sr41(1)(a)(a)
A proposal or other matter may be rereferred at any time prior to its passage, except that a motion to withdraw the proposal or other matter from committee may not take effect during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee meeting on that proposal or other matter or the 7 days following the date on which such a committee meeting is held.
sr41(1)(b)
(b) A motion to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw is in order, except that if the senate has once refused to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw a proposal or other matter from committee, any subsequent motion to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw the proposal or other matter from committee requires a suspension of the rules.
sr41(1)(c)
(c) A motion to withdraw a matter from the committee on senate organization, if approved, places the matter on the next succeeding calendar established by the committee on senate organization under rule
18 (1). A motion to withdraw a matter from any other committee, if approved, places the matter in the committee on senate organization unless the senate rerefers the matter to a different committee.
sr41(1)(d)
(d) Whenever a bill is introduced in the senate or assembly under section
227.19 (5) (e) or
227.26 (2) (f) of the statutes, the bill is considered reported without recommendation and shall be placed before the committee on senate organization if a report is not received from the standing committee within 30 days after the date of referral. This paragraph does not apply if the bill is introduced within 30 days after the time at which further proposals may not be introduced or offered in the biennial session under joint rule
83 (2).
sr41(1)(e)
(e) If the committee on senate organization receives a standing committee's report on a proposal that by statute requires review by the joint committee on finance before being passed, the committee on senate organization may rerefer that proposal to the joint committee on finance. The chief clerk shall promptly record the rereferral in the journal. The committee on senate organization may, with the consent of the senate cochairperson of the joint committee on finance, withdraw a proposal from the joint committee on finance and make the proposal available for scheduling. Withdrawal under this rule satisfies section
13.093 (1) of the statutes.
sr41(2)
(2) Reference to committee is not in order after a proposal is passed or indefinitely postponed or finally disposed of by any action equivalent thereto. Questions of reconsideration, concurrence in amendments of the assembly, conference committee reports, or executive vetoes may be placed on the table, but may not be referred to committee.
sr41(3)
(3) The legislative council is not a legislative committee within the meaning of this rule and reference of proposals thereto for recommendation as in the case of standing or special committees is not in order.
sr42
Senate Rule 42.
Messaging to the assembly; proposals held during reconsideration period. sr42(1)(1)
Every bill or joint resolution upon which such action has been taken that it is next to be messaged to the assembly shall be so messaged by the chief clerk, but shall be held in the chief clerk's office until the time for reconsideration of the bill or joint resolution has expired. If the rules have been suspended for immediate messaging, the chief clerk shall enter the action in the history file for the bill or joint resolution. Every privileged joint resolution is messaged immediately without a suspension of the rules unless it is otherwise ordered by the senate.
sr42(2)
(2) A bill or joint resolution that has been ordered immediately messaged to the assembly by the suspension of this rule is subject to further action by the senate while the bill or joint resolution is in physical possession of the senate. The further action is contingent upon a motion to rescind the action of ordering its immediate messaging being decided by a two-thirds vote.
sr43
Senate Rule 43.
Enrolling bills and joint resolutions. Promptly after a senate bill has passed both houses, and before it is presented to the governor for approval, the chief clerk shall deliver the jacket to the legislative reference bureau, which shall enroll the bill, prepare the requisite number of copies, and return the jacket and copies to the chief clerk, who shall record it correctly enrolled in the journal stating the day it was presented to the governor. As far as applicable, the same procedure shall be followed in the case of senate joint resolutions requiring enrolling.
sr44
Senate Rule 44.
Signing of documents. The original of all enrolled acts and joint resolutions, all engrossed resolutions, and all writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by order of the senate shall be signed by the president, and attested by the chief clerk.
sr44m
Senate Rule 44m.
Presentation to the governor. The chief clerk shall present all correctly enrolled bills to the governor as provided in the session schedule unless any of the following occur:
sr44m(1)
(1) Upon motion of the senate, the chief clerk shall present a correctly enrolled bill to the governor as provided in the motion.
sr44m(2)
(2) Upon directive of the majority leader, unless otherwise provided by the session schedule or motion of the senate, the chief clerk shall present a correctly enrolled bill to the governor as provided in the directive.
sr44m(3)
(3) Upon the call of the governor, unless otherwise provided by the session schedule, motion of the senate, or directive of the president, the chief clerk shall immediately present a correctly enrolled bill to the governor.
sr45
Senate Rule 45.
Offering of privileged resolution. A resolution privileged by rule
69 shall, when sent to the clerk's desk, be read at length by the chief clerk, but may be read by its relating clause if a copy of the text has been made available to the members. When so read, the privileged resolution is before the senate.
sr46
Senate Rule 46.
Presentation, introduction, and offering of proposals and other matters. sr46(1)(1)
Proposals, amendments, petitions, reports, communications, or other documents that may properly come before the senate shall be presented by a member thereof to the chief clerk, or a staff member designated by the chief clerk, at anytime, except as otherwise provided in senate rule
93 (1p) and joint rule
83 (2). A brief statement of the contents thereof must appear thereon, together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. The chief clerk shall number all proposals, amendments, and petitions.
sr46(2)(a)(a)
The chief clerk shall advise the president of documents presented under sub.
(1) that must be referred under the rules and the president shall promptly refer the document to the appropriate committee. The chief clerk shall maintain the confidentiality of any proposal presented under sub.
(1) that is pending referral, except that, if requested by any person, the chief clerk shall inform the person of the status of a proposal pending referral under this paragraph. In addition, if requested by any person, the president shall inform the person of the status of a proposal pending referral under this paragraph.
sr46(2)(am)
(am) The president shall refer every notice and report concerning a proposed administrative rule received by the presiding officer under section
227.19 of the statutes to the appropriate standing committee of the senate within 10 working days following receipt and provide notice to that committee whenever the president is informed that a proposed rule is being withdrawn. The president shall refer any report received from a standing committee that objects to a proposed rule to the joint committee for review of administrative rules.
sr46(2)(b)
(b) Within 3 working days after the time of initial referral by the president under par.
(am), a proposed rule may, with consent of the chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Such action does not extend the standing committee review period. Rereferral may be made at any time.
sr46(2)(c)(c) After the time of initial referral by the president under rule
36 (2), the president may, with the consent of the chairperson of the standing committee and the chairperson of the committee on senate organization, withdraw a proposal or appointment from the standing committee to which it is referred and rerefer it to another standing committee. Rereferral under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section
13.093 (1) of the statutes.
sr46(3)
(3) The chief clerk shall promptly record in the journal the date on which each proposal, substitute amendment, and amendment is introduced or offered. The date of introduction or offering is as follows:
sr46(3)(a)(a) For a bill, when it is referred under sub.
(2) (a).
sr46(3)(b)
(b) For a joint resolution or resolution, other than a resolution that is privileged under rule
69, when it is referred under sub.
(2) (a).
sr46(3)(c)(c) For a resolution that is privileged under rule
69, when it is presented to the chief clerk under sub.
(1).
sr46(3)(d)
(d) For a substitute amendment or amendment, other than one introduced by committee, when the substitute amendment or amendment is presented to the chief clerk under sub.
(1).
sr46(3)(e)
(e) For a substitute amendment or amendment introduced by committee, when the committee report under rule
27 (1) is filed.
sr46(4)
(4) Unless otherwise ordered, petitions shall be read by title only and referred to the appropriate committee.
sr46(5)
(5) A proposed amendment that is offered must have a heading stating the number of the proposal that it is proposed to amend and the name of the member proposing the amendment. The amendment shall be reproduced and made available. The jacket copy of the amendment shall be placed in the jacket and copies shall be made available as provided by the rules.
sr46(6)(6) Unless reconsidered under rule
67, a proposal, or an amendment as it affects a proposal, is adversely and finally disposed of for the biennial session of the legislature by any of the following results:
sr46(6)(a)
(a) Indefinite postponement (senate bills).
sr46(6)(b)
(b) Rejection (senate amendments, senate resolutions, and senate joint resolutions).
sr46(6)(c)
(c) Nonconcurrence (assembly bills, assembly joint resolutions, and assembly amendments to senate bills).
sr46(6)(d)
(d) Failure to be ordered to a 3rd reading (senate bills and assembly bills).
sr46(6)(e)
(e) Failure of passage (senate bills).
sr46(6)(f)
(f) Failure of concurrence (assembly bills and assembly joint resolutions).
sr46(6)(g)
(g) Failure to pass notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
Chapter 5:
AMENDMENTS - FORM AND PROCEDURE
sr47
Senate Rule 47.
When amendments may be considered. sr47(1)(1)
Consideration of simple amendments or of substitute amendments is in order only upon the second reading of the proposal and if in compliance with rule
34.
sr47(4)
(4) During consideration of amendments when both simple amendments and substitute amendments to a proposal are pending, the question, in ascending numerical order, is first upon amendments to the substitute amendment of the lowest number, and then upon that substitute amendment, unless the senate by majority vote of members present otherwise orders.
sr47(5)
(5) Amendments are not in order upon consideration of an executive veto or a report of a conference committee.
sr48
Senate Rule 48.
Reading of amendments. The chief clerk shall read the full text of each amendment to the members, and the presiding officer shall state the number of each amendment, but amendments that have been made available to the members may not be read at length.
sr49
Senate Rule 49.
Offering amendments. Amendments shall be numbered in the order received, and shall bear the name of the member or the committee offering the same. Amendments shall be prepared in proper form by the legislative reference bureau, and the legislative reference bureau shall attach jacket cover sheets (stripes) to the amendments; except that when the proposal is debated on 2nd reading amendments may be offered from the floor. The chief clerk shall have amendments offered from the floor drawn in proper form as soon as possible and before the proposal is subsequently engrossed and delivered to a committee or to the assembly. This provision does not delay action upon an amendment offered from the floor.
sr50
Senate Rule 50.
Substitute amendments and amendments must be germane. sr50(1)(1)
Every substitute amendment and amendment to a proposal must be germane to that proposal.
sr50(1m)
(1m) A standing committee may not report any substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal originating in either house, and the senate may not consider any substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal, that is not germane to that proposal.
sr50(2)
(2) A substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal may not be considered if the presiding officer rules that the substitute amendment or amendment is not germane to that proposal.
sr50(3)
(3) The presiding officer may rule only on the germaneness of a senate substitute amendment or amendment and only when the substitute amendment or amendment is before the senate.
sr50(4)
(4) An amendment to an amendment to a proposal must be germane to the amendment as well as to that proposal.
sr50(6)
(6) The following substitute amendments or amendments are not germane:
sr50(6)(a)
(a) A substitute amendment or amendment that is identical in effect to one previously offered to the same proposal and disposed of.
sr50(6)(b)
(b) A substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal that is any of the following:
1. Irrelevant to the subject matter of the proposal.
2. Inappropriate to the subject matter of the proposal.
3. Not in a natural and logical sequence to the subject matter of the proposal.
4. Substantially expands the scope of the proposal.
sr50(6)(c)
(c) A substitute amendment or amendment that negates the original proposal entirely, or that substitutes another proposal pending before the senate.
sr50(8)
(8) The following substitute amendments and amendments are germane:
sr50(8)(a)
(a) A substitute amendment or amendment proposing a method of raising revenues for an appropriation bill or proposing an appropriation for a revenue bill.
sr50(8)(b)
(b) A substitute amendment or amendment adding an appropriation necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal.
sr51
Senate Rule 51.
Amendment in the 3rd degree prohibited. Amendments beyond the degree of an amendment to an amendment to the main proposition are prohibited. For the purposes of this rule a substitute amendment, and an assembly amendment to a senate proposal or amendment, are considered a main proposition.
sr53
Senate Rule 53.
Committee amendments; speaking on amendment. Amendments reported by committees shall be acted upon by the senate in the same manner as though offered from the floor. On an amendment being offered, a member who has spoken on the main question may speak again on the amendment.
sr55
Senate Rule 55.
Order of action. If adverse action on a proposal is recommended by a committee, that question is put first. However, the senate may direct the consideration of amendments, but adoption of amendments does not change the question.
Chapter 6:
GENERAL PROCEDURE - ORDER IN DEBATE
sr56
Senate Rule 56.
Recognition; debate. Members who are about to speak in debate or deliver any matter to the senate shall rise in their places and respectfully address the presiding officer, and, upon being recognized, shall proceed, confining themselves to the question under debate and avoiding personalities. Members may not question the motives of another member. Members may read briefly from printed material unless there is objection.
sr56m
Senate Rule 56m.
Points of order. sr56m(1)(1) The presiding officer may speak to points of order in preference to others, rising for that purpose; and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal by a member, on which appeal each member may speak once not to exceed 5 minutes.
sr56m(2)
(2) Whenever a point of order is raised, the presiding officer may rule thereon forthwith, or may defer the decision not later than the 5th order of business on the 2nd legislative day thereafter to provide time for examination of the precedents. Questions not ruled on within the required time shall be decided by a majority of the senate.
sr56m(2m)
(2m) When the point of order concerns a proposal or a question currently pending on the proposal, taking the point of order under advisement removes the proposal or the question currently pending on the proposal from further consideration, including ordering the proposal to a 3rd reading, until the presiding officer announces the ruling on the point of order.
sr56m(2r)
(2r) When the point of order concerns an amendment, taking the point of order under advisement removes the amendment from further consideration until the presiding officer announces the ruling on the point of order. Any proposal to which such an amendment is made may not be ordered to a 3rd reading until the presiding officer announces the ruling on the point of order.
