Date of enactment: May 10, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 55 Date of publication*: May 11, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 9
AN ACT to amend 346.65 (1) (a), 346.65 (1) (b), 346.65 (3), 346.65 (4m), 346.65 (5), 346.655 (1) and 346.657 (1)
of the statutes; relating to: penalties for reckless driving and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 346.65 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.65 (1) (a) May be required to forfeit not less than
$25 $50 nor more than $200 $400, except as provided in
par. (b).
SECTION 2. 346.65 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended
to read:
346.65 (1) (b) May be fined not less than $50 $100
nor more than $500 $1,000 or imprisoned for not more
than one year in the county jail or both if the total of con-
victions under s. 346.62 (2) or a local ordinance in con-
formity therewith or a law of a federally recognized
American Indian tribe or band in this state in conformity
with s. 346.62 (2) equals 2 or more in a 4−year period.
The 4−year period shall be measured from the dates of the
violations which resulted in the convictions for a 2nd or
subsequent violation.
SECTION 3. 346.65 (3) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.65 (3) Except as provided in sub. (5m), any per-
son violating s. 346.62 (3) shall be fined not less than
$300 $600 nor more than $2,000 $4,000 and may be
imprisoned for not less than 30 60 days nor more than one
year 2 years in the county jail.
SECTION 4. 346.65 (4m) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.65 (4m) Except as provided in sub. (5m), any
person violating s. 346.62 (2m) shall forfeit not less than
$300 $600 nor more than $1,000 $2,000.
SECTION 5. 346.65 (5) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.65 (5) Except as provided in sub. (5m), any per-
son violating s. 346.62 (4) is guilty of a Class I H felony.
SECTION 6. 346.655 (1) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.655 (1) If a court imposes a fine or a forfeiture
for a violation of s. 346.62 or 346.63 (1) or (5), or a local
ordinance in conformity therewith, or s. 346.63 (2) or (6)
or 940.25, or s. 940.09 where the offense involved the use
of a vehicle, it shall impose a driver improvement sur-
charge under ch. 814 in an amount of $435 in addition to
the fine or forfeiture, plus costs, fees, and other sur-
charges imposed under ch. 814.
SECTION 7. 346.657 (1) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.657 (1) If a court imposes a fine or a forfeiture
for a violation of s. 346.62 or 346.63 (1) or (5), or a local
ordinance in conformity therewith, or s. 346.63 (2) or (6)
or 940.25, or s. 940.09 where the offense involved the use
of a vehicle, it shall impose a safe ride program surcharge
* 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.” − 2 −2023 Wisconsin Act 9 2023 Assembly Bill 55
under ch. 814 in an amount of $50 in addition to the fine
or forfeiture, plus costs, fees, and other surcharges
imposed under ch. 814.
SECTION 8.0Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to violations committed on
the effective date of this subsection.