Skip to content
Bills from the 2015–16 session

Assembly Bill 458

Requiring the Department of Transportation to award a grant to Northwoods Rail Transit Commission to fund the purchase of railroad cars and making an appropriation

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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Oct 27, 2015

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 13, 2016: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Transportation. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

Read the bill

Following saves it on this device. New actions show on your Following page. You can also get updates in a feed reader.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to award a grant in the 2015-17 fiscal biennium, from funds assigned to DOT's freight rail infrastructure improvement program, to the Northwoods Rail Transit Commission for the purchase of railroad cars used to transport forest products. The amount of the grant is $4,800,000 or 80 percent of the cost to purchase the railroad cars, whichever is less.

Who's behind it

7 representatives are its ⁠. 6 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.

3 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 10 names

Authors (7)

Signed on in support (3)

What happened

  1. Apr 13, 2016

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Oct 27, 2015

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Transportation.

  3. Oct 27, 2015

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Oct 27, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Krug, Meyers, Czaja, Edming, Mursau, Swearingen and Macco; cosponsored by Senators Tiffany, Bewley and Lassa

  2. Oct 27, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

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

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

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor