Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: permits for certain oversize or overweight vehicles transporting forest products. (FE)
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, with limited exceptions, no person may operate on a
highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles that exceeds certain statutory limits
on size, weight, or load unless that person possesses a permit issued by the
Department of Transportation. Currently, DOT may issue an annual or consecutive
month permit for an oversize or overweight vehicle to transport loads within 11 miles
of the Wisconsin-Michigan state line and on specifically designated highways, if the
vehicle does not violate length or weight limitations under Michigan law (commonly
known as the Michigan border permit).
This bill adds the following highway segments to the Michigan border permit:
1. STH 70, from the junction with westbound STH 139 in Florence County to
the junction with STH 13 in the town of Fifield.
2. STH 54, from the junction with CTH S in Outagamie County to the junction
with STH 55 in the town of Oneida in Outagamie County.
3. STH 32, from the junction with STH 64 in Oconto County to Cottonwood
Lane three-quarters of a mile southeast of the village of Suring.
4. STH 17, from the junction with STH 70 in the city of Eagle River to the
junction with Sundstein Road in Vilas County.
5. STH 13, from the junction with STH 70 in the town of Fifield in Price County
to the junction with 5th Street in the city of Park Falls.
6. STH 13, from the intersection with Old Airport Road to the northernmost
intersection with CTH “C” in Ashland County.
7. USH 63, from the junction with USH 2 in Bayfield County to the junction
with Krueger Road in the town of Bass Lake in Sawyer County.
8. STH 22, from the junction with USH 41 in the city of Oconto to the junction
with STH 47/55 in the city of Shawano.
9. STH 55, from the junction of STH 47/55 with STH 22 in the city of Shawano
to the junction with USH 151 in Calumet County.
10. USH 151, from the junction with STH 55 in Calumet County to the junction
with CTH S in Manitowoc County.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Votes
Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0
Passed 5–0 Jan 11, 2024 official source full pageNo 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 11, 2024 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Oct 9, 2023 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Tomczyk, Ballweg, Cowles, Felzkowski, Quinn, Testin and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Mursau, Callahan, Edming, Gustafson, Green, Magnafici, Michalski, O'Connor, Schmidt, Snyder and Swearingen
- Oct 9, 2023 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government
- Oct 24, 2023 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Nov 16, 2023 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Dec 8, 2023 · Senate
Representative Green withdrawn as a cosponsor
- Dec 14, 2023 · Senate
Senator Felzkowski withdrawn as a coauthor
- Dec 19, 2023 · Senate
Representative Callahan withdrawn as a cosponsor
- Jan 8, 2024 · Senate
Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk
- Jan 11, 2024 · Senate
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0
- Jan 11, 2024 · Senate
Available for scheduling
- Jan 11, 2024 · Senate
Executive action taken
- Jan 11, 2024 · Senate
Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0
- Apr 15, 2024 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1