Date of enactment: March 21, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 654 Date of publication*: March 22, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 161
AN ACT relating to: modifying administrative rules of the Department of Transportation relating to applications
for vehicle titles by nonresident insurance carriers.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Trans 154.13 (2) (a) 7. of the administra-
tive code is amended to read:
Trans 154.13 (2) (a) 7. The nonresident is an insur-
ance company headquartered in another state in this
country with a business address located in another state
in this country that acquires ownership of a vehicle titled
in Wisconsin through payment of a total loss claim and
the insurance company makes application for a certifi-
cate of title, a salvage vehicle certificate of title, or any
other title issued by the department for the vehicle.
SECTION 2.0Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to applications that are
received by the department of transportation on the effec-
tive 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.”