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WI AB741

Bill

Status

Introduced

12/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Shelia Stubbs

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Department of Corrections must stock commissaries with at least 2 varieties of 18 personal hygiene products (deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, razors, etc.) priced at no more than 125% of the state's highest-grossing retailer's price

  • Culturally sensitive products for types 2, 3, and 4 hair (shampoo, conditioner, natural hair oil, shaving cream, bar soap, cocoa-butter lotion) must be sold at no more than 100% of benchmark retailer prices

  • Each state correctional institution inmate receives a $25 monthly stipend to purchase personal hygiene products from the commissary

  • County jails and houses of correction must offer the same products at the same prices, with inmates receiving the $25 monthly stipend beginning on their 91st day of confinement

  • Appropriates $6,450,000 to DOC in fiscal year 2025-26 and $6,450,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 ($12.9 million total) to fund the stipend program

Legislative Description

Personal hygiene products for inmates of state correctional institutions and county jails and houses of correction and making an appropriation. (FE)

Last Action

Public hearing held

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Corrections12/3/2025

Full Bill Text

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