The Wisconsin Assembly has voted to make the night-time speed limit for snowmobiles permanent. A temporary 55-mile-an-hour limit is due to expire in July. It would stay at 55 under a bill passed yesterday. It now goes to the Senate.

The Assembly also voted to allow the Legislature to meet somewhere else – or even on the Internet – if they cannot get to the State Capitol because of an emergency. But the Assembly brought back a provision struck down by the Senate. It would have leaders of both houses appoint temporary members if a disaster wipes out at least 25-percent of the members of either the Assembly or Senate. Also yesterday, the Senate unanimously okayed a bill to ban health insurers from denying claims from those injured by the use of alcohol or drugs.