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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 386

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Relating to: an agricultural purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE)

Agriculture Agriculture trade and consumer protection department of Nutrition

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to create an agricultural purchase program in which DATCP may provide grants to entities that provide food assistance, including food banks, food pantries, other nonprofit organizations, and local food distributors, for the purpose of purchasing food products that are made or grown in this state. This bill also increases DATCP’s authorized positions by 2.0 FTE GPR positions for support of the agricultural purchase program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bare (D) , Brown (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Stroud (D)

15 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Clancy (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Haywood (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hysell (D) , Keyeski (D) , Mayadev (D) , Pfaff (D) , Phelps and Arney , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 3

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  1. Aug 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives J. Jacobson, Roe, Brown, Miresse, Madison, Johnson, Stroud, Palmeri, Joers and Bare; cosponsored by Senators Pfaff, Keyeski, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer and Hesselbein

  2. Aug 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Sep 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Haywood added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 26, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Clancy added as a coauthor

  5. Oct 1, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Oct 20, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  7. Nov 7, 2025 · Assembly

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  8. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Hysell added as a coauthor

  9. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Mayadev added as a coauthor

  10. Nov 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Representatives Phelps and Arney added as coauthors

  11. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1