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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 591

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Relating to: driver education instruction related to work zone safety. (FE)

Drivers education Road — Construction and repair Transportation department of — Roads

  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

Under current law, the Department of Public Instruction must approve certain

driver education courses offered by school districts and establish minimum

standards for driver education courses offered by private driver schools, the

Technical College System Board must approve courses of study for each program

offered in technical college district schools, including driver education courses, and

the Department of Transportation licenses private driver schools and DOT may not

license a driver school unless its course of instruction includes the content required

for TCSB approval of a driver education course.

Under this bill, all approved driver education courses must acquaint each

student with the hazards posed by highway work zones and provide at least 30

minutes of instruction in safely dealing with these hazards. The bill also requires

DOT to determine the materials to be used in the work zone safety instruction.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Cowles (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D) , Testin (R)

16 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Callahan (R) , Carpenter (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Emerson (D) , Goeben (R) , Jacobson (D) , Nedweski (R) , Penterman (R) , Rozar (R) , Sinicki (D) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Subeck (D) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

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

Passed 5–0 Jan 11, 2024 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. Oct 30, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Testin, Ballweg, Cowles, Taylor and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Callahan, Behnke, Emerson, Goeben, Nedweski, Penterman, Rozar, Sinicki, Snyder, Spiros, Wichgers, Edming and Dittrich

  2. Oct 30, 2023 · Senate

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

  3. Nov 1, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 15, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Nov 16, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Dec 5, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  8. Dec 13, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  9. Jan 11, 2024 · Senate

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

  10. Jan 11, 2024 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Jan 11, 2024 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  12. Jan 11, 2024 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  13. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  14. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  17. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  20. Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  21. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:23 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28

  22. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  23. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  24. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 withdrawn and returned to author

  25. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  27. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  28. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 23, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. Feb 27, 2024 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  31. Mar 18, 2024 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024

  32. Mar 22, 2024 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-21-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 160

  33. Mar 22, 2024 · Senate

    Published 3-22-2024