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2025 SENATE BILL 82
February 26, 2025 - Introduced by Senators TOMCZYK, WANGGAARD, QUINN, FEYEN,
NASS and BRADLEY, cosponsored by Representatives TUCKER, GREEN,
PIWOWARCZYK, BRILL, KRUG, MAXEY, B. JACOBSON, CALLAHAN, KREIBICH,
PENTERMAN, WICHGERS, NOVAK, BEHNKE, GOEBEN, MURPHY, KNODL, SNYDER,
DALLMAN, DITTRICH, SPIROS, GUNDRUM, TUSLER, MELOTIK and TRANEL.
Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government.
AN ACT to amend 20.931 (title); to create 20.931 (1) (am) and 20.931 (3) of the
statutes; relating to: governmental restrictions based on the energy source of
a motor vehicle or other device.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, no state agency and no local governmental unit may restrict 1)
the use or sale of a motor vehicle on the basis of the energy source used to power the
motor vehicle, including use for propulsion or use for powering other functions of
the motor vehicle, or 2) the use or sale of any other device on the basis of the energy
source that is used to power the device or that is consumed by the device.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.931 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.931 (title) Prohibited boycotts governmental actions.
SECTION 2. 20.931 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
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SECTION 2
20.931 (1) (am) XMotor vehicleY means a self-propelled device designed to
transport persons or property from one place to another.
SECTION 3. 20.931 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
20.931 (3) PROHIBITIONS BASED ON ENERGY SOURCE. No state agency and no
local governmental unit may do any of the following:
(a) 1. Restrict the use or sale of a motor vehicle on the basis of the energy
source used to power the motor vehicle, including use for propulsion or use for
powering other functions of the motor vehicle.
2. This paragraph does not affect any policy established by a state agency or
local governmental unit related to the purchase of motor vehicles for the use of the
state agency or local governmental unit.
(b) Restrict the use or sale of a device other than a motor vehicle on the basis
of the energy source that is used to power the device or that is consumed by the
device. Under this paragraph, a device is powered by an energy source or consumes
an energy source if any significant function of the device uses that energy source or
consumes that energy source to accomplish the function.
(END)
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