Online credit card contributions and providing a penalty, the official text

2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 385
August 20, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives Murphy, Tittl, Behnke, Brill, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Maxey, O'Connor, Penterman, Wichgers and Armstrong, cosponsored by Senators Tomczyk, Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, Quinn and Wanggaard. Referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections.

An Act to create 11.0103 (6) of the statutes; relating to: online credit card contributions and providing a penalty.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
For campaign finance purposes, this bill prohibits a political committee, conduit, or political party from accepting any contribution made with a credit card via the Internet unless the contributor provides the credit card verification value or code and the billing address associated with the card is located in the United States. However, if the contribution is made by a U.S. citizen living outside of the United States, and the credit card billing address is not a location in the United States, the individual must provide the mailing address of the location in the United States that the individual uses for voter registration purposes.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 11.0103 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
11.0103 (6) Online credit card contributions. (a) No committee, conduit, or political party may accept any contribution made with a credit card via the
Internet unless the person making the contribution provides to the committee, conduit, or political party, at the time of making the contribution, the credit card verification value or code and, except as provided in par. (b), the billing address associated with the credit card is located in the United States.
(b) If the contribution under par. (a) is made by a U.S. citizen living outside of the United States, and the credit card billing address is not a location in the United States, the individual shall provide to the committee, conduit, or political party, at the time of making the contribution, the mailing address of the location in the United States that the individual uses for voter registration purposes.
(c) The treasurer of each committee, conduit, or political party shall maintain the names and addresses of each person making a contribution under this subsection for purposes of making the reports required under this chapter.
(d) Any financial institution that processes credit card contributions via the Internet to a committee, conduit, or political party without requiring the credit card verification value or code and a billing address located in the United States is subject to a forfeiture in an amount equal to the cumulative amount of such contributions.
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