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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 60

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Relating to: fees for certain motor vehicle certificate of title transfers. (FE)

Death Debt public Family Motor vehicle — Certificate of title

  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 Transportation issues a certificate of title

to a new owner of a vehicle after ownership of the vehicle is transferred. The new

owner pays a $157 fee for a certificate of title after a transfer and a $7.50

supplemental title fee. Currently, these two fees are waived when a vehicle is

transferred upon a person's death to his or her spouse or domestic partner.

Under this bill, these two fees are also waived when a vehicle is transferred

upon a person's death to an immediate family member of the decedent. “Immediate

family member” is defined under the bill as “a spouse, grandparent, parent, sibling,

child, stepchild, stepparent, or grandchild, or the spouse of a grandparent, parent,

sibling, child, stepchild, stepparent, or grandchild.”

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Wanggaard (R)

22 cosponsors

Behnke (R) , Carpenter (D) , Donovan (R) , Duchow (R) , Emerson (D) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Nedweski (R) , Neylon (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Pronschinske (R) , Rettinger (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Rozar (R) , Snodgrass (D) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

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

Passed 5–0 May 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: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Oct 11, 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. Feb 14, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Cowles, Wanggaard and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Duchow, Neylon, Behnke, Donovan, Emerson, Kitchens, Knodl, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Penterman, Pronschinske, Rettinger, Rodriguez, Rozar, Snodgrass, Spiros, Steffen and Tusler

  2. Feb 14, 2023 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 15, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Mar 16, 2023 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 12, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. May 10, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. May 10, 2023 · Senate

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

  8. May 10, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. May 17, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  10. Jun 6, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Cowles

  11. Sep 12, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 9-14-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  12. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  13. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  14. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  16. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  17. Sep 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Sep 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  19. Sep 22, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance

  20. Sep 26, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  21. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  22. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  23. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 by Committee on Rules

  24. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  25. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  26. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  28. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

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

  29. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Oct 18, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  31. Oct 19, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  32. Nov 30, 2023 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  33. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-6-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 43

  34. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Published 12-7-2023