Date of enactment: March 27, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 812 Date of publication*: March 28, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 242
AN ACT to amend 196.745 (2) (a) of the statutes; relating to: increasing the penalties for gas pipeline safety viola-
tions and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 196.745 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended
to read:
196.745 (2) (a) Any person violating sub. (1) (a), or
any order or rule issued under sub. (1) (a), shall forfeit an
amount not exceeding $25,000. Each day of violation is
a separate violation of sub. (1) (a). No person may forfeit
an amount exceeding $500,000 for a single persisting
violation of sub. (1) (a) or any order or any rule issued
under sub. (1) (a) the maximum applicable penalty under
49 CFR 190. The commission shall remit all forfeitures
paid under this paragraph to the secretary of administra-
tion for deposit in the school fund.
* 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.”