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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 1201

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Relating to: the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes.

Elections — Campaign expense Elections — Officials

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, for campaign finance purposes, a political action committee includes a person, other than an individual, that spends more than $1,000 in a 12-month period on expenditures for express advocacy, expenditures made to support or defeat a referendum, and contributions made to a candidate committee, legislative campaign committee, or political party.

Current law provides that a political action committee is a person, other than an individual, that either has express advocacy as its major purpose or spends more than 50 percent of its total spending in a 12-month period on expenditures for express advocacy, expenditures made to support or defeat a referendum, and contributions made to a candidate committee, legislative campaign committee, or political party.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , Brown (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

6 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  1. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Tenorio, Miresse, Sinicki, Kirsch, Johnson, Udell, Moore Omokunde, Bare, Billings, Roe, Arney, Fitzgerald, Brown and McCarville; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Carpenter, Wall, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim and Spreitzer

  2. Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1