Senate Bill 23
Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees
Topics: Budget bills and process, Elections: Campaign expense, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Public officers
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Feb 2, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
The bill prohibits any incumbent partisan elective state official or his or her personal campaign or authorized support committee from accepting any political contribution for the purpose of promoting his or her nomination or reelection to the office held by the official during the period from January 1 of each odd-numbered year to the date of enactment of the biennial budget act or, if there is more than one such act, the biennial budget acts. The prohibition does not apply to contributions accepted by an incumbent official who is subject to a recall election or by the official's personal campaign or authorized support committee from the date on which the petition for a recall election is filed until the date of the recall election.
Violators are subject to a forfeiture (civil penalty) of treble the amount or value of any unlawful contribution. Intentional violators are guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months or both.
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Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to result if the bill is enacted.
Who's behind it
4 senators are its . All 4 are Republicans.
19 more lawmakers .
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Authors (4)
- Rob Cowles · Republican, Senate
- Sheila Harsdorf · Republican, Senate
- Luther S. Olsen · Republican, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (19)
- Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
- Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- David Cullen · Democrat, Assembly
- Brett Davis · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Gottlieb · Republican, Assembly
- Scott Gunderson · Republican, Assembly
- Dean Kaufert · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Meyer · Republican, Assembly
- Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
- John Murtha · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Nass · Republican, Senate
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Roger Roth · Republican, Senate
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Karl Van Roy · Republican, Assembly
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Feb 2, 2009
Sent to the Senate Committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations.
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Feb 2, 2009
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Feb 2, 2009 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Harsdorf, Olsen, Cowles and Schultz;Cosponsored by Representatives Gottlieb, Kaufert, Ballweg, Bies, Brooks, Cullen, Davis, Gunderson, Lothian, Meyer, Mursau, Murtha, Nass, Nygren, A. Ott, Petrowski, Roth, Strachota and Van Roy
- Feb 2, 2009 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations
- Apr 28, 2010 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor