Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 617 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
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.
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 vehi-
cle:
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 issu-
ing new registration plates under par. (a) that the depart-
ment 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 depart-
ment 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).
* 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.”