Public works
109 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.
- AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
- AB 217 Relating to: local government competitive bidding thresholds. (FE) Became law 2025
- AB 281 Relating to: the employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Vetoed 2025
- AB 459 Relating to: county public works notice and competitive bidding thresholds. (FE) Became law 2025
- AB 464 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- AB 466 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- AB 871 Relating to: constructing laterals and service pipes without a landowner’s permission in the City of Milwaukee. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 216 Relating to: local government competitive bidding thresholds. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 287 Relating to: the employment eligibility verification program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 428 Relating to: county public works notice and competitive bidding thresholds. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 465 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 490 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 848 Relating to: constructing laterals and service pipes without a landowner’s permission in the City of Milwaukee. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- AB 1037 Relating to: retainage on public construction contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- AB 1069 Relating to: a study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber-optic internet expansion. Died at session end 2025
- AB 1187 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- SB 1038 Relating to: a study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber-optic internet expansion. Died at session end 2025
- SB 1139 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2025
- AB 22 Relating to: qualified bidders on state projects. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- AB 43 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 20 Relating to: qualified bidders on state projects. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
- AB 354 Relating to: warning lights on public utility, telecommunications carrier, or cooperative vehicles. Died at session end 2023
- AB 508 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- AB 509 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- AB 723 Relating to: local government competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 355 Relating to: warning lights on public utility, telecommunications carrier, or cooperative vehicles. Became law 2023
- SB 540 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 637 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 688 Relating to: local government competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE) Vetoed 2023
- AB 1145 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- AB 1178 Relating to: installation of empty conduit lines as part of a digging project in a right-of-way and offers of service from fiber optic cable broadband lines installed in rights-of-way. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 1069 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- SB 1083 Relating to: installation of empty conduit lines as part of a digging project in a right-of-way and offers of service from fiber optic cable broadband lines installed in rights-of-way. (FE) Died at session end 2023
- AB 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
- AB 461 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- AB 586 Relating to: qualified bidders on state projects. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- SB 111 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- SB 444 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- SB 574 Relating to: qualified bidders on state projects. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- SB 1096 Relating to: installation of empty conduit lines as part of a digging project in a right-of-way and offers of service from fiber optic cable broadband lines installed in rights-of-way. (FE) Died at session end 2021
- AB 56 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
- SB 59 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
- AB 450 Relating to: generally prohibiting local units of government from excluding from consideration certain piping materials. (FE) Died at session end 2019
- AB 963 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
- SB 365 Relating to: generally prohibiting local units of government from excluding from consideration certain piping materials. (FE) Died at session end 2019
- SB 835 Relating to: installation of empty conduit lines as part of a digging project in a right-of-way and offers of service from fiber optic cable broadband lines installed in rights-of-way. (FE) Died at session end 2019
- SB 846 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2019
- SB 3 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Became law 2017
- AB 24 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 63 Relating to: exempting utility activities in a highway right-of-way from wetland permitting requirements. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
- SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
- AB 256 Relating to: prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities. Died at session end 2017
- AB 296 Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 297 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 307 Relating to: competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 456 Relating to: alternative highway project delivery methods; prevailing wage for public works projects; municipal approval of highway roundabouts; local referendum imposing a wheel tax; funding for and audit of the Department of Transportation; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- AB 497 Relating to: mitigation requirements applicable to wetland individual permits. (FE) Became law 2017
- AB 532 Relating to: one-call system enforcement and other requirements, Public Service Commission authority regarding state energy policy, settlements between parties in Public Service Commission dockets, various public utility regulatory requirements, the regulation of utility facilities under a county construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning ordinance, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2017
- AB 770 Relating to: workforce housing development tax incremental districts; local fees and charges; local levy limits; subdivision approval conditions; plat approval conditions; expiration of certain project approvals; division of land by certified survey map; erosion control and storm water management; limiting certain local regulatory authority; relocation benefits in condemnation proceedings; and zoning ordinance amendments. (FE) Became law 2017
- AB 821 Relating to: public contracting requirements and donated improvements. (FE) Became law 2017
- AJR 24 Relating to: recognition of the importance of calling 811 prior to excavation and declaring April 2017 as Safe Digging Month. Died at session end 2017
- SB 176 Relating to: prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities. Died at session end 2017
- SB 216 Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 236 Relating to: competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 240 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 374 Relating to: alternative highway project delivery methods; prevailing wage for public works projects; municipal approval of highway roundabouts; local referendum imposing a wheel tax; funding for and audit of the Department of Transportation; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 406 Relating to: mitigation requirements applicable to wetland individual permits. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 475 Relating to: one-call system enforcement and other requirements, Public Service Commission authority regarding state energy policy, settlements between parties in Public Service Commission dockets, various public utility regulatory requirements, the regulation of utility facilities under a county construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning ordinance, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 640 Relating to: workforce housing development tax incremental districts; local fees and charges; local levy limits; subdivision approval conditions; plat approval conditions; expiration of certain project approvals; division of land by certified survey map; erosion control and storm water management; limiting certain local regulatory authority; relocation benefits in condemnation proceedings; and zoning ordinance amendments. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 708 Relating to: public contracting requirements and donated improvements. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 837 Relating to: the performance of highway improvement projects by a county and private construction projects by a political subdivision. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SB 844 Relating to: installation of empty conduit lines as part of a digging project in a right-of-way. (FE) Died at session end 2017
- SJR 25 Relating to: recognition of the importance of calling 811 prior to excavation and declaring April 2017 as Safe Digging Month. Passed one chamber 2017
- AB 20 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
- AB 32 Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
- SB 49 Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 281 Relating to: awards of construction contracts to minority businesses and disabled veteran-owned businesses by the Department of Administration. Died at session end 2015
- AB 493 Relating to: preferences in state and local construction project contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 548 Relating to: establishing a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing exemptions from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 902 Relating to: the performance of highway improvement projects by a county and private construction projects by a political subdivision. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- SB 176 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- SB 207 Relating to: awards of construction contracts to minority businesses and disabled veteran-owned businesses by the Department of Administration. Died at session end 2015
- SB 373 Relating to: preferences in state and local construction project contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- SB 632 Relating to: establishing a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing exemptions from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- SB 658 Relating to: the performance of highway improvement projects by a county and private construction projects by a political subdivision. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 1003 Relating to: indexing dollar amounts for certain public works contracts. (FE) Died at session end 2015
- AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
- AB 45 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 86 Relating to: an exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- SB 88 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 266 Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law a public works project that is subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 487 Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law public works projects erected, constructed, repaired, remodeled, or demolished for a school district or for a cooperative educational service agency. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 750 Relating to: preemption of local ordinances that require employees of a local governmental unit, employees of a contractor of a local governmental unit, or employees who perform work funded by a local governmental unit to be paid at a minimum wage rate specified in the ordinance and preemption of residency requirements for laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on local projects of public works to which the prevailing wage law applies. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 807 Relating to: procedures to preserve and determine the validity of certain liens and to make payments to prime contractors of public works contracts. Died at session end 2013
- AB 831 Relating to: the cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law to a project of public works. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AB 835 Relating to: limiting the security a town or municipality may require as a condition of plat approval. Became law 2013
- AB 888 Relating to: the employment of apprentices on state public works projects. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- AJR 35 Relating to: declaring Public Works Week. Passed one chamber 2013
- SB 244 Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law a public works project that is subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- SB 358 Relating to: exempting from the prevailing wage law public works projects erected, constructed, repaired, remodeled, or demolished for a school district or for a cooperative educational service agency. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- SB 595 Relating to: procedures to preserve and determine the validity of certain liens and to make payments to prime contractors of public works contracts. Died at session end 2013
- SB 626 Relating to: preemption of city, village, town, or county living wage ordinances with respect to employees who perform work that is funded, in whole or in part, with state funds and preemption of residency requirements for laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on local projects of public works to which the prevailing wage law applies who perform work that is funded with state funds. (FE) Died at session end 2013
- SB 636 Relating to: limiting the security a town or municipality may require as a condition of plat approval. Died at session end 2013
- SB 687 Relating to: the performance of highway improvement projects by a county and private construction projects by a political subdivision. (FE) Died at session end 2013