Wisconsin Legislature: SR3, s. 72

SR3, s. 61 Section 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 Section 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 Except as provided in rule 67, any motion may be withdrawn by consent of the senate majority of those present.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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Section 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.

(3) A request for a roll call shall is not be in order after the result of the vote has been announced.

SR3, s. 71 Section 71. Senate rule 73 (1) is amended to read:

Senate Rule 73 (1) All members present when a question is put shall vote as their names are called. For a special cause the senate may excuse a member from voting, but it shall is not be in order for a member to be excused after the senate has commenced voting.

SR3, s. 72 Section 72. Senate rule 74 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 74. Explanation of vote not allowed. Explanation by a member of his or her vote, at the time of the calling of the member's name, shall is not be allowed.

SR3, s. 73 Section 73. Senate rule 76 is renumbered senate rule 76 (1) and amended to read:

Senate Rule 76 (1) The committee on senate organization may, or the majority leader and the minority leader if that committee does not object may jointly, designate time Time limits and schedules for debate may be designated in the manner described in sub. (2). The time limits may be rejected or modified by majority vote of the senate, but this question is not debatable. The schedules and time limits shall be announced by the presiding officer immediately upon being presented. Promptly at the expiration of the time allotted, the presiding officer shall put the question.

SR3, s. 74 Section 74. Senate rule 76 (2) is created to read:

Senate Rule 76 (2) Time limits and schedules for debate may be designated under sub. (1) by any of the following means:

(a) By the committee on senate organization.

(b) Jointly by the majority leader and the minority leader, if the committee on senate organization does not object.

SR3, s. 75 Section 75. Senate rule 77 (3) is amended to read:

Senate Rule 77 (3) When any a matter is under consideration any a member may move the "previous question" or that the "previous question be put." The motion shall is not be debatable and if carried by a majority the main question then pending before the senate shall be put without debate.

SR3, s. 76 Section 76. Senate rule 78 (1) and (3) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 78 (1) The previous question being moved, the question shall then be is: "Shall the main question be now put?", which question is determined by the ayes and noes. The main question being ordered to be now put, its effect is to end all debate, and bring the senate to a direct vote upon the main question.

(3) Ordering the previous question at any stage of a proposal shall preclude precludes debate on all questions under that order, but not upon a motion to reconsider the question terminating that order.

SR3, s. 77 Section 77. Senate rule 80 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 80. But one call of the senate in order. On motion for the previous question, and before the ordering of the main question, one call of the senate is in order; but after proceedings under the call have been once dispensed with, or after a majority has ordered orders the main question, a call is not in order before the decision of the question.

SR3, s. 78 Section 78. Senate rule 82 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 82. Putting question. (1) On a call of the senate being moved, the presiding officer shall say: "It requiring 5 senators to make a call of the senate, those in favor of the call will shall rise." And, if a sufficient number rise, the call shall be thereby ordered without debate.

(2) When a motion for a call of the senate has failed fails of the support of the necessary 5 members, and announcement of that fact has been is made, a 2nd motion for a call on the same question is not in order unless other business intervenes.

SR3, s. 79 Section 79. Senate rule 85 (5) is amended to read:

Senate Rule 85 (5) Raising call. A motion to raise one or more calls takes precedence over every other motion, except a motion to adjourn. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members who are then those present is required for adoption. Upon adoption of a motion to raise one or more calls, business shall be taken up at the point at which it was interrupted by the call, except that motions to recess or adjourn take precedence over the question on which the call was raised, and subsequent calls on motions unrelated to progress of a proposal are in order. The motion to raise a call is not amendable.

SR3, s. 80 Section 80. Senate rule 86 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 86. Sergeant at arms may report. The sergeant at arms may make a report of the proceedings under the call at any time. The motion to accept the report is determined by ayes and noes. The call may not be raised unless a majority of the members who are then those present vote in favor of the motion. If the report is not accepted, the sergeant at arms shall proceed to a completion of the duties under rule 84.

SR3, s. 81 Section 81. Senate rule 87 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 87. Call raised when absentees present and business disposed of. When the sergeant at arms reports that all who were absent without leave are present and names them, the report shall be entered on the journal. The call shall end ends as soon as the business, pending when the call was made, is disposed of.

SR3, s. 82 Section 82. Senate rule 88 (1) and (3) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 88 (1) The committee on senate organization shall have has general supervision and direction over all employees of the senate and may supervise or assign supervision over employees as it considers proper to the chief clerk, to the sergeant at arms, or to members of the senate.

(3) Employees may not be allowed compensation except for such time as they are actually in attendance, except when absent with leave granted by their superior officers. Employees are not exempt from this provision on any day of the week. All employees shall perform such duties in connection with the work of the senate as are assigned to them by their superior officers, and shall be available at such hours as their superior officers direct.

SR3, s. 83 Section 83. Senate rule 90 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 90. Creating, amending, or repealing rules. Senate rules may be created, amended, or repealed by resolution adopted by a vote of a majority of the senate membership presently serving. The vote is taken by ayes and noes. The resolution shall set forth the precise detail of the proposed creation, amendment, or repeal. After the senate rules have been established at the commencement of the legislative biennium biennial session, any resolution to change the senate rules shall must lay over one week.

SR3, s. 84 Section 84. Senate rule 92 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 92. Continuity of senate rules. Senate rules are effective until amended or rescinded repealed by the senate. Senate rules remain in force at the beginning of a succeeding regular biennial session until superseded by rules adopted by the senate in the succeeding biennial session of the legislature.

SR3, s. 85 Section 85. Senate rule 93 (intro.), (1) and (6) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 93. Special, extended, or extraordinary sessions. (intro.) Unless otherwise provided by the senate for a specific special, extended, or extraordinary session, the rules of the senate adopted for the regular biennial session shall, with the following modifications, apply to each special session called by the governor and to each extended or extraordinary session called by the senate and assembly organization committees or called by a joint resolution approved by both houses:

(1) A senate proposal or amendment may not be considered unless it is germane to the subjects enumerated by the governor in the proclamation calling the special session or to the subjects enumerated by the committees on organization or in the joint resolution calling the extended or extraordinary session and accomplishes the special purposes for which the special session was convened or the business specified in the action authorizing the extended floorperiod or extraordinary session.

(1p) A senate proposal may not be considered unless it is recommended to be introduced or offered by the committee on senate organization, the senate committee on finance, the joint committee on finance, the joint committee on legislative organization, or by the joint committee on employment relations.

(6) Any motion to advance a proposal and any motion to message a proposal to the other house assembly may be adopted by a majority of those present and voting.

SR3, s. 86 Section 86. Senate rule 94 (1) is amended to read:

Senate Rule 94 (1) Whenever directed to do so by the committee on senate organization, the chief clerk shall recompile and publish the senate manual containing the senate rules, the joint rules of the senate and assembly, and the constitution of this state, together with appropriate directories of the members of the legislature, legislative employees, accredited correspondents of the news media, a detailed alphabetical index, and such other information approved by the committee on senate organization as is useful to the members of the senate. In recompiling the senate manual, the chief clerk shall make the spelling and other minor corrections authorized to be made in legislation under rule 31 (1) and (4) and shall consult with the legislative reference bureau to make any references to provisions of the constitution, statutes, joint rules, or senate rules conform to the numbers then assigned to the provisions.

SR3, s. 87 Section 87. Senate rule 96 (1) and (3) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 96 (1) The committee on senate organization may request from the legislative fiscal bureau an original fiscal estimate on any a bill if the committee believes that a fiscal estimate on the bill will not be completed by the state agency assigned to prepare the fiscal estimate before the bill receives a public hearing, is voted on by a senate standing committee, or is considered by the senate.

(3) Unless otherwise determined by the senate, failure to receive a fiscal estimate requested under sub. (1) on a bill that already has one or more original fiscal estimates shall does not delay consideration of the bill. Unless otherwise determined by the senate, failure to receive a fiscal estimate requested other than under sub. (1) on a bill that already has one or more original fiscal estimates requested under sub. (1) shall does not delay consideration of the bill.

SR3, s. 88 Section 88. Senate rule 97 is amended to read:

Senate Rule 97. Space assignments. At the commencement of each biennial session, the committee on senate organization shall assign to each member the seat to be occupied by that member during the biennial term session. The schedule of room assignments to members and committees, and the schedule of meetings of standing committees, shall follow the schedule of the previous biennial session unless changed by vote of the committee on senate organization.

SR3, s. 89 Section 89. Senate rule 98 (intro.) is renumbered senate rule 98 (1) and amended to read:

Senate Rule 98 (1) Any A member of the senate may sponsor a citation on behalf of the senate to a particular person, group, or organization or to commemorate a particular event or occasion as specified in the citation. Citations may be issued during any floorperiod as well as, during any committee work period, or during the interim period scheduled for the of committee work of the interim committees. Citations are issued without formal approval by vote of the senate.

SR3, s. 90 Section 90. Senate rule 98 (1) is renumbered senate rule 98 (1m) and amended to read:

Senate Rule 98 (1m) Citations may be used in place of resolutions for commendations, congratulations, and condolences of persons, groups, or organizations or to give recognition to unusual and important events or occasions, except that the use of citations shall may not be abused. The committee on senate organization may more specifically interpret this subsection.

SR3, s. 91 Section 91. Senate rule 98 (3) and (4) (intro.) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 98 (3) A The president and chief clerk shall sign a citation on behalf of the senate shall be signed by the president and by the chief clerk. If so signed, it is considered approved by the senate and shall be so recorded in the journal. The issuing senator may also sign the citation. If the president or chief clerk refuses to approve a citation, the committee on senate organization may require the president and chief clerk to approve it. A copy of the finished citation shall be provided to the issuing senator, and another copy thereof shall be filed in the legislative reference bureau.

(4) (intro.) All citations on behalf of the senate shall must be prepared on an artistic form, shall must first be approved by the committee on senate organization, shall must be suitable for framing, and shall must be in substantially the following form:

SR3, s. 92 Section 92. Senate rule 99 (3) to (8), (16), (17), (20), (27) to (28), (33), (35), (36), (39), (40), (44), (48), (50), (50m), (52) to (54), (57m), (59), (62), (63), (66), (70) to (73) and (79) are amended to read:

Senate Rule 99 (3) Adoption: Approval of a motion, amendment, substitute amendment, simple resolution, or joint resolution [see also subs. (16) and (54)].

(4) Amendment: A suggested alteration in any a proposal or amendment, often referred to as a simple amendment in distinction to a substitute amendment, which is intended to take the place of the proposal.

(5) Appeal: A member's challenge of a ruling on a point of order. To prevail, an appeal requires the support of a majority of the members present a quorum.

(7) Bill: A proposed change of law originating in either house, requiring passage by one house and concurrence of the other house of the legislature and approval of the governor, or passage notwithstanding the objections of the governor by a two-thirds vote in each house, or that becomes law without the signature of the governor, before becoming effective.

(8) Calendar: The agenda for any a legislative day.

(16) Concurrence: The action by which one house agrees to a proposal or action of the other house [see also subs. (3) and (54)].

(17) Conference committee Committee of conference: A committee of representatives to the assembly and of senators, appointed to resolve differences on a specific proposal.

(20) Current membership: The members of one of the houses, certified as elected in the last general election, omitting those who have subsequently resigned, have been removed, or have died.