Wisconsin 2025 Regular Session Status: Introduced 1 R cosponsors

SB 722 — Relating to: weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer. (FE)

Last action — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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    To Executive
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This bill has been introduced in the Senate. Introduced December 02, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

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Advancing 38% · moderate confidence

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  • Introduced

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  • 11 sponsors

    1 primary, 10 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 2 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

An Act to create 348.25 (8) (b) 4r. and 348.27 (21) of the statutes;

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What changed in the latest version

53 added · 149 removed

Plain-language change summary

The revised version of Senate Bill 722 introduces specific weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or fertilizer, allowing them to carry up to 91,000 pounds with a special permit costing $325. This change streamlines the permit process through the Department of Transportation (DOT) while ensuring that vehicles can only operate on designated highways or with approval from maintenance officials on other roads. These updates are significant because they provide clearer regulations for agricultural transport, which can help farmers and producers manage their logistics more efficiently and reduce costs.

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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2, TO SENATE BILL 722 February 3, 2026 - Offered by Senator TOMCZYK .
- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-4528/1 ZDW:klm SENATE BILL 722 December 2, 2025 - Introduced by Senator T OMCZYK , cosponsored by Representatives B.
A N A CT to amend 348.25 (4) (intro.), 348.27 (1) and 348.295;
J ACOBSON , O'C ONNOR , M AXEY, M URPHY , M URSAU, PENTERMAN , TRANEL , OODWIN , PIROS and BEHNKE .
to create 348.25 (8) (b) 4r.
Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government.
A N A CT to create 348.25 (8) (b) 4r.
weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, commercial feed, or bulk fertilizer.
weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill creates special highway weight limits for certain vehicles transporting grain, commercial feed, or bulk fertilizer.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill creates special highway weight limits for certain vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer.
For any vehicle or vehicle combination operating under a permit to transport certain agricultural products, current law specifies the maximum allowable gross weight that the vehicle may impose on the highway based on the vehicle’s total number of axles and the distance between the front and rear axles.
The bill authorizes DOT to issue permits, for a fee of $325, for the transport of grain, feed, or commercial fertilizers at a weight not to exceed 91,000 pounds.
The bill provides for the following maximum weights for a vehicle operating under the agricultural permit or the permit created in the bill:
The permit is valid for the transportation of grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer only on highways that are within the state trunk highway system and only on a route specified by the department.
- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm SECTION 1 Number of Axles Distance Maximum weight 61 feet 90,500 62 feet 91,000 53 feet 91,000 43 feet 90,500 44 feet 91,000 The bill authorizes DOT to issue a permit for a fee of $325 to transport grain, commercial feed, or bulk fertilizer at a weight not to exceed 91,000 pounds.
Other highways may be used with written approval of the officers in charge of maintenance of the other highways.
The permit is valid for the transportation of grain, commercial feed, or bulk fertilizer only on highways that are within the state trunk highway system and only on a route specified by the department.
DOT may suspend the permit during a spring thaw.
Other highways may be used with written approval of the officers in charge of maintenance of the other highways if the vehicle operator carries the written approval while operating the vehicle and presents it upon request of a law enforcement officer or DOT.
Under current law, if any bill introduced in either house of the legislature directly or indirectly establishes an exception to vehicle weight limitations, DOT must prepare a report, containing specified information, relating to the bill within - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4528/1 ZDW:klm SENATE BILL 722 SECTION 1 six weeks after the bill is introduced and before any vote is taken on the bill.
Additionally, DOT may suspend the permit during a spring thaw.
Under current law, if any bill introduced in either house of the legislature directly or indirectly establishes an exception to vehicle weight limitations, DOT must prepare a report, containing specified information, relating to the bill within six weeks after the bill is introduced and before any vote is taken on the bill.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
348.25 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
348.25 (4) (intro.) Except as provided under s.
348.26 (4), (6), or (7) or 348.27 (3), (3m), (4m), (9), (9m), (9r), (9t), (10), (12), (15), (16), (18), (19), or (20), or (21), permits shall be issued only for the transporting of a single article or vehicle which exceeds statutory size, weight or load limitations and which cannot reasonably be divided or reduced to comply with statutory size, weight or load limitations, except that:
S ECTION 2.
- 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm SECTION 3 SECTION 3.
S ECTION 2.
348.27 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
348.27 (1) APPLICATIONS .
All applications for annual, consecutive month or multiple trip permits for the movement of oversize or overweight vehicles or loads shall be made to the officer or agency designated by this section as having authority to issue the particular permit desired for use of the particular highway in question.
All applications under subs.
(2) and (4) to (15) shall be made upon forms prescribed by the department.
All applications under sub.
(16), (17), (18), and (21) shall be made utilizing an electronic process prescribed by the department.
All applications under sub.
(17) shall be made utilizing an electronic process prescribed by the department.
All applications under sub.
(18) shall be made utilizing an electronic process prescribed by the department.
SECTION 4.
348.27 (21) PERMITS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GRAIN ,COMMERCIAL FEED , OR BULK FERTILIZER .
348.27 (21) PERMITS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GRAIN , FEED, OR COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER.
(b), the department may issue annual or consecutive month permits for the transportation of grain, as defined in s.
(b), the department may issue annual or consecutive month permits for the transportation of grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer in vehicles or vehicle combinations that have 6 or more axles and that exceed the maximum gross weight limitations under s.
126.01 (13), commercial feed, as defined in s.
348.15 (3) (c).
94.72 (1) (b), or bulk fertilizer, as defined in s.
94.64 (1) (b), in vehicles or vehicle combinations that have 6 or more axles and that exceed the maximum gross weight limitations under s.
348.15 (3) (c) but that do not exceed the maximum gross weight limitations under s.
348.295.
- 2026 Legislature - 4 - LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm SECTION 4 (b) Except as provided in par.
(b) Except as provided in par.
(c), a permit under this subsection is valid only for the transportation of grain, as defined in s.
(c), a permit under this subsection is valid only for the transportation of grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer on highways within the state trunk highway system and only on a route specified by the department.
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126.01 (13), commercial feed, as defined in s.
(c) If the highways desired to be used by an applicant for a permit under this subsection involve highways other than those within the state trunk highway - 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRB-4528/1 ZDW:klm SENATE BILL 722 SECTION 2 system, the application shall be accompanied by a written statement of route approval by the officer in charge of maintenance of the other highway.
94.72 (1) (b), or bulk fertilizer, as defined in s.
94.64 (1) (b), on highways within the state trunk highway system to a rail yard, shipyard, port, ethanol plant, manufacturing facility, grain elevator, or feed mill and only on a route specified by the department.
(c) If the route desired to be used by an applicant for a permit under this subsection involves any highway other than those within the state trunk highway system, the application shall be accompanied by a written statement of route approval by the officer in charge of maintenance of the other highway.
A person operating a vehicle under a permit under this subsection shall carry the written statement of route approval while operating on that route and shall display the statement upon request of any law enforcement officer or representative of the department.
SECTION 5.
S ECTION 3.
348.295 of the statutes is amended to read:
348.295 Weight limitations for certain permits.
Notwithstanding s.
348.15 (3) (c), for any vehicle or vehicle combination operating under a permit issued under s.
348.27 (18) or (21), the gross weight imposed on the highway by any group of 6 or more consecutive axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles may not - 2026 Legislature - 5 - LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm S ECTION 5 exceed the maximum gross weights in the following table for each of the respective distances between axles and the respective numbers of axles of a group:
[See Figure 348.295 following] Figure 348.295:
Maximum gross weight in pounds on a group of— consecutive axles of a 7-axle vehicle or of a8 consecutive axles of a 8-axle vehicle or of Distances in feet between foremost and 6 consecutive axles of any combination of vehicles vehicle or combination of vehicles having a any vehicle or combination of vehicles rearmost axles of a group having a total of 6 or more axles total of 7 or more axles having a total of 8 or more axles 82,000 82,500 83,000 83,500 84,500 85,000 85,500 80,500 86,000 81,000 86,500 81,500 87,000 82,000 87,500 82,500 88,500 83,500 89,000 84,000 89,500 84,500 90,000 85,000 90,500 80,500 85,500 91,000 81,000 86,000 81,500 87,000 82,000 87,500 83,000 88,000 83,500 88,500 84,000 89,000 84,500 89,500 85,000 90,000 86,000 91,000 86,500 87,000 87,500 88,000 89,000 89,500 90,000 90,500 91,000 S ECTION 6.
S ECTION 7.
(END)
Effective date.
- 2026 Legislature - 6 - LRBs0341/1 ZDW:klm SECTION 7 (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 4th month beginning after publication.
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Action History

  1. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  3. Representative Brown added as a cosponsor

  4. Available for scheduling

  5. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 4, Noes 1

  6. Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 4, Noes 1

  7. Executive action taken

  8. Representative Anderson added as a cosponsor

  9. Fiscal estimate received

  10. Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  11. Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  12. Representative Tucker added as a cosponsor

  13. Public hearing held

  14. Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  15. Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government

  16. Introduced by Senator Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representatives B. Jacobson, O'Connor, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Penterman, Tranel, Goodwin, Spiros and Behnke

Sponsors

  • B. Jacobson · Cosponsor
  • O'Connor · Cosponsor
  • Maxey · Cosponsor
  • Murphy · Cosponsor
  • Mursau · Cosponsor
  • Penterman · Cosponsor
  • Tranel · Cosponsor
  • Goodwin · Cosponsor
  • Spiros · Cosponsor
  • Behnke · Cosponsor
  • Cory Tomczyk · Primary

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1 sponsors · 10 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (10)

  • B. Jacobson
  • O'Connor
  • Maxey
  • Murphy
  • Mursau
  • Penterman
  • Tranel
  • Goodwin
  • Spiros
  • Behnke

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 722 do?
An Act to create 348.25 (8) (b) 4r. and 348.27 (21) of the statutes;
Who sponsors SB 722?
SB 722 is sponsored by B. Jacobson, O'Connor, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Penterman, Tranel, Goodwin, Spiros, Behnke, and Tomczyk, Cory (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 722?
This bill has been introduced in the Senate. Introduced December 02, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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