AR3: Resolution Text

Assembly Rule 29 (3): This rule is amended to provide that a calendar, except a calendar for a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday specified in section 230.35 (4) (a) of the statutes, shall be provided to each member at least 12 hours before the calendar is to be acted upon during the last week of the last general-business floorperiod preceding the veto review session. The present requirement that a calendar be provided at least 18 hours before it is to be acted upon remains in effect at other times.

Assembly Rules 39 (3) and 53: Joint rules 44 (2) (a), 54 (1), (2), and (2m), and 79 (2) are created in the 2001 joint resolution changing the joint rules. The changes to the joint rules authorize the legislative reference bureau to enter into a written agreement with a chief clerk to have the chief clerk, when the house is in session, receive on the floor of the house copies of drafts of proposals and amendments transmitted electronically by the LRB, and place the proposals in jacket envelopes and attach jacket cover sheets (stripes) to amendment drafts. The amendments of these assembly rules conform the assembly rules to those joint rules.

Assembly Rule 39 (4) (c): This rule is amended to require the speaker to refer a properly jacketed proposal within 14 days, rather than 7 days, after the office of the chief clerk receives the proposal for introduction.

Assembly Rule 42 (1) (b): This rule is amended to permit the presiding officer to refer any bill, that requires referral to one or more joint survey committees, simultaneously to several or all of the joint survey committees and to an assembly committee.

Assembly Rule 42 (1) (c): This rule is amended to permit the presiding officer to simultaneously refer any bill, not just a budget bill, to joint survey committees and to the joint committee on finance.

Assembly Rule 42 (3) (c): This rule is amended to permit the speaker to withdraw any proposal from one committee and rerefer it to another committee if the committee chairperson consents not only within 5 working days after initial referral, but at any time before a vote by the committee is commenced on the proposal.

Assembly Rule 42 (1) (ad): This rule is created to provide that all referrals to committee that are required by statute must be so referred upon first reading.

Assembly Rule 42 (1) (am): This rule is created to permit the speaker to refer any bill that pertains only incidentally to a matter of concern to a joint survey committee directly to the committee appropriate to the major substance of the bill, and to direct the joint survey committee to prepare its report on the bill when the bill is in the other committee.

Assembly Rule 52 (4): This rule is created to prohibit the offering of an amendment to a report of a committee of conference.

Assembly Rule 80 (4): This rule is amended to prohibit the division of a report of a committee of conference.

Assembly Rule 95 (50m): This rule is created to define "offer," so as to distinguish it from introduction.

Assembly Rule 95 (57m): This rule is created to define "presiding officer," so as to distinguish the term from speaker and speaker pro tempore.

Assembly Rule 98: This rule is created to address fund-raising social events in Dane County during floorperiods and special and extraordinary sessions.

AR3,4,1 Resolved by the assembly, That:

AR3, s. 1 Section 1. Assembly rule 1 is amended to read:

AR3,4,10 Assembly Rule 1. Assembly officers. As early as possible in each legislative biennium, the assembly shall elect from among its members, by roll call vote of a majority of those present, a speaker of the assembly, and a speaker pro tempore, and from outside its membership a chief clerk and a sergeant at arms. Such Those officers shall serve for the legislative biennium unless separated by death, resignation, or removal by a majority of the current membership of the assembly. A midterm vacancy in any such office of those offices shall be filled by an election scheduled by the speaker as a special order of business.

AR3, s. 2 Section 2. Assembly rule 2 (1) to (3) is amended to read:

AR3,4,17 Assembly Rule 2 (1) The majority and minority parties in the assembly shall elect the officers shown in sub. (2), and may select any other officers desired. Party officers shall hold office for the legislative biennium unless separated by death, resignation, or removal from office by a majority of the current membership of the appropriate party caucus. They shall perform the duties assigned to them by their respective caucuses, by legislative rule, and by law.

AR3,5,3 (2) Each party caucus shall elect a floor leader, an assistant floor leader, and a caucus chairperson to be known, respectively, as the majority leader, the assistant majority leader, the majority caucus chairperson, the minority leader, the assistant minority leader, and the minority caucus chairperson. In the temporary absence of the majority leader or minority leader, the respective assistant leader shall carry out the duties assigned to that leader until the return of the leader. If the majority leader or minority leader is separated by death, resignation, or removal from office, the respective assistant leader shall carry out the duties assigned to that leader until a leader is elected.

AR3,5,8 (3) On the day a new legislature is convened under section 13.02 (1) of the statutes, the chairperson of each party caucus shall notify the chief clerk of the offices established by his or her party caucus and the incumbents therein, and thereafter shall notify the chief clerk of any change in such the offices or incumbents. Each notification shall be entered in the journal.

AR3, s. 3 Section 3. Assembly rule 3 (1) (a) to (h) are renumbered assembly rule 3m (a) to (h) and assembly rule 3m (c) and (f) , as renumbered, are amended to read:

AR3,5,12 Assembly Rule 3m (1) (c) Put to a vote all motions and questions which that properly arise in the course of proceedings and announce the results.

AR3,5,15 (f) Maintain order, decorum, and quiet among members and visitors in and about the chamber during sessions and have offending persons removed and the galleries cleared when necessary to do so.

AR3, s. 4 Section 4. Assembly rule 3 (1) (i), (j), (n), (o) and (r) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,5,19 Assembly Rule 3 (1) (i) Authenticate by personal signature, when required, acts, orders, and proceedings of the assembly.

AR3,5,21 (j) Appoint members to all legislative committees or other bodies as required by law, legislative rule, or other directive.

AR3,5,24 (n) Authorize expenditures to procure appropriate floral pieces or similar memorials for deceased or ill members of the legislature, state officers , or other persons who have been identified with the legislative process.

AR3,6,3 (o) Issue subpoenas, with the countersignature of the chief clerk, for the attendance of witnesses before any assembly committee, and issue summary process for the arrest of any witness disobeying the mandate of any such the subpoena.

AR3,6,10 (r) Refer every notice and report concerning a proposed administrative rule received by him or her under section 227.19 of the statutes to the appropriate standing committee of the assembly within 7 working days following receipt, and provide notice to notify that committee whenever the speaker is informed that a proposed rule or portion thereof is being withdrawn. The speaker shall refer any report received from a standing committee which that objects to a proposed rule or portion thereof to the joint committee for review of administrative rules.

AR3,6,15 (2) In the temporary absence of the speaker, the speaker pro tempore may exercise all of the powers and shall carry out all of the duties of the speaker until the return of the speaker. If the speaker is separated by death, resignation, or removal from office, the speaker pro tempore may exercise all of the powers and shall carry out all of the duties of the speaker until a speaker is elected.

AR3, s. 5 Section 5. Assembly rule 3m (intro.) is created to read:

AR3,6,17 Assembly Rule 3m. Presiding officer. (intro.) The presiding officer shall:

AR3, s. 6 Section 6. Assembly rule 4 is amended to read:

AR3,6,25 Assembly Rule 4. Other presiding officers. (1) In the temporary absence of both the speaker and the speaker pro tempore, the majority leader or his or her designee shall preside. In the temporary absence of the speaker, the speaker pro tempore, and the majority leader, the assistant majority leader or his or her designee shall preside. In the temporary absence of the speaker, the speaker pro tempore, the majority leader, and the assistant majority leader, the majority caucus chairperson or his or her designee shall preside.

AR3,7,4 (2) In the temporary absence of all of these officers and members, one of the members shall be elected to preside temporarily until the return of the speaker, the speaker pro tempore or, the majority leader, the assistant majority leader, and the majority caucus chairperson.

AR3,7,6 (3) The presiding officer may place any member in the chair, but such the substitution shall does not extend beyond an adjournment.

AR3, s. 7 Section 7. Assembly rule 5 (1) (a), (b), (d), (f) to (h), (j), (m) to (p), (s) and (u) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,7,11 Assembly Rule 5 (1) (a) Open the biennial session of the assembly following the one to which the chief clerk was elected. (If the chief clerk is unavailable, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall preside for the opening of that the session.)

AR3,7,13 (b) Supervise the preparation and keeping of the daily journal, daily calendars, bulletins of proceedings, and weekly schedule of committee activities.

AR3,7,16 (d) During or after each daily session, notify the legislative reference bureau of any proposal introduced or offered on that day, or of any substitute amendment or amendment deposited offered on that day.

AR3,7,22 (f) Any assembly proposal ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time shall be reviewed by the chief clerk with regard to incorporating whatever amendments that have been adopted. When a proposal has been correctly engrossed, it shall be submitted to the assembly for a 3rd reading. If the proposal is to be reproduced in engrossed form, the work shall be performed by the legislative reference bureau under joint rule 63.

AR3,8,4 (g) After a bill, or a joint resolution requiring enrolling, has passed, or is adopted by, the assembly and been concurred in by the senate, or after an assembly joint resolution requiring enrolling has been adopted, the chief clerk shall promptly deliver the proposal to the legislative reference bureau, which shall promptly enroll it, prepare the requisite number of copies, and return the proposal and enrolled copies to the clerk. When the enrolling of a proposal has been completed, the chief clerk shall notify the assembly by entering a report of the enrollment in the journal.

AR3,8,6 (h) Maintain custody of official assembly records and documents and report any missing record or document to the speaker.

AR3,8,8 (j) Countersign with the speaker documents which that, by law or rule, require the personal signature of the chief clerk.

AR3,8,11 (m) Certify the names of all persons employed and the capacity in which employed and, with the approval of the speaker, the proper compensation due each such employe employee.

AR3,8,13 (n) Deposit with the secretary of state's office any assembly resolution or joint resolution which that has been adopted and enrolled.

AR3,8,15 (o) Present to the governor for action all assembly bills which that have passed both houses of the legislature, been enrolled, and signed by the proper officers.

AR3,8,19 (p) Deposit with the secretary of state's office, at the close of each biennial session and at the close of each special session, the full record of assembly action on all proposals together with other important documents and papers in the possession of the assembly.

AR3,8,22 (s) Supervise the keeping of records concerning retirement contributions, social security, insurance, allowances, and related matters and certify the same to the appropriate department.

AR3,9,2 (u) File one copy of each report of a standing committee concerning a proposed administrative rule under rule 20 with the head of the agency proposing the rule, the chief clerk of the senate, and the cochairpersons of the joint committee for review of administrative rules.

AR3,9,8 (3) The chief clerk shall designate an employe employee assigned to the clerk's office as assistant chief clerk to direct the duties of that office in the clerk's temporary absence of the chief clerk until the return of the chief clerk. If the chief clerk is separated by death, resignation, or removal from office, the assistant chief clerk may exercise all of the powers and shall carry out all of the duties of chief clerk until a chief clerk is elected.

AR3, s. 8 Section 8. Assembly rule 5 (1) (bm) is created to read:

AR3,9,10 Assembly Rule 5 (1) (bm) Supervise the provision of calendars to the members.

AR3, s. 9 Section 9. Assembly rule 6 (1) (c), (e) to (g) and (k) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,9,13 Assembly Rule 6 (1) (c) Supervise the provision of all legislative documents , except calendars, to the members.

AR3,9,15 (e) Supervise the employes employees assigned to the office of the sergeant at arms.

AR3,9,18 (f) Certify the names and titles of all persons employed through the office of the sergeant at arms and, with the approval of the speaker, the proper compensation due the sergeant at arms and each such employe employee.

AR3,9,22 (g) Maintain order and quiet in and about the chamber, remove disorderly persons or clear the galleries or other areas of the chamber when directed to do so by the presiding officer, and carry out any other instructions of the presiding officer in relation to any disturbance which that may occur in or near the chamber.

AR3,9,24 (k) Ensure that the U.S. flag is and Wisconsin flag are displayed in the room in which an assembly committee is meeting.

AR3,10,6 (2) The sergeant at arms shall designate one of his or her employes employees as assistant sergeant at arms to direct the duties of that office in his or her the temporary absence of the sergeant at arms until the return of the sergeant at arms. If the sergeant at arms is separated by death, resignation, or removal from office, the assistant sergeant at arms may exercise all of the powers and shall carry out all of the duties of sergeant at arms until a sergeant at arms is elected.

AR3, s. 10 Section 10. Assembly rule 7 is amended to read:

AR3,10,12 Assembly Rule 7. Employes Employees; appointment and supervision. (1) The appointment and removal of employes employees of the speaker, speaker pro tempore, majority and minority leaders, assistant majority and minority leaders, chairpersons, other members, chief clerk, and sergeant at arms shall be made by each such employe's the employee's appointing authority.

AR3,10,16 (2) Unless otherwise specifically provided, all assembly employes employees shall be paid in accordance with the compensation and classification plan adopted by the joint committee on legislative organization or the committee on assembly organization.

AR3,10,21 (3) No employe An employee may not be paid for any period of absence unless absent with leave granted by the employe's employee's appointing authority. Every employe employee shall perform the duties assigned by the employe's employee's appointing authority and shall be available at such hours as the employe's employee's appointing authority shall direct directs.

AR3,10,24 (4) The committee on assembly organization shall determine the number of assembly employes employees and the type of duties and responsibilities assigned to each employe employee.

AR3, s. 11 Section 11. Assembly rule 8 (intro.), (6) and (7) are amended to read:

AR3,11,4 Assembly Rule 8. Committee of the whole. (intro.) By motion, the assembly may at any time resolve itself into a committee of the whole for the consideration of any matter. The assembly rules and Jefferson's manual shall govern govern the committee's proceedings except as follows:

AR3,11,6 (6) At the conclusion of its proceedings, the committee shall rise and report its actions recommendations to the assembly.

AR3,11,8 (7) The committee shall may not recess or postpone to a future time a subject before it for consideration.

AR3, s. 12 Section 12. Assembly rule 10 (1), (1m) (intro.) and (c) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,11,12 Assembly Rule 10 (1) A special committee may be created only as provided in this section rule.

AR3,11,15 (1m) (intro.) Special committees A special committee may be created by the speaker by written order and or may be created by resolution. Any such committee shall cease ceases to exist:

AR3,11,17 (c) When the termination date established by the action creating the committee has arrived arrives.

AR3,11,20 (3) A special committee or temporary special committee may not be created by written order unless no an additional legislative employe employee will not be hired to staff the special committee.

AR3, s. 13 Section 13. Assembly rule 11 (1), (3m), (4), (5) (a), (7), (9), (10) and (11) (a) and (c) are amended to read:

AR3,11,24 Assembly Rule 11 (1) A majority of any a committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.

AR3,12,3 (3m) A member who is connected to a committee meeting by means of a 2-way, audiovisual transmission shall be is considered present for all purposes and to the same extent as a member who is attending the meeting in person.

AR3,12,8 (4) All committee votes shall be taken in the presence of the committee. A member shall may not be recorded as voting unless the member was is present at the committee session when the vote was is taken. This subsection does not apply to the committee on assembly organization, to the joint committee on legislative organization, or to the joint legislative council.

AR3,12,11 (5) (a) Any A vote may be held open until the adjournment of the committee session to permit an absent member to vote. Any such vote shall may only be recorded if the member votes in the presence of the committee in session.

AR3,12,14 (7) In the temporary absence of the chairperson and the vice chairperson, committee members shall succeed to the chair in the order in which named to the committee.

AR3,12,17 (9) The chairperson shall determine when proposals or other business will be are scheduled for public hearing or executive action, and, subject to rule 17m, when committee actions shall be are reported to the assembly.

AR3,12,19 (10) The chairperson is responsible for notifying shall notify committee members of all committee meetings.

AR3,12,21 (11) (a) No A committee may not meet outside the city of Madison without prior authorization under section 13.123 (3) (a) of the statutes.

AR3,13,2 (c) Beginning on the day on which a special election to the legislature is called, and ending on the day on which the special election is held, no a committee may not meet within the legislative district in which the special election is called, except in the city of Madison, without the prior joint authorization by the speaker and the minority leader.

AR3, s. 14 Section 14. Assembly rule 12 is amended to read:

AR3,13,6 Assembly Rule 12. Committees not to meet during daily session. Except for conference committees, no a committee may not meet while the assembly is in session.

AR3, s. 15 Section 15. Assembly rule 13 (1) (a) and (c) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,13,8 Assembly Rule 13 (1) (a) Upon introduction or offering [see rule 42].