(q) Bills to governor. No later than Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 4:30 p.m., the chief clerk of each house shall submit to the governor for executive action thereon all enrolled bills originating in the chief clerk's house and having been passed by both houses, in regular, extraordinary, or special session, on or before Thursday, November 14, 2013.
(r) Floorperiod. A floorperiod commences on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Thursday, January 23, 2014.
(s) Floorperiod. A floorperiod commences on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Thursday, February 20, 2014.
(t) Floorperiod. A floorperiod commences on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
(u) Last general-business floorperiod. The last general-business floorperiod commences on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Thursday, April 3, 2014.
(v) Bills to governor. No later than Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 4:30 p.m., the chief clerk of each house shall submit to the governor for executive action thereon all enrolled bills originating in the chief clerk's house and having been passed by both houses, in regular, extraordinary, or special session, on or before Thursday, April 3, 2014.
(w)
Limited-business floorperiod. A floorperiod commences on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Thursday, May 1, 2014, which is limited to matters allowed under joint rule
81m (2) and to considering resolutions offered for the purpose of extending the commendations, condolences, or congratulations of the legislature to a particular person, group, or organization, or of recognizing a particular event or occasion.
(x) Bills to governor. No later than Thursday, May 8, 2014, at 4:30 p.m., the chief clerk of each house shall submit to the governor for executive action thereon all enrolled bills originating in the chief clerk's house and having been passed by both houses, in regular, extraordinary, or special session, on or before Thursday, May 1, 2014.
(y)
Veto review floorperiod. A floorperiod, limited to matters allowed under joint rule
82 (1m), commences on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 10 a.m., and, unless adjourned earlier, ends on Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
(z) Bills to governor. No later than Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at 4:30 p.m., the chief clerk of each house shall submit to the governor for executive action thereon all enrolled bills originating in the chief clerk's house and having been passed by both houses, in regular, extraordinary, or special session, on or before Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
(3) Interim period of committee work; no further introductions. Upon the adjournment of the May veto review floorperiod, there shall be an interim period of committee work ending on Monday, January 5, 2015. Unless the legislature is convened in one or more extraordinary or special sessions, no additional 2013 legislation may be offered during this interim period of committee work.
(4) Special and extraordinary sessions. (a) Adjournment. Except for consideration of executive vetoes or partial vetoes, a motion adopted in each house to adjourn a special or extraordinary session pursuant to this joint resolution shall constitute final adjournment of the special or extraordinary session.
(b) Bills to governor. No later than 4:30 p.m. on the first Thursday occurring 2 full weeks after the day a bill is passed by both houses in identical form after May 21, 2014, in special or extraordinary session, the chief clerk of the house in which it originated shall submit it to the governor for executive action thereon.
(c) Veto review. A special or extraordinary session shall reconvene upon a call of a majority of the members of the joint committee on legislative organization solely for the consideration of executive vetoes or partial vetoes if an enrolled bill passed by both houses during the special or extraordinary session was vetoed or partially vetoed.
(5)
End of term. The biennial term of the 2013 legislature ends on Monday, January 5, 2015. Pursuant to section
13.02 (1) of the statutes, the inauguration of the members of the 2015 legislature will be on Monday, January 5, 2015.
Section
2. Notice of 2015 session organization. Notice is hereby given that the biennial session of the 2015 legislature will hold its first meeting, pursuant to section
13.02 (1) of the statutes, on Monday, January 5, 2015, and that the meeting will begin at 2 p.m.
Alphabetical Index
Revised by Legislative Reference Bureau
(January 2013)
A
Joint Rule
Act, definition 99 (1)
Acts, Wisconsin:
index to, legislative reference bureau prepares 77 (5), (6)
numbered in continuous sequence for biennium 79 (6)
publication date and enactment date of (s.
35.095, stats.)
65
Address of the legislature, removal of judge
by (2/3 vote required) 12 (2)(c)
Adjourn, definition 99 (2)
Adjournment:
for more than 3 days requires consent of other house 13
smaller than majority 11 (3)
Administration, department of:
consolidates agency fiscal estimates 41 (3)(d)
coordinates fiscal estimate procedure 46
drafting requests, may submit to legislative
reference bureau 51 (2)
local fiscal effect 42 (1)(c)
minor clerical corrections in agency fiscal
estimates 41 (3)(i), 46 (5)
supplemental fiscal estimate
(if disagreement) 41 (3)(c), (f), 48 (3)
Administrative rules, review of proposed:
history, information recorded 32 (1)
notice of, published in journal 73 (4)
public hearing, announced in schedule of
committee activities 75
report on committee proceedings 31
status of legislative action on 78
Adoption, definition 99 (3)
Advance notice of committee activities 27, 75
Advance reproduction of bills, extraordinary
or special session 81 (2)(c)
Advice and consent on nominations 76 (1), 81 (3)(b)
Amendatory proposals and acts, display of text in 64
Amendment, definition 99 (4)
Amendment:
catalog of sections affected (in bill title) not changed by 52 (7)
clerical correction in, by chief clerk or legislative
reference bureau 56
constitution, Wisconsin or United States 57, 58
disagreement on, between houses 3 (1)
enacting or enabling clause (Joint Rule
52 (3)),
reinserted if deleted by amendment
56 (3)(a)
fiscal estimate not required 41 (2)(a), 48 (2)
major amendment, chief clerk may order
reproduction of engrossed 63
nonconcurrence by other house, how reconsidered
and rejected 2
offered by request, name to be recorded 55 (2)
offering of, 4 copies required 54 (2)
of statute law, how shown in text 52 (5), 64
receding from position on 2
supplemental fiscal estimate on bill as affected by
amendment may be requested:
by joint committee on finance 41 (3)(a)
by presiding officer on request of bill's author 41 (3)(b)
by primary author during 5-day review of bill's
estimate 48 (2)
title of proposal, how treated in 52 (7)
to United States constitution, how considered 58
to Wisconsin constitution, 2nd consideration 57
Analyses on substitute amendments 51m
Appeal, definition 99 (5)
Appropriation:
ayes and noes (3/5 quorum) required 11 (2)
fiscal estimates 41
increase or decrease, how shown in bill 52 (5)(b), 64 (1)(b)
Approval and jacketing of draft proposals 54
Assembly chamber, definition 99 (6)
Assembly organization, committee on, see Committee
on organization (of either house)
Author index to legislation, legislative reference
bureau prepares 77 (2), (3)
Authors, coauthors, and cosponsors on bills, joint
resolutions, citations 55 (1)
Ayes and noes required:
appropriation bill (quorum of 3/5 of members
elected required) 11 (2)
conference report approval (majority of quorum
or qualified majority) 3 (1)(b), (c)
constitutional amendment:
United States constitution (quorum of majority of
current membership (Joint Rules
11 and
12))
58 (2)
Wisconsin constitution (majority of members
elected) 12 (2)(f)
expulsion of member (2/3 of members elected) 12 (2)(b)
fiscal bills defined (3/5 quorum of members
elected required) 11 (2)
