Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 688

Relating to: local government competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE)

Milwaukee — School Public works Purchasing government Road — Construction and repair Sanitation and sewerage management School — Administration

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, stopped here
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill increases to $50,000, with an exception for certain highway projects,

the threshold governing sealed, competitive bids that is applicable to a local unit of

government. Under current law, if the estimated cost of a public works project

exceeds $25,000, the state or local unit of government must solicit bids and award

the public works contract to the lowest responsible bidder.

The bill also requires a school board and the board of school directors of the

Milwaukee Public Schools to comply with these bidding requirements if the

estimated cost of a contract exceeds $150,000 and the contract is for the construction,

repair, remodeling, or improvement of a public school building or for the furnishing

of supplies or materials.

The bill provides an exception to the bidding requirements for improvements

that are constructed by a person other than a town or county and donated to a town

or county after the completion of construction. A similar exception for donated

improvements currently exists for improvements donated to a city or village. The bill

also provides an exception to the bidding requirements that apply to school boards

and the MPS board of school directors if the school board or board of directors

determines that damage or potential damage to a public school building endangers

the public health or welfare.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 8, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 8, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 64–35 Feb 20, 2024 official source full page

Aye · 64

Nay · 35

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 20–12 Feb 20, 2024 official source full page

Aye · 20

Nay · 12

Full history

Nov 15, 2023 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Stroebel, Felzkowski and Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representatives Brooks, Behnke, Bodden, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Moses, O'Connor, Rozar, Sortwell and Zimmerman
Nov 15, 2023 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government
Nov 29, 2023 · Senate
Representative Green added as a cosponsor
Dec 4, 2023 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
Jan 10, 2024 · Senate
Public hearing held
Jan 10, 2024 · Senate
Senator Hutton added as a coauthor
Jan 16, 2024 · Senate
Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Stroebel
Jan 17, 2024 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
Feb 8, 2024 · Senate
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2
Feb 8, 2024 · Senate
Available for scheduling
Feb 8, 2024 · Senate
Executive action taken
Feb 8, 2024 · Senate
Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 3, Noes 2
Feb 12, 2024 · Senate
Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Stroebel
Feb 19, 2024 · Senate
Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Read a second time
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Senate Amendment 1 adopted
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Senate Amendment 2 adopted
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 20, Noes 12
Feb 20, 2024 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Received from Senate
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Read
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Read a second time
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative McGuire
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Point of order that Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Decision of the Chair appealed
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 64, Noes 35
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Rules suspended
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Read a third time and concurred in
Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
Feb 21, 2024 · Senate
Received from Assembly concurred in
Feb 28, 2024 · Senate
Report correctly enrolled
Mar 26, 2024 · Senate
Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2024
Mar 29, 2024 · Senate
Report vetoed by the Governor on 3-29-2024
May 13, 2024 · Senate
Placed on calendar 5-14-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)
May 14, 2024 · Senate
Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82