- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBa0405/1LRB-2659/1 ZDW:emwZDW:cjs ASSEMBLY AMENDMENTBILL 1,271 TOMay ASSEMBLY19, SUBSTITUTE2025 AMENDMENT- 1,Introduced TOby ASSEMBLYRepresentatives BILLSPIRO, 271FRANKLIN September, 22,CALLAHAN 2025, -G OfferedUNDRUM , G USTAFSON , KNODL , KREIBICH, M IRESSE, M OSES, M URPHY , M URSAU , O'ONNOR , PENTERMAN , STEFFEN and W ICHGERS, cosponsored by RepresentatPIROS.Senators W IMBERGER, JACQUE, JAMES and N ASS.
AtReferred theto locationsCommittee indicated,on amendTransportation. the substitute amendment as follows:
1.A N A CT to create 347.40 (4) of the statutes;
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deletecamera thatmonitor linesystems and substitute Xfederal motor vehicle safety standards as an alternative to mirrors.mirrors for commercial motor vehicles.
InAnalysis thisby subsection,the "commercialLegislative Reference Bureau Current law prohibits any person from operating a motor vehicleYvehicle includeson a highway unless the vehicle is equipped with a mirror to provide a view of the roadway to the rear of the vehicle.Current regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) require commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) to be equipped with mirrors on each side of vehicle operatedpositioned into intrastateprovide commerce.Y.a view of the highway to the rear and along both sides of the CMV.
FMCSA has created an exemption to this requirement for CMVs equipped with a specified camera monitor system.
This bill provides that a CMV may be equipped with a camera monitor system approved by FMCSA as an alternative to mirrors that would otherwise be required.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
S ECTION 1.
347.40 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
347.40 (4) Notwithstanding sub.
(1) and 49 CFR 393.80 (a), a commercial - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-2659/1 ZDW:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 271 S ECTION 1 motor vehicle may be equipped with a camera monitor system approved by the federal motor carrier safety administration as an alternative to mirrors.