Date of enactment:
2023 Assembly Bill 142 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 20.931 (title); and to create 20.931 (1) (am) and 20.931 (3) of the statutes; relating to: restrictions
on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.931 (title) of the statutes is amended
to read:
20.931 (title) Prohibited boycotts governmental
actions.
SECTION 2. 20.931 (1) (am) of the statutes is created
to read:
20.931 (1) (am) “Motor vehicle” means a self−pro-
pelled device designed to transport persons or property
from one place to another.
SECTION 3. 20.931 (3) of the statutes is created to
read:
20.931 (3) PROHIBITIONS BASED ON ENERGY SOURCE.
(a) No state agency and no local governmental unit may
restrict the use or sale of motor vehicles based on the
energy source used to power the motor vehicle, including
use for propulsion or use for powering other functions of
the motor vehicle.
(b) This subsection does not affect any policy estab-
lished by a state agency or local governmental unit
related to the purchase of motor vehicles for the use of the
state agency or local governmental unit.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”