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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 672
November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives PRONSCHINSKE, DITTRICH,
DUCHOW, EMERSON, GOEBEN, S. JOHNSON, MICHALSKI, MOSES, ORTIZ-VELEZ,
PENTERMAN and SCHMIDT, cosponsored by Senators JAMES, TESTIN, BALLWEG,
CABRAL-GUEVARA, COWLES and MARKLEIN. Referred to Committee on
Transportation.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to renumber and amend 341.13 (5); and to create 341.13 (1m) and
341.13 (5) (b) of the statutes; relating to: indicia of registration for electric
vehicles.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Department of Transportation must issue to registrants of
hybrid and nonhybrid electric motor vehicles distinctive registration plates or decals
for display on existing registration plates that identify the vehicles as electric
vehicles.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 341.13 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
341.13 (1m) (a) Subject to par. (b), the registration plates for any of the
following that operate at greater than 50 volts shall display on the plate the
abbreviation “EV” or another indication that the vehicle is an electric vehicle:
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1. Hybrid electric vehicles, as defined in s. 341.25 (1) (L) 1. b.
2. Nonhybrid electric vehicles, as defined in s. 341.25 (1) (L) 1. c.
(b) The department may institute any system for issuing new registration
plates under par. (a) that the department deems advisable, except that the
department shall issue registration plates meeting the requirements under par. (a)
not later than the time at which the department is required to issue new registration
plates under s. 341.135 for the vehicle.
SECTION 2. 341.13 (5) of the statutes, as created by 2023 Wisconsin Act 19, is
renumbered 341.13 (5) (a) and amended to read:
341.13 (5) (a) A Except as provided in par. (b), a hybrid electric vehicle, as
defined under s. 341.25 (1) (L) 1. b., or a nonhybrid electric vehicle, as defined under
s. 341.25 (1) (L) 1. c., shall bear decals issued by the department to indicate that the
vehicle is an electric vehicle. The Except as provided in par. (b), decals issued under
this paragraph shall be displayed as provided in s. 341.15 (1m) (c).
SECTION 3. 341.13 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
341.13 (5) (b) A vehicle bearing a registration plate meeting the requirements
of sub. (1m) is not required to bear decals issued under par. (a).
(END)
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