Wis. Stat. § 12.08

This is the official text of Wis. Stat. § 12.08, part of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Statutes — the complete compiled statutory law of Wisconsin, organized into numbered chapters by subject.

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Denial of government benefits.

Official statutory text

No person may, directly or indirectly, cause any person to make a contribution or provide any service or other thing of value to or for the benefit of a committee registered under ch. 11 , with the purpose of influencing the election or nomination of a candidate to national, state, or local office or the passage or defeat of a referendum by means of the denial or threat of denial of any payment or other benefit of a program established or funded in whole or in part by this state or any local governmental unit of this state, or a program which has applied for funding by this state or any local governmental unit of this state.

History: 1983 a. 484 ; 1985 a. 304 ; 2015 a. 117 ; 2017 a. 365 s. 111 .

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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