Amendment AA12-AR3

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 12, TO 2001 ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 3

January 30, 2001 - Offered by Representative Carpenter.

AR3-AA12,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the resolution as follows:

AR3-AA12,1,2 1. Page 19, line 16: after that line insert:

AR3-AA12,1,3 " Section 23m. Assembly rule 22 is created to read:

AR3-AA12,1,6 Assembly Rule 22. Committees of conference. (1) At least one member of the assembly appointed to a conference committee shall be a member of the minority party.

AR3-AA12,1,11 (2) If the conference committee, or a successor conference committee, is unable to agree within 30 days after the appointment of the committee, another conference committee consisting of members who have not served on the conference committee or a successor conference committee shall be appointed by the speaker within 5 days and may proceed to further consideration of the proposal.

AR3-AA12,1,12 (3) A committee of conference shall meet on the call of either cochairperson.

AR3-AA12,2,7 (4) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (b), a committee of conference shall be a "closed conference," with the authority of the members of the committee limited to reconciling the differences in the positions of the 2 houses as reflected by the proposal, as engrossed by the first house, and the proposal, as concurred in and amended by the 2nd house, or as amended and nonconcurred in by the 2nd house, with any position of the joint committee on finance, as reflected by an amendment or substitute amendment to the proposal offered by the joint committee on finance.

AR3-AA12,2,11 (b) A committee of conference may consider and may recommend the approval of and concurrence in any issue not authorized under par. (a) if the governor submits to the committee of conference a written finding that an emergency requires the inclusion of the issue in the report of the committee and:

AR3-AA12,2,14 1. Either the presiding officers of both houses or both cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance submit to the committee a written concurrence with the finding; or

AR3-AA12,2,16 2. A majority of the members of the committee from each house vote, before the committee votes to recommend the report, to include the issue in the report.

AR3-AA12,2,20 (5) A report of a committee of conference may not be amended and may not be divided. The assembly may not consider a report if it contains an agreement that recommends the approval of and concurrence in any issue not authorized under sub. (4).".

AR3-AA12,2,21 (End)