AJR15: Joint Resolution Text

AJR15, s. 45 Section 45. Joint rule 62 is amended to read:

AJR15,29,24 Joint Rule 62. Number of copies. (1) The joint committee on legislative organization shall determine the number of copies of each bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal and amendments thereto which shall to be reproduced on a routine basis unless otherwise provided by joint resolution.

AJR15,30,3 (2) Additional copies of a legislative proposal may be procured by the house in which the measure proposal originated, as provided in the rules of the house or upon authorization by the committee on organization or chief clerk of that house.

AJR15, s. 46 Section 46. Joint rule 63 is amended to read:

AJR15,30,16 Joint Rule 63. Reproduction of engrossed measures proposals and amendments. Upon the finding by the chief clerk of either house that a bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal 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 reproduced an engrossed copy of the measure proposal or amendment. In preparing engrossed copy for a bill, joint resolution or resolution proposal 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 in the history file for the measure proposal. Any subsequent amendments to a measure proposal ordered reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein shall be drafted to the reproduced engrossed text.

AJR15, s. 47 Section 47. Joint rule 64 (1) (intro.), (a) and (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,30,23 Joint Rule 64 (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 displayed with a line through the matter, and any new matter displayed with underscoring. This requirement shall does not apply to:

AJR15,30,25 (a) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either house or revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,31,4 (b) Appropriation sections which that only increase or decrease the amount of an existing appropriation, which shall instead indicate the amount by which the applicable appropriation is to be increased or decreased, and the purpose of the increase or decrease.

AJR15, s. 48 Section 48. Joint rule 66 (2) is amended to read:

AJR15,31,8 Joint Rule 66 (2) Whenever more than one copy of a joint resolution is to be distributed, facsimile signatures of the several officers required to sign such the resolutions may be used.

AJR15, s. 49 Section 49. Joint rule 71 is amended to read:

AJR15,31,16 Joint Rule 71. Legislative manuals. The chief clerk of each house shall prepare, and transmit to the department of administration, a copy of a manual of procedure, which shall contain such the matter as the house determines and has been customarily included in such the manual. The department shall deliver to each chief clerk as many copies as the chief clerk requires. The chief clerks may prepare extracts of rules which that have been changed or created for insertion in existing manuals for use until the new issues are available.

AJR15, s. 50 Section 50. Joint rule 72 is amended to read:

AJR15,31,21 Joint Rule 72. Daily calendars. Such 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.

AJR15, s. 51 Section 51. Joint rule 74 (1) is amended to read:

AJR15,32,3 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 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 such the action originated.

AJR15, s. 52 Section 52. Joint rule 74 (2) (intro.) is renumbered joint rule 74 (2) and amended to read:

AJR15,32,12 Joint Rule 74 (2) One hundred copies shall be 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 The chief clerk of each house shall distribute the copies shall be as follows:.

AJR15, s. 53 Section 53. Joint rule 74 (2) (a) to (f) are repealed.

AJR15, s. 54 Section 54. Joint rule 75 (1) to (3) are amended to read:

AJR15,32,17 Joint Rule 75 (1) The chief clerk of each house shall, before the beginning of each week, prepare and have reproduced a schedule of committee activities scheduled for such the week by Monday noon of the preceding week.

AJR15,32,23 (2) The schedule of committee activities shall contain an index by proposal or administrative rule number, date, hour, location, and committee; shall set forth the name of each standing or special committee, its chairperson, the room number or place, and the time and date of each hearing scheduled under sub. (1); and shall designate each proposal or administrative rule to be heard by number, author, and topic.

AJR15,33,3 (3) The schedule of committee activities may announce all meetings to be held by the joint committee on finance, by the joint legislative council, or by committees of the joint legislative council.

AJR15, s. 55 Section 55. Joint rule 76 is amended to read:

AJR15,33,15 Joint Rule 76. Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings. (1) After the 3rd week of the biennial session, there shall be published at convenient intervals 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, and committees of the legislature. The senate and assembly parts shall contain the complete history of legislative action on the bills, joint resolutions, resolutions proposals and petitions originating in that house; in addition, the senate part shall contain the history of senate action advice and consent on gubernatorial nominations for appointment.

AJR15,33,19 (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 measures proposals originating in that house as soon as completed.

AJR15, s. 56 Section 56. Joint rule 77 (1) is amended to read:

AJR15,33,23 Joint Rule 77 (1) A subject index to legislation, showing a brief description of each bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or petition, and may contain a brief description of such amendments as materially alter the subject content of a proposal.

AJR15, s. 57 Section 57. Joint rule 78 is amended to read:

AJR15,34,10 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 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. A replacement or supplement to the administrative rules volume shall be published at least once every month.

AJR15, s. 58 Section 58. Joint rule 79 (2), (3) and (5) are amended to read:

AJR15,34,15 Joint Rule 79 (2) Bill jackets. When jacketing drafted proposals for consideration in a special session, the legislative reference bureau shall identify each page of the draft, as well as and, except as otherwise provided in joint rule 54 (2m), identify the bill jacket itself, by the month in which a specific special session begins.

AJR15,34,18 (3) Bills and resolutions Proposals. For each special session, the chief clerks shall number the bills, joint resolutions, or resolutions proposals in a new sequence, beginning with the number "1" for each type of document proposal.

AJR15,34,24 (5) Bulletin of proceedings. The history of legislative action on all measures 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.

AJR15, s. 59 Section 59. Joint rule 81 (1) (a) to (c), (2) (a) and (c), (3) (b) and (4) are amended to read:

AJR15,35,6 Joint Rule 81 (1) (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 shall be held on January 3.

AJR15,35,9 (b) Each biennial session period 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.

AJR15,35,14 (c) Early in each biennial session, the joint committee on legislative organization shall offer introduce a joint resolution setting forth the session schedule for that biennium. The joint resolution is amendable and shall, when approved by both houses, constitute the session schedule for that biennium unless later changed by action of the 2 houses.

AJR15,35,21 (2) (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 passage 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.

AJR15,36,3 (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 for introduction 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.

AJR15,36,7 (3) (b) The committee on senate organization may designate a committee work day for senate action on gubernatorial advice and consent on nominations for appointment, whether or not that day was already assigned as a session day under par. (a).

AJR15,36,10 (4) The biennial session schedule shall specify the final date on which the chief clerks of the 2 houses shall submit to the office of the governor all bills approved by the 2 houses before that date.

AJR15, s. 60 Section 60. Joint rule 81m is created to read:

AJR15,36,15 Joint Rule 81m. Limited-business floorperiod. (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.

AJR15,36,16 (2) The limited-business floorperiod shall be a floorperiod limited to action on:

AJR15,36,17 (a) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,36,20 (b) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the legislative session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule 60 (2).

AJR15,36,23 (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.

AJR15,36,24 (d) Matters the purposes of which are allowed under joint rule 7.

AJR15, s. 61 Section 61. Joint rule 82 (intro.), (1) (c) and (e), (2) and (4) are amended to read:

AJR15,37,4 Joint Rule 82. Veto review session, even-numbered year. (intro.) The biennial session schedule shall provide for a 3-day veto review session no earlier than April 1 of the even-numbered year and no later than June 30 of the even-numbered year.

AJR15,37,5 (1) (c) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,37,8 (e) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the ratification of state employe employee collective bargaining contracts under section 111.92 (1) of the statutes.

AJR15,37,11 (2) (a) 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.

AJR15,37,14 (b) Any veto required to be scheduled under par. (a) that does not receive final action during the veto review session shall be deemed is sustained. The disposition shall be recorded as "failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the governor.".

AJR15,37,17 (4) The action of either house on the motion to pass a bill, or part thereof, notwithstanding the objections of the governor may in no case be is not subject to a motion for reconsideration.

AJR15, s. 62 Section 62. Joint rule 82 (1) (g) is repealed.

AJR15, s. 63 Section 63. Joint rule 83 (1) to (3) and (5) are amended to read:

AJR15,37,23 Joint Rule 83 (1) During any scheduled floorperiod the introduction, or offering, and disposition of bills, joint resolutions, resolutions proposals and the offering and disposition of amendments thereto, and of certificates under joint rule 7, shall in each house be governed by the rules thereof.

AJR15,38,3 (2) During any period of committee work preceding the final general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, but not following the conclusion of that floorperiod:

AJR15,38,9 (a) The chairperson of any standing committee on behalf of that standing committee, any legislator, and the chairperson of any special committee on behalf of that special committee and within the special committee's scope, may deposit with the chief clerk of the legislator's house any original bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal or amendments to or substitute amendments for pending proposals whether introduced prior to before or during the committee work period.

AJR15,38,11 (b) The presiding officer of each house may refer to a standing committee any new proposal introduced or offered under par. (a).

AJR15,38,17 (c) The chief clerk of each house shall receive, number, and cause to be reproduced all original proposals introduced or offered in compliance with par. (a), but no such proposal may be reproduced until it has been referred under par. (b). The chief clerk of each house shall similarly receive, number, cause to be reproduced, and forward to the appropriate committee, all amendments and substitute amendments received under par. (a).

AJR15,38,20 (3) Any bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal on which final action has not been taken at the conclusion of the last general-business floorperiod in the odd-numbered year shall be carried forward to the even-numbered year.

AJR15,39,3 (5) Following the conclusion of the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, no further regular session proposals may be introduced for the balance of the legislative biennium, but nothing in this rule may be interpreted as limiting the introduction of except proposals under joint rules rule 81 (2) (c) and or 82 (1), ; or required for the conduct of any special session called by the governor, of any extraordinary session called by the legislature, or of the veto review session, or the continued consideration of any proposal during of any extended floorperiod.

AJR15, s. 64 Section 64. Joint rule 83 (4) (a) is renumbered 83 (4) and amended to read:

AJR15,39,10 Joint Rule 83 (4) At the conclusion of the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, any bill or joint resolution not yet agreed to by both houses, and any resolution not yet passed by the house of origin, shall be deemed is adversely disposed of for the biennial session and recorded as "failed to pass,", "failed to adopt," or "failed to concur .", except as provided in par. (b).

AJR15, s. 65 Section 65. Joint rule 83 (4) (b) is repealed.

AJR15, s. 66 Section 66. Joint rule 84 (1) to (4) are amended to read:

AJR15,39,20 Joint Rule 84 (1) Meetings. Meet, on call of the chairperson, in the capitol. As authorized by section 13.123 (3) (a) of the statutes, any committee may, with the prior consent of the committee on senate organization in the case of senate committees or of all of the officers required by assembly rule in the case of assembly committees, meet at such other locations throughout this state as the chairperson shall announce announces. Each committee meeting shall be given due public notice. No such committee may schedule an executive session outside the capitol unless such the executive session is held in conjunction with a public meeting of the committee.

AJR15,39,23 (2) Public notice. In compliance with the appropriate senate and assembly rules, hold public hearings and executive sessions and conduct any other committee business on the proposals which that have been referred to the committee.

AJR15,40,8 (3) Studies, investigations, and reviews. Conduct, on instruction by the appropriate house or on the motion of the chairperson with majority vote approval by the committee, studies, investigations, and reviews, within the subject matter area customarily within the purview of the respective committee, regarding any matter which that may then be appropriate to legislative inquiry. In case of duplication or of overlapping areas of original inquiry the committee on senate organization in the case of senate committees, the speaker in the case of assembly committees, or the joint committee on legislative organization in the case of joint committees, shall define and delimit the subject matter area assigned to each committee and determine the scope of the inquiry conducted by each committee.

AJR15,40,20 (4) Technical assistance. Request the legislative council staff, legislative reference bureau, and legislative fiscal bureau for the necessary technical assistance appropriate to the completion of the committee's tasks. The joint committee on legislative organization shall coordinate the assignment of staff under this subsection. Any chairperson who determines that the attendance of staff is necessary to the proper conduct of any meeting scheduled at a location other than the capitol may, with the prior authorization of the committee on senate organization in the case of a senate committee chairperson or the speaker in the case of an assembly committee chairperson, authorize the reimbursement of such staff for actual and necessary expenses incurred in attending the meeting, from the general program operations appropriation to the senate or assembly under section 20.765 (1) (a) or (b) of the statutes.

AJR15, s. 67 Section 67. Joint rule 85 is amended to read:

AJR15,41,5 Joint Rule 85. Reimbursement for expenses. For any day on which a member of the legislature is in Madison on legislative business pursuant to section 13.123 (1) of the statutes or attends a legislative committee meeting in Madison, such the member shall be reimbursed the per diem provided in section 13.123 (1) (a) of the statutes. Any legislator who attends a committee meeting outside Madison authorized under joint rule 84 (1) shall be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in attending such the committee meeting as provided by section 13.123 (3) of the statutes, or for the round-trip cost of traveling to such the meeting from Madison.

AJR15, s. 68 Section 68. Joint rule 86 is amended to read:

AJR15,41,17 Joint Rule 86. Continuation of employes employees during periods of committee work. During any period of committee work, the chief clerks and sergeants at arms of the 2 houses shall retain on their staffs only such employes as are the employees necessary for the conduct of legislative business during that period prior to before the commencement of the next succeeding legislative session biennium, the chief clerk and the sergeant at arms of each house shall consult with the committee on organization of that house to determine the number of employes employees required for the commencement of that session. Employes Employees who were laid off following the final (veto review) scheduled floorperiod of the current session shall be given preference in the filling of vacancies in anticipation of the commencement of the next succeeding session.

AJR15, s. 69 Section 69. Joint rule 87 (1), (2) and (3) (a) and (c) 1. are amended to read:

AJR15,42,4 Joint Rule 87 (1) Message final actions. Message to the other house all proposals originating in the other house and on which the chief clerk's house has taken final action. The chief clerk shall similarly message to the other house all proposals other than motions for certificates under joint rule 7 originating in the chief clerk's house and requiring the consent of the other house and on which the chief clerk's house has taken final action. Any motion under joint rule 7 for a joint certificate of commendation, congratulation, or condolence, adopted by one house and already signed by the cosponsor from the other house, shall be treated as though it had been adopted by both houses, but any such motion adopted by one house only and lacking the signature of the cosponsor from the other house shall be treated as though it had been offered as a motion for a certificate by one house only.

AJR15,42,8 (2) Maintain records. Enter on the records of the chief clerk's house all messages received and customarily entered on such the records, whether such the messages emanate from the other house, the office of the governor, or from any other source.

AJR15,42,12 (3) (a) In cooperation between the 2 houses, a periodic joint schedule of committee activities. Such The schedule shall give adequate notice of all committee meetings scheduled. If the number of hearings scheduled is low, the chief clerks may jointly decide to publish the committee schedules at biweekly or greater intervals.

AJR15,42,20 (c) 1. A complete edition, cumulative through the recess date of each floorperiod including the any veto review session, to be published as expeditiously as possible after each such date. When the chief clerk of the senate, the chief clerk of the assembly, and the chief of the legislative reference bureau conclude that such edition will not be superseded by a new complete edition for at least 3 weeks, they may jointly direct that the number of bulletins reproduced for such the edition be increased to the number necessary to satisfy the anticipated demand during the period of the edition's anticipated life span.

AJR15, s. 70 Section 70. Joint rule chapter 10 (title) is amended to read:

AJR15,42,23 Chapter 10: LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYES EMPLOYEES

AJR15, s. 71 Section 71. Joint rule 91 is amended to read:

AJR15,43,7 Joint Rule 91. Compensation and classification plan. Unless otherwise specifically provided, all legislative employes employees shall be paid in accordance with the compensation and classification plan adopted by the joint committee on legislative organization. If the joint committee does not adopt a compensation and classification plan, the committee on organization of either house may adopt a plan for the employes employees of that house. Appointments shall be for the legislative session, unless earlier terminated by the appointing officer.

AJR15, s. 72 Section 72. Joint rule 92 is amended to read:

AJR15,43,14 Joint Rule 92. Retirement system agents for legislative employes employees. The chief clerks of the senate and of the assembly are designated to act in matters pertaining to the retirement system for the members and employes employees of their respective houses as required by section 40.02 (36) of the statutes. In matters relating to the chief clerks, the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall act.