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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 695

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Relating to: distances between motor vehicles.

Bus and truck Motor vehicle — Regulation

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the operator of a motor vehicle may not follow another

vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent. Current law further specifies

that, with certain exceptions, on a highway outside a business or residential district

the operator of a motor truck with a gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds must

maintain a distance of not less than 500 feet behind the vehicle immediately

preceding and must leave sufficient space so that an overtaking vehicle may enter

the space without danger.

This bill creates another exception to the large truck specification. In

particular, under this bill, the large truck specification does not apply to platoons.

A “platoon” is defined in the bill as a group of individual motor vehicles traveling in

a unified manner at electronically coordinated speeds.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Petrowski (R)

12 cosponsors

Barca (D) , Horlacher (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Macco (R) , Mursau (R) , Neylon (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Schraa (R) , Steffen (R) , Tauchen (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 6, 2018 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. Jan 19, 2018 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Petrowski and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Rohrkaste, Neylon, Steffen, Kuglitsch, Horlacher, Kooyenga, Macco, Mursau, Schraa and Tauchen

  2. Jan 19, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs

  3. Jan 23, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Tusler added as a cosponsor

  4. Jan 30, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 6, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 6, 2018 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Feb 6, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  10. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  11. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  13. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read

  14. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended and taken up

  15. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  19. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Barca added as a cosponsor

  20. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  21. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  22. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  24. Mar 2, 2018 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Apr 12, 2018 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-12-2018

  26. Apr 17, 2018 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-16-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 294

  27. Apr 17, 2018 · Senate

    Published 4-17-2018