Wisconsin’s governor announced the signing of Senate Bill 525 as Act 251 on March 29, 2024. The measure created an exception to Department of Transportation tint limits for specified government-owned police vehicles.
The operative text ties the exception to tint being necessary to protect personnel, passengers or equipment. It names police vehicles owned by the state, counties, cities, villages or towns. Those qualifications are important: the provision is not a general exemption for every government vehicle or for an employee’s privately owned car.
For fleet installers, the historical change concerned which vehicles could fall outside the department’s tint rules, rather than a new universal transmission percentage. Vehicle ownership, police use and the stated protective need are separate parts of the provision.
This account uses the dated signing announcement and its attached act text. It reports the March 29 enactment event without assigning an exact commencement date or deciding whether a particular fleet vehicle qualifies.
Sources & reporting notes
- March 29, 2024 bill-signing announcement Office of the Governor of Wisconsin · Source dated March 29, 2024
- SB525 act text attached to signing announcement Office of the Governor of WisconsinOfficial attachment has unfilled publication/enactment date fields; accompanying announcement establishes signing date.
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