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A week after Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker received a prank call from blogger Ian Murphy, who posed as conservative billionaire David Koch, two Wisconsin legislators introduced a bill Monday that would ban prank calls, reports the Badger Herald.

Republican state Sen. Mary Lazich and Republican state Rep. Mark Honadel said their measure would forbid deceiving the call’s recipient into believing the caller is someone he or she is not. The bill wouldn’t affect everyone, however. Law enforcement officials who make fake phone calls to fight crime would be exempt from the law.

Among other things, the bill’s language prohibits callers from purposely giving a false phone number and lying about his or her identity. Honadel’s spokesperson added that the bill would forbid individuals from disguising their voices. The proposed law would institute a fine of up to $10,000 for each violation.

The bill’s authors deny any correlation between the proposed law and last week’s false call made to Walker. [Daily Caller]

Wait, the “Badger Herald”?

Pensions made simple

Baroness Drake [Lab]: I would not want the situation to be like the water in a balloon, where you think you have dealt with it moving one way but you have just created a consequence in another. [Hansard]

Lord German [Lib Dem]: It is rather like walking along a road with your colleagues and seeing the horizon in the distance, and, as you walk along, the horizon moves further from you, but the people who are walking along the pathway with you, who may be slightly older or slightly younger, see the horizon moving away at a different rate. [Tokes heavily on spliff the size of an aubergine.] [Hansard]

Lord German: We have had already an example of an acceleration bubble from the noble Baroness, Lady Drake, with the snaky-type balloon, which we used to have and twisted into shapes, with an air bubble in it. This bubble will pass out and therefore be seen as part of the normal process. A very discrete group of people would be involved. This is like a bubble with a bulge. [Coughs heavily, stares intensely at back of own hand for four hours.] [Hansard]