Clearinghouse Order Rule [year]-7
A Proposed An Order of the.... (name of agency) relating to rules concerning....
No objection: Ayes, 6; Noes, 1.
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Chairperson
(2) For the joint committee for review of administrative rules:
The joint committee for review of administrative rules reports and recommends:
Clearinghouse Order Rule [year]-8
A Proposed An Order of the.... (name of agency) relating to rules concerning....
Concurrence in objection: Ayes, 8; Noes, 1; Absent, 1.
Clearinghouse Order Rule [year]-9
A Proposed An Order of the.... (name of agency) relating to rules concerning....
Nonconcurrence in objection: Ayes, 9; Noes, 1.
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Cochairpersons
AR2, s. 29
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29. Assembly rule 23 (1) is repealed.
AR2, s. 30
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30. Assembly rule 25 (3) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 25 (3) Representatives of news media that regularly publish or broadcast reports available to the general public who are actively engaged in reporting the proceedings of the assembly, except that during the sessions of the assembly the privilege shall extend only to the designated press area.
AR2, s. 31
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31. Assembly rule 26 (4) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 26 (4) No person may consume food on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries while the assembly is in session.
AR2, s. 32
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32. Assembly rule 26 (5) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 26 (5) No person may smoke on the assembly floor or in the visitor galleries while the assembly is in session.
AR2, s. 33
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33. Assembly rule 28 (title) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 28 (title) Hour for Daily sessions; convening, adjournment.
AR2, s. 34
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34. Assembly rule 28 is renumbered assembly rule 28 (1).
AR2, s. 35
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35. Assembly rule 28 (2) is created to read:
Assembly Rule 28 (2) The daily session of the assembly ends at 8 p.m. unless adjourned earlier.
AR2, s. 36
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36. Assembly rule 31 (7) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 31 (7) Seventh order. Consideration of motions for reconsideration of passage or, indefinite postponement, concurrence or nonconcurrence.
AR2, s. 37
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37. Assembly rule 35 (1) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 35 (1) No proposal, conference committee report or veto, except a resolution under rule 33 or 43, may be considered until copies have been made available to the members for at least one day 24 hours excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. If the rules are suspended for the consideration of any proposal before copies are available, the proposal shall be read at length at least once before its final passage.
AR2, s. 38
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38. Assembly rule 36 (2) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 36 (2) The chief clerk shall note
enter any correction made under this rule on the jacket and enter it in the journal history file for the proposal.
AR2, s. 39
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39. Assembly rule 37 (2) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 37 (2) All other documents presented to the assembly shall be delivered to the chief clerk who shall, if directed to do so by the presiding officer, state the subject matter of each document, the name of the member by whom it was delivered and the name of the communicating person or organization. The presiding officer may refer such documents to a committee for disposition. All communications among such documents may be printed reproduced in the journal when so directed by the presiding officer or by order of the assembly.
AR2, s. 40
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40. Assembly rule 38 is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 38. (title) Assembly publications and printing copying. All assembly publications and printing copying shall conform to legislative rules or be as determined by the committee on assembly organization or the joint committee on legislative organization.
AR2, s. 41
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41. Assembly rule 39 (3) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 39 (3) No proposal may be received for introduction if changes have been made in the 5-copy 3-copy set prepared by the legislative reference bureau.
AR2, s. 42
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42. Assembly rule 39 (4) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 39 (4) (a) Proposals shall be submitted to the office of the chief clerk for introduction.
(b) The chief clerk shall prepare a report containing the number, relating clause and authors of each proposal to be introduced. The report, together with the jacket of each proposal listed therein, shall be presented to the speaker for referral under rule 42.
AR2, s. 43
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43. Assembly rule 39 (4) (c) is created to read:
Assembly Rule 39 (4) (c) The speaker shall refer a properly jacketed proposal within 7 working days after the office of the chief clerk receives the proposal for introduction or on the final legislative day of the last scheduled floorperiod preceding the veto review session, whichever is earlier. The chief clerk shall publish the referral within those 7 working days.
AR2, s. 44
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44. Assembly rule 42 (3) (c) is created to read:
Assembly Rule 42 (3) (c) Within 5 working days after initial referral by the speaker under sub. (1) (b) or (c), the speaker, with consent of the chairperson and notwithstanding rule 15, may withdraw any bill, joint resolution or resolution from the standing committee to which it is referred and rerefer it to another standing committee. Rereferral under this rule may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.
AR2, s. 45
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45. Assembly rule 43 (1) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 43 (1) Any resolution or joint resolution relating to the officers, members, former members, procedures or organization of the assembly
or legislature shall be privileged in that it may be introduced under any order of business by a member who has the floor and taken up immediately before all other proposals then pending, unless referred by the presiding officer to a standing committee or to the calendar.
AR2, s. 46
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46. Assembly rule 45 (1) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 45 (1) Whenever a committee reports on a proposal referred to that committee, the speaker shall refer the proposal, except as otherwise provided in subs. (2) and (3), to either the calendar for the 2nd legislative day thereafter for 2nd reading or to the committee on rules for calendar scheduling, 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 been distributed 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 shall be printed
reproduced in the journal.
AR2, s. 47
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47. Assembly rule 46 (2), (3) and (4) are amended to read:
Assembly Rule 46 (2) After a proposal receives its 2nd reading, the assembly shall consider every amendment to the proposal recommended in the latest committee report on the proposal and any additional amendments offered after such report unless precluded from consideration under rule 55 (3). If there is no committee report, all amendments shall be considered unless precluded from consideration under rule 55 (3).
(3) Following action on all pending amendments to an assembly bill, or to an assembly joint resolution proposing a change in the state or U.S. constitution or to an assembly bill, and the failure of any motion to indefinitely postpone such proposal, the question shall be: "Shall the proposal be ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time?"
(4) Following action on all pending assembly amendments to a senate bill, or to a senate joint resolution proposing a change in the state or U.S. constitution or to a senate bill, and the failure of any motion for nonconcurrence, the question shall be: "Shall the proposal be ordered to a 3rd reading?"
AR2, s. 48
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48. Assembly rule 48 (2) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 48 (2) Following the 3rd reading of any bill or of any joint resolution proposing a change in the state or U.S. constitution or of any bill, and the failure of any motion to indefinitely postpone, reject or to nonconcur, the question on assembly proposals bills shall be "Shall the proposal bill be passed?", on assembly joint resolutions shall be "Shall the joint resolution be adopted?", and on senate proposals shall be "Shall the proposal be concurred in?".
AR2, s. 49
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49. Assembly rule 50 is renumbered assembly rule 50 (1).
AR2, s. 50
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50. Assembly rule 50 (2) is created to read:
Assembly Rule 50 (2) Immediately following adoption of a conference report on a senate proposal, the passage of an assembly bill notwithstanding the objections of the governor, or assembly action on a vetoed senate bill, such proposal shall be transmitted to the senate together with a certified report of the assembly's action.
AR2, s. 51
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51. Assembly rule 52 (3) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 52 (3) Every amendment received by the chief clerk shall be printed reproduced and distributed as provided by the rules.
AR2, s. 52
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52. Assembly rule 53 (intro.), (1), (2), (3) and (4) (intro.) and (b) are amended to read:
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 printing reproduction prior to the 2nd reading stage for the proposals to which the amendments pertain.
(1) Every amendment shall show the number of the bill or resolution it proposes to amend. The name of each member or committee sponsoring the amendment shall be entered on the cover sheet in the history file for the bill. The chief clerk shall number amendments in the order received.
(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 printed forms with multiple copies provided by the chief clerk for such purpose.
(3) Whenever a floor amendment on printed forms a form is adopted in committee, the chairperson shall forward a copy to the legislative reference bureau for review and redrafting. When the version of the amendment drafted by the legislative reference bureau is in satisfactory form, the chairperson shall deposit it in the chief clerk's office and the clerk shall substitute it for the original version.
(4) (intro.) Whenever a floor amendment on a printed 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.
(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 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 or read to the membership by the chief clerk, but the legislative reference bureau shall, before the floor amendment is sent to the contract printer reproduced, prepare a camera-ready copy which incorporates any nonsubstantive, technical corrections required by rule 36.
AR2, s. 53
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53. Assembly rule 54 (1) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 54 (1) General statement: The assembly shall not consider any assembly amendment or assembly substitute amendment which relates to a different subject or is intended to accomplish a different purpose than that of the proposal to which it relates or which, if adopted and passed, would require a
title relating clause for the proposal which is substantially different from the proposal's original title relating clause or which would totally alter the nature of the proposal.
AR2, s. 54
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54. Assembly rule 56 (1) and (2) are amended to read:
Assembly Rule 56 (1) Any member who desires to speak in debate or submit any matter to the assembly shall rise in his or her assigned place and respectfully address the presiding officer. Upon being recognized, the member shall confine his or her remarks to the question before the assembly and shall avoid personalities. A member may be recognized or addressed only by reference to the member's county or municipality of residence, by the main county or municipality in that member's district, or by the number of the member's district.
(2) When 2 or more members rise at the same time, the presiding officer shall decide who is to announce the order that the members may speak first. Any such decision is final.
AR2, s. 55
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55. Assembly rule 59 (3) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 59 (3) Display printed documents or exhibits or read aloud from printed documents other than from the proposal then under debate or any amendment thereto, or from any statute or, session law, constitutional provision, assembly rule or joint rule directly related to the proposal or its amendments.
AR2, s. 56
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56. Assembly rule 62 (3m) is created to read:
Assembly Rule 62 (3m) The presiding officer shall rule on a point of order within 7 legislative days after the point of order is raised or on the final legislative day of the last scheduled floorperiod preceding the veto review session, whichever is earlier.
AR2, s. 57
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57. Assembly rule 67 is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 67. Nondebatable motions. Any motion to adjourn, recess, take from the table, end debate, or suspend the rules, and all incidental questions relating to such motions including appeals, shall be decided without debate.
AR2, s. 58
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58. Assembly rule 69m is created to read:
Assembly Rule 69m. Motion to recess. A motion to recess to a day of the year other than the day of the year on which the motion is made shall be treated the same as, and has the same effect as, a motion to adjourn.
AR2, s. 59
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59. Assembly rule 70 (1) is amended to read:
Assembly Rule 70 (1) A motion to adjourn is always in order including when the assembly is under call, but not while the assembly is voting or another member has the floor or while the assembly has recessed for a party caucus and is not under call.
AR2, s. 60
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60. Assembly rule 73 (1) (b) and (2) are amended to read:
Assembly Rule 73 (1) (b) May not be applied to: 1) the assembly's approval of a conference committee report; and 2) the assembly's decision on a veto; or 3) an assembly action to recede from its position on a proposal so as to agree with the position of the senate.
(2) (a) A motion to reconsider any decision other than passage or concurrence may only be entered after the question to which it relates has been decided and must be entered either: 1) before the title relating clause of the next proposal is read by the clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding officer, or other business is begun; or 2) on the 8th order of business on the next roll call day.
(b) For any decision other than passage or, adoption, concurrence, indefinite postponement, rejection or nonconcurrence, the motion for reconsideration shall be considered when the proposal is next regularly scheduled for consideration.
AR2, s. 61
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61. Assembly rule 73 (3) (a), (4) (a) and (c) and (6) are amended to read:
