Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 310 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 29.001 (69); and to create 343.50 (8) (c) 4m. of the statutes; relating to: access to Department
of Transportation records to establish residency for approvals issued by the Department of Natural Resources.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 29.001 (69) of the statutes is amended to
read:
29.001 (69) “Resident” means a person who has
maintained his or her place of permanent abode in this
state for a period of 30 days immediately preceding his
or her application for an approval. Domiciliary intent is
required to establish that a person is maintaining his or
her place of permanent abode in this state. Mere owner-
ship of property is not sufficient to establish domiciliary
intent. Evidence of domiciliary intent includes, without
limitation, the location where the person votes, pays per-
sonal income taxes, or obtains a driver’s license or an
identification card issued under s. 343.50.
SECTION 2. 343.50 (8) (c) 4m. of the statutes is cre-
ated to read:
343.50 (8) (c) 4m. Notwithstanding par. (b) and s.
343.14 (2j), the department shall, upon request, provide
to the department of natural resources any applicant
information maintained by the department of transporta-
tion and identified in s. 343.14 (2), including providing
electronic access to the information, for the sole purpose
of verification by the department of natural resources that
the applicant is a resident of this state for the purpose of
qualifying for approvals, as defined in s. 29.001 (12),
issued by the department of natural resources.
SECTION 3.0Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 6th
month beginning after publication.
* 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.”