Wisconsin Legislative Council
AMENDMENT MEMO
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Memo published: January 31, 2024 Contact: Ethan Lauer, Senior Staff Attorney
2023 Assembly Bill 365 Assembly Amendment 1
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 365
Current law allows the Department of Transportation to issue a permit for the transportation of metallic
or nonmetallic scrap for the purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or combination of vehicles
that exceeds statutory weight or length limitations. Administrative rules define “recyclable-scrap,” for
this purpose, as “metallic or non-metallic material in waste for which there exists a commercially
demonstrated processing or manufacturing technology which uses the material as a raw material, and
which is transported for use as such a raw material.”
2023 Assembly Bill 365 generally incorporates the administrative rule’s definition of metallic or
nonmetallic scrap into a statutory definition of this term, and also provides that the term includes pig
iron.
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1
Assembly Amendment 1 provides that a permit issued for the transportation of metallic or nonmetallic
scrap is not valid on highways designated as part of the national system of interstate or defense
highways, except to the extent permitted under federal law without any loss or reduction of federal aid
or any other sanction.
BILL HISTORY
Representative Petersen offered Assembly Amendment 1 on November 8, 2023. On January 30, 2024,
the Assembly Committee on Transportation unanimously recommended adoption of the amendment
and passage of the bill, as amended.
For a full history of the bill, visit the Legislature’s bill history page.
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