SB216: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Senate BILL 216

May 23, 1995 - Introduced by Senators Andrea, Huelsman and Rosenzweig, cosponsored by Representatives Nass, Gunderson, Dobyns, Olsen, Plache, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Hahn, Grothman, Ladwig, Owens, Kreuser, Urban, Wirch and Lazich. Referred to Committee on Human Resources, Labor, Tourism, Veterans and Military Affairs.

SB216,1,2 An Act to amend 144.3712 (3) of the statutes; relating to: implementation of employer compliance plans for the employer trip reduction program.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

The federal clean air act requires a state that contains an area that is classified as a severe ozone nonattainment area to require employers in that area to implement a program to reduce work-related vehicle trips and miles traveled by employes. The employe trip reduction program (also called the employe commute options program) must require each employer of 100 or more persons in the nonattainment area to increase average passenger occupancy per vehicle in commuting trips during peak travel periods. The program must also require each of those employers to submit a compliance plan by November 15, 1994, that demonstrates that the employer will comply with the requirements of the program no later than November 15, 1996. States that do not comply with requirements of the clean air act may be subject to penalties including loss of certain federal highway funds.

Current state law requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to promulgate rules for an employe trip reduction program that is consistent with federal requirements. The state law requires an employer in the severe ozone nonattainment area to submit a compliance plan by November 15, 1994, that demonstrates that the employer will meet the requirements of the program no later than November 15, 1996.

This bill provides that an employer is not required to implement its employe trip reduction program compliance plan until May 1, 1996. The bill eliminates the requirement that the plan demonstrate that the employer will comply with the requirements of the program no later than November 15, 1996. The bill also requires DNR to assist an employer that voluntarily implements its compliance plan before May 1, 1996.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

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

SB216, s. 1 Section 1. 144.3712 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB216,2,8 144.3712 (3) Compliance plans. If an employer is located in an area that is described before November 15, 1993, by the department under sub. (1) (a) or (b) and is subject to the rules promulgated under sub. (2), the employer shall submit to the department, no later than November 15, 1994, a plan that demonstrates that the employer will comply with the rules no later than November 15, 1996. An employer is not required to implement the plan until May 1, 1996, but the department shall assist an employer that voluntarily implements its plan before that date.

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