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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 669

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Relating to: an exception to federal hours of service requirements and modifying an administrative rule related to the exception. (FE)

Administrative rules Bus and truck Farm produce Transportation, department of — Administrative rules

  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

Currently, federal law provides limits on the maximum number of hours within

certain given time periods that motor carriers may permit their commercial motor

vehicle drivers to drive. Federal law also provides requirements related to the

records that must be made and maintained of these driver hours of service. There

is an exception in federal law to these hours of service requirements during planting

and harvesting periods for drivers who are transporting certain agricultural

commodities or farm supplies within a 150-mile radius of the source. Under the

exception, states are allowed to designate the planting and harvesting period. Under

current Wisconsin law, a Department of Transportation rule provides that the

planting and harvesting season applicable in Wisconsin is March 15 through

December 15 of each year.

This bill provides that the applicable planting and harvesting period for

Wisconsin is January 1 to December 31.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Olsen (R) , Stroebel (R)

14 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Edming (R) , Kapenga (R) , Knodl (R) , Kulp (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Mursau (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Plumer (R) , Skowronski (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R)

Votes

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

Passed 5–0 Feb 12, 2020 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 8, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Marklein, Cowles, Kooyenga, Nass, Olsen and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives VanderMeer, Ballweg, Knodl, Kulp, Loudenbeck, Mursau, Oldenburg, Plumer, Skowronski, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tusler and Edming

  2. Jan 8, 2020 · Senate

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

  3. Jan 9, 2020 · Senate

    Senator Kapenga added as a coauthor

  4. Jan 31, 2020 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 4, 2020 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 11, 2020 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 12, 2020 · Senate

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

  8. Feb 12, 2020 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Feb 14, 2020 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-19-2020 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  12. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  13. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  14. Feb 19, 2020 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  16. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Read

  17. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  18. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  21. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  22. Feb 20, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Feb 21, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  24. Feb 25, 2020 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 2-28-2020

  26. Mar 4, 2020 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-3-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 174

  27. Mar 4, 2020 · Senate

    Published 3-4-2020