republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2025/ab-679.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "AB 679"
citation: "Wisconsin AB 679 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jacobson", "Goodwin", "Maxey", "Murphy", "Mursau", "O'Connor", "Penterman", "Spiros", "Tranel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94f030d5-0dd4-41e0-8926-1875ede2513b"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab679"
source_hash: "0b1d943cc4f4dab84071ce0f3b9dda42440eeccb587e06bb775ab7203dd8d403"
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 AB 679 (2025) — Relating to: weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer. (FE)

## Version chain

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

1. **Assembly Substitute Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2025/REG/AB679-ASA2)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2025/REG/AB679)

## Votes

- Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0 — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2 — **3–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Jacobson — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Maxey — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Mursau — primary (person)
- O'Connor — primary (person)
- Penterman — primary (person)
- Spiros — primary (person)
- Tranel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Representatives B. Jacobson, O'Connor, Maxey, Murphy, Mursau, Penterman, Spiros, Tranel and Goodwin; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk `introduction`
- **2025-11-24T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-01T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Behnke added as a coauthor
- **2025-12-03T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2026-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative B. Jacobson
- **2026-01-21T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Tucker added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative B. Jacobson
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 6, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative B. Jacobson
- **2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 2-17-2026
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Anderson added as a coauthor
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-02-18T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Brown added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 13, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2
- **2026-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Smith added as a cosponsor
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate concurred in `receipt`
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a coauthor
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled on 3-24-2026 `enrolled`
- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 4-1-2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2026. 2025 Wisconsin Act 161 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Published 4-3-2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94f030d5-0dd4-41e0-8926-1875ede2513b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).