94 Relating to: knowledge tests for commercial driver license applicants who hold a military commercial driver license. (FE)

  Date of enactment: December 13, 2013
2013 Senate Bill 240   Date of publication*: December 14, 2013

* 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."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 94

An Act to amend 343.16 (2) (f) 3. of the statutes; relating to: knowledge tests for commercial driver license applicants who hold a military commercial driver license.

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

Section 1 . 343.16 (2) (f) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

343.16 (2) (f) 3. Notwithstanding pars. (a) to (c) and sub. (1) (a) , with respect to equivalent classes of vehicles under s. 343.04 (1) , the department shall treat an application for a commercial driver license submitted with a military commercial driver license and other related documentation the same as an application for that license submitted by a person holding a commercial driver license from another jurisdiction, with respect to equivalent classes of vehicles under s. 343.04 (1) except that the department shall require the applicant to take and pass the applicable knowledge tests, unless the applicant is exempt from, or eligible for a waiver of, these knowledge tests under 49 CFR 383 .

Section 2 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to applications for commercial driver licenses received by the department of transportation on the effective date of this subsection.