SR3,17,1813
(3) Resolutions offering commendations, congratulations, or condolences,
14memorializing congress or an individual, or affecting senate or legislative rules or
15procedures proceedings are declared not to be within the meaning of the term
16"business" under the constitutional provision limiting the matters to be considered
17during special sessions to those enumerated in the governor's call for a special
18session.
SR3, s. 29
19Section
29. Senate rule 33 (3) is renumbered senate rule 93 (1d).
SR3, s. 30
20Section
30. Senate rule 34 (1) and (4) are amended to read:
SR3,17,23
21Senate Rule 34
(1) All bills and joint resolutions, and all resolutions except
22those privileged for immediate consideration under rule 69,
shall, after being
23distributed,
must lay over one day before being considered.
SR3,18,724
(4)
Any proposal for a certificate A proposed citation under joint rule 7 shall,
25when received by the senate and whether originating in this house or in the
1assembly, be laid aside to allow time to examine the
proposal proposed citation for
2its
appropriateness under compliance with joint rule 7 (1)
, (1m), and (2). Upon
3approval by the president and the chief clerk, the
proposals citations are
deemed 4considered approved by the senate and shall be so recorded in the journal. If the
5president or chief clerk refuses to approve a
proposal for a certificate proposed
6citation, the committee on senate organization may require the president and chief
7clerk to approve it. A written committee report is not necessary.
SR3, s. 31
8Section
31. Senate rule 35 is amended to read:
SR3,18,12
9Senate Rule 35.
Three separate readings. Every bill, and every joint
10resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution,
shall must receive 3
11separate readings by relating clause
previous prior to its passage except where
12otherwise provided, but
shall may not receive 2 readings on the same day.
SR3, s. 32
13Section
32. Senate rule 36 (1), (1m) and (2) are amended to read:
SR3,18,19
14Senate Rule 36
(1) On the first reading, every bill requiring 3 readings under
15rule 35 and all resolutions not privileged by rule 69 shall be referred to the
16appropriate committee. The
president shall determine the appropriate committee
17shall be determined by the president under rule 46 and
shall be announced by the
18chief clerk
shall announce referral under the proper order of business. This rule
19applies to proposals originating in either house.
SR3,19,220
(1m)
(a) On any legislative day when a report, showing the number and relating
21clause of proposals
introduced or offered
for introduction together with the
22president's referral, has been provided to the members
prior to before the 2nd order
23of business,
such the provision
shall serve serves as the first reading and the
24announcement of the referral of
such the proposals, and the content of the report
25shall be entered in the daily journal under the appropriate order of business.
1Rereferral under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy
2section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.
SR3,19,83
(b) Whenever
the introduction and referral of a senate proposal
is introduced
4or offered and referred or
the receipt and referral of an assembly proposal
occurs is
5received and referred on a day on which the senate does not meet, the chief
clerk shall
6record in the journal the appropriate information concerning the proposal and such
7recording shall constitute clerk's act of recording the proposal in the journal under
8rule 46 (1) (b) constitutes the proposal's first reading.
SR3,19,139
(2)
(a) All bills introduced in the senate which by
any statute require reference
10in the senate to a particular committee shall be so referred upon first reading and
11all assembly bills when received from the assembly shall be so referred upon first
12reading except where the assembly record on the bill discloses that the statutory
13requirement has been satisfied by reference to the committee in the assembly.
SR3,19,1614
(b) Only one such reference is required under this rule and the adoption of an
15amendment does not require rereference, but
such rereference may be ordered by the
16senate at any time before passage or concurrence.
SR3,19,2317
(c) Notwithstanding par. (a), the president may refer
any a bill that pertains
18only incidentally to a matter of concern to a joint survey committee directly to the
19committee appropriate to the major substance of that bill, and in that case shall
20direct the appropriate joint survey committee to prepare its report on the bill while
21that bill is in the possession of the other committee. This rule does not suspend the
22requirement that the report of the appropriate joint survey committee must be
23received before the bill is given its 2nd reading.
SR3, s. 33
24Section
33. Senate rule 37 (2) and (3) are amended to read:
SR3,20,2
1Senate Rule 37 (2) All amendments to
the bill a proposal shall be retained in
2the original
bill jacket
for the proposal.
SR3,20,53
(3) Amendments to a substitute
amendment already adopted are in order
4before the bill or resolution is ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time without
5reconsideration of the adoption of the substitute
amendment.
SR3, s. 34
6Section
34. Senate rule 38 is amended to read:
SR3,20,13
7Senate Rule 38.
Third reading; question. (1) Upon the 3rd reading of the
8bill the question is
stated thus: "This bill having been read 3 separate times, the
9question is, "Shall the bill pass' or "Shall the bill be concurred in'," as the case may
10be, or other appropriate language may be used. A proposal on the calendar for 3rd
11reading is not subject to amendment but it may, on motion or by unanimous consent
, 12be referred back to 2nd reading for the consideration of proposed amendments.
Such
13a The motion requires a majority vote and is debatable.
SR3,20,1814
(2) The position of a proposal on the calendar for 3rd reading is subject to
15removal from that position if
such the removal is necessitated by a motion for
16reconsideration that is pending or decided under rule 67, but if the motion is
17negatively decided before the proposal is reached for consideration under that order,
18the position of the proposal under the order remains unchanged.
SR3, s. 35
19Section
35. Senate rule 40 is amended to read:
SR3,21,2
20Senate Rule 40.
Bill Proposal amended on 3rd reading to be
21reengrossed. If a senate proposal ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time is
22amended or otherwise changed it shall be reengrossed before being read a 3rd time.
23Any senate proposal that passed the senate with amendments shall be engrossed
24under the supervision of the chief clerk before being messaged to the assembly.
1However, if the amendment is an unamended substitute
amendment, the original
2substitute
amendment is the bill.
SR3, s. 36
3Section
36. Senate rule 41 (1) (a) to (d) and (2) are amended to read:
SR3,21,9
4Senate Rule 41
(1) (a)
Any A proposal or other matter may be rereferred at any
5time
previous prior to its passage, except that a motion to withdraw from committee
6may not take effect
before a during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee
7hearing
if a hearing has been scheduled when the motion to withdraw is made during
8the week in which the proposal or other matter is scheduled for a public hearing or
9the 7 days following the date on which a committee hearing is held.
SR3,21,1310
(b) A motion to rerefer or withdraw is in order, but the question is divisible, and
11the senate having once refused to rerefer or withdraw a proposal or other matter from
12committee, any subsequent motion to rerefer or withdraw
shall require requires a
13suspension of the rules.
SR3,21,1814
(c) A motion to withdraw a matter from the committee on senate organization
15shall, if approved,
place places the matter on the calendar. A motion to withdraw a
16matter from any other committee
shall, if approved,
place places the matter in the
17committee on senate organization unless the senate rerefers the matter to a different
18committee.
SR3,21,2519
(d) Whenever a bill is introduced in the senate or assembly under section 227.19
20(5) (e) or 227.26 (2) (f) of the statutes, the bill is considered reported without
21recommendation and shall be placed before the committee on senate organization if
22a report is not received from the standing committee within 30 days after the date
23of referral. This paragraph does not apply if the bill is introduced within 30 days
24after the time at which further proposals may not be introduced
or offered in the
25regular biennial session under joint rule 83 (2).
SR3,22,5
1(2) Reference to committee is not in order after a proposal
has been is passed
2or indefinitely postponed or finally disposed of by any action equivalent thereto.
3Questions of reconsideration, concurrence in amendments of the
other house 4assembly, conference committee reports, or executive vetoes may be placed on the
5table, but
shall may not be referred to committee.
SR3, s. 37
6Section
37. Senate rule 42 is amended to read:
SR3,22,15
7Senate Rule 42.
Messaging to the assembly; proposals held during
8reconsideration period. (1) Every bill or joint resolution upon which such action
9has been taken that it is next to be messaged to the assembly shall be so messaged
10by the chief clerk, but shall be held in the chief clerk's office until the time for
11reconsideration of the bill or joint resolution has expired. If the rules have been
12suspended for immediate messaging, the chief clerk shall enter the action in the
13history file for the bill or joint resolution. Every privileged joint resolution
shall be 14is messaged immediately
without a suspension of the rules unless it is otherwise
15ordered by the senate.
SR3,22,2016
(2) A bill or joint resolution that has been ordered immediately messaged to the
17assembly by the suspension of this rule is subject to further action by the senate while
18the bill or joint resolution is in
actual physical possession of the senate. The further
19action is contingent upon a motion to rescind the action of ordering its immediate
20messaging being decided by a two-thirds vote.
SR3, s. 38
21Section
38. Senate rule 45 is amended to read:
SR3,23,2
22Senate Rule 45.
Offering of privileged resolution. Any A resolution
23privileged by rule 69 shall, when sent to the clerk's desk, be read at length by the chief
24clerk, but may be read by its relating clause if copies of the text have been distributed
1to the members. When so read, the privileged resolution is
considered to be before
2the senate.
SR3, s. 39
3Section
39. Senate rule 46 (1) is renumbered senate rule 46 (1) (a) and
4amended to read:
SR3,23,11
5Senate Rule 46
(1) (a) Proposals, amendments, petitions, reports,
6communications, or other documents that may properly come before the senate shall
7be presented by a member thereof to the chief clerk, or a staff member designated by
8the chief clerk, at anytime
, except as otherwise provided in senate rule 93 (1p) and
9joint rule 83 (2). A brief statement of the contents thereof
shall must appear thereon,
10together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. If a
11document is to be reproduced, the chief clerk shall number the document.
SR3, s. 40
12Section
40. Senate rule 46 (1) (b) is created to read:
SR3,23,17
13Senate Rule 46 (1) (b) The chief clerk shall announce each document
14introduced or offered under par. (a), and each proposal received from the assembly,
15on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. The document or
16proposal shall be recorded in the first journal published after the document or
17proposal is received by the chief clerk.
SR3, s. 41
18Section
41. Senate rule 46 (2) is amended to read:
SR3,23,22
19Senate Rule 46 (2)
(a) The chief clerk shall advise the president of documents
20that must be referred under the rules and the president shall promptly refer the
21document to the appropriate committee.
The chief clerk shall announce the referral
22on the next session day upon reaching the appropriate order of business.
SR3,24,223
(b) Within 3 working days after the time of initial referral by the president
24under rule 4
(10) (2), a proposed rule may, with consent of the chairperson of the
25standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is
1referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Such action does not extend
2the standing committee review period. Rereferral may be made at any time.
SR3,24,83
(c) Within 5 working days after the time of initial referral by the president
4under rule 36 (2),
any a proposal or appointment may, with the consent of the
5chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee
6to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Rereferral
7under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section
813.093 (1) of the statutes.
SR3, s. 42
9Section
42. Senate rule 46 (2) (d) is created to read:
SR3,24,14
10Senate Rule 46 (2) (d) The chief clerk shall announce each referral, or
11withdrawal and rereferral, provided for under the senate rules on the next session
12day under the appropriate order of business. Each referral, or withdrawal and
13rereferral, shall be recorded in the first journal published after the referral, or
14withdrawal and rereferral, occurs.
SR3, s. 43
15Section
43. Senate rule 46 (5) is amended to read:
SR3,24,22
16Senate Rule 46 (5) A proposed amendment that is offered
shall must have a
17heading stating the number of the proposal that it is proposed to amend and the
18name of the member proposing the amendment. The chief clerk shall read the
19number of the amendment. The amendment shall be reproduced. The jacket copy
20of the amendment shall be placed in the jacket and copies shall be distributed as
21provided by the rules.
Amendments filed shall be recorded at the end of each day's
22journal.
SR3, s. 44
23Section
44. Senate rule 47 (3) and (4) are amended to read:
SR3,25,3
24Senate Rule 47 (3)
Any A senate resolution or joint resolution that does not
25propose an amendment to the constitution may be referred directly to the committee
1on senate organization. When placed on the calendar under rule 18 such resolutions
2shall be placed under the proper "2nd reading" order of business and, upon reading,
3the question is directly upon adoption or concurrence.
SR3,25,74
(4) During consideration of amendments when both simple amendments and
5substitute amendments to a proposal are pending, the question
shall, in ascending
6numerical order
be, is first upon amendments to the substitute amendment, unless
7the senate by majority vote otherwise orders.
SR3, s. 45
8Section
45. Senate rule 48 is amended to read:
SR3,25,13
9Senate Rule 48.
Reading of amendments. The
chief clerk shall read the full
10text of each amendment
shall be read to the members
by the chief clerk, and the
11presiding officer shall state the number of each amendment
shall be stated by the
12presiding officer, but
the reading at length may not occur for amendments that have
13been distributed to the members
may not be read at length.
SR3, s. 46
14Section
46. Senate rule 49 is amended to read:
SR3,25,23
15Senate Rule 49
Offering amendments. Amendments shall be numbered in
16the order received, and shall bear the name of the member or the committee offering
17the same. Amendments shall be prepared in proper form by the legislative reference
18bureau, and
shall must be offered in compliance with rule 29; except that when the
19proposal is debated on 2nd reading amendments may be offered from the floor. The
20chief clerk shall have amendments offered from the floor drawn in proper form as
21soon as possible and before the
bill proposal is subsequently engrossed and delivered
22to a committee or to the assembly. This provision does not delay action upon an
23amendment offered from the floor.
SR3, s. 47
24Section
47. Senate rule 50 (title) is amended to read:
SR3,26,2
1Senate Rule 50 (title)
Amendments Substitute amendments and
2amendments must be germane, general statement
.
SR3, s. 48
3Section
48. Senate rule 50 (1) is renumbered senate rule 50 (1m) and amended
4to read:
SR3,26,10
5Senate Rule 50 (1m) A standing committee may not report any substitute
6amendment or amendment
for any to a proposal originating in either house
and
7referred to the committee, and the senate may not consider any substitute
8amendment or amendment
to a proposal, that
relates to a different subject, is
9intended to accomplish a different purpose, or would totally alter the nature of the
10original is not germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 49
11Section
49. Senate rule 50 (1) is created to read:
SR3,26,13
12Senate Rule 50 (1) Every substitute amendment and amendment to a proposal
13must be germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 50
14Section
50. Senate rule 50 (2) to (4) are amended to read:
SR3,26,20
15Senate rule 50 (2)
Any substitute or A substitute amendment or amendment
16reported involving sub. (1) to a proposal may not be considered
whenever, before its
17adoption, the senate is advised that the same is in violation of this rule, and if the
18presiding officer rules
on the admissibility of the substitute or amendment when the
19question is raised that the substitute amendment or amendment is not germane to
20that proposal.
SR3,26,2321
(3) The
senate may consider presiding officer may rule only on the germaneness
22of
a senate
substitutes and amendments substitute amendment or amendment and 23only
, and only when the substitute
amendment or amendment is before the senate.
SR3,26,2524
(4) An amendment to an amendment
to a proposal must be germane to the
25amendment as well as to
the original that proposal.
SR3, s. 51
1Section
51. Senate rule 50 (5) is repealed.
SR3, s. 52
2Section
52. Senate rule 50 (6) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (intro.) and
3amended to read:
SR3,27,7
4Senate rule 50 (6) (intro.)
An amendment otherwise germane which adds or
5repeals material previously adopted or rejected by the senate in another bill is
6germane. An identical The following substitute amendments or amendments are not
7germane:
SR3,27,13
8(a) A substitute amendment or amendment
or an amendment that is identical
9in effect to one previously
rejected offered and disposed of as another
substitute
10amendment or amendment to the same
bill or identical to a proposal currently before
11the senate is not germane, but such amendments are germane if not identical with
12prior rejected amendments to the same bill or proposals currently before the senate 13proposal.
SR3, s. 53
14Section
53. Senate rule 50 (7) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (b) and
15amended to read:
SR3,27,22
16Senate rule 50 (6) (b) A substitute
amendment or amendment
relating to a
17specific subject or to a general class is not germane to a bill relating to a proposal that
18relates to a
subject that is different
specific subject, but an amendment limiting the
19scope of the proposal is germane from the subject of that proposal, that is intended
20to accomplish a purpose that is different from the purpose of that proposal, that
21negates that proposal entirely, or that substitutes another proposal pending before
22the senate.
SR3, s. 54
23Section
54. Senate rule 50 (8) is renumbered senate rule 50 (8) (intro.) and
24amended to read:
SR3,28,2
1Senate rule 50 (8) (intro.)
Amendments The following substitute
2amendments and amendments are germane:
SR3,28,6
3(a) A substitute amendment or amendment proposing
methods a method of
4raising revenues
are germane to for an appropriation
bills and amendments bill or 5proposing
appropriations are germane to an appropriation for a revenue
bills.
6Amendments bill.
SR3,28,8
7(b) A substitute amendment or amendment adding
appropriations an
8appropriation necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal
are germane.
SR3, s. 55
9Section
55. Senate rule 50 (9) to (11) are repealed.
SR3, s. 56
10Section
56. Senate rule 51 is amended to read:
SR3,28,15
11Senate Rule 51.
Amendment in the 3rd degree prohibited. Amendments
12beyond the degree of an amendment to an amendment to the main proposition are
13prohibited. For the purposes of this rule
any a substitute amendment, and
any an 14assembly amendment to a senate proposal or amendment, are considered a main
15proposition.
SR3, s. 57
16Section
57. Senate rule 52 is amended to read:
SR3,28,20
17Senate rule 52
Motions to be germane; how bills may not be amended. 18A motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration may not
19be admitted under color of amendment.
A proposal may not be amended by annexing
20thereto or incorporating therein any other proposal pending before the senate.
SR3, s. 58
21Section
58. Senate rule 55 is amended to read:
SR3,28,25
22Senate Rule 55.
Order of action. If adverse action is recommended by a
23committee, that question
shall be is put first. However, the senate may direct the
24consideration of amendments, but adoption of amendments does not change the
25question.
SR3, s. 59
1Section
59. Senate rule 58 is amended to read:
SR3,29,6
2Senate Rule 58.
Member out of order.
Any A member called to order shall
3sit down, and may not speak, except in explanation, until it is determined whether
4or not the member was in order. When a member is called to order for words spoken,
5the exceptional words shall be taken down in writing to better enable the presiding
6officer to judge whether they are in violation of the rules.
SR3, s. 60
7Section
60. Senate rule 59 is amended to read:
SR3,29,12
8Senate Rule 59.
How members may speak. Members may not speak except
9from their assigned places, and not more than twice on a question, except on leave
10of the senate. If a question pending is lost by adjournment and revived on the
11succeeding
roll call day, a member who spoke twice on the preceding
roll call day may
12not again speak without leave of the senate.
SR3, s. 61
13Section
61. Senate rule 60 is amended to read:
SR3,29,20
14Senate Rule 60.
Personal privilege. Members may rise to explain matters
15personal to themselves by leave of the presiding officer, but may not discuss pending
16questions in the explanations. Questions of personal privilege are limited to
17questions affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of the members in their
18representative capacities. A member's right to speak on a point of personal privilege
19shall have has precedence over all other questions except a motion to adjourn or a
20motion to raise a call.
SR3, s. 62
21Section
62. Senate rule 62 is amended to read:
SR3,30,2
22Senate Rule 62.
Stating motions. When a motion is made,
it shall be stated
23by the presiding officer
shall state it or
read by the chief clerk
, previous shall read
24it prior to debate. If
any a member requires it, all motions, except to adjourn,
1postpone, or refer, shall be reduced to writing. Except as provided in rule 67, any
2motion may be withdrawn by consent of the
senate
majority of those present.
SR3, s. 63
3Section
63. Senate rule 63 (2) is amended to read:
SR3,30,5
4Senate Rule 63 (2) These several motions
shall have precedence in the order
5in which they are set forth in this rule.