jr64(1)(c) (c) Proposals in which identical words are substituted for other words in designated parts of existing law, if the designated parts in which the words occur are enumerated.
jr64(2) (2) In any official publication of any act or enrolled joint resolution, matter stricken out shall be shown with a line through the stricken matter and new matter shall be shown as plain text if all of the designated part is created and as underscored text if the designated part is otherwise treated.
[am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1)(intro.) and (2) am. 1991 SJR-1]
[(title) and (1)(intro.) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(1)(a) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(1)(a) and (2) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr65 Joint Rule 65. Inserting date of enactment and publication date of acts. Before it transmits the text of an act for reproduction, the legislative reference bureau shall insert the act number, the date of enactment as defined in section 35.095 (1) (a) of the statutes and the designated date of publication in the text of the act.
[am. 1987 SJR-48]
[am. 1997 AJR-1]
jr66 Joint Rule 66. Enrolled joint resolutions.
jr66(1)(1) All joint resolutions assigned an enrolled joint resolution number under joint rule 35 shall be included in the session laws. Others may be included in the session laws if the joint resolution so directs.
jr66(2) (2) Whenever more than one copy of a joint resolution is to be distributed, facsimile signatures of the several officers required to sign the resolutions may be used.
[(title), (1) and (2) am. 1997 AJR-1)
Chapter 8:
OTHER LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS
jr71 Joint Rule 71. Legislative manuals. The chief clerk of each house shall prepare a manual of procedure, which shall contain the matter as the house determines and has been customarily included in the manual. The chief clerks may prepare extracts of rules that have been changed or created for insertion in existing manuals for use until the new issues are available.
[am. 1997 AJR-1]
[am. 2001 AJR-15]
jr72 Joint Rule 72. Daily calendars. The quantity of daily calendars as ordered by the chief clerk of each house shall be reproduced. The format of the calendars shall for each house be as provided in the rules of that house or as directed by the committee on organization of that house.
[am. 1997 AJR-1]
jr73 Joint Rule 73. Daily journals.
jr73(1)(1) The chief clerk of each house shall prepare and transmit for reproduction, after the adjournment of each daily session, its daily journal.
jr73(2) (2) The journals shall contain a concise description of the business conducted by each house. Each proposal shall be identified in the journal by number and relating clause when it is introduced or offered, when reported by a committee, when first considered on any legislative day, or after significant business relating to another subject has intervened. All other journal references to the proposal shall be by number only. Either house may order any other of its proceedings included in its journal.
jr73(3) (3) All executive messages to the legislature, except veto messages and nominations for appointment requiring the advice and consent of the assembly, shall be included in the senate journal only. Executive pardon communications or reports and reports of the claims board under section 16.007 of the statutes and reports of lobbyist registrations required by section 13.685 (7) of the statutes shall be included in the senate journal. The report of a joint committee shall be included in the journal of the house in which the resolution or act creating the committee originated. Joint resolutions and amendments to bills and joint resolutions may not be included in the journal except as required by section 1 of article XII of the constitution.
jr73(4) (4) The presiding officer of each house shall direct that notice of receipt of any proposed administrative rule under section 227.19 of the statutes be included in the journal of the house, together with a notice of the standing committee to which the proposed rule is referred and the date of referral. The presiding officer shall direct that a similar notice be included whenever a proposed rule is withdrawn.
[(5) and (6) rn.; (4) cr. 1981 SJR-1]
[(2), (3), (5) and (6) am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1) to (5) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(5) rp.; (1), (2), (3), and (4) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr74 Joint Rule 74. Journals in book form.
jr74(1)(1) Within 90 days after the final adjournment of any biennial session of the legislature, the chief clerk of each house shall prepare the matter for its daily journal, which is required by the order of such house to be included therein; and any other matter, not already included in either journal, which is required to be included by joint action of the legislature, shall be prepared and transmitted by the chief clerk of the house in which the action originated.
jr74(2) (2) The journals for both houses shall be bound in cloth. The journals of regular, extraordinary, and special sessions may be bound together in the same volumes if the extraordinary or special session is called before the journals of the regular sessions have been bound; if not so bound the journals of both houses for the extraordinary or special session shall be bound together. The legislative reference bureau shall distribute the copies.
[am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1) and (2)(intro.) and (f) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(2)(intro.) rn.am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(1) and (2) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr75 Joint Rule 75. Schedule of committee activities. The chief clerk of each house shall publish, on a daily basis on the legislature's committee Internet Web site, a committee schedule containing the name of each committee, its chairperson, the room number or place, and the time and date of each meeting scheduled; and, if applicable, shall designate each proposal, appointment, or administrative rule to be heard by number or name, author, and topic.
[(1) and (2) am.; (3) and (4) cr. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(4) am. 1999 AJR-18]
[(2) and (3) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[r.rc. 2011 SJR-2]
jr76 Joint Rule 76. Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings.
jr76(1)(1) After the 3rd week of the biennial session, a "Bulletin of Proceedings" shall be published at convenient intervals. The senate and assembly parts shall each be published under the direction of the respective chief clerk and the index part shall be published as provided in joint rule 77. The senate and assembly parts shall each contain a directory of the officers, members, committees of the legislature, status of business, bills enacted into law, acts originating in that house, bills vetoed, joint resolutions enrolled and deposited with the secretary of state, and the complete history of legislative action on the proposals and petitions originating in that house; in addition, the senate part shall contain the history of senate advice and consent on nominations for appointment.
jr76(2) (2) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the completion of an up-to-date record of the actions by that house on all bills and joint resolutions and of the actions on resolutions originating in that house. The chief clerk shall publish the record for all proposals originating in that house as soon as completed.
[(1), (2) and (3) am. 1981 SJR-1]
[(1) am. 1981 SJR-32]
[(title), (1) and (2) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(1) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr77 Joint Rule 77. Index to bulletin of proceedings. The index to the bulletin of proceedings shall be prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The index shall contain:
jr77(1) (1) A subject index to legislation, showing a brief description of each proposal or petition, and may contain a brief description of such amendments as materially alter the subject content of a proposal.
jr77(2) (2) A senate and an assembly author index to legislation. In the author indexes, the brief description of each proposal shall be shown routinely only under the first and second author, and under the first cosponsor, of each proposal. For additional authors and cosponsors, the proposal shall be listed in the author index by number only.
jr77(3) (3) Author indexes to proposals introduced or offered by committees, or by the entire membership of one or both houses.
jr77(4) (4) A subject index to the legislative journals.
jr77(5) (5) A subject index to Wisconsin Acts and enrolled proposals, vetoed and partially vetoed bills, and supreme court orders.
jr77(6) (6) A numeric listing of statute sections and prior session laws or acts affected by current Wisconsin Acts and enrolled proposals.
jr77(7) (7) An index to constitutional amendments, including the full text of all constitutional amendments ratified by the people since the last publication of the statutes.
jr77(8) (8) If provided the necessary information by the government accountability board, a list of organizations employing lobbyists; a list of registered lobbyists and the organizations represented by each lobbyist; and a list of state agency legislative liaisons.
[(7) and (8) am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(4), (5) and (6) am. 1991 SJR-1]
[(intro.) and (4) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(1) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(8) and (9) rn; (7) rn.am.; (3) and (4) am.; (8) cr. 2011 SJR-2]
jr78 Joint Rule 78. Bulletin and index to actions concerning proposed administrative rules. The administrative rules bulletin of proceedings shall be prepared jointly by the chief clerks of the 2 houses, the legislative council staff, and the legislative reference bureau. The bulletin shall contain a history of each transaction affecting a proposed administrative rule received under section 227.15 (1) of the statutes, prepared by the chief clerk of each house. It shall contain a subject index prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The administrative rules volume shall be published at the end of the biennial session.
[cr. 1981 SJR-1]
[am. 1981 SJR-32]
[am. 1987 SJR-48]
[am. 1997 AJR-1]
[am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr79 Joint Rule 79. Biennial record continuity; special sessions. For each biennial session, the chief clerks of the 2 houses and the legislative reference bureau shall, and the offices of the governor and secretary of state are requested to, treat the legislative documents of the regular session and of any special sessions convened by the governor during that biennial session in the following manner:
jr79(1) (1) Drafting requests. The legislative reference bureau shall number all drafting requests received by it in a continuing sequence throughout each biennial session. Separate sequences may be used to distinguish proposals, substitute amendments, simple amendments to proposals other than the budget bill, floor amendments to proposals, and drafts for incorporation into the budget bill or any amendments thereto.
jr79(2) (2) Bill jackets. When jacketing drafted proposals for consideration in a special session, the legislative reference bureau shall identify each page of the draft, and, except as otherwise provided in joint rule 54 (2m), identify the bill jacket, by the month in which a specific special session begins.
jr79(3) (3) Proposals. For each special session, the chief clerks shall number the proposals in a new sequence, beginning with the number "1" for each type of proposal.
jr79(4) (4) Journals. The daily journals for each special session shall be identified as journals of the legislature meeting in special session, but shall be filed in consecutive order, by date, together with the journals recording the action in regular session throughout the biennial session. When the legislature, at different times within a single day, conducts the business of the regular session as well as business under the governor's special session call, the actions may be recorded in a single journal for that day but actions under the special session call shall be clearly identified as actions of the legislature meeting in special session.
jr79(5) (5) Bulletin of proceedings. The history of legislative action on all proposals introduced or offered in special sessions shall be published in a single chapter for each special session, at the end of the senate and assembly parts of the bulletin of proceedings. In the subject and author indexes of the index to the bulletin of proceedings, special session legislation shall be indexed, together with regular session legislation, into a single subject-heading and author-heading-sequence.
jr79(6) (6) Wisconsin Acts. The office of the governor is requested and the chief clerks of the senate and assembly are directed to number all Wisconsin Acts enacted throughout a single biennial session, whether enacted in regular or in special session, into a single consecutive act number sequence.
[rn. from Jt.Rule 78, 1981 SJR-1]
[(intro.), (1) and (6) am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1) and (5) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(2), (3) and (5) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(intro.), (1), (4), and (6) am. 2011 SJR-2]
Chapter 9:
SESSION SCHEDULE
jr81 Joint Rule 81. Scheduled floorperiods and committee work.
jr81(1)(1) Each biennial session begins and ends on the first Monday in January of the odd-numbered year, as follows:
jr81(1)(a) (a) The incoming legislature shall convene in the capitol at 2 p.m. to take the oath of office, select officers, and do all other things necessary to organize itself for the conduct of its business, but if the first Monday in January falls on January 1 or 2, the organizational meeting is held on January 3.
jr81(1)(b) (b) Each biennial session shall be structured into floorperiods, committee work periods, and an interim committee work period, and shall include at least one meeting of the legislature in January of each year.
jr81(1)(c) (c) Early in each biennial session, the joint committee on legislative organization shall introduce a joint resolution setting forth the session schedule for that biennial session. The joint resolution is amendable and shall, when approved by both houses, constitute the session schedule for that biennial session unless later changed by action of the 2 houses.
jr81(2) (2) Each scheduled floorperiod shall be held as set forth in the session schedule. Any floorperiod may be extended or convened or recessed on a date earlier than the date specified in the session schedule, as follows:
jr81(2)(a) (a) The extension of a floorperiod through earlier convening or later adjournment, or the convening of an extraordinary session, may be authorized at the direction of a majority of the members of the committee on organization in each house or by the adoption of and concurrence in a joint resolution on the approval by a majority of the members elected to each house, or by the joint petition of a majority of the members elected to each house submitted to, and using a form approved by, the senate chief clerk and the assembly chief clerk.
jr81(2)(b) (b) Any extended floorperiod or extraordinary session is limited to the business specified in the action by which it is authorized and to advice and consent on nominations for appointment.
jr81(2)(c) (c) Following the official call of any special or extraordinary session, the joint committee on employment relations or on legislative organization, the committees on organization in each house, and any committee of either house so authorized under the rules thereof, may introduce or offer proposals germane to the call, and such proposals may be numbered, referred to committee, and reproduced in advance of the special or extraordinary session under the customary procedures of each house.
jr81(3) (3) Any day of the biennial session that is not reserved by the session schedule to conduct an organizational meeting or to be part of a scheduled floorperiod of the legislature is available for committee work, but:
jr81(3)(a) (a) Any such day may be assigned to an extended floorperiod or extraordinary session as authorized under sub. (2).
jr81(3)(b) (b) The committee on senate organization may designate a committee work day for senate advice and consent on nominations for appointment and the committee on assembly organization may designate a committee work day for assembly advice and consent on nominations for appointment, whether or not that day was already assigned under par. (a).
jr81(4) (4) The biennial session schedule shall specify the dates on which the chief clerks of the 2 houses shall present to the governor all bills approved by the 2 houses.
[(2) and (3) am.; (4) rn. 1979 AJR-1]
[am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(2)(intro.) and (3) am. 1991 SJR-1]
[(3)(b) cr. 1993 SJR-1]
[(1)(intro.) and (2)(c) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(1)(c), (2)(a) and (c) and (3)(b) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(1), (2)(b), (3)(intro.) and (b), and (4) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr81m Joint Rule 81m. Limited-business floorperiod.
jr81m(1)(1) The biennial session schedule shall provide for a floorperiod after the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year and before the veto review session in that year.
jr81m(2) (2) The limited-business floorperiod is a floorperiod limited to action on:
jr81m(2)(a) (a) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
jr81m(2)(b) (b) Reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the biennial session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule 60 (2).
jr81m(2)(c) (c) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the ratification of state employee collective bargaining contracts under section 111.92 (1) of the statutes.
jr81m(2)(d)(d) Matters the purposes of which are allowed under joint rule 7.
[cr. 2001 AJR-15]
[(2)(intro.) and (b) am. 2011 SJR-2]
jr81r Joint Rule 81r. Limited-business floorperiod; bills introduced by the joint committee for review of administrative rules. In addition to the floorperiod required under joint rule 81m, the biennial session schedule may provide for a floorperiod after the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year that is limited to action on bills introduced by the joint committee for review of administrative rules under section 227.19 (5) (e) of the statutes.
[cr. 2005 SJR-1]
jr82 Joint Rule 82. Veto review session, even-numbered year.
jr82(1)(1) The biennial session schedule shall provide for a veto review session no earlier than April 1 of the even-numbered year and no later than June 30 of the even-numbered year.
jr82(1m) (1m) The veto review session is a floorperiod limited to action on:
jr82(1m)(a) (a) Gubernatorial vetoes or partial vetoes.
jr82(1m)(b) (b) Pending nominations for appointments requiring senate or assembly confirmation.
jr82(1m)(c) (c) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
jr82(1m)(d) (d) Reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the biennial session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule 60 (2).
jr82(1m)(e) (e) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the ratification of state employee collective bargaining contracts under section 111.92 (1) of the statutes.
jr82(1m)(f) (f) Resolutions or joint resolutions introduced by the committee on organization of either house.
jr82(1m)(g) (g) Resolutions or joint resolutions offering recognition or condolences introduced by any member of the legislature.
jr82(2) (2)
jr82(2)(a)(a) Unless otherwise provided by the committee on senate organization or the assembly committee on rules, any vetoes of regular or special session bills not previously on a calendar in the house of origin shall be shown as pending business on the calendar for the veto review session's first day.
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