---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: local candidates filing campaign finance reports and making an appropriation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: local candidates filing campaign finance reports and making an appropriation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 822"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 822 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Knodl", "Tomczyk"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1188923-cf5d-4554-b92a-be7bcf8f01f4"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb822"
source_hash: "e45e535388c5d16f1378992b57d15d15bce4faf2d59f19cde90a6cbc6b1fd727"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin SB 822 (2023) — Relating to: local candidates filing campaign finance reports and making an appropriation. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Assembly Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2023/REG/SB822-AA1)
2. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2023/REG/SB822)
3. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/amends/2023/REG/SB822-SA1)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 1 — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **28–4** (pass) · upper
- Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 4, Noes 1 — **4–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Knodl — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Knodl and Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representatives Gundrum, Michalski, C. Anderson, Bodden, Goeben, Moses, Plumer and Rettinger `introduction`
- **2023-12-19T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Knodl
- **2024-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2024-01-25T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2024-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Knodl
- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 4, Noes 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 28, Noes 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 11:26 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Referred to joint committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to withdraw from joint committee on Finance and take up
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 97, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-23T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly amended and concurred in as amended, Assembly Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage, receipt`
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 3-12-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Senator Spreitzer added as a coauthor
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 1
- **2024-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Action ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-21-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 126 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-22-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1188923-cf5d-4554-b92a-be7bcf8f01f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).