AJR15: Joint Resolution Text

AJR15,19,24 (4) The department of administration shall, when requested under joint rule 48 (3), prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate, and shall submit transmit electronically the supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15,20,6 (5) The department of administration may correct any computation or other clerical error in a fiscal estimate prepared by an agency but may not make any substantive change. If the department makes such a correction it shall note on the fiscal estimate prepared by the agency the manner in which it has been corrected by the department and shall submit transmit electronically both the corrected and uncorrected fiscal estimates to the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15, s. 31 Section 31. Joint rule 47 is amended to read:

AJR15,20,13 Joint Rule 47. Duties of joint committee on finance. The joint committee on finance may, by the vote of a majority of its members, direct that any legislative fiscal bureau memorandum on a bill referred to the committee, other than a budget bill, be inserted in the bill jacket envelope. If the committee so directs, a an electronic copy of the memorandum shall be distributed transmitted electronically to all legislators and to the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15,20,20 Joint Rule 48. Review of agency prepared fiscal estimates. (1) On the 6th working day after the legislative reference bureau submits transmits electronically a copy of a fiscal estimate for an introduced bill to the primary author, the bureau shall forward copies transmit electronically a copy of the fiscal estimate and any worksheet to the legislative fiscal bureau and to the chief clerk of the house of origin to be inserted in the bill jacket envelope and shall forthwith cause the original, signed copy of the estimate and any worksheet to be reproduced as are amendments.

AJR15,21,2 (2) During the 5-day period under sub. (1), the primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that an original fiscal estimate for the bill as affected by an introduced or an unintroduced a proposed amendment or an introduced or unintroduced a proposed substitute amendment, whether offered for introduction or not, be prepared by the agency which that prepared the fiscal estimate for the bill.

AJR15,21,6 (3) The primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that the legislative fiscal bureau or the department of administration prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate if the primary author disagrees with the fiscal estimate for the bill prepared by the state agency.

AJR15,21,15 (4) During the 5-day period under sub. (1), the primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that the agency which that prepared the fiscal estimate rewrite its fiscal estimate. If the agency agrees to rewrite the estimate and the primary author agrees to a delay in the publication of the fiscal estimate, the agency shall immediately electronically notify the department of administration and the legislative reference bureau, and the rewritten fiscal estimate, notwithstanding sub. (1), shall be the only original estimate reproduced and inserted in the bill jacket envelope, but both the rewritten and the initial fiscal estimate shall be retained by the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15, s. 32 Section 32. Joint rule 49 is amended to read:

AJR15,21,21 Joint Rule 49. Bills not conforming. (1) Any member may at any time that a bill is before the house raise the issue that such the bill requires a fiscal estimate, and if the presiding officer determines that such the bill (not having such the estimate) requires an estimate, the presiding officer shall direct the legislative reference bureau to secure the requisite estimate.

AJR15,21,24 (2) Bills requiring fiscal estimates shall not be voted on by either house, and shall receive neither a public hearing nor be voted on by a standing committee, prior to before the receipt of the original fiscal estimate for the bill.

AJR15,22,3 (3) If the fiscal estimate for the bill has not been provided to the members when the vote on passage is taken, then the chief clerk shall read the fiscal estimate at length before the vote.

AJR15, s. 33 Section 33. Joint rule 50 is created to read:

AJR15,22,8 Joint Rule 50. Waiver of requirement to transmit electronically. The president and speaker may jointly waive for a limited time any requirement under joint rules 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, and 48 for electronic transmission and permit, instead, transmission in paper form.

AJR15, s. 34 Section 34. Joint rule 51 (intro.) and (2) are amended to read:

AJR15,22,14 Joint Rule 51. Use of LRB legal services. (intro.) No measure proposal may be introduced or offered for introduction unless it has been put in proper form by the legislative reference bureau. Only the persons authorized by this rule may use the drafting services of the legislative reference bureau to have measures proposals prepared for introduction. Persons authorized to use such the drafting services are:

AJR15,22,16 (2) Any agency of Wisconsin state government, as defined in section 16.70 (1) of the statutes, created under chapter 13, 14, 15, or 758 of the statutes.

AJR15, s. 35 Section 35. Joint rule 51 (4) is created to read:

AJR15,22,18 Joint Rule 51 (4) A party caucus of either house of the legislature.

AJR15, s. 36 Section 36. Joint rule 52 (intro.), (1) (c) and (d) 4. and (e), (4) (intro.), (5) (intro.), (a) and (b), (6) and (7) are amended to read:

AJR15,22,24 Joint Rule 52. Format; text display; structure of proposals. (intro.) All bills shall be reproduced on paper 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Each bill shall have a title, an enacting clause, and subject matter disposed of in one or more sections and shall have the arrangement and wording prescribed by the following:

AJR15,23,4 (1) (c) Any bill may include 2 or more types of actions and treat both general statutory law and nonstatutory law, but the various types of actions used shall be listed in the order shown in par. (a), and, if both statutory and nonstatutory law are treated in the same manner, the statutory law shall be cited first.

AJR15,23,5 (d) 4. Making, continuing, or renewing an appropriation.

AJR15,23,14 (e) Executive budget bills under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes , other lengthy bills that encompass multiple subjects and that are to be introduced at the request of the governor or the committee on organization of either house, bills proposing bulk revision of one or more entire chapters of the statutes, reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house, and revisor's correction and revisor's revision bills shall not be subject to the requirements of pars. (a) to (d), and instead may use a descriptive title similar to the following example: "An Act to amend and revise chapter .... and to make diverse other changes in the statutes; relating to:....".

AJR15,23,19 (4) (intro.) The subject matter of the bill shall follow the enacting clause and be displayed in one or more sections which that, except for budget bills or other bills of unusual length, shall be numbered consecutively. Substitute amendments may follow the section numbering of the bill. Each section shall begin in one of the following forms:

AJR15,23,25 (5) (intro.) Any proposal, substitute amendment, or amendment that proposes to amend an existing law or legislative rule, and any joint resolution that proposes to amend a section of the state constitution, shall display the full text of the unit of the law, rule, or constitution that is being amended, with any matter to be stricken out typed with a line through the matter, and any new matter underscored. This requirement shall not apply to:

AJR15,24,2 (a) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either house and revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,24,6 (b) Appropriation sections which that only increase or decrease the amount of an existing appropriation, which shall instead indicate the amount by which the applicable appropriation is to be increased or decreased, and the purpose of this increase or decrease.

AJR15,24,10 (6) All parts of the statutes and of other laws which that are intended to be superseded or repealed should be specifically referred to, so far as practicable, and expressly superseded or repealed. This directive is not intended to affect judicial construction.

AJR15,24,17 (7) Except as necessary to revise the relating clause of the affected bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or substitute amendment, an amendment may not change the title of the proposal. When a substitute amendment or proposal is reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein, or when the proposal is enrolled after passage, or adoption, and concurrence, the legislative reference bureau shall make the required changes in the title so that the title correctly lists all sections provisions affected by the proposal.

AJR15, s. 37 Section 37. Joint rule 53 (1) and (2) (f) and (m) are amended to read:

AJR15,24,22 Joint Rule 53 (1) It is the policy of this state that law of continuing application shall be incorporated into the statutes. The assignment of statute numbering to any part of a bill shall be deemed is indicative of a legislative intent that this text be incorporated into the statutes.

AJR15,24,24 (2) (f) A ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for state employes employees.

AJR15,25,2 (m) Any other provision which that is narrow in scope and intended to be temporary.

AJR15, s. 38 Section 38. Joint rule 54 is amended to read:

AJR15,25,9 Joint Rule 54. Approval and jacketing of drafts. (1) Before jacketing a proposal is jacketed for introduction, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the draft to the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency for approval, but substitute amendments or amendments shall be immediately prepared for introduction to be offered unless the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency requests prior submittal for approval.

AJR15,25,15 (2) The legislative reference bureau, except as otherwise provided in sub. (2m), shall provide to the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency 4 copies of each approved proposal approved under sub. (1) and 6 copies of each approved amendment approved under sub. (1). One copy shall be is for the use of the requester. The other copies shall, if a proposal, be inserted in the jacket envelope or, if a substitute amendment or amendment, be attached to an amendment jacket.

AJR15,25,19 (3) (a) Jacket envelopes for proposals, and amendment jackets for substitute amendments and amendments, shall be identified by red for proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments introduced or offered in the senate, and shall be identified by black for those introduced or offered in the assembly.

AJR15,25,25 (b) Each amendment jacket shall contain blanks to identify the substitute amendment or amendment by number, to list the date of introduction it is offered, and to enter the name or names of the member, members, or committee of the house of origin that offered the substitute amendment or amendment. Each amendment jacket shall allow sufficient space to add, if appropriate, the name of the individual or organization requesting the introduction that it be offered.

AJR15,26,2 (c) Each jacket envelope shall be large enough to hold the papers pertaining to the proposal without such the papers being folded.

AJR15, s. 39 Section 39. Joint rule 54 (2m) is created to read:

AJR15,26,10 Joint Rule 54 (2m) (a) The chief of the legislative reference bureau and a chief clerk of either house may enter into a written agreement under this joint rule to have the chief clerk, when the chief clerk's house is in session, receive on the floor of the house copies of drafts of proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments transmitted electronically by the legislative reference bureau, and place the proposals in jacket envelopes and attach jacket cover sheets (stripes) to drafts of amendments and substitute amendments.

AJR15,26,18 (b) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this subsection until the legislative technology services bureau makes the computer programming changes and the legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk make the process changes necessary to permit the legislative reference bureau to transmit and the chief clerk to receive the drafts electronically in the chamber of the house, in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of the drafts, without changing the way the legislative reference bureau jackets proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments electronically.

AJR15,26,21 (c) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this subsection unless the chief clerk states in the agreement that the chief clerk and his or her employees:

AJR15,26,23 1. Will comply with the requirements for confidentiality of drafts with which the legislative reference bureau must comply.

AJR15,27,3 2. Provide, maintain, and supervise the equipment and the jackets for the electronic transmittal to the chief clerk as if the equipment and jackets were under the immediate supervision of the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15,27,5 3. Submit directly to, and only to, the member any proposal in its jacket and any substitute amendment or amendment with its jacket attached.

AJR15,27,9 (d) The legislative reference bureau may not transmit a draft of a proposal, substitute amendment, or amendment to the chief clerk under this rule unless the member requesting the draft waives confidentiality of the draft and requests the legislative reference bureau to transmit the draft under this rule.

AJR15, s. 40 Section 40. Joint rule 55 is amended to read:

AJR15,27,14 Joint Rule 55. Authors and cosponsors. (1) Any bill, joint resolution, or motion under joint rule 7 may have, following and separate from the names of the authors of the measure bill, joint resolution, or motion, the names of one or more cosponsors from the other house.

AJR15,27,17 (2) When a proposal or amendment is introduced or offered by request, the name of the person requesting introduction or the offering of the proposal or offering of the amendment shall be made a part of the record of the proposal.

AJR15, s. 41 Section 41. Joint rule 56 (title), (1), (2) and (3) (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,27,23 Joint Rule 56 (title) Clerical corrections in legislative measures proposals and amendments. (1) The chief clerks and the legislative reference bureau shall correct all minor clerical errors found in any bill, resolution proposal or amendment thereto. Any correction under this rule shall be entered by the chief clerk in the history file for the proposal of the house having possession of the proposal.

AJR15,27,25 (2) The current edition of Webster's new international dictionary shall be used as is the standard on questions of correct spelling, word usage, and proper grammar.

AJR15,28,3 (3) (b) Correcting the title of a proposal so that the enumeration of sections affected accurately reflects the statutes, session laws, Wisconsin Acts, sections of the constitution, or legislative rules treated in the proposal.

AJR15, s. 42 Section 42. Joint rule 57 (2) (intro.) and (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,28,9 Joint Rule 57 (2) (intro.) The text of a proposed constitutional amendment is not subject to change when a joint resolution submits such text for "2nd consideration" after the proposal joint resolution was adopted on "first consideration" by the last preceding legislature, unless appropriate changes are made to revert the status of the constitutional amendment to "first consideration.".

AJR15,28,16 (b) Because any change in the text of a proposed constitutional amendment before the senate or assembly for "2nd consideration" reverts that proposed amendment to "first consideration" status, any such change shall be presented to the senate or assembly in the form of a substitute amendment which that, in its title, its resolving clauses, and its instructions for transmittal to the next succeeding legislature, properly sets forth the resultant "first consideration" status of the proposed constitution text constitutional amendment.

AJR15, s. 43 Section 43. Joint rule 59 is amended to read:

AJR15,29,8 Joint Rule 59. Explanative notes. In addition to such notes as are required by law or joint rule, explanative notes may be included in revision and correction bills prepared by the revisor of statutes, in reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house, and in bills, joint resolutions, or resolutions proposals introduced or offered and in substitute amendments or amendments offered by the joint legislative council or its law revision committee, at the request of the judicial council, and by or at the request of any other official interim study or investigative group. Such The notes shall be prepared by the requester, shall be factual in nature, shall be as brief as may be and, where feasible, shall follow the section of the measure proposal or amendment to which they relate. Notes shall appear in the original reproduced version of the measure proposal or amendment only, and shall not appear in the Wisconsin Acts or session law volumes unless the chief of the legislative reference bureau determines that including them is essential or in the statutes unless the revisor determines that including them is essential. Such The notes constitute no part of the proposed act or engrossed or enrolled resolution.

AJR15, s. 44 Section 44. Joint rule 60 (title) and (1) are amended to read:

AJR15,29,19 Joint Rule 60 (title) Enrolled bills proposals. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), immediately after the passage of any bill, or the adoption of and concurrence in any joint resolution amending the constitution, and in the case of a bill, before it is presented to the governor for approval, the legislative reference bureau shall prepare the number of enrolled copies of the proposal requested by the chief clerk of the house in which the measure proposal originated. One such copy shall be used as the enrolled bill that is presented to the governor or the enrolled resolution that is deposited with the secretary of state. Four copies of the enrolled bill or resolution shall be delivered to the secretary of state. A sufficient number of copies of the enrolled bill or enrolled resolution shall be delivered to the revisor of statutes.

AJR15, s. 45 Section 45. Joint rule 62 is amended to read:

AJR15,29,24 Joint Rule 62. Number of copies. (1) The joint committee on legislative organization shall determine the number of copies of each bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal and amendments thereto which shall to be reproduced on a routine basis unless otherwise provided by joint resolution.

AJR15,30,3 (2) Additional copies of a legislative proposal may be procured by the house in which the measure proposal originated, as provided in the rules of the house or upon authorization by the committee on organization or chief clerk of that house.

AJR15, s. 46 Section 46. Joint rule 63 is amended to read:

AJR15,30,16 Joint Rule 63. Reproduction of engrossed measures proposals and amendments. Upon the finding by the chief clerk of either house that a bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or major amendment thereto has been amended in the house of origin to a considerable degree, the chief clerk may instruct the legislative reference bureau to prepare and have reproduced an engrossed copy of the measure proposal or amendment. In preparing engrossed copy for a bill, joint resolution or resolution proposal the legislative reference bureau shall, if time permits, provide it with a revised analysis. Upon receipt from the legislative reference bureau of the engrossed copy, the chief clerk shall enter that fact in the history file for the measure proposal. Any subsequent amendments to a measure proposal ordered reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein shall be drafted to the reproduced engrossed text.

AJR15, s. 47 Section 47. Joint rule 64 (1) (intro.), (a) and (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,30,23 Joint Rule 64 (1) (intro.) Any proposal, substitute amendment, or amendment that proposes to amend an existing law or legislative rule, and any joint resolution that proposes to amend a section of the state constitution or joint rules, shall display the full text of the unit of the law, rule, or constitution that is being amended, with any matter to be stricken out displayed with a line through the matter, and any new matter displayed with underscoring. This requirement shall does not apply to:

AJR15,30,25 (a) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either house or revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,31,4 (b) Appropriation sections which that only increase or decrease the amount of an existing appropriation, which shall instead indicate the amount by which the applicable appropriation is to be increased or decreased, and the purpose of the increase or decrease.

AJR15, s. 48 Section 48. Joint rule 66 (2) is amended to read:

AJR15,31,8 Joint Rule 66 (2) Whenever more than one copy of a joint resolution is to be distributed, facsimile signatures of the several officers required to sign such the resolutions may be used.

AJR15, s. 49 Section 49. Joint rule 71 is amended to read:

AJR15,31,16 Joint Rule 71. Legislative manuals. The chief clerk of each house shall prepare, and transmit to the department of administration, a copy of a manual of procedure, which shall contain such the matter as the house determines and has been customarily included in such the manual. The department shall deliver to each chief clerk as many copies as the chief clerk requires. The chief clerks may prepare extracts of rules which that have been changed or created for insertion in existing manuals for use until the new issues are available.

AJR15, s. 50 Section 50. Joint rule 72 is amended to read:

AJR15,31,21 Joint Rule 72. Daily calendars. Such The quantity of daily calendars as ordered by the chief clerk of each house shall be reproduced. The format of the calendars shall for each house be as provided in the rules of that house or as directed by the committee on organization of that house.

AJR15, s. 51 Section 51. Joint rule 74 (1) is amended to read:

AJR15,32,3 Joint Rule 74 (1) Within 60 days next following the close of any session of the legislature, the chief clerk of each house shall prepare the matter for its daily journal, which is required by the order of such house to be included therein; and any other matter, not already included in either journal, which is required to be included by joint action of the legislature, shall be prepared and transmitted by the chief clerk of the house in which such the action originated.

AJR15, s. 52 Section 52. Joint rule 74 (2) (intro.) is renumbered joint rule 74 (2) and amended to read:

AJR15,32,12 Joint Rule 74 (2) One hundred copies shall be reproduced and bound. The journals for both houses shall be bound in cloth. The journals of regular, extraordinary, and special sessions may be bound together in the same volumes if the extraordinary or special session is called before the journals of the regular sessions have been bound; if not so bound the journals of both houses for the extraordinary or special session shall be bound together. Distribution of such The chief clerk of each house shall distribute the copies shall be as follows:.

AJR15, s. 53 Section 53. Joint rule 74 (2) (a) to (f) are repealed.

AJR15, s. 54 Section 54. Joint rule 75 (1) to (3) are amended to read:

AJR15,32,17 Joint Rule 75 (1) The chief clerk of each house shall, before the beginning of each week, prepare and have reproduced a schedule of committee activities scheduled for such the week by Monday noon of the preceding week.

AJR15,32,23 (2) The schedule of committee activities shall contain an index by proposal or administrative rule number, date, hour, location, and committee; shall set forth the name of each standing or special committee, its chairperson, the room number or place, and the time and date of each hearing scheduled under sub. (1); and shall designate each proposal or administrative rule to be heard by number, author, and topic.

AJR15,33,3 (3) The schedule of committee activities may announce all meetings to be held by the joint committee on finance, by the joint legislative council, or by committees of the joint legislative council.

AJR15, s. 55 Section 55. Joint rule 76 is amended to read:

AJR15,33,15 Joint Rule 76. Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings. (1) After the 3rd week of the biennial session, there shall be published at convenient intervals a "Bulletin of Proceedings" shall be published at convenient intervals. The senate and assembly parts shall each be published under the direction of the respective chief clerk and the index part shall be published as provided in joint rule 77. The senate and assembly parts shall each contain a directory of the officers, members, and committees of the legislature. The senate and assembly parts shall contain the complete history of legislative action on the bills, joint resolutions, resolutions proposals and petitions originating in that house; in addition, the senate part shall contain the history of senate action advice and consent on gubernatorial nominations for appointment.

AJR15,33,19 (2) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the completion of an up-to-date record of the actions by that house on all bills and joint resolutions and of the actions on resolutions originating in that house. The chief clerk shall publish the record for all measures proposals originating in that house as soon as completed.