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WI AB439

Bill

Status

Introduced

9/19/2025

Primary Sponsor

Travis Tranel

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands eligibility criteria for the Agricultural Roads Improvement Program (ARIP) grants administered by the Department of Transportation

  • Adds a third option for demonstrating that a highway has insufficient capacity for agricultural traffic, alongside existing criteria

  • Allows highways to qualify if a registered professional engineer's analysis indicates the road cannot accommodate heavy agricultural traffic

  • Existing qualification methods remain: designation as a class "B" highway due to structural deficiencies, or having a posted weight limitation for at least one month in the previous year

  • Amends Wisconsin Statute 86.31 (3o) (b) 4. to include the new engineering analysis pathway

Legislative Description

Eligibility of a highway for an agricultural roads improvement program grant. (FE)

Last Action

Representative Billings added as a coauthor

3/16/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules11/20/2025
Transportation9/19/2025

Full Bill Text

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