AJR1: Joint Resolution Text

AJR1, s. 3 Section 3. Joint rule 32 (1) (intro.) and (i) are amended to read:

AJR1,3,15 Joint Rule 32 (1) (intro.) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the notation entry of actions by that house upon the jacket envelope of in the history file for any bill, joint resolution or resolution. The chief clerk of each house shall include the history entries in the jacket envelope before submitting the jacket to the chief clerk of the other house. The notations entries shall include the following:

AJR1,3,18 (i) The date and authorizing chief clerk of for any reproduction of a proposal with all adopted amendments engrossed printing of the proposal therein or of any major amendment thereto as authorized by joint rule 63.

AJR1, s. 4 Section 4. Joint rule 32 (2) is repealed.

AJR1, s. 5 Section 5. Joint rule 34 is amended to read:

AJR1,4,2 Joint Rule 34. Submittal of enrolled bills to governor. After the enrolled bill has been signed by the appropriate officer or officers certifying to its passage, it shall be presented, as provided in the session schedule, by the chief clerk of the house in which it originated to the office of the governor for approval. The bill shall be accompanied by a transcript of the notations on the bill envelope, certified as correct by the chief clerk of the house in which the bill originated.

AJR1, s. 6 Section 6. Joint rule 35 is created to read:

AJR1,4,7 Joint Rule 35. Assignment of enrolled joint resolution numbers. The chief clerk shall assign an enrolled joint resolution number to any joint resolution amending the constitution and may assign an enrolled joint resolution number to any other joint resolution if the joint resolution originated in the chief clerk's house.

AJR1, s. 7 Section 7. Joint rule 41 (3) (a) to (g) are amended to read:

AJR1,4,18 Joint Rule 41 (3) (a) The joint committee on finance by the approval of a majority of its members, or either cochairperson of the committee, may request from the legislative fiscal bureau, or through the department of administration from an appropriate state agency, a supplemental fiscal estimate on any bill or on a bill as affected by any proposed amendment or proposed substitute amendment if the committee or cochairperson believes that the fiscal estimate on the bill, or on the bill as affected by the proposed amendment, would be substantially different from the fiscal estimate on the original bill. A supplemental fiscal estimate prepared under this paragraph shall be submitted to the legislative reference bureau for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR1,5,5 (b) At the request of a bill's primary author, the presiding officer of either house may request through the department of administration from an appropriate state agency a supplemental fiscal estimate on any bill, or on a bill as affected by any proposed amendment or proposed substitute amendment, if the presiding officer believes that the fiscal estimate on the bill, or on the bill as affected by the proposed amendment, would be substantially different from the fiscal estimate on the original bill. Unless otherwise determined by the house in which the bill may be placed on calendar, failure to receive a supplemental fiscal estimate requested under this paragraph on a bill which already has one or more original fiscal estimates shall not delay consideration of the bill. A supplemental fiscal estimate prepared under this paragraph shall be submitted to the legislative reference bureau for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR1,5,9 (c) The department of administration may submit a supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope if the department disagrees with a fiscal estimate prepared by a state agency.

AJR1,5,15 (d) In addition to the original estimates prepared by state agencies, the department of administration shall, if appropriate, submit to the legislative reference bureau for review by the requester under joint rule 48 and for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope, a consolidated fiscal estimate summarizing all original fiscal estimates prepared by state agencies relating to a specific bill.

AJR1,5,20 (e) Any state agency may submit to the department of administration for submission to the legislative reference bureau for review by the primary author of an introduced bill under joint rule 48 and for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope an updated fiscal estimate supplementing the original estimate on any bill if the agency has available better or more current information.

AJR1,5,25 (f) The legislative fiscal bureau or the department of administration shall, if requested under joint rule 48 (3), prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate. If a supplemental fiscal estimate is requested the fiscal bureau or the department shall submit the prepared supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR1,6,4 (g) A state agency shall submit any fiscal estimate requested under joint rule 48 (2) to the department of administration for submission to the legislative reference bureau for review by the primary author under joint rule 48 and for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR1, s. 8 Section 8. Joint rule 42 (2) is amended to read:

AJR1,6,9 Joint Rule 42 (2) The name of the state agency preparing the estimate, and the date, shall be reproduced at the end of the printed estimate. The original copy of the estimate shall also carry the signature of be signed by a responsible official of the agency.

AJR1, s. 9 Section 9. Joint rule 44 (title), (1) and (2) (a) are amended to read:

AJR1,6,13 Joint Rule 44. (title) Bill jackets to be marked display "FE". (1) The jackets of all bills carrying a fiscal estimate shall have the initials "FE" prominently stamped or written displayed on them.

AJR1,6,17 (2) (a) The preliminary determination of whether the bill requires a fiscal estimate shall be made by the legislative reference bureau which shall indicate that a bill requires a fiscal estimate by stamping or writing the letters displaying "FE" prominently on the jacket.

AJR1, s. 10 Section 10. Joint rule 45 (2) and (3) are amended to read:

AJR1,7,3 Joint Rule 45 (2) If the fiscal estimate is procured before the bill is introduced, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the estimate to the requester. If the requester desires to introduce the bill, the reference bureau shall attach place the estimate and any worksheet to the camera-ready original of the at the end of the bill or in the jacket envelope, and prepare the bill for introduction. The fiscal estimate and any worksheet shall be printed reproduced at the end of the bill or as an appendix as are amendments. If the fiscal estimate is procured after the bill has been introduced the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the estimate and any worksheet to the primary author of the introduced bill as provided under joint rule 48.

AJR1,7,13 (3) The chief clerk shall enter on the bill jacket in the history file for a bill the dates when a fiscal estimate on an original bill is requested and published, when a fiscal estimate on any bill as amended or as amended by any proposed amendment or substitute amendment is requested and published, when a supplemental fiscal estimate is requested and published and when a memorandum under joint rule 47 is inserted in the bill jacket. If a fiscal estimate is requested after the bill is introduced, the chief clerk shall enter in the history file for the bill the dates when a fiscal estimate on an original bill is requested, when a fiscal estimate on any bill as amended or as amended by any proposed amendment or substitute amendment is requested, and when a supplemental fiscal estimate is requested.

AJR1, s. 11 Section 11. Joint rule 46 (2) and (4) are amended to read:

AJR1,7,21 Joint Rule 46 (2) The state agency shall prepare an original typed copy of the estimate and of any worksheet suitable for photo reproduction and such copies as specified by the department of administration. It shall return the estimate and any worksheet and the bill within 5 working days to the department of administration unless the department of administration, under joint rule 42 (3), extends the period for the preparation of the estimate. The department of administration shall notify the state agency of any bill not returned within the deadline.

AJR1,7,25 (4) The department of administration shall, when requested under joint rule 48 (3), prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate, and shall submit the supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for printing reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR1, s. 12 Section 12. Joint rule 48 (1) and (4) are amended to read:

AJR1,8,7 Joint Rule 48 (1) On the 6th working day after the legislative reference bureau submits a copy of a fiscal estimate for an introduced bill to the primary author, the bureau shall forward copies of the fiscal estimate and any worksheet to the legislative fiscal bureau and to the chief clerk of the house of origin to be inserted in the bill jacket envelope and shall forthwith cause the original, signed copy of the estimate and any worksheet to be printed reproduced as are amendments.

AJR1,8,16 (4) During the 5-day period under sub. (1), the primary author of an introduced bill may request that the agency which prepared the fiscal estimate rewrite its fiscal estimate. If the agency agrees to rewrite the estimate and the primary author agrees to a delay in the publication of the fiscal estimate, the agency shall immediately notify the department of administration and the legislative reference bureau and the rewritten fiscal estimate, notwithstanding sub. (1), shall be the only original estimate printed reproduced and inserted in the bill jacket envelope, but both the rewritten and the initial fiscal estimate shall be retained by the legislative reference bureau.

AJR1, s. 13 Section 13. Joint rule 52 (1) (intro.) is amended to read:

AJR1,8,20 Joint Rule 52 (1) (intro.) The title of all bills shall state, in the fewest words practicable, the subject to which the bill relates and shall be drawn up in one of the following forms or a form similar to one of the following forms:

AJR1, s. 14 Section 14. Joint rule 52 (1) (a) is repealed and recreated to read:

AJR1,9,2 Joint Rule 52 (1) (a) An Act to repeal.... ; to renumber.... ; to consolidate and renumber.... ; to renumber and amend.... ; to consolidate, renumber and amend.... ; to amend.... ; to repeal and recreate.... ; and to create.... of the statutes; and to affect 19.. laws, chapter...., section.... [to 1981] and 19.. Wisconsin Act.... [starting 1983], section.... ; relating to: .... .

AJR1, s. 15 Section 15. Joint rule 52 (1) (b) and (e) and (7) are amended to read:

AJR1,9,5 Joint Rule 52 (1) (b) An Act to relating to: (authorize, provide authorizing, providing, etc.) ..... .

AJR1,9,12 (e) Executive budget bills under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes, bills proposing bulk revision of one or more entire chapters of the statutes, reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house and revisor's correction and revision bills shall not be subject to the requirements of pars. (a) to (d), and instead may use a descriptive title similar to the following example: "An Act to amend and revise chapter.... and to make diverse other changes in the statutes, relating to; relating to:....".

AJR1,9,19 (7) Except as necessary to revise the relating clause of the affected bill, joint resolution, resolution or substitute amendment, an amendment may not change the title of the proposal. When a substitute amendment or proposal is printed reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein, or when the proposal is enrolled after passage and concurrence, the legislative reference bureau shall make the required changes in the title so that the title correctly lists all sections affected by the proposal.

AJR1, s. 16 Section 16. Joint rule 53 (1) (intro.) and (2) (a) are amended to read:

AJR1,9,24 Joint Rule 53 (1) (intro.) It is the policy of this state that law of continuing application shall be incorporated into the statutes. The assignment of statute numbering to any part of a bill shall be deemed indicative of a legislative intent that this text be printed in incorporated into the statutes.

AJR1,10,4 (2) (a) An increase or decrease in the amount of an existing sum certain appropriation, but the dollar amount by which the existing appropriation is increased or decreased shall be reflected in the appropriation total as shown in the printed statutes in the schedule under section 20.005 (3) of the statutes.

AJR1, s. 17 Section 17. Joint rule 54 (2) and (3) are amended to read:

AJR1,10,11 Joint Rule 54 (2) The legislative reference bureau shall provide to the authorizing legislator or state agency 6 4 copies of each approved proposal or and 6 copies of each approved amendment. One copy shall be for the use of the requester. The other 5 copies shall, if a proposal, be inserted in the jacket envelope or, if a substitute amendment or amendment, be fastened together with cover sheets that identify the "jacket copy" and the "LRB-file copy" attached to an amendment jacket.

AJR1,10,15 (3) (a) Jacket envelopes for proposals, and cover sheets amendment jackets for substitute amendments and amendments, shall be imprinted in identified by red for proposals, substitute amendments and amendments introduced in the senate, and shall be imprinted in identified by black for those introduced in the assembly.

AJR1,10,21 (b) Each cover sheet amendment jacket shall contain blanks to identify the substitute amendment or amendment by number, to list the date of introduction and to enter the name or names of the member, members or committee that offered the substitute amendment or amendment. Each cover sheet amendment jacket shall allow sufficient space to add, if appropriate, the name of the individual or organization requesting the introduction.

AJR1,11,3 (c) Each jacket envelope shall be large enough to hold the papers pertaining to the proposal without such papers being folded. The outside of each jacket shall be imprinted with blanks to identify the proposal by number, a field to display the title and other introductory information of the proposal, and ruled columns to receive the notations of the chief clerk. The jacket envelopes for bills and joint resolutions shall provide the ruled columns for chief clerk's notations, head to head, both on the front and back of the jacket envelope.

AJR1, s. 18 Section 18. Joint rule 56 (1) is amended to read:

AJR1,11,9 Joint Rule 56 (1) The chief clerks and the legislative reference bureau shall correct all minor clerical errors found in any bill, resolution or amendment thereto. Any correction under this rule shall be noted entered by the chief clerk on the proposal's jacket envelope and entered in the journal history file for the proposal of the house having possession of the proposal.

AJR1, s. 19 Section 19. Joint rule 59 is amended to read:

AJR1,11,24 Joint Rule 59. Explanative notes. In addition to such notes as are required by law or joint rule, explanative notes may be included in executive budget bills, in revision and correction bills prepared by the revisor of statutes, in reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee on organization of either house and in bills, joint resolutions or resolutions introduced and in substitute amendments or amendments offered by the joint legislative council or its law revision committee, at the request of the judicial council and by or at the request of any other official interim study or investigative group. Such notes shall be prepared by the requester, shall be factual in nature, shall be as brief as may be and, where feasible, shall follow the section of the measure to which they relate. Notes shall appear in the original printed reproduced version of the measure only, and shall not appear in the Wisconsin Acts, session law volumes or statutes unless the revisor determines that printing including them is essential. Such notes constitute no part of the proposed act.

AJR1, s. 20 Section 20. Joint rule 62 is amended to read:

AJR1,12,4 Joint Rule 62. (title) Number of copies printed. (1) The joint committee on legislative organization shall determine the number of copies of each bill, joint resolution or resolution and amendments thereto which shall be printed reproduced on a routine basis unless otherwise provided by joint resolution.

AJR1,12,9 (2) Additional copies of a legislative proposal may be procured by the house in which the measure originated, as provided in the rules of the house or upon authorization by the committee on organization or chief clerk of that house or upon the passage by roll call vote of a motion setting forth the number of copies needed to satisfy anticipated requests. Such motions shall be privileged.

AJR1, s. 21 Section 21. Joint rule 63 is amended to read:

AJR1,12,21 Joint Rule 63. (title) Printing Reproduction of engrossed measures. Upon the finding by the chief clerk of either house that a bill, joint resolution, resolution or major amendment thereto has been amended in the house of origin to a considerable degree, the chief clerk may instruct the legislative reference bureau to prepare and have printed reproduced an engrossed copy of the measure. In preparing engrossed copy for a bill, joint resolution or resolution the legislative reference bureau shall, if time permits, provide it with a revised analysis. Upon receipt from the legislative reference bureau of the engrossed copy, the chief clerk shall enter that fact on the jacket in the history file for the measure. Any subsequent amendments to a measure ordered printed reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein shall be drafted to fit the printed reproduced engrossed text.

AJR1, s. 22 Section 22. Joint rule 64 (title) and (1) (intro.) are amended to read:

AJR1,13,5 Joint Rule 64. (title) Type coding Display of text in amendatory proposals and acts. (1) (intro.) Any proposal, substitute amendment or amendment that proposes to amend an existing law or legislative rule, and any joint resolution that proposes to amend a section of the state constitution or joint rules, shall display the full text of the unit of the law, rule or constitution that is being amended, with any matter to be stricken out printed displayed with a line through the matter, and any new matter printed underscored displayed with underscoring. This requirement shall not apply to:

AJR1, s. 23 Section 23. Joint rule 65 is amended to read:

AJR1,13,11 Joint Rule 65. Inserting date of enactment and publication date of acts. Before it delivers transmits the text of an act to the contract printer 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.

AJR1, s. 24 Section 24. Joint rule 66 is amended to read:

AJR1,13,19 Joint Rule 66. (title) Printing of enrolled Enrolled joint resolutions. (1) All joint resolutions relating to amendments to the U.S. constitution or to the state constitution, advisory referenda, memorials to deceased or retired members and state officers and investigations and studies are declared important resolutions and assigned an enrolled joint resolution number under joint rule 35 shall upon adoption and concurrence be printed included in the session laws. Others may be printed included in the session laws if the joint resolution so directs.

AJR1,13,22 (2) Whenever more than 10 copies one copy of a joint resolution are is to be distributed, facsimile signatures of the several officers required to sign such resolutions may be used.

AJR1, s. 25 Section 25. Joint rule 71 is amended to read:

AJR1,14,7 Joint Rule 71. Legislative manuals. The chief clerk of each house shall prepare, and deliver transmit to the person in charge of printing in the department of administration, printer's a copy for of a manual of procedure which shall contain such matter as the house determines and has been customarily included in such manual. The person in charge of printing shall order the contract printer to prepare and department shall deliver to each chief clerk as many copies as the chief clerks require clerk requires. The chief clerks may prepare extracts of rules which have been changed or created for insertion in existing manuals for use until the new issues are available.

AJR1, s. 26 Section 26. Joint rule 72 is amended to read:

AJR1,14,12 Joint Rule 72. Daily calendars. Such quantity of daily calendars as ordered by the chief clerk of each house shall be printed 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.

AJR1, s. 27 Section 27. Joint rule 73 (1) to (5) are amended to read:

AJR1,14,16 Joint Rule 73 (1) The chief clerk of each house shall prepare and deliver to the contract printer immediately transmit for reproduction after the close of each daily session printer's copy of its daily journal.

AJR1,14,23 (2) The journals shall contain a concise description of the business conducted by each house. Any proposal shall be identified in the journal by number and relating clause on introduction, when reported by the standing 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 printed included in its journal.

AJR1,15,7 (3) All executive messages to the legislature, except veto messages, shall be printed included in the senate journal only. Executive pardon communications or reports, 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 printed included in the senate journal. The report of a joint committee shall be printed 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 shall not be printed included in the journal except as required by section 1 of article XII of the constitution.

AJR1,15,13 (4) The presiding officer of each house shall cause notice of receipt of any proposed administrative rule under section 227.19 of the statutes to be printed 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 cause a similar notice to be printed included whenever a proposed rule is withdrawn.

AJR1,15,16 (5) Copies of the daily journal of each house shall be printed reproduced and delivered on the morning of the business day next following the session whose proceedings are printed reproduced.

AJR1, s. 28 Section 28. Joint rule 73 (6) is repealed.

AJR1, s. 29 Section 29. Joint rule 74 (1) and (2) (intro.) and (f) are amended to read:

AJR1,15,25 Joint Rule 74 (1) Within 60 days next following the close of any session of the legislature, the chief clerk of each house shall prepare and deliver to the contract printer printer's copy the matter for its daily journal, which is required by the order of such house to be printed included therein; and printer's copy of any other matter, not already printed included in either journal, which is required to be printed included by joint action of the legislature, shall be prepared and delivered transmitted by the chief clerk of the house in which such action originated.

AJR1,16,7 (2) (intro.) One hundred copies shall be printed reproduced and bound. 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. Distribution of such copies shall be as follows:

AJR1,16,10 (f) The remaining printed reproduced and bound copies to be distributed by the department of administration at the department's discretion, upon application to the department.

AJR1, s. 30 Section 30. Joint rule 75 (1) is amended to read:

AJR1,16,14 Joint Rule 75 (1) The chief clerk of each house shall, before the beginning of each week, prepare and have printed reproduced a schedule of committee activities scheduled for such week by Monday noon of the preceding week.

AJR1, s. 31 Section 31. Joint rule 76 is amended to read:

AJR1,17,4 Joint Rule 76. (title) Weekly bulletins Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings. (1) As soon as possible after the close of the last session of each week, beginning with After the 3rd week of the biennial session, there shall be published a 4-volume at convenient intervals a "Bulletin of Proceedings". Volume I, "Senate", and volume III, "Assembly", The senate and assembly parts shall each be published under the direction of the respective chief clerk; volume IV, "Index", and the index part shall be published as provided in joint rule 77; and volume II, "Administrative Rules", shall be published as provided in joint rule 78. Volumes I and III. The senate and assembly parts shall each contain a directory of the officers, members and committees of the legislature. Each volume The senate and assembly parts shall contain the complete history of legislative action on the bills, joint resolutions, resolutions and petitions originating in that house; in addition, volume I the senate part shall contain the history of senate action on gubernatorial nominations for appointment.

AJR1,17,9 (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 proposed administrative rules and of the actions on resolutions originating in that house. The chief clerk shall deliver a camera-ready copy of this publish the record for all measures originating in that house to the contract printer as soon as completed.

AJR1, s. 32 Section 32. Joint rule 77 (intro.) is amended to read:

AJR1,17,14 Joint Rule 77. (title) Weekly index volume of Index to bulletin of proceedings. (intro.) The index volume of to the weekly bulletin of proceedings shall be prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The volume index shall contain:

AJR1, s. 33 Section 33. Joint rule 77 (4) is amended to read:

AJR1,17,19 Joint Rule 77 (4) A subject index to the legislative journals, which includes an alphabetical index by name to lobbyists' principals and an alphabetical list of the names of registered lobbyists and, in conjunction with each name, the principals represented by each lobbyist.

AJR1, s. 34 Section 34. Joint rule 77 (5) and (6) are repealed.

AJR1, s. 35 Section 35. Joint rule 78 is amended to read:

AJR1,18,8 Joint Rule 78. (title) Weekly bulletin Bulletin and index to actions concerning proposed administrative rules. The administrative rules volume of the weekly 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 volume 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 also contain a subject index, and an author index by agency of any proposed administrative rule received under section 227.15 (1) of the statutes, prepared by the legislative reference bureau. Whenever the other volumes of the bulletin of proceedings are not published on a weekly basis, a A replacement or supplement to the administrative rules volume bulletin shall be published at least once every 4 weeks month.