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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 1156
March 13, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Subeck
,
McGuire
,
Anderson
,
Clancy
,
Kirsch
,
Miresse
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Neubauer
,
Roe
,
Sinicki
and
Stubbs
, cosponsored by Senators
Larson
,
Carpenter
,
Hesselbein
,
L. Johnson
,
Ratcliff
,
Spreitzer
and
Wirch
. Referred to Committee on Jobs and Economy.
AB1156,1,6
1
An Act
to renumber
16.754 (1) (a) and 16.754 (2);
to amend
16.72 (2) (c),
2
16.754 (title), 16.754 (2) (title) and 16.754 (3) (intro.);
to create
16.754 (1)
3
(am), 16.754 (2) (a), 16.754 (2m) and 66.0147 of the statutes;
relating to:
state
4
procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and
5
setting a goal for local governments to purchase a certain percentage of
6
products and services from businesses located in this state.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Administration and any agency making purchases to attempt to ensure that at least 20 percent of the total amount expended for procurement in each fiscal year is for products and services from Wisconsin-based businesses and that, in any fiscal year, the percentage of the total amount expended for products and services from Wisconsin-based businesses is not lower than it was in the previous fiscal year. To measure compliance with this requirement, the bill requires DOA to collect data from a person who bids for a contract regarding the person’s principal place of business and make the information publicly available on its website.
The bill also sets a goal that at least 20 percent of the aggregate value of the annual purchases of products and services by a local governmental unit (which includes cities, villages, towns, counties, and special purpose districts, which include schools and technical college districts) will be from Wisconsin-based businesses. A further goal is that, in any year, the percentage of the aggregate value of routine purchases of products and services from Wisconsin-based businesses will not be lower than it was in the previous year. The bill also requires a local governmental unit to annually evaluate its performance in reaching these goals and make the evaluation available to the public, but the local governmental unit’s governing body may vote to opt out of these requirements.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB1156,1
1
Section
1
.
16.72 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1156,2,5
2
16.72
(2)
(c) To the extent possible, the department shall write specifications
3
so as to permit the purchase of materials manufactured in the United States, as
4
defined in s. 16.754 (1)
(b), or the purchase of local products or services, as defined
5
in s. 66.0147 (1) (b)
.
AB1156,2
6
Section
2
.
16.754 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1156,2,8
7
16.754
(title)
Preference for
local products and services and
8
American-made materials.
AB1156,3
9
Section
3
.
16.754 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 16.754 (1) (ar).
AB1156,4
10
Section
4
.
16.754 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1156,2,12
11
16.754
(1)
(am) “Local product or service” has the meaning given in s. 66.0147
12
(1) (b).
AB1156,5
13
Section
5
.
16.754 (2) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1156,2,14
14
16.754
(2)
(title)
Purchase
preference
preferences
.
AB1156,6
15
Section
6
.
16.754 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 16.754 (2) (b).
AB1156,7
1
Section
7
.
16.754 (2) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1156,3,8
2
16.754
(2)
(a) The department, a designated purchasing agent under s. 16.71
3
(1), and each agency making purchases under s. 16.74 shall attempt to ensure that
4
at least 20 percent of the total amount expended under this subchapter in each
5
fiscal year is for local products or services and that the percentage of the total
6
amount expended in any fiscal year for local products or services is not lower than
7
the percentage of the total amount expended in the previous fiscal year for local
8
products or services.
AB1156,8
9
Section
8
.
16.754 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1156,3,16
10
16.754
(2m)
Data.
For purposes of measuring compliance with sub. (2) (a),
11
the department shall collect from a person who responds to a proposal or submits a
12
bid for a contract information regarding the person’s principal place of business.
13
The department shall make available to the public on its website the data it collects
14
under this subsection as well as an annual evaluation of how well the department,
15
its designated purchasing agents under s. 16.71 (1), and each agency making
16
purchases under s. 16.74 are meeting the goals under sub. (2) (a).
AB1156,9
17
Section
9
.
16.754 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1156,4,3
18
16.754
(3)
Exemptions.
(intro.) Subsection (2)
(b)
does not apply if the
19
materials are purchased for the purpose of commercial resale or for the purpose of
20
use in the production of goods for commercial sale. Subsection (2) does not apply to
21
the purchase of stationery and printing materials. Subsection (2)
(b)
does not apply
22
if the department determines, under s. 16.75 (1) (a) 2., that the foreign nation or
23
subdivision thereof in which the vendor is domiciled does not give preference to
1
vendors domiciled in that nation or subdivision in making governmental purchases.
2
Subsection (2)
(b)
does not apply if the department or other person having
3
contracting authority in respect to the purchase determines that:
AB1156,10
4
Section
10
.
66.0147 of the statutes is created to read:
AB1156,4,6
5
66.014
7
Purchases of Wisconsin goods and services.
(1)
Definitions.
6
In this section:
AB1156,4,7
7
(a) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0135 (1) (c).
AB1156,4,9
8
(b) “Local product or service” means a product or service that is purchased
9
from a person whose principal place of business is located in this state.
AB1156,4,16
10
(2)
Purchasing goals.
(a) It shall be a goal of a local governmental unit
11
that, in each fiscal year, at least 20 percent of the aggregate value of purchases of
12
products and services by that local governmental unit will be local products or
13
services, and it shall be a further goal of the local governmental unit that the
14
percentage of the aggregate value of routine purchases of products and services in
15
any fiscal year that are local products or services will not be lower than the
16
aggregate value of such routine purchases in the previous fiscal year.
AB1156,4,22
17
(b) A local governmental unit shall evaluate its performance in reaching the
18
goals specified in par. (a) and shall annually make this evaluation available to the
19
public, except that these requirements do not apply to any local governmental unit
20
whose governing body enacts an ordinance, adopts a resolution, or takes another
21
official action stating that it chooses not to conduct an evaluation of its performance
22
in reaching the goals.
AB1156,11
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Section
11
. Initial applicability.
AB1156,5,3
1
(
1
) The treatment of s. 66.0147 and the creation of s. 16.754 (2) (a) first apply
2
to purchases made in the fiscal year that begins after the effective date of this
3
subsection.
AB1156,5,5
4
(
2
) The treatment of s. 16.754 (2m) first applies to responses made and bids
5
submitted in the fiscal year that begins after the effective date of this subsection.
AB1156,5,6
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