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WI SB727

Bill

Status

Introduced

12/2/2025

Primary Sponsor

LaTonya Johnson

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires Department of Corrections to 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 highest-grossing retail chain's price

  • Mandates culturally sensitive products for types 2, 3, and 4 hair (shampoo, conditioner, natural hair oil, shaving cream) and cocoa-butter lotion be sold at no more than 100% of retail price

  • Provides each state correctional institution inmate with a $25 monthly stipend to purchase personal hygiene products from the commissary

  • Extends identical requirements to county jails and houses of correction, with sheriffs responsible for implementation and inmates receiving the $25 monthly stipend beginning on their 91st day of confinement

  • Appropriates $6,450,000 to DOC in each year of the 2025-27 biennium to fund the personal hygiene stipends

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

Fiscal estimate received

1/14/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary and Public Safety12/2/2025

Full Bill Text

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