Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB53 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 53
5	5	February 14, 2023 - Introduced by Senators TESTIN, NASS, BALLWEG and COWLES,
6	6	cosponsored by Representatives PENTERMAN, S. JOHNSON, ALLEN, BARE,
7	7	BEHNKE, DITTRICH, DUCHOW, EDMING, MURPHY, ORTIZ-VELEZ, RETTINGER,
8	8	SCHMIDT, SINICKI, SPIROS, MYERS and BROOKS. Referred to Committee on
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10	10	AN ACT to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to:
11	11	disabled parking privileges on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	This bill expands certain parking privileges for vehicles with disabled parking
14	14	plates or special identification cards to include University of Wisconsin System
15	15	campuses.
16	16	Under current law, a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability
17	17	to walk may apply for and obtain from the Department of Transportation special
18	18	motor vehicle registration plates or a special identification card entitling a motor
19	19	vehicle used by the person to certain parking privileges. Except as provided by
20	20	ordinance in first or second class cities, vehicles bearing these plates or cards are not
21	21	subject to time limitations on parking on any municipally owned or leased street or
22	22	in any municipally owned or leased parking lot with at least a 30-minute time
23	23	limitation and no meter payment is required to be made.
24	24	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
25	25	an appendix to this bill.
26	26	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
27	27	enact as follows:
28	28	SECTION 1. 346.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
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33	33	SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 53
34	34	346.50 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing a special
35	35	registration plate issued under s. 341.14 (1) to a disabled veteran or on his or her
36	36	behalf is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the
37	37	University of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on parking in any street
38	38	or highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s.
39	39	36.05 (3), and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both
40	40	municipally owned and leased or a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and
41	41	leased by a municipal parking utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but
42	42	otherwise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a
43	43	metered stall is one-half hour or more, no meter payment is required. Parking
44	44	privileges granted by this subsection are limited to the disabled veteran to whom or
45	45	on whose behalf the special plates were issued and to qualified operators acting
46	46	under the disabled veteran's express direction with the disabled veteran present.
47	47	SECTION 2. 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48	48	346.50 (2a) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing
49	49	special registration plates issued under s. 341.14 (1a), (1e), (1m), or (1q) or a motor
50	50	vehicle upon which a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 is displayed
51	51	or a motor vehicle registered in another jurisdiction upon which is displayed a
52	52	registration plate, a card, or an emblem issued by the other jurisdiction designating
53	53	the vehicle as a vehicle used by a physically disabled person is exempt from any
54	54	ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the University of Wisconsin
55	55	System imposing time limitations on parking in any street or highway zone, on any
56	56	University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking
57	57	lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both municipally owned and leased or
58	58	a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking
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88	88	utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws
89	89	relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is one-half hour
90	90	or more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges granted by this
91	91	subsection are limited to the following:
92	92	SECTION 3.0Initial applicability.
93	93	(1) This act first applies to motor vehicles parked on a University of Wisconsin
94	94	System campus on the effective date of this subsection.
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