19.56 Honorariums, fees and expenses.

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(1)Every state public official is encouraged to meet with clubs, conventions, special interest groups, political groups, school groups and other gatherings to discuss and to interpret legislative, administrative, executive or judicial processes and proposals and issues initiated by or affecting a department or the judicial branch.

(a)Except as provided in par.

(b), every official required to file who receives for a published work or for the presentation of a talk or participation in a meeting, any lodging, transportation, money or other thing with a combined pecuniary value exceeding $50 excluding the value of food or beverage offered coincidentally with a talk or meeting shall, on his or her statement of economic interests, report the identity of every person from whom the official receives such lodging, transportation, money or other thing during his or her preceding taxable year, the circumstances under which it was received and the approximate value thereof.

(b)An official need not report on his or her statement of economic interests under par.

(a)information pertaining to any lodging, transportation, money or other thing of pecuniary value which:

1. The official returns to the payor within 30 days of receipt;

2. Is paid to the official by a person identified on the official’s statement of economic interests under s. 19.44

(e)or

(f)as a source of income;

3. The official can show by clear and convincing evidence was unrelated to and did not arise from the recipient’s holding or having held a public office and was made for a purpose unrelated to the purposes specified in sub.

(1);

4. The official has previously reported to the commission as a matter of public record;

5. Is paid by the department or municipality of which the official’s state public office is a part, or, in the case of a district attorney, is paid by that department or a county which the district attorney serves, or, in the case of a justice or judge of a court of record, is paid from the appropriations for operation of the state court system; or

6. Is made available to the official by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation or the department of tourism in accordance with sub.

(e),

(em)or

(f).

(3)Notwithstanding s. 19.45 :