AR2: Resolution Text

This assembly resolution makes various changes to the assembly rules:

Assembly Rule 6 (1) (k): The rule requires the sergeant at arms to ensure that the U.S. flag is displayed in the room in which an assembly committee is meeting.

Assembly Rule 9 (1): The rule is changed to create the assembly committees for the 1997-98 session.

Assembly Rule 9 (7): The rule is amended to correct an error.

Assembly Rule 10: The rule is changed to delete provisions for the creation of special committees and temporary special committees by the speaker.

Assembly Rule 13 (1) (am): The rule is created to reflect that the speaker, under rule 45, may refer proposals to another committee.

Assembly Rule 13 (1) (c): The rule is amended to reflect moving the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

Assembly Rule 26 (6): The rule is created to prohibit possession or use of cellular telephones on the assembly floor.

Assembly Rule 28: The rule is changed to delete the requirement that daily sessions of the assembly end at 8 p.m. unless adjourned earlier.

Assembly Rule 29 (3): The rule is changed to provide that copies of calendars for Saturdays, Sundays and state holidays need not be distributed to members at least 18 hours before the calendars are to be acted upon.

Assembly Rule 31 (8) to (13): The rule is amended to move the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

Assembly Rule 32 (1) (a): The rule is changed to permit taking up immediately proposals referenced in messages from the senate or governor, other than senate proposals initially received for consideration by the assembly.

Assembly Rule 43 (2): The rule is amended to reflect moving the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

Assembly Rule 73 (2) (a): The rule is amended to reflect moving the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

Assembly Rule 73 (3) (a): The rule is amended to reflect moving the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

Assembly Rule 90: The rule is changed to reflect the deletion of the requirement that daily sessions of the assembly end at 8 p.m. unless adjourned earlier.

Assembly Rule 95 (6): The rule is changed to redefine the assembly chambers as no longer being in the insurance building.

Assembly Rule 95 (82): The rule is changed to reflect the deletion of provisions which permitted the creation of special committees and temporary special committees by the speaker.

Assembly Rule 95 (90): The rule is changed to reflect the deletion of the requirement that daily sessions of the assembly end at 8 p.m. unless adjourned earlier.

Assembly Rule 96: The rule is amended to reflect moving the 8th order of business (motions may be offered) to the 13th order.

AR2,2,1 Resolved by the assembly, That:

AR2, s. 1 Section 1. Assembly rule 6 (1) (k) is created to read:

AR2,2,4 Assembly Rule 6 (1) (k) Ensure that the U.S. flag is displayed in the room in which an assembly committee is meeting.

AR2, s. 2 Section 2. Assembly rule 9 (1) (bm) and (em) are created to read:

AR2,2,6 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (bm) Campaign finance reform, committee on.

AR2,2,7 (em) Corrections facilities, committee on.

AR2, s. 3 Section 3. Assembly rule 9 (1) (i) is amended to read:

AR2,2,9 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (i) Environment and utilities, committee on.

AR2, s. 4 Section 4. Assembly rule 9 (1) (nm), (qd), (qm), (qs) and (vm) are created to read:

AR2,3,3 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (nm) Income tax review, committee on.

AR2,3,4 (qd) Land use, committee on.

AR2,3,5 (qm) Law revision, committee on.

AR2,3,6 (qs) Managed care, committee on.

AR2,3,7 (vm) State-federal relations, committee on.

AR2, s. 5 Section 5. Assembly rule 9 (1) (y) is amended to read:

AR2,3,9 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (y) Urban education Utilities oversight, committee on.

AR2, s. 6 Section 6. Assembly rule 9 (1) (zm) is amended to read:

AR2,3,12 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (zm) Welfare reform Wisconsin works oversight, committee on.

AR2, s. 7 Section 7. Assembly rule 9 (1) (zp) is created to read:

AR2,3,14 Assembly Rule 9 (1) (zp) Working families, committee on.

AR2, s. 8 Section 8. Assembly rule 9 (7) is amended to read:

AR2,3,20 Assembly Rule 9 (7) There shall also be an assembly committee on employment relations s consisting of the assembly members of the joint committee on employment relations. The chairperson of the assembly committee shall be a cochairperson of the joint committee. Proposals may be referred to, and reported by, the joint committee in the same manner as other standing committees.

AR2, s. 9 Section 9. Assembly rule 10 (1) is repealed.

AR2, s. 10 Section 10. Assembly rule 10 (1m) (intro.) and (a) to (c) are renumbered assembly rule 10 (1) and (2) (a) to (c), and assembly rule 10 (1), as renumbered, is amended to read:

AR2,4,2 Assembly Rule 10 (1) Special committees may be created by the speaker by written order and may be created by resolution.

AR2,4,3 (2) Any such committee shall cease to exist:

AR2, s. 11 Section 11. Assembly rule 10 (2) and (3) are repealed.

AR2, s. 12 Section 12. Assembly rule 13 (1) (am) is created to read:

AR2,4,7 Assembly Rule 13 (1) (am) By the speaker, after a committee reports it, as provided in rule 45.

AR2, s. 13 Section 13. Assembly rule 13 (1) (c) is amended to read:

AR2,4,11 Assembly Rule 13 (1) (c) By a motion, offered under the 8th 13th order of business, while such business is pending on any reproduced calendar awaiting assembly action. Any such motion requires a majority vote for adoption.

AR2, s. 14 Section 14. Assembly rule 26 (6) is created to read:

AR2,4,14 Assembly Rule 26 (6) No person may possess or use a cellular telephone on the assembly floor.

AR2, s. 15 Section 15. Assembly rule 28 (title) is amended to read:

AR2,4,17 Assembly Rule 28 (title) Daily sessions; Hour for convening, adjournment.

AR2, s. 16 Section 16. Assembly rule 28 (1) is renumbered assembly rule 28.

AR2, s. 17 Section 17. Assembly rule 28 (2) is repealed.

AR2, s. 18 Section 18. Assembly rule 29 (3) is amended to read:

AR2,4,23 Assembly Rule 29 (3) A copy of each calendar, except a calendar for a Saturday, Sunday or state holiday specified in s. 230.35 (4) (a) of the statutes, shall be distributed to each member at least 18 hours before the calendar is to be acted upon.

AR2, s. 19 Section 19. Assembly rule 31 (8) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (13) and amended to read:

AR2,5,1 Assembly Rule 31 (13) Eighth Thirteenth order. Motions may be offered.

AR2, s. 20 Section 20. Assembly rule 31 (9) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (8) and amended to read:

AR2,5,4 Assembly Rule 31 (8) Ninth Eighth order. Consideration of resolutions.

AR2, s. 21 Section 21. Assembly rule 31 (10) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (9) and amended to read:

AR2,5,7 Assembly Rule 31 (9) Tenth Ninth order. Third reading of assembly proposals.

AR2, s. 22 Section 22. Assembly rule 31 (11) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (10) and amended to read:

AR2,5,11 Assembly Rule 31 (10) Eleventh Tenth order. Third reading of senate proposals.

AR2, s. 23 Section 23. Assembly rule 31 (12) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (11) and amended to read:

AR2,5,15 Assembly Rule 31 (11) Twelfth Eleventh order. Second reading and amendment of assembly proposals.

AR2, s. 24 Section 24. Assembly rule 31 (13) is renumbered assembly rule 31 (12) and amended to read:

AR2,5,19 Assembly Rule 31 (12) Thirteenth Twelfth order. Second reading and amendment of senate proposals.

AR2, s. 25 Section 25. Assembly rule 32 (1) (a) is amended to read:

AR2,6,2 Assembly Rule 32 (1) (a) Messages from the senate or from the governor may be received and read, and any proposals proposal referenced in such messages may which is a senate proposal initially received for consideration of the assembly shall be referred and any other proposals referenced in such messages shall be taken up immediately unless referred by the presiding officer to a standing committee or to the calendar;

AR2, s. 26 Section 26. Assembly rule 43 (2) is amended to read:

AR2,6,6 Assembly Rule 43 (2) Any resolution subject to rule 89 which is referred to the calendar shall be taken up on the 9th 8th order of business on the 2nd legislative day after its introduction notwithstanding the existence of any unfinished calendars.

AR2, s. 27 Section 27. Assembly rule 73 (2) (a) is amended to read:

AR2,6,13 Assembly Rule 73 (2) (a) A motion to reconsider any decision other than passage or concurrence may only be entered after the question to which it relates has been decided and must be entered either: 1) before the relating clause of the next proposal is read by the clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding officer, or other business is begun; or 2) on the 8th 13th order of business on the next roll call day.

AR2, s. 28 Section 28. Assembly rule 73 (3) (a) is amended to read:

AR2,7,2 Assembly Rule 73 (3) (a) A motion for reconsideration of the vote by which a proposal is passed, adopted, concurred in, indefinitely postponed, rejected or nonconcurred in may be entered: 1) before the relating clause of the next proposal is read by the clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding officer, or other business is begun; or 2) on the 8th 13th order of business on the next roll call day. Any motion to reconsider such final action shall be taken up immediately if the roll call day on which it is entered is already the 2nd or a later actual day following the vote constituting final action on the proposal, but consideration of any other motion for reconsideration of such final action, entered on the roll call day following the day on which the final action was taken, shall be laid over and placed on the calendar for the first legislative day which occurs at least 2 calendar days after the decision was made.

AR2, s. 29 Section 29. Assembly rule 90 (1) (a) to (d) are renumbered assembly rule 90 (2) to (5).

AR2, s. 30 Section 30. Assembly rule 90 (2) is repealed.

AR2, s. 31 Section 31. Assembly rule 95 (6) is amended to read:

AR2,7,12 Assembly Rule 95 (6) Assembly chamber: In the capitol, the The entire area west of the easternmost doors of the assembly, including the visitor's galleries, lobbies, offices of the speaker, majority leader and minority leader and hallways. In the insurance building on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, the entire first floor, excluding the hall in front of the elevators, and the visitor galleries and auxiliary rooms adjacent thereto.

AR2, s. 32 Section 32. Assembly rule 95 (82) is amended to read:

AR2,7,17 Assembly Rule 95 (82) Special committee: A committee created by a resolution, or a special committee or temporary special committee created by a written order of the speaker under rule 10, to investigate specific matters during a session or committee work period, and report to the assembly.

AR2, s. 33 Section 33. Assembly rule 95 (90) is amended to read:

AR2,7,22 Assembly Rule 95 (90) Suspension of the rules: A motion requiring two-thirds majority support or a motion under rule 90 (2) requiring majority support and by which a special action on a specific proposal is accomplished despite the existence of a rule blocking such action. Any suspension of the rules is temporary.

AR2, s. 34 Section 34. Assembly rule 96 is amended to read: