2015 Wisconsin Act 19

  Date of enactment: May 20, 2015
2015 Assembly Bill 27   Date of publication*: May 21, 2015

* 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."

2015 WISCONSIN ACT 19

An Act to renumber and amend 346.57 (4) (gm); and to create 346.57 (4) (gm) 2. of the statutes; relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways.

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

19,1 Section 1. 346.57 (4) (gm) of the statutes is renumbered 346.57 (4) (gm) 1. and amended to read:

346.57 (4) (gm) 1. Sixty-five Except as provided in subd. 2., 65 miles per hour on any freeway or expressway.

19,2 Section 2. 346.57 (4) (gm) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

346.57 (4) (gm) 2. Seventy miles per hour on any freeway, including freeways that are a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways, and on any portion of an expressway that gives preference to through traffic by utilizing interchanges only.