Date of enactment: March 21, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 313 Date of publication*: March 22, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 154
AN ACT to amend 346.49 (2); and to create 343.32 (2) (bL) and 346.49 (2g) of the statutes; relating to: increased
penalties for failing to stop for a school bus.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 343.32 (2) (bL) of the statutes is created
to read:
343.32 (2) (bL) The scale adopted by the secretary
shall assess, for each conviction, 4 demerit points for a
violation of s. 346.48.
SECTION 2. 346.49 (2) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.49 (2) Any person violating s. 346.455 or 346.48
may be required to forfeit not less than $30 nor more than
$300.
SECTION 3. 346.49 (2g) of the statutes is created to
read:
346.49 (2g) Any person violating s. 346.48 may be
required to forfeit not less than $500 nor more than
$1,000.
SECTION 4.0Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to offenses committed on the
effective date of this subsection.
* 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.”