Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 R cosponsors

AB 569 — Relating to: the location and operation of driver schools.

Last action — Published 3-23-2024

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced October 26, 2023. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Tony Evers (Democratic) on March 25, 2024.

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Likely to advance 72% · moderate confidence

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  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

43 added · 16 removed

Plain-language change summary

The amended version of Assembly Bill 569 allows driver schools to be established closer than 1,500 feet from Department of Transportation offices, removing a previous restriction. It also adjusts the rules for small municipalities, increasing the population limit for exemptions from 10,000 to 15,000 and eliminating the requirement regarding the size of the business district. These changes aim to make it easier to open driver schools, especially in less populated areas, which could enhance access to driver education and improve local economies.

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- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBa0842/1 ZDW:amn ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 569 December 1, 2023 - Offered by RepresentativeANDERM EER.
- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRB-2834/1 ZDW:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 569 October 26, 2023 - Introduced by Representative V ANDER M EER, cosponsored by Senator TESTIN.
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
Referred to Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development.
1.
A N A CT to amend 343.61 (4) (b) of the statutes;
Page 1, line 1:
relating to:
delete the material beginning with “the" and ending with “schools" on line 2 and substitute “modifying administrative rules of the Department of Transportation relating to the location of driver schools”.
the location and operation of driver schools.
2.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Current law provides that a driver school may not be established within 1,500 feet of a Department of Transportation office where operator's licenses are issued or official driving skills tests are given.
Page 1, line 3:
This bill eliminates that prohibition.
delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 2, line 9.
Current Department of Transportation administrative rules prohibit a driver school from soliciting business within 1,500 feet of a DOT office where operator's driving skills tests are given.
3.
This prohibition does not apply if the municipality where the DOT office is located has a population less than 10,000 and the business district in which the DOT office is located is less than 1,500 feet long.
Page 2, line 13:
This bill modifies that exception to provide that the prohibition does not apply if the municipality where the DOT office is located has a population less than 15,000 and eliminates any requirement relating to the size of the business district were the DOT office is located.
after that line insert:
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
“SECTION 3.Effective date.
SECTION 1.
(1) Notwithstanding s.
343.61 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
227.265, this act takes effect on the day after publication.”.
343.61 (4) (b) The location of each driver school office shall be identified in the license.
Except as provided by the department by rule, no licensee may establish any - 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-2834/1 ZDW:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 569 SECTION 1 driver school office within 1,500 feet of a department office where operator's licenses are issued, nor within 1,500 feet of any headquarters where official driving skills tests are given.
Any change in address of any driver school office or driver school classroom must be reported to and approved by the department.
A driver school may maintain driver school classrooms at locations other than the driver school office.
A driver school may provide driver training instruction by means of the Internet in addition to providing instruction at a driver school classroom or, if the driver school also offers behind-the-wheel instruction in this state, instead of providing instruction at a driver school classroom.
SECTION 2.
Trans 105.06 (5) (b) of the administrative code is amended to read:
Trans 105.06 (5) (b) The municipality where the department office is located has a population less than 10,000 and the business district in which the office is located is less than 1500 feet long 15,000.
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Action History

  1. Published 3-23-2024

  2. Report approved by the Governor on 3-22-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 202

  3. Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024

  4. Report correctly enrolled on 3-18-2024

  5. LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)

  6. Received from Senate concurred in

  7. Ordered immediately messaged

  8. Read a third time and concurred in

  9. Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  10. Ordered to a third reading

  11. Read a second time

  12. Placed on calendar 3-12-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  13. Available for scheduling

  14. Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  15. Executive action taken

  16. Public hearing held

  17. Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government

  18. Received from Assembly

  19. Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Representatives Gustafson and O'Connor added as coauthors

  21. Read a third time and passed

  22. Rules suspended

  23. Ordered to a third reading

  24. Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  25. Read a second time

  26. Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 by Committee on Rules

  27. Referred to committee on Rules

  28. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  29. Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  30. Executive action taken

  31. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative VanderMeer

  32. Public hearing held

  33. Read first time and referred to Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development

  34. Introduced by Representative VanderMeer; cosponsored by Senator Testin

Sponsors

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Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (131)

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AB 569 is sponsored by VanderMeer, Nancy (Republican).
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