Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB720 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 720
5	5	November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives P ENTERMAN, BEHNKE,
6	6	ARMSTRONG, BODDEN, CALLAHAN, DONOVAN, EDMING, KITCHENS, MAXEY,
7	7	MURSAU, NOVAK, ROZAR, SCHMIDT, SPIROS, TITTL and SCHRAA, cosponsored by
8	8	Senators COWLES and FEYEN. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 349.11 (3) (c); and to create 349.11 (12) of the statutes;
11	11	relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	The Department of Transportation and local highway authorities may modify
14	14	the maximum speed limit applicable to highways under their respective jurisdictions
15	15	if DOT or the local highway authorities determine that the current maximum speed
16	16	limit is not reasonable or safe or that the current actual speed of traffic is not
17	17	reasonable or prudent. Under current law, if no other fixed speed limit is established
18	18	or posted, the maximum speed on a highway is 55 miles per hour. A local highway
19	19	authority may not reduce the speed limit on such a highway under its jurisdiction
20	20	by more than 10 miles per hour.
21	21	This bill provides that a local highway authority may reduce the speed limit on
22	22	such a highway under its jurisdiction by not more than 20 miles per hour. The bill
23	23	also provides that, if a local highway authority previously reduced the speed limit on
24	24	such a highway by 10 miles per hour or less, the local highway authority may further
25	25	reduce the speed limit for the highway to no lower than thirty-five miles per hour.
26	26	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
27	27	enact as follows:
28	28	SECTION 1. 349.11 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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33	33	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 720
34	34	349.11 (3) (c) Modify any existing speed limit without the consent of the
35	35	department except to reduce the speed limit as provided under sub. (10) or (12), or
36	36	to increase the speed limit stated in s. 346.57 (4) (e), (f) or (g), or to reduce by 10 miles
37	37	per hour or less the speed limit stated in s. 346.57 (4) (a), (b) or, (d) to (gm), (i), or (j),
38	38	or to reduce by 15 miles per hour or less the speed limit stated in s. 346.57 (4) (k), or
39	39	to reduce by 20 miles per hour or less the speed limit stated in s. 346.57 (4) (h).
40	40	Whenever department approval is required, no signs giving notice of a modification
41	41	of the speed limit may be erected until such approval has been received.
42	42	SECTION 2. 349.11 (12) of the statutes is created to read:
43	43	349.11 (12) If a local authority reduced the speed limit stated in s. 346.57 (4)
44	44	(h) for a highway under its jurisdiction as authorized under s. 349.11 (3) (c), 2021
45	45	stats., the local authority may further reduce the speed limit for that highway as
46	46	provided in sub. (3) (c) but may not establish a speed limit below 35 miles per hour.
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