---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: entry-level training requirements for applicants for commercial driver licenses and certain endorsements. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: entry-level training requirements for applicants for commercial driver licenses and certain endorsements. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 642"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 642 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballweg", "Carpenter", "Cowles", "Petrowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d7b6a08-5d40-4c48-af50-312f0ab2c9c7"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb642"
source_hash: "737ac881514b01272c3eb8268ad430f64da813f532d3a042a517e8f9ef7ff250"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin SB 642 (2021) — Relating to: entry-level training requirements for applicants for commercial driver licenses and certain endorsements. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2021/REG/SB642)

## Votes

- Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ballweg — primary (person)
- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Cowles — primary (person)
- Petrowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Carpenter, Cowles and Ballweg; cosponsored by Representatives Spiros, Moses, Mursau, Subeck and Wichgers `introduction`
- **2021-10-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-04T05:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Senator L. Taylor added as a coauthor
- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-18T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2022-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-25-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2022-01-24T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Cabrera added as a cosponsor
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2022-01-26T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-3-2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-4-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 152 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Published 3-5-2022 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d7b6a08-5d40-4c48-af50-312f0ab2c9c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).