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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 429

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Relating to: construction and issuance of motor vehicle registration plates. (FE)

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

  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

This bill requires the Department of Transportation to replace motor vehicle

registration plates on a rolling seven-year basis beginning in 2022 and establishes

requirements for the construction of plates.

Under current law, DOT must establish new designs for plates at intervals

determined by DOT. Subsequently, DOT must issue plates with the new design at

a time determined by DOT. Plates may also be replaced upon application of a vehicle

owner in the case of lost, destroyed, or illegible plates.

Under the bill, beginning with registrations effective February 1, 2022, if the

registration for a vehicle is renewed and plates for that vehicle have not been issued

during the previous seven years, DOT must issue two new registration plates for the

vehicle. The bill requires DOT to assess a $6.50 fee for the replacement plates and

$3.25 for a plate that is lost, destroyed, or illegible.

Under current law, standard plates issued on an annual or biennial basis and

plates issued for motor trucks with a gross weight of not more than 8,000 pounds

must be treated with a reflectorized material or substance. DOT must, in

conjunction with the Department of Corrections and the Department of

Administration, establish the specifications for the reflectorized material and award

a contract for supplying the material through a competitive bidding process.

The bill retains this requirement and provides that all new plates issued by

DOT be constructed with aluminum plates and prismatic sheeting with embedded

security features. The plate sheeting must be a type successfully used by the

manufacturer in multiple jurisdictions and must also meet specified reflectivity and

luminance values.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Felzkowski (R) , Jagler (R) , Kooyenga (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Wanggaard (R)

14 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , J. Rodriguez (R) , James (R) , Kurtz (R) , Murphy (R) , Plumer (R) , Schraa (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Zimmerman (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 20, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 20, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Feb 9, 2022 official source full page

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

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

Passed 15–0 Feb 9, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 30–2 Feb 15, 2022 official source full page

Nay · 2

Not voting · 1

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 95–1 Feb 23, 2022 official source full page

Aye · 95

Nay · 1

Not voting · 3

Full history

  1. Jun 24, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Wanggaard, L. Taylor, Felzkowski, Jagler, Kooyenga, Marklein and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Zimmerman, Dittrich, Edming, James, Kurtz, Plumer, J. Rodriguez, Spiros, Steffen, Tusler, Schraa, VanderMeer and Murphy

  2. Jun 24, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government

  3. Sep 7, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Sep 7, 2021 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  5. Sep 29, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Oct 7, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Nov 17, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  8. Nov 18, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. Jan 12, 2022 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  10. Jan 19, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  11. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  12. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  13. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  14. Jan 27, 2022 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  15. Jan 28, 2022 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  16. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  17. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  18. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

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

  19. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  20. Feb 11, 2022 · Senate

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

  21. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  22. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  23. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  25. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 30, Noes 2

  26. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  28. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  29. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 8:13 AM on 2-23-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  30. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  31. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  32. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  33. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 95, Noes 1

  34. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  35. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  36. Feb 25, 2022 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  37. Mar 10, 2022 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-10-2022

  38. Mar 14, 2022 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-11-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 163

  39. Mar 14, 2022 · Senate

    Published 3-12-2022