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35. Senate rule 40 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 40. Bill Proposal amended on 3rd reading to be reengrossed. If a senate proposal ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time is amended or otherwise changed it shall be reengrossed before being read a 3rd time. Any senate proposal that passed the senate with amendments shall be engrossed under the supervision of the chief clerk before being messaged to the assembly. However, if the amendment is an unamended substitute
amendment, the original substitute amendment is the bill.
SR3, s. 36
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36. Senate rule 41 (1) (a) to (d) and (2) are amended to read:
Senate Rule 41 (1) (a)
Any A proposal or other matter may be rereferred at any time previous prior to its passage, except that a motion to withdraw from committee may not take effect before a during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee hearing if a hearing has been scheduled when the motion to withdraw is made during the week in which the proposal or other matter is scheduled for a public hearing or the 7 days following the date on which a committee hearing is held.
(b) A motion to rerefer or withdraw is in order, but the question is divisible, and the senate having once refused to rerefer or withdraw a proposal or other matter from committee, any subsequent motion to rerefer or withdraw shall require
requires a suspension of the rules.
(c) A motion to withdraw a matter from the committee on senate organization shall, if approved, place places the matter on the calendar. A motion to withdraw a matter from any other committee shall, if approved, place
places the matter in the committee on senate organization unless the senate rerefers the matter to a different committee.
(d) Whenever a bill is introduced in the senate or assembly under section 227.19 (5) (e) or 227.26 (2) (f) of the statutes, the bill is considered reported without recommendation and shall be placed before the committee on senate organization if a report is not received from the standing committee within 30 days after the date of referral. This paragraph does not apply if the bill is introduced within 30 days after the time at which further proposals may not be introduced or offered in the regular biennial session under joint rule 83 (2).
(2) Reference to committee is not in order after a proposal has been is passed or indefinitely postponed or finally disposed of by any action equivalent thereto. Questions of reconsideration, concurrence in amendments of the other house assembly, conference committee reports, or executive vetoes may be placed on the table, but shall
may not be referred to committee.
SR3, s. 37
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37. Senate rule 42 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 42. Messaging to the assembly; proposals held during reconsideration period. (1) Every bill or joint resolution upon which such action has been taken that it is next to be messaged to the assembly shall be so messaged by the chief clerk, but shall be held in the chief clerk's office until the time for reconsideration of the bill or joint resolution has expired. If the rules have been suspended for immediate messaging, the chief clerk shall enter the action in the history file for the bill or joint resolution. Every privileged joint resolution shall be is messaged immediately without a suspension of the rules unless it is otherwise ordered by the senate.
(2) A bill or joint resolution that has been ordered immediately messaged to the assembly by the suspension of this rule is subject to further action by the senate while the bill or joint resolution is in actual physical possession of the senate. The further action is contingent upon a motion to rescind the action of ordering its immediate messaging being decided by a two-thirds vote.
SR3, s. 38
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38. Senate rule 45 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 45. Offering of privileged resolution. Any A resolution privileged by rule 69 shall, when sent to the clerk's desk, be read at length by the chief clerk, but may be read by its relating clause if copies of the text have been distributed to the members. When so read, the privileged resolution is considered to be before the senate.
SR3, s. 39
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39. Senate rule 46 (1) is renumbered senate rule 46 (1) (a) and amended to read:
Senate Rule 46 (1) (a) Proposals, amendments, petitions, reports, communications, or other documents that may properly come before the senate shall be presented by a member thereof to the chief clerk, or a staff member designated by the chief clerk, at anytime
, except as otherwise provided in senate rule 93 (1p) and joint rule 83 (2). A brief statement of the contents thereof shall must appear thereon, together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. If a document is to be reproduced, the chief clerk shall number the document.
SR3, s. 40
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40. Senate rule 46 (1) (b) is created to read:
Senate Rule 46 (1) (b) The chief clerk shall announce each document introduced or offered under par. (a), and each proposal received from the assembly, on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. The document or proposal shall be recorded in the first journal published after the document or proposal is received by the chief clerk.
SR3, s. 41
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41. Senate rule 46 (2) is amended to read:
Senate Rule 46 (2) (a) The chief clerk shall advise the president of documents that must be referred under the rules and the president shall promptly refer the document to the appropriate committee. The chief clerk shall announce the referral on the next session day upon reaching the appropriate order of business.
(b) Within 3 working days after the time of initial referral by the president under rule 4 (10) (2), a proposed rule may, with consent of the chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Such action does not extend the standing committee review period. Rereferral may be made at any time.
(c) Within 5 working days after the time of initial referral by the president under rule 36 (2), any a proposal or appointment may, with the consent of the chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Rereferral under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.
SR3, s. 42
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42. Senate rule 46 (2) (d) is created to read:
Senate Rule 46 (2) (d) The chief clerk shall announce each referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, provided for under the senate rules on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. Each referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, shall be recorded in the first journal published after the referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, occurs.
SR3, s. 43
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43. Senate rule 46 (5) is amended to read:
Senate Rule 46 (5) A proposed amendment that is offered shall must have a heading stating the number of the proposal that it is proposed to amend and the name of the member proposing the amendment. The chief clerk shall read the number of the amendment. The amendment shall be reproduced. The jacket copy of the amendment shall be placed in the jacket and copies shall be distributed as provided by the rules. Amendments filed shall be recorded at the end of each day's journal.
SR3, s. 44
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44. Senate rule 47 (3) and (4) are amended to read:
Senate Rule 47 (3) Any A senate resolution or joint resolution that does not propose an amendment to the constitution may be referred directly to the committee on senate organization. When placed on the calendar under rule 18 such resolutions shall be placed under the proper "2nd reading" order of business and, upon reading, the question is directly upon adoption or concurrence.
(4) During consideration of amendments when both simple amendments and substitute amendments to a proposal are pending, the question shall
, in ascending numerical order be, is first upon amendments to the substitute amendment, unless the senate by majority vote otherwise orders.
SR3, s. 45
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45. Senate rule 48 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 48. Reading of amendments. The chief clerk shall read the full text of each amendment shall be read to the members by the chief clerk, and the presiding officer shall state the number of each amendment shall be stated by the presiding officer, but the reading at length may not occur for amendments that have been distributed to the members
may not be read at length.
SR3, s. 46
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46. Senate rule 49 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 49 Offering amendments. Amendments shall be numbered in the order received, and shall bear the name of the member or the committee offering the same. Amendments shall be prepared in proper form by the legislative reference bureau, and shall must be offered in compliance with rule 29; except that when the proposal is debated on 2nd reading amendments may be offered from the floor. The chief clerk shall have amendments offered from the floor drawn in proper form as soon as possible and before the bill
proposal is subsequently engrossed and delivered to a committee or to the assembly. This provision does not delay action upon an amendment offered from the floor.
SR3, s. 47
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47. Senate rule 50 (title) is amended to read:
Senate Rule 50 (title) Amendments Substitute amendments and amendments must be germane, general statement.
SR3, s. 48
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48. Senate rule 50 (1) is renumbered senate rule 50 (1m) and amended to read:
Senate Rule 50 (1m) A standing committee may not report any substitute amendment or amendment for any to a proposal originating in either house and referred to the committee
, and the senate may not consider any substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal, that relates to a different subject, is intended to accomplish a different purpose, or would totally alter the nature of the original is not germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 49
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49. Senate rule 50 (1) is created to read:
Senate Rule 50 (1) Every substitute amendment and amendment to a proposal must be germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 50
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50. Senate rule 50 (2) to (4) are amended to read:
Senate rule 50 (2) Any substitute or A substitute amendment or amendment reported involving sub. (1) to a proposal may not be considered whenever, before its adoption, the senate is advised that the same is in violation of this rule, and if the presiding officer rules on the admissibility of the substitute or amendment when the question is raised that the substitute amendment or amendment is not germane to that proposal.
(3) The senate may consider presiding officer may rule only on the germaneness of a senate substitutes and amendments substitute amendment or amendment and only, and only when the substitute amendment or amendment is before the senate.
(4) An amendment to an amendment to a proposal must be germane to the amendment as well as to the original that proposal.
SR3, s. 51
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51. Senate rule 50 (5) is repealed.
SR3, s. 52
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52. Senate rule 50 (6) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (intro.) and amended to read:
Senate rule 50 (6) (intro.) An amendment otherwise germane which adds or repeals material previously adopted or rejected by the senate in another bill is germane. An identical The following substitute amendments or amendments are not germane:
(a) A substitute amendment or amendment or an amendment that is identical in effect to one previously rejected offered and disposed of as another substitute amendment or amendment to the same bill or identical to a proposal currently before the senate is not germane, but such amendments are germane if not identical with prior rejected amendments to the same bill or proposals currently before the senate proposal.
SR3, s. 53
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53. Senate rule 50 (7) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (b) and amended to read:
Senate rule 50 (6) (b) A substitute amendment or amendment relating to a specific subject or to a general class is not germane to a bill relating to a proposal that relates to a subject that is different specific subject, but an amendment limiting the scope of the proposal is germane from the subject of that proposal, that is intended to accomplish a purpose that is different from the purpose of that proposal, that negates that proposal entirely, or that substitutes another proposal pending before the senate.
SR3, s. 54
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54. Senate rule 50 (8) is renumbered senate rule 50 (8) (intro.) and amended to read:
Senate rule 50 (8) (intro.) Amendments The following substitute amendments and amendments are germane:
(a) A substitute amendment or amendment proposing
methods a method of raising revenues are germane to for an appropriation
bills and amendments bill or proposing appropriations are germane to an appropriation for a revenue bills. Amendments bill.
(b) A substitute amendment or amendment adding appropriations an appropriation necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal are germane.
SR3, s. 55
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55. Senate rule 50 (9) to (11) are repealed.
SR3, s. 56
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56. Senate rule 51 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 51. Amendment in the 3rd degree prohibited. Amendments beyond the degree of an amendment to an amendment to the main proposition are prohibited. For the purposes of this rule any a substitute amendment, and any an assembly amendment to a senate proposal or amendment, are considered a main proposition.
SR3, s. 57
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57. Senate rule 52 is amended to read:
Senate rule 52 Motions to be germane; how bills may not be amended. A motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration may not be admitted under color of amendment. A proposal may not be amended by annexing thereto or incorporating therein any other proposal pending before the senate.
SR3, s. 58
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58. Senate rule 55 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 55. Order of action. If adverse action is recommended by a committee, that question shall be is put first. However, the senate may direct the consideration of amendments, but adoption of amendments does not change the question.
SR3, s. 59
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59. Senate rule 58 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 58. Member out of order.
Any A member called to order shall sit down, and may not speak, except in explanation, until it is determined whether or not the member was in order. When a member is called to order for words spoken, the exceptional words shall be taken down in writing to better enable the presiding officer to judge whether they are in violation of the rules.
SR3, s. 60
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60. Senate rule 59 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 59. How members may speak. Members may not speak except from their assigned places, and not more than twice on a question, except on leave of the senate. If a question pending is lost by adjournment and revived on the succeeding roll call day, a member who spoke twice on the preceding roll call day may not again speak without leave of the senate.
SR3, s. 61
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61. Senate rule 60 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 60. Personal privilege. Members may rise to explain matters personal to themselves by leave of the presiding officer, but may not discuss pending questions in the explanations. Questions of personal privilege are limited to questions affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of the members in their representative capacities. A member's right to speak on a point of personal privilege shall have has precedence over all other questions except a motion to adjourn or a motion to raise a call.
SR3, s. 62
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62. Senate rule 62 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 62. Stating motions. When a motion is made, it shall be stated by the presiding officer shall state it or read by the chief clerk, previous shall read it prior to debate. If any a member requires it, all motions, except to adjourn, postpone, or refer, shall be reduced to writing. Except as provided in rule 67, any motion may be withdrawn by consent of the
senate majority of those present.
SR3, s. 63
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63. Senate rule 63 (2) is amended to read:
Senate Rule 63 (2) These several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are set forth in this rule.
SR3, s. 64
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64. Senate rule 64 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 64. Motion to adjourn always in order. A motion to adjourn shall is always be in order except when the senate is voting. However, a member may not move an adjournment when another member has the floor and 2 consecutive motions to adjourn are not in order unless other business intervenes. A motion to adjourn to a time certain or to recess shall have has the same privilege as a motion to adjourn, but such motions shall have the order of precedence prescribed in rule 63.
SR3, s. 65
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65. Senate rule 65 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 65. Laying on table. (1) A motion to lay on the table has only the effect of disposing of the matter temporarily and it may be taken from the table at any time by order of the senate majority of those present.
(2) A motion to lay a proposal on the table shall, if approved, have has the effect of returning the matter to the committee on senate organization.
(3) A motion to remove a proposal from the table shall, if approved, have has the effect of withdrawing the matter from the committee on senate organization and placing it on the calendar.
SR3, s. 66
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66. Senate rule 67 (1), (3), (6), (7) and (8) are amended to read:
Senate Rule 67 (1) A motion to reconsider a question may be made by any a member having the floor who voted with the majority, or whose position recorded under rule 75 agreed with the majority. In the case of a voice vote or tie vote, the motion for reconsideration may be offered by any a member not recorded absent on the question that is moved to be reconsidered. The motion for reconsideration is subject to all rules governing debate that apply to the question moved to reconsider.
(3) The motion for reconsideration shall be made on the same or the next succeeding legislative roll call day and it shall be received under any order of business.
(6) A motion for reconsideration, when made on the same day as the action that is moved to be reconsidered, and not acted upon due to adjournment, other than adjournment under call on the question, expires with adjournment, but if made on the following day is not lost by adjournment. A motion to reconsider amendments to a bill proposal is in order notwithstanding the bill's proposal's advancement to a 3rd reading and a motion to reconsider the advancement is in order notwithstanding the suspension of the rules to take final action if the motions for reconsideration are otherwise timely and in order. Reconsideration of amendments under this rule shall have has the same priority as to order of action as to amend under rule 63.
(7) Whenever a bill proposal is returned from the assembly, the governor, or elsewhere for further action pursuant to the senate's request for the return, motions for reconsideration necessarily incident to opening the bill proposal for further action shall be admitted regardless of the time limitation otherwise imposed by this rule. Action on executive vetoes or appointments or any motion to suspend the rules shall is not be subject to a motion for reconsideration.
(8) A motion for reconsideration, once entered, may only be withdrawn by the member making the motion, and only within the time when the motion by another member would still be timely; later only by consent of or action by the senate.
SR3, s. 67
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67. Senate rule 68 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 68. Questions to be decided without debate. A motion to adjourn, to adjourn to a fixed time, to take a recess, to lay on the table, to take from the table, to place a call, to raise a call, to grant a leave, to suspend the rules, or to reconsider a nondebatable question or a call for the current or previous question, are decided without debate. And all and may not be placed on the table. All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for any of the questions named in this rule, and pending the motion, is decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
SR3, s. 68
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68. Senate rule 69 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 69. Privileged motion or resolution. A motion or resolution relating to the organization or procedure proceedings of the senate, or to any of its officers, members, or committees, is privileged in that it need not lie over for consideration, but may be taken up immediately unless referred to the calendar or committee.
SR3, s. 69
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69. Senate rule 70 is amended to read:
Senate Rule 70. Division of question.
Any A member may call for the division of a question, which shall be divided if it consists of propositions in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain remains for the decision of the senate. A motion to delete and substitute is indivisible, but a motion to delete being lost does not preclude an amendment or a motion to delete and substitute. Division of action directly upon the substance of a proposal, as to pass, advance to a 3rd reading, indefinitely postpone, or any equivalent, which division may be accomplished by an amendment, are not permitted under this rule.
SR3, s. 70
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70. Senate rule 72 (2) and (3) are amended to read:
Senate Rule 72 (2) Members shall remain in their seats and shall may not be disturbed by any other person while the ayes and noes are being called.
