AR3: Resolution Text

AR3,2,1 Resolved by the assembly, That:

AR3, s. 1 Section 1. Assembly rule 6 (1) (c) is amended to read:

AR3,2,4 Assembly Rule 6 (1) (c) Supervise the distribution provision of all legislative documents to the members.

AR3, s. 2 Section 2. Assembly rule 9 (7m) is created to read:

AR3,2,10 Assembly Rule 9 (7m) There shall also be an assembly committee on information policy consisting of the assembly members of the joint committee on information policy. The chairperson of the assembly committee shall be a cochairperson of the joint committee. Proposals may be referred to, and reported by, the joint committee in the same manner as other standing committees.

AR3, s. 3 Section 3. Assembly rule 11 (1) is amended to read:

AR3,2,15 Assembly Rule 11 (1) A majority of any committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. Solely for the purpose of determining a quorum of a committee necessary to hold a public hearing, a member who is connected to the hearing by means of a 2-way, audiovisual transmission shall be considered present.

AR3, s. 4 Section 4. Assembly rule 11 (3m) is created to read:

AR3,2,19 Assembly Rule 11 (3m) A member who is connected to a committee meeting by means of a 2-way, audiovisual transmission shall be considered present for all purposes and to the same extent as a member who is attending the meeting in person.

AR3, s. 5 Section 5. Assembly rule 13 (3) is repealed.

AR3, s. 6 Section 6. Assembly rule 24 (2) (a) is amended to read:

AR3,3,6 Assembly Rule 24 (2) (a) For all proposals previously reported to the assembly by any standing committee, rules committee action of the committee on rules shall be governed by those requirements and limitations provided in these rules which pertain to establishing calendars and special orders of business.

AR3, s. 7 Section 7. Assembly rule 24 (2) (b) is amended to read:

AR3,3,11 Assembly Rule 24 (2) (b) For all other proposals, rules committee action of the committee on rules shall be governed either by the rules for establishing calendars and special orders or by the rules which apply to the consideration of proposals by standing committees.

AR3, s. 8 Section 8. Assembly rule 25 (1) is amended to read:

AR3,3,14 Assembly Rule 25 (1) The members of congress, judges justices of the supreme court and former members of the legislature.

AR3, s. 9 Section 9. Assembly rule 26 (3) is amended to read:

AR3,3,17 Assembly Rule 26 (3) No person may read any printed newspaper on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries while the assembly is in session.

AR3, s. 10 Section 10. Assembly rule 29 (3) is amended to read:

AR3,3,22 Assembly Rule 29 (3) A copy of each calendar, except a calendar for a Saturday, Sunday or state holiday specified in s. 230.35 (4) (a) of the statutes, shall be distributed provided to each member at least 18 hours before the calendar is to be acted upon.

AR3, s. 11 Section 11. Assembly rule 32 (1) (intro.) is amended to read:

AR3,4,3 Assembly Rule 32 (1) (intro.) At the discretion of the presiding officer, at any time during the session except while the assembly is voting, but only under the following conditions:

AR3, s. 12 Section 12. Assembly rule 32 (1) (b) and (c) are amended to read:

AR3,4,8 Assembly Rule 32 (1) (b) Proposals may be introduced and referred when copies of a written a report, showing the number and relating clause of the proposals offered for introduction and the speaker's referral of each such proposal, have has been distributed provided to the members; or

AR3,4,13 (c) Proposals reported by one committee may be given subsequent reference to another committee or may be referred to the calendar when copies of a written a report, showing the number and relating clause of such proposals and the speaker's subsequent referral of each such proposal, have has been distributed provided to the members.

AR3, s. 13 Section 13. Assembly rule 33 (6) is amended to read:

AR3,4,16 Assembly Rule 33 (6) Any resolution under this rule must be reproduced and on the desks of provided to the members before action is taken thereon.

AR3, s. 14 Section 14. Assembly rule 35 is amended to read:

AR3,4,24 Assembly Rule 35. Proposals, amendments and reports to be distributed provided before debate. (1) No proposal, conference committee report or veto, except a resolution under rule 33 or 43, may be considered until copies have it has been made available to the members for at least 24 hours excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. If the rules are suspended for the consideration of any proposal before copies are it is available, the proposal shall be read at length at least once before its final passage.

AR3,5,3 (2) When copies of an amendment have has not been distributed provided to the members, the amendment shall be read at length to the membership by the chief clerk before the presiding officer states the question of its adoption to the assembly.

AR3,5,7 (3) When copies of a fiscal estimate for, or joint survey committee report on, a proposal have has not been distributed provided to the members, the chief clerk shall read the estimate or report to the membership prior to consideration of the proposal by the assembly.

AR3, s. 15 Section 15. Assembly rule 42 (2) is amended to read:

AR3,5,16 Assembly Rule 42 (2) On any legislative day when copies of a written a report, showing the number and relating clause of proposals offered for introduction together with the speaker's referral, have has been distributed provided to the members prior to the 2nd order of business for assembly proposals or the 4th order of business for senate proposals, such distribution provision shall serve as the first reading and the announcement of the referral of such proposals, and the content of the report shall be entered in the daily journal under the appropriate order of business.

AR3, s. 16 Section 16. Assembly rule 45 (1) is amended to read:

AR3,6,3 Assembly Rule 45 (1) Whenever a committee reports on a proposal referred to that committee, the speaker shall refer or rerefer the proposal, except as otherwise provided in subs. (2) and (3), to the calendar for the 2nd legislative day thereafter for 2nd reading or to the committee on rules for calendar scheduling or to another standing or special committee, unless it is his or her judgment that reference of the proposal to the joint committee on finance is required by law or rule and the speaker refers the proposal to that committee. On any legislative day when copies of a committee report, showing the speaker's subsequent referrals, have has been distributed provided to the members prior to the 3rd order of business, such report shall not be read by the chief clerk to the members, but the content of the committee report and the speaker's referrals and rereferrals shall be reproduced in the journal.

AR3, s. 17 Section 17. Assembly rule 52 (3) is amended to read:

AR3,6,6 Assembly Rule 52 (3) Every amendment received by the chief clerk shall be reproduced and distributed provided as provided by the rules.

AR3, s. 18 Section 18. Assembly rule 53 (intro.), (2) and (4) (intro.) and (b) are amended to read:

AR3,6,17 Assembly Rule 53. Drafting of amendments. (intro.) Except as authorized in sub. (2), amendments shall be drafted by the legislative reference bureau before being offered for consideration to the assembly, or to any committee by a person other than a member thereof. No amendment prepared by the legislative reference bureau may be received for consideration if changes have been made in the 5-copy set prepared by the bureau. Amendments may be deposited at the chief clerk's office on any day of the legislative session for the purpose of reproduction allowing them to be provided prior to the 2nd reading stage for the proposals to which the amendments pertain.

AR3,6,20 (2) When a proposal is under active consideration by an assembly committee or by the assembly on 2nd reading, floor amendments may be drafted by members on forms as provided by the chief clerk for such purpose.

AR3,6,23 (4) (intro.) Whenever a floor amendment on a form is offered to the assembly during the 2nd reading stage of a proposal, the chief clerk shall immediately transmit one copy to the legislative reference bureau for review and redrafting.

AR3,7,7 (b) Following the commencement of debate on any floor amendment the principal author may request permission to substitute the version of the amendment drafted by the legislative reference bureau for the version distributed provided or read to the membership by the chief clerk. Unless such permission is requested and granted, the substantive text of any floor amendment adopted by the assembly shall remain as distributed provided or read to the membership by the chief clerk, but the legislative reference bureau shall, before the floor amendment is reproduced, prepare a copy which incorporates any nonsubstantive, technical corrections required by rule 36.

AR3, s. 19 Section 19. Assembly rule 65 (2) (e) is amended to read:

AR3,7,9 Assembly Rule 65 (2) (e) To refer to a special committee [rules 10 and rule 72].

AR3, s. 20 Section 20. Assembly rule 65 (2) (g) is amended to read:

AR3,7,12 Assembly Rule 65 (2) (g) To amend, if the proposal or motion is amendable [rules 18, 52 to 55 and 70 (2) and (4)].

AR3, s. 21 Section 21. Assembly rule 73 (4) (a) and (9) are amended to read:

AR3,7,20 Assembly Rule 73 (4) (a) A motion to reconsider the decision on an amendment shall be placed on the same calendar as the motion to reconsider the final 2nd reading stage decision on the proposal to which the amendment relates, regardless of when made. The failure of any distributed calendar that has been provided to members to show any such motion to reconsider a decision on an amendment shall not prevent the consideration of such motion under the proper order of business on that calendar day.

AR3,7,23 (9) When a motion to reconsider has been entered in order to return a proposal to the amendable stage, the maker of the motion may offer one new amendment to that proposal for introduction and distribution provision to the members.

AR3, s. 22 Section 22. Assembly rule 89 (2) is amended to read:

AR3,8,7 Assembly Rule 89 (2) Any resolution affecting assembly rules shall be referred by the presiding officer to the calendar for the 2nd legislative day following introduction, or to a committee. A resolution providing for the adoption of assembly rules at the commencement of a legislative biennium may be taken up immediately upon its introduction if a copy of the resolution has been distributed provided to the assembly members-elect of the new legislature at least one week prior to the convening of the session.

AR3, s. 23 Section 23. Assembly rule 93 (4) is amended to read:

AR3,8,10 Assembly Rule 93 (4) All measures referred to a calendar may be taken up immediately. A calendar need not be distributed provided.

AR3, s. 24 Section 24. Assembly rule 95 (52) is amended to read:

AR3,8,15 Assembly Rule 95 (52) Pair: A written agreement between 2 members on opposite sides of a question not to vote on that question as long as either is one or both are absent with leave, and which permits the an absent member to influence the outcome of a vote.

AR3, s. 25 Section 25. Assembly rule 97 (5) (intro.) is amended to read:

AR3,8,20 Assembly Rule 97 (5) (intro.) All citations on behalf of the assembly shall be typed by employes assigned to the chief clerk, shall be prepared on an artistic form approved by the committee on assembly organization committee, suitable for framing, and shall be in substantially the following form:

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