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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 346

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Relating to: fleet registration of certain motor vehicles. (FE)

Bus and truck Farm and farming — Machinery Motor vehicle — Taxation or registration Transportation department of — Vehicles

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, 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, an owner of a fleet of 10 or more automobiles or motor trucks with a gross weight of not more than 8,000 pounds may register the vehicles as a fleet. This bill allows 10 or more of any combination of the following, with some exceptions, to be registered as a fleet:

1. Motor trucks with a gross weight of between 8,001 and 54,000 pounds.

2. Truck tractors or road tractors with a gross weight of between 4,500 and 54,000 pounds.

3. Trailers with a gross weight of not more than 80,000 pounds.

Vehicles registered as a fleet are subject to the same annual registration fee as regularly applies to the type of vehicle, plus a onetime initial issuance fee of $8.50 for each vehicle. The Department of Transportation must provide, to the extent feasible, all vehicles registered as part of a particular fleet with the same registration expiration date.

Under current law, for fleet vehicles DOT must issue registration plates of a distinctive design with the word “Fleet” embossed on the plate. The bill eliminates the requirement that the word be embossed.

The bill also eliminates a provision in current law allowing for fleet registration of a fleet of 100 or more trailers.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Dittrich (R) , Gustafson (R) , Joers (D) , Knodl (R) , Maxey (R) , Murphy (R) , O'Connor (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Steffen (R) , Wichgers (R)

7 cosponsors

Hutton (R) , J. Jacobson (D) , Miresse (D) , Nass (R) , Ratcliff (D) , Stubbs (D) , Tomczyk (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 6

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0

Passed 6–0 Sep 19, 2025 official source full page

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

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

Passed 5–0 Oct 10, 2025 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Oct 13, 2025 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. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Behnke, Dittrich, Gustafson, Joers, Knodl, Maxey, Murphy, O'Connor, Piwowarczyk, Steffen and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Hutton, Nass and Tomczyk

  2. Jul 8, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Aug 5, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Sep 16, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Sep 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Sep 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  7. Sep 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Oct 2, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Behnke

  9. Oct 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 10-7-2025

  10. Oct 6, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Miresse added as a coauthor

  11. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor

  12. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  14. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  17. Oct 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Oct 7, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Oct 8, 2025 · Senate

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

  20. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  21. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

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

  22. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  23. Oct 13, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  24. Oct 13, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-14-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  25. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Senator Ratcliff added as a cosponsor

  26. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  27. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  28. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up

  29. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  30. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  31. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  32. Oct 14, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  33. Oct 14, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  34. Oct 17, 2025 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)

  35. Oct 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 10-17-2025

  36. Dec 4, 2025 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 12-4-2025

  37. Dec 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-9-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 53

  38. Dec 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Published 12-10-2025

  39. Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor