Wisconsin Legislature: 2023 Wisconsin Act 161

Date of enactment: March 21, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 654 Date of publication*: March 22, 2024

* 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."

2023 WISCONSIN ACT 161

An Act relating to: modifying administrative rules of the Department of Transportation relating to applications for vehicle titles by nonresident insurance carriers.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

161,1 Section 1. Trans 154.13 (2) (a) 7. of the administrative code is amended to read:

Trans 154.13 (2) (a) 7. The nonresident is an insurance company headquartered in another state in this country with a business address located in another state in this country that acquires ownership of a vehicle titled in Wisconsin through payment of a total loss claim and the insurance company makes application for a certificate of title, a salvage vehicle certificate of title, or any other title issued by the department for the vehicle.

161,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to applications that are received by the department of transportation on the effective date of this subsection.