Assembly Bill 264
Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty
Topics: Budget bills and process, Crime and criminals, Elections: Campaign expense, Governor, Legislature: Criminal Penalties, Joint Review Committee on, Lieutenant Governor, Political parties, 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
Sep 16, 2011
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reform. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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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.
This bill prohibits any incumbent partisan elective state official, including the governor and lieutenant governor, or his or her personal campaign or authorized support committee, from accepting any political contribution during the period from January 1 of an odd-numbered year through the date of enactment of the biennial budget act for the purpose of promoting his or her nomination or reelection to the office held by the official. The bill also prohibits an incumbent governor or lieutenant governor, or an individual who has been elected to either of those offices but who has not taken office, or his or her personal campaign or authorized support committee, from accepting any political contribution during the period from the day after the date of the general election through the succeeding first Monday in January for the purpose of promoting his or her nomination or reelection to the office that the individual holds or to which the individual has been elected. 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. In addition, the bill prohibits a legislative campaign committee from accepting any political contribution during the period from January 1 of an odd-numbered year through the date of enactment of the biennial budget act.
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
15 lawmakers are its . 14 are Democrats and 1 is a Republican.
3 more lawmakers .
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Authors (15)
- Terese Berceau · Democrat, Assembly
- Janet Bewley · Democrat, Senate
- Steve Doyle · Democrat, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Gordon Hintz · Democrat, Assembly
- Brett Hulsey · Democrat, Assembly
- Cory Mason · Democrat, Assembly
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Sandy Pasch · Democrat, Assembly
- Mark Pocan · Democrat, Assembly
- Sondy Pope · Democrat, Assembly
- Janis Ringhand · Democrat, Senate
- Kelda Roys · Democrat, Senate
- Donna Seidel · Democrat, Assembly
- Jeremy Thiesfeldt · Republican, Assembly
Signed on in support (3)
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Jim Holperin · Democrat, Senate
- Spencer Coggs · Democrat, Senate
What happened
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Mar 23, 2012
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Sep 16, 2011
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reform.
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Sep 16, 2011
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Sep 16, 2011 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Roys, Thiesfeldt, Doyle, Ringhand, Mason, Pasch, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, Hintz, Milroy, Hebl, Hulsey, Bewley, Seidel and Berceau;Cosponsored by Senators Holperin, C. Larson and S. Coggs
- Sep 16, 2011 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Election and Campaign Reform
- Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly
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