Wisconsin Legislature: 2023 Wisconsin Act 189

Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 728 Date of publication*: March 23, 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 189

An Act to amend 174.055 of the statutes; relating to: license fee exemptions for a dog that is a service animal.

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

189,1 Section 1. 174.055 of the statutes is amended to read:

174.055 Exemption of certain dogs for blind, deaf and mobility-impaired. Every dog specially trained to lead blind or deaf persons or to provide support for mobility-impaired persons that is a service animal, as defined in s. 106.52 (1) (fm), is exempt from the dog license tax and every person owning such a dog shall receive annually a free dog license from the local collecting officer upon application.