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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 481

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Relating to: motor vehicle fleet registration and making an appropriation. (FE)

Motor vehicle — Taxation or registration Motorcycle — Taxation or registration Transportation department of — Vehicles

  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

Under this bill, an owner of a fleet of 10 or more automobiles or motor trucks

with a gross weight of not more than 8,000 pounds may register the vehicles as a fleet.

Vehicles registered as a fleet are subject to the same annual registration fee as

regularly applies to the type of vehicle, plus a onetime initial issuance fee of $8.50

for each vehicle. The Department of Transportation must provide, to the extent

feasible, all vehicles registered as part of a particular fleet with the same registration

expiration date and must issue registration plates of a distinctive design with the

word “Fleet” embossed on the plate for all of the vehicles in the fleet. The bill also

requires DOT to establish an electronic renewal system for renewals of fleet

registrations, use of which is mandatory for fleet owners.

Under current law, a separate provision allows an owner of a fleet of vehicles,

of a fleet size determined by DOT by rule, to register the vehicles for a three-year

period. The bill repeals this provision.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: August (R) , Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Gundrum (R) , Horlacher (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kurtz (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Rozar (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Wichgers (R)

5 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Knodl (R) , Nass (R) , Petrowski (R) , Plumer (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Oct 14, 2021 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

Passed 11–4 Oct 20, 2021 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 Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Oct 20, 2021 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 94–0 Oct 26, 2021 official source full page

Aye · 94

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 11, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 32–0 Feb 15, 2022 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Jul 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives August, Loudenbeck, Horlacher, Spiros, Wichgers, Brooks, Rozar, Steffen, Kuglitsch, Gundrum, Murphy, Subeck, Dittrich, Brandtjen, Mursau, Kurtz, Moses and Born; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Nass and Cowles

  2. Jul 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Aug 31, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Aug 31, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Sep 1, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Plumer added as a coauthor

  6. Sep 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Knodl added as a coauthor

  7. Oct 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Oct 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  9. Oct 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  10. Oct 19, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  11. Oct 19, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  12. Oct 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

  13. Oct 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  14. Oct 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  15. Oct 21, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-26-2021 by Committee on Rules

  16. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  17. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  18. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  19. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  20. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 94, Noes 0

  21. Oct 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  22. Oct 27, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  23. Nov 2, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  24. Nov 2, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  25. Feb 11, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  26. Feb 11, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-15-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  28. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  30. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 32, Noes 0

  31. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  32. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  33. Feb 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-25-2022

  34. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-10-2022

  35. Mar 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-11-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 178

  36. Mar 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Published 3-12-2022