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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 637

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Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE)

Contracts Cooperative associations Labor union Public works Purchasing government

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the state and local units of government are prohibited from

engaging in certain practices in letting bids for state procurement or public works

contracts. Among these prohibitions, as established by

2017 Wisconsin Act 3

, the

state and local governments may not do any of the following in specifications for bids

for the contracts: 1) require that a bidder enter into an agreement with a labor

organization; 2) consider, when awarding a contract, whether a bidder has or has not

entered into an agreement with a labor organization; or 3) require that a bidder enter

into an agreement that requires that the bidder or bidder's employees become or

remain members of a labor organization or pay any dues or fees to a labor

organization. This bill repeals these bidding specification restrictions.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D) , Wirch (D)

29 cosponsors

Bare (D) , Billings (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Agard, Carpenter, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer, Taylor and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Shankland, Sinicki, Ohnstad, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Bare, Cabrera, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shelton, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining

  2. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations

  3. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Billings added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1