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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 109

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Relating to: operation of an all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle owned by an electric cooperative on a highway.

Cooperative associations Municipality Recreation vehicle Road Road — Construction and repair Road — Expressway

  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

Current law prohibits the operation of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) or utility

terrain vehicles (UTVs) on any freeway that is part of the federal system of interstate

and defense highways and on any part of any other freeway unless the Department

of Transportation authorizes that use. Current law also generally prohibits

operation of an ATV or UTV on all other highways, with various exceptions. Under

current law a “highway” includes all public ways and thoroughfares and all bridges

on those public ways and thoroughfares, and a “freeway” is a highway with full

control of access and with all crossroads separated in grade from the pavements for

through traffic.

Current law exempts from these freeway and highway prohibitions the

operator of an ATV or UTV owned by a municipality, state agency, or public utility,

or by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, while engaged in an

emergency or if the operation is directly related to the functions of that entity, unless

safety requires strict adherence to the restrictions. This bill adds the operator of an

ATV or UTV owned by an electric cooperative to this exemption.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Jacque (R) , James (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Pfaff (D) , Quinn (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R)

18 cosponsors

Armstrong (R) , Ballweg (R) , Billings (D) , Doyle (D) , Edming (R) , Green (R) , Knodl (R) , Kurtz (R) , Magnafici (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Schraa (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Summerfield (R) , Swearingen (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 10, 2023 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 Oct 10, 2023 official source full page

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

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 97–0 Oct 17, 2023 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Quinn, Cowles, Felzkowski, Jacque, James, Marklein, Nass, Pfaff, Spreitzer and Testin; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Armstrong, Edming, Knodl, Kurtz, Magnafici, Moses, Mursau, Oldenburg, Spiros, Steffen, Summerfield, Swearingen and Schraa

  2. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 9, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Billings added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 16, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Doyle added as a cosponsor

  5. May 1, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Wanggaard

  6. Sep 27, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Oct 5, 2023 · Senate

    Senator Ballweg added as a coauthor

  8. Oct 6, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Oct 10, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Oct 10, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  11. Oct 10, 2023 · Senate

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

  12. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  13. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  17. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  20. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read

  21. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  22. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  23. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  25. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  26. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Oct 18, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  28. Oct 18, 2023 · Senate

    Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor

  29. Oct 19, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  30. Nov 30, 2023 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  31. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-6-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 64

  32. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Published 12-7-2023