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(2) When a proposal is under active consideration by an assembly committee
18or by the assembly on 2nd reading, floor amendments may be drafted by members
19on
printed forms
with multiple copies provided by the chief clerk for such purpose.
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(3) Whenever a floor amendment on
printed forms
a form is adopted in
21committee, the chairperson shall forward a copy to the legislative reference bureau
22for review and redrafting. When the version of the amendment drafted by the
23legislative reference bureau is in satisfactory form, the chairperson shall deposit it
24in the chief clerk's office and the clerk shall substitute it for the original version.
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1(4) (intro.) Whenever a floor amendment on a
printed form is offered to the
2assembly during the 2nd reading stage of a proposal, the chief clerk shall
3immediately transmit one copy to the legislative reference bureau for review and
4redrafting.
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(b) Following the commencement of debate on any floor amendment the
6principal author may request permission to substitute the version of the amendment
7drafted by the legislative reference bureau for the version distributed or read to the
8membership by the chief clerk. Unless such permission is requested and granted,
9the substantive text of any floor amendment adopted by the assembly shall remain
10as distributed or read to the membership by the chief clerk, but the legislative
11reference bureau shall, before the floor amendment is
sent to the contract printer 12reproduced, prepare a
camera-ready copy which incorporates any nonsubstantive,
13technical corrections required by rule 36.
AR2, s. 53
14Section
53. Assembly rule 54 (1) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 54 (1) General statement: The assembly shall not consider any
16assembly amendment or assembly substitute amendment which relates to a
17different subject or is intended to accomplish a different purpose than that of the
18proposal to which it relates or which, if adopted and passed, would require a
title 19relating clause for the proposal which is substantially different from the proposal's
20original
title relating clause or which would totally alter the nature of the proposal.
AR2, s. 54
21Section
54. Assembly rule 56 (1) and (2) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 56 (1) Any member who desires to speak in debate or submit
23any matter to the assembly shall rise in his or her assigned place and respectfully
24address the presiding officer. Upon being recognized, the member shall confine his
25or her remarks to the question before the assembly and shall avoid personalities. A
1member may be recognized or addressed
only by
reference to the member's county
2or municipality of residence, by the main county or municipality in that member's
3district, or by the number of the member's district.
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(2) When 2 or more members rise at the same time, the presiding officer shall
5decide who is to announce the order that the members may speak
first. Any such
6decision is final.
AR2, s. 55
7Section
55. Assembly rule 59 (3) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 59 (3) Display
printed documents
or exhibits or read aloud from
9printed documents other than from the proposal then under debate or any
10amendment thereto, or
from any statute
or
, session law
, constitutional provision,
11assembly rule or joint rule directly related to the proposal or its amendments.
AR2, s. 56
12Section
56. Assembly rule 62 (3m) is created to read:
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Assembly Rule 62 (3m) The presiding officer shall rule on a point of order
14within 7 legislative days after the point of order is raised or on the final legislative
15day of the last scheduled floorperiod preceding the veto review session, whichever is
16earlier.
AR2, s. 57
17Section
57. Assembly rule 67 is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 67.
Nondebatable motions. Any motion to adjourn, recess,
19take from the table, end debate, or suspend the rules, and all incidental questions
20relating to such motions including appeals, shall be decided without debate.
AR2, s. 58
21Section
58. Assembly rule 69m is created to read:
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Assembly Rule 69m.
Motion to recess. A motion to recess to a day of the year
23other than the day of the year on which the motion is made shall be treated the same
24as, and has the same effect as, a motion to adjourn.
AR2, s. 59
25Section
59. Assembly rule 70 (1) is amended to read:
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1Assembly Rule 70 (1) A motion to adjourn is always in order including when
2the assembly is under call, but not while the assembly is voting or another member
3has the floor
or while the assembly has recessed for a party caucus and is not under
4call.
AR2, s. 60
5Section
60. Assembly rule 73 (1) (b) and (2) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 73 (1) (b) May not be applied to: 1) the assembly's approval of
7a conference committee report;
and 2) the assembly's decision on a veto
; or 3) an
8assembly action to recede from its position on a proposal so as to agree with the
9position of the senate.
AR2,23,1410
(2) (a) A motion to reconsider any decision other than passage or concurrence
11may only be entered after the question to which it relates has been decided and must
12be entered either: 1) before the
title relating clause of the next proposal is read by the
13clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding officer, or other
14business is begun; or 2) on the 8th order of business on the next roll call day.
AR2,23,1715
(b) For any decision other than passage
or, adoption, concurrence,
indefinite
16postponement, rejection or nonconcurrence, the motion for reconsideration shall be
17considered when the proposal is next regularly scheduled for consideration.
AR2, s. 61
18Section
61. Assembly rule 73 (3) (a), (4) (a) and (c) and (6) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 73 (3) (a) A motion for reconsideration of the vote by which a
20proposal is passed
or, adopted, concurred in
, indefinitely postponed, rejected or
21nonconcurred in may be entered: 1) before the
title relating clause of the next
22proposal is read by the clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding
23officer, or other business is begun; or 2) on the
8th order of business on the next roll
24call day
following the day on which the proposal was passed or concurred in. Any
25motion to reconsider
passage or concurrence such final action shall be taken up
1immediately if the roll call day on which it is entered is already the 2nd or a later
2actual day following the vote
on passage or concurrence constituting final action on
3the proposal, but consideration of any other motion for reconsideration of
passage or
4concurrence such final action, entered on the roll call day following the day on which
5the
proposal was passed or concurred in final action was taken, shall be laid over and
6placed on the calendar for the first legislative day which occurs at least 2 calendar
7days after the decision was made.
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(4) (a) A motion to reconsider the decision on an amendment shall be placed on
9the same calendar as the motion to reconsider the final 2nd reading stage decision
10on the proposal to which the amendment relates, regardless of when made. The
11failure of any
printed distributed calendar to show any such motion to reconsider a
12decision on an amendment shall not prevent the consideration of such motion under
13the proper order of business on that calendar day.
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(c) No motion to reconsider a decision on any amendment
shall may be
15considered unless the final decision on the proposal at the end of the 2nd reading
16stage is reconsidered, returning the proposal to the amendable stage.
If the
17engrossed proposal consists of a substitute amendment, with or without adopted
18amendments, both the vote to engross and the vote to adopt the substitute
19amendment must be reconsidered in order to return the proposal to the amendable
20stage.
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(6) Once a motion to reconsider has been entered, it may only be withdrawn by
22the member who made the motion
prior to and only before the expiration of the time
23period for making the motion
unless thereafter authorized by the assembly.
AR2, s. 62
24Section
62. Assembly rule 74 (title) and (2) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 74 (title)
Tabling; taking from table.
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1(2) A motion to table
or to take from the table may not be amended, but may
2be debated for not exceeding 10 minutes. In debating a motion to table
or to take from
3the table, no member may speak for more than 2 minutes.
AR2, s. 63
4Section
63. Assembly rule 75 (1) (a) 3. is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 75 (1) (a) 3. "Shall amendment .... to Assembly (Senate) Bill ....
6be (adopted) (rejected) (
tabled laid on the table)
(taken from the table)?"
AR2, s. 64
7Section
64. Assembly rule 75 (1) (d) is created to read:
AR2,25,98
Assembly Rule 75 (1) (d) On a conference report: "Shall the report of the
9committee of conference on Assembly (Senate) Bill .... be (approved) (rejected)?
AR2, s. 65
10Section
65. Assembly rule 79 (5) is created to read:
AR2,25,1211
Assembly Rule 79 (5) For the purpose of establishing a qualified majority or
12quorum, both members of the pair are considered not present.
AR2, s. 66
13Section
66. Assembly rule 80 (4) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 80 (4) Bills, joint resolutions, resolutions and substitute
15amendments, and amendments received from the senate for assembly concurrence,
16may not be divided.
A bill vetoed in its entirety by the governor may not be divided.
AR2, s. 67
17Section
67. Assembly rule 80 (6) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 80 (6) When a bill has been vetoed in part the committee on
19rules may, by a resolution offered under rule 33, propose to schedule a specific
item 20part as a special order. When appropriate, the resolution may divide the
item part 21into one or more independent propositions and dependent propositions. The
22proposed division must include at least one separate proposition which, if passed
23notwithstanding the objections of the governor, will result in a complete and
24workable law regardless of the action taken on any other part of the original
item 25part. The chair shall first put the question on any such independent proposition. The
1question on any proposition dependent thereon shall be put only if the independent
2proposition has been passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
AR2, s. 68
3Section
68. Assembly rule 83 (4) is created to read:
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Assembly Rule 83 (4) On a call of the assembly being requested, the presiding
5officer shall state substantially: "It requires 15 members to second a call of the
6assembly; those in favor of the call will rise". If 15 members rise, the call is ordered.
AR2, s. 69
7Section
69. Assembly rule 93 (4) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 93 (4) All measures referred to a calendar may be taken up
9immediately. A
printed calendar
shall need not be
required distributed.
AR2, s. 70
10Section
70. Assembly rule 94 (3) (a) and (b) are amended to read:
AR2,26,1711
Assembly Rule 94 (3) (a) Within one week from the adoption of any resolution
12significantly changing the assembly rules, the chief clerk shall direct the
printing 13reproduction of a new pamphlet incorporating the entire text of these rules as
14affected by that resolution unless, in the judgment of the speaker, additional rule
15changes may soon be agreed to by the members. Each pamphlet edition shall contain
16a revised table of contents and index prepared by the legislative reference bureau
17and shall be printed under the class 1 contract for printing of legislative bills.
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(b) The chief clerk shall supervise the
production of the book
printing of these
19rules for insertion into the assembly manual.
AR2, s. 71
20Section
71. Assembly rule 95 (3), (4) and (6) are amended to read:
AR2,26,2221
Assembly Rule 95 (3)
Adoption: Approval of a motion,
amendment, substitute
22amendment, simple resolution, or joint resolution.
AR2,26,2523
(4)
Amendment: A suggested alteration in any proposal
, often referred to as a
24simple amendment in distinction to a substitute amendment intended to take the
25place of the proposal.
AR2,27,6
1(6)
Assembly chamber: The
In the capitol, the entire area west of the
2easternmost doors of the assembly, including the visitor's galleries
, lobbies, offices
3of the speaker, majority leader and minority leader and hallways. In the insurance
4building on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, the entire first floor, excluding the
5hall in front of the elevators, and the visitor galleries and auxiliary rooms adjacent
6thereto.
AR2, s. 72
7Section
72. Assembly rule 95 (19) is repealed.
AR2, s. 73
8Section
73. Assembly rule 95 (27m) is created to read:
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Assembly Rule 95 (27m)
Extraordinary session: The convening of the
10legislature by the assembly and senate organization committees or by petition or
11joint resolution of the legislature to accomplish the business specified in the action
12calling the session. When used to continue a floorperiod of the regular session for a
13limited purpose, the extraordinary session is referred to as an extended session.
AR2, s. 74
14Section
74. Assembly rule 95 (39), (54), (63), (66) and (67) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 95 (39)
Joint resolution: A proposal
requiring adoption by both
16houses, to: a)
expressing express the opinion of the legislature
,; b)
changing change
17the joint rules
, or; c)
proposing propose an amendment to the state constitution
,
18requiring adoption by both houses; or d) propose or ratify an amendment to the U.S.
19constitution.
AR2,27,2120
(54)
Passage: Final assembly approval of
an assembly joint resolution
21proposing to amend the constitution or of an assembly bill.
AR2,27,2322
(63)
Recess: A temporary suspension of business during a
legislative day
of the
23year.
AR2,28,724
(66)
Regular session: The biennial session of the legislature established by the
25constitution and by section 13.02 of the statutes. The Wisconsin legislature convenes
1in the capitol on the first Monday of January in each odd-numbered year at 2 p.m.
2to take the oath of office, select officers, and to organize itself for the conduct of its
3business (if the first Monday falls on January 1 or 2, the legislature organizes on
4January 3). Daily meetings begin
on the first Tuesday after the 8th of in January
5in each year and continue throughout the biennium until the final adjournment of
6the session. The term "session" is also often used to refer to the daily meetings of the
7legislature.
AR2,28,128
(67)
Rejection: An action
by which an amendment for the adverse and final
9disposition of: a) a resolution or
joint resolution
is adversely and finally disposed of 10for the biennial session of the legislature
; b) an amendment or substitute
11amendment with regard to one specific document; c) the application of a motion to
12the current situation; and d) the report of a committee.
AR2, s. 75
13Section
75. Assembly rule 95 (72) is repealed.
AR2, s. 76
14Section
76. Assembly rule 95 (82) and (84) are amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 95 (82)
Special committee: A committee created by a
motion
16or resolution
, or a temporary special committee created by a written order of the
17speaker under rule 10, to investigate specific matters during a session or committee
18work period, and report to the assembly.
AR2,28,2019
(84)
Special session: An extraordinary The convening of the legislature
by the
20governor to accomplish a special purpose
for which convened.
AR2, s. 77
21Section
77. Assembly rule 97 (3) is amended to read:
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Assembly Rule 97 (3) The committee on assembly organization shall establish
23a procedure for reviewing each citation proposed under this rule
, but an assembly
1citation may not be used to declare a special day or to declare a person an honorary
2citizen.