Wis. Admin. Code Ethics Commission ETH 1.70 - Travel reimbursements

(1) A candidate for or a person elected to a state or local office does not make an in-kind contribution to another candidate for a state or local office in another district when a candidate or election official travels to the district of the other candidate for political purposes. The candidate for or person elected to state or local office may be reimbursed from his or her candidate committee and is deemed to provide nonreportable volunteer services to the candidate in the other district.

(2) If the candidate or elected official is reimbursed by another individual, candidate committee, political action committee, political party, or legislative campaign committee for travel, the reimbursement is a reportable contribution to the candidate.

(3) If the candidate or elected official is an officer or employee of a political party or legislative campaign committee who travels on committee business, the reimbursement is not a reportable contribution to the candidate or elected official, but is a reportable disbursement of the political party or legislative campaign committee.

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Wis. Admin. Code Ethics Commission ETH 1.70

Renumbered from GAB 1.70, correction in (1) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register June 2016 No. 726, eff. 7/1/2016. Amended by, CR 19-035: am. (1) Register May 2020 No. 773, eff. 6/1/2020; correction in (1) (Note) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register May 2020 No. 773, eff. 6/1/2020 Amended by, CR 20-010: am. (2), (3) Register June 2021 No. 786, eff. 7/1/2021