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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 580

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Relating to: the width and weight limits of certain motor vehicles operated on a highway. (FE)

Bus and truck — Taxation or registration Business Forestry Garage Motor vehicle — Dealers and finance companies Road Road — Construction and repair Transportation, department of — Roads

  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

This bill creates vehicle weight and width exceptions allowing limited

operation on the highway of certain logging vehicles without limitation on weight

and with a width of up to 12 feet.

Under current law, unless an exception applies, no person may operate on a

highway, without a permit, any vehicle that exceeds certain statutory size or weight

limits. Unless an exception applies, a person may not, without a permit, operate on

a highway any vehicle having a total width in excess of eight feet six inches.

Statutory weight limits depend in part on the type and configuration of the vehicle.

This bill creates vehicle weight and width exceptions for skidders, forwarders,

harvesters, and wheeled feller bunchers operated for logging purposes and operated

on the highway for a distance of 0.5 miles or less under which these vehicles may be

operated, without a permit, at a width of up to 12 feet and without limitation on

weight if unladen.

Under current law, if any bill introduced in either house of the legislature

directly or indirectly establishes an exception to vehicle weight limits, the

Department of Transportation (DOT) must prepare a report, containing specified

information, relating to the bill within six weeks after the bill is introduced and

before any vote is taken on the bill.

This bill directs DOT not to prepare such a report on this bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Czaja (R) , E. Brooks (R) , Jarchow (R) , Mursau (R) , R. Brooks (R) , Ripp (R)

2 cosponsors

Petrowski (R) , Tiffany (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Environment and Forestry, Ayes 13, Noes 0

Passed 13–0 Jan 13, 2016 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 Environment and Forestry, Ayes 12, Noes 1

Passed 12–1 Jan 13, 2016 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 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 8, 2016 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Dec 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Mursau, Czaja, Ripp, Jarchow, A. Ott, R. Brooks and E. Brooks; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski and Tiffany

  2. Dec 7, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment and Forestry

  3. Dec 11, 2015 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Mursau

  4. Dec 15, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Dec 15, 2015 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Jan 5, 2016 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Jan 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Environment and Forestry, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  8. Jan 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Environment and Forestry, Ayes 12, Noes 1

  9. Jan 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Jan 14, 2016 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-19-2016 by Committee on Rules

  11. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Jan 19, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Jan 19, 2016 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  18. Jan 22, 2016 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  19. Jan 22, 2016 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  20. Feb 8, 2016 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  21. Feb 8, 2016 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-9-2016 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  22. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator S. Fitzgerald

  23. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  25. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in as amended

  28. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 9, 2016 · Assembly

    Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate amendment 1 adopted)

  30. Feb 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Read and referred to committee on Rules

  31. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:20 PM on 2-18-2016 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  32. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Senate Amendment 1 concurred in

  33. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Action ordered immediately messaged

  34. Feb 25, 2016 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  35. Feb 25, 2016 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-25-2016

  36. Feb 25, 2016 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 2-25-2016

  37. Mar 1, 2016 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 2-29-2016. 2015 Wisconsin Act 171

  38. Mar 1, 2016 · Assembly

    Published 3-1-2016