl
- Oct 2, 2013 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Small Business, and Tourism
- Nov 25, 2013 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Jan 9, 2014 · Senate
Senator Farrow added as a coauthor
- Apr 8, 2014 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
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Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. 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
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
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