AJR15: Joint Resolution Text

AJR15,11,6 Joint Rule 21. Joint hearings of standing committees. The chairpersons of corresponding committees of both houses or committees having corresponding proposals referred to them shall arrange joint hearings of their committees to consider such the proposals if, in their judgment, the business of the legislature and the convenience of the members and the public, who are interested in such the proposals, will be promoted thereby. The proposals to be considered, the time and place of the hearings, who presides at the hearings, and any other matters convenient to the hearings may be agreed upon by the chairpersons. Joint hearings may also be arranged to consider a proposal introduced in only one house which will require consideration in both houses. Such The joint hearings shall take the place of separate hearings, and shall be final unless the house where the proposal is pending orders a further hearing before its own committee.

AJR15, s. 17 Section 17. Joint rule 22 is amended to read:

AJR15,11,11 Joint Rule 22. Cochairpersons of joint committees. All standing or special joint committees shall have a senate and an assembly cochairperson. Any meeting of a joint committee shall be chaired by the cochairperson from the house which that referred the business then before the joint committee.

AJR15, s. 18 Section 18. Joint rule 23 is amended to read:

AJR15,11,16 Joint Rule 23. Joint committee on legislative organization. (1) There is created a joint committee on legislative organization consisting of the speaker of the assembly, the president of the senate, the majority and minority leader of each house, and the assistant majority and minority leader of each house.

AJR15,11,21 (2) The committee shall have such the powers and responsibilities as are conferred upon it by statute or by the joint rules and may take appropriate action thereunder. The committee shall recommend to the houses any action it considers likely to more closely coordinate the work of the 2 houses or to save expenses or increase the efficiency of the legislature.

AJR15, s. 19 Section 19. Joint rule 27 is amended to read:

AJR15,12,2 Joint Rule 27. Committee hearings open to public. Unless otherwise provided by law, every committee hearing, executive session, or other meeting shall be open to the public. If time permits, advance notice of every regularly scheduled committee hearing, executive session, or other meeting shall be published as provided in joint rule 75.

AJR15, s. 20 Section 20. Joint rule 31 (1) (a), (c) and (d), (3) and (4) are amended to read:

AJR15,12,5 Joint Rule 31 (1) (a) The date, time, place, and subject of each hearing, and of each meeting of the committee.

AJR15,12,8 (c) The name of each person appearing before the committee, with the name of the person or persons and the name of the group or organization on whose behalf such the appearance is made.

AJR15,12,10 (d) The vote of each member on all motions, bills, resolutions proposals, amendments, or administrative rules acted upon.

AJR15,12,17 (3) Any member of a joint committee who is opposed to the committee's majority report may, at the time of the committee's final vote on the matter, notify the chair chairperson of his or her intent to file a minority report and may then file such the report with the chairperson no later than the 2nd business day after the vote. For any joint committee or committee of conference the committee report, including any minority report, may be provided to the members as decided by the presiding officer for each house.

AJR15,12,25 (4) The committee shall file, in the jacket envelope of every bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or administrative rule reported by it, the original record of the committee's proceedings containing the information compiled under sub. (1) for the proposal or administrative rule. A duplicate of the record shall be filed by the chief clerk numerically by the number of the proposal or administrative rule in the form most accessible for the use of the members and the public during the session. At the end of the biennial session the duplicates shall be filed in the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15, s. 21 Section 21. Joint rule 32 (title), (1) (intro.), (b), (d) and (g) and (3) are amended to read:

AJR15,13,8 Joint Rule 32 (title) Certification of passage of, or adoption of and concurrence in, proposals. (1) (intro.) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the entry of actions by that house in the history file for any bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal. 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 entries shall include the following:

AJR15,13,9 (b) The name of the member, members, or committee introducing the proposal.

AJR15,13,12 (d) The dates of introduction, reference to committee, and all subsequent actions pertaining to the proposal, including any motion to end debate of the proposal.

AJR15,13,15 (g) The date and resolution number of any request, approved by that house, for an opinion of the attorney general, and the date on which such the opinion was received.

AJR15,13,18 (3) Each house shall provide by rule the manner by which the passage by or adoption of and concurrence in that house of bills, joint resolutions, or resolutions shall be proposals are certified.

AJR15, s. 22 Section 22. Joint rule 33 is amended to read:

AJR15,13,24 Joint Rule 33. Book of enrolled bills. (1) The chief clerk of each house shall keep a book in which the chief clerk enters the date on which any enrolled bill, originating in that house, is submitted to the governor for approval. The chief clerk's entry shall show the number of the bill, and shall be countersigned by an employe employee of the office of the governor.

AJR15,14,4 (2) Such The books shall similarly show the day of deposit in the office of the secretary of state of bills that become law without the signature of the governor, of bills passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor, and of resolutions required to be published.

AJR15, s. 23 Section 23. Joint rule 34 is amended to read:

AJR15,14,10 Joint Rule 34. Submittal of enrolled bills to governor. After the an 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 or by other legislative rule, by the chief clerk of the house in which it originated to the office of the governor for approval.

AJR15, s. 24 Section 24. Joint rule 35 is amended to read:

AJR15,14,16 Joint Rule 35. Assignment of enrolled joint resolution numbers. The chief clerk, in cooperation with the secretary of state, 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.

AJR15, s. 25 Section 25. Joint rule 41 (3) (a) to (g) are amended to read:

AJR15,15,3 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 transmit electronically a request from for the legislative fiscal bureau, or through the department of administration from for an appropriate state agency, to prepare 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 transmitted electronically to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15,15,17 (b) At the Upon a request of a bill's primary author, transmitted electronically unless directed otherwise by the presiding officer, the presiding officer of either house may transmit electronically a request through the department of administration from for an appropriate state agency to prepare 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 the calendar, failure to receive a supplemental fiscal estimate requested under this paragraph on a bill which that 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 transmitted electronically to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15,15,21 (c) The department of administration may submit transmit electronically a supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope if the department disagrees with a fiscal estimate prepared by a state agency.

AJR15,16,2 (d) In addition to the original estimates prepared by state agencies, the department of administration shall, if appropriate, submit transmit electronically to the legislative reference bureau, for review by the requester under joint rule 48 and for 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.

AJR15,16,8 (e) Any state agency may submit transmit electronically to the department of administration for submit transmission electronically to the legislative reference bureau for review by the primary author of an introduced bill under joint rule 48 and for 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.

AJR15,16,14 (f) The legislative fiscal bureau or the department of administration shall, if requested it receives an electronic request under joint rule 48 (3), prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate. If a supplemental fiscal estimate is requested electronically the fiscal bureau or the department shall submit transmit electronically the prepared supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15,16,19 (g) A state agency shall submit transmit electronically any fiscal estimate requested electronically under joint rule 48 (2) to the department of administration for submission transmission electronically to the legislative reference bureau for review by the primary author under joint rule 48 and for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15, s. 26 Section 26. Joint rule 42 (1) (a) and (2) to (4) are amended to read:

AJR15,16,25 Joint Rule 42 (1) (a) Fiscal estimates shall be prepared by all state agencies receiving the appropriation, collecting the revenue, administering the program, or having information concerning the subject matter of the bill. Bills containing provisions for both appropriations and revenues or either appropriations or revenues for more than one state agency shall receive estimates from each such agency.

AJR15,17,3 (2) The name of the state agency preparing the estimate, and the date, shall be reproduced at the end of the estimate. The estimate shall also be signed by include the name and telephone number of a responsible official of the agency.

AJR15,17,11 (3) Each state agency shall prepare the fiscal estimate within 5 working days from the date on which it receives the bill, but the department of administration, on a limited basis only and upon an agency's request received prior to before the end of the 5-day period and applicable to only one fiscal estimate, may extend such the period for the specified fiscal estimate to not more than 10 working days if the bill necessitates extended research. Whenever such the extension is granted, the department of administration shall immediately notify the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15,17,17 (4) The state agencies are requested to utilize use the bills, substitute amendments, and amendments submitted transmitted to them for official purposes only. In particular, no state agency may copy, or otherwise disseminate information regarding, any bill, substitute amendment, or amendment to it by "LRB" number, indicating that such the bill, substitute amendment, or amendment submitted transmitted has not been offered for introduction or introduced in the legislature.

AJR15, s. 27 Section 27. Joint rule 43 is amended to read:

AJR15,17,24 Joint Rule 43. Reliable dollar estimate. The estimate shall be factual in nature, and shall provide as reliable a dollar estimate as possible. The fiscal estimate shall contain a statement setting forth the assumptions used in arriving at the dollar estimate. Identification of technical or policy problems in the bill shall not be included in the estimate but should be submitted transmitted electronically and separately in a technical memorandum.

AJR15, s. 28 Section 28. Joint rule 44 (title) and (2) (a) are amended to read:

AJR15,18,1 Joint Rule 44 (title) Bill jackets to display "FE.".

AJR15,18,5 (2) (a) The preliminary determination of whether the bill requires a fiscal estimate shall be made by the legislative reference bureau, which, except as otherwise provided in joint rule 54 (2m), shall indicate that a bill requires a fiscal estimate displaying "FE" prominently on the jacket.

AJR15, s. 29 Section 29. Joint rule 45 is amended to read:

AJR15,18,16 Joint Rule 45. Duties of legislative reference bureau. (1) After a proposed bill has been drafted the legislative reference bureau shall inform the requester that a fiscal estimate is required when it submits the draft to the requester. If authorized by the requester, the bureau shall promptly submit such transmit electronically the proposed bill to the department of administration for preparation of a fiscal estimate. The requester may introduce the bill without the fiscal estimate, but when such a bill is introduced the legislative reference bureau shall promptly submit transmit electronically a copy of the bill to the department of administration for preparation of a fiscal estimate. The legislative reference bureau shall keep a record of the date on which each bill is thus submitted transmitted electronically and its number.

AJR15,19,2 (2) If the fiscal estimate is procured before the bill is introduced, the legislative reference bureau shall submit transmit electronically a copy of the estimate to the requester. If the requester desires to introduce the bill, the reference bureau shall place the estimate and any worksheet 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 reproduced at the end of the bill or as an appendix as are amendments. If the fiscal estimate is procured transmitted electronically to the legislative reference bureau after the bill has been introduced, the legislative reference bureau shall submit transmit electronically a copy of the estimate and any worksheet to the primary author of the introduced bill as provided under joint rule 48.

AJR15, s. 30 Section 30. Joint rule 46 is amended to read:

AJR15,19,9 Joint Rule 46. Duties of department of administration and state agencies. (1) The department of administration shall promptly review each bill received, determine all of the agencies to which it that shall be submitted for prepare a fiscal estimate, and forward transmit electronically the fiscal estimate request to such those agencies, keeping a record of the date of submission electronic transmission to and electronic receipt from the agencies and the number of the bill.

AJR15,19,17 (2) The state agency shall prepare an original typed copy of the estimate and of any worksheet and such copies as are specified by the department of administration. It shall return transmit electronically 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 electronically the state agency of any bill not returned transmitted electronically to the department of administration within the deadline.

AJR15,19,20 (3) The department of administration shall promptly return transmit electronically all fiscal estimates and any worksheets to the legislative reference bureau, retaining one copy of each estimate and worksheet for its files.

AJR15,19,24 (4) The department of administration shall, when requested under joint rule 48 (3), prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate, and shall submit transmit electronically the supplemental fiscal estimate to the legislative reference bureau for reproduction and insertion in the bill jacket envelope.

AJR15,20,6 (5) The department of administration may correct any computation or other clerical error in a fiscal estimate prepared by an agency but may not make any substantive change. If the department makes such a correction it shall note on the fiscal estimate prepared by the agency the manner in which it has been corrected by the department and shall submit transmit electronically both the corrected and uncorrected fiscal estimates to the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15, s. 31 Section 31. Joint rule 47 is amended to read:

AJR15,20,13 Joint Rule 47. Duties of joint committee on finance. The joint committee on finance may, by the vote of a majority of its members, direct that any legislative fiscal bureau memorandum on a bill referred to the committee, other than a budget bill, be inserted in the bill jacket envelope. If the committee so directs, a an electronic copy of the memorandum shall be distributed transmitted electronically to all legislators and to the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15,20,20 Joint Rule 48. Review of agency prepared fiscal estimates. (1) On the 6th working day after the legislative reference bureau submits transmits electronically a copy of a fiscal estimate for an introduced bill to the primary author, the bureau shall forward copies transmit electronically a copy 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 reproduced as are amendments.

AJR15,21,2 (2) During the 5-day period under sub. (1), the primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that an original fiscal estimate for the bill as affected by an introduced or an unintroduced a proposed amendment or an introduced or unintroduced a proposed substitute amendment, whether offered for introduction or not, be prepared by the agency which that prepared the fiscal estimate for the bill.

AJR15,21,6 (3) The primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that the legislative fiscal bureau or the department of administration prepare a supplemental fiscal estimate if the primary author disagrees with the fiscal estimate for the bill prepared by the state agency.

AJR15,21,15 (4) During the 5-day period under sub. (1), the primary author of an introduced bill may transmit electronically a request that the agency which that 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 electronically notify the department of administration and the legislative reference bureau, and the rewritten fiscal estimate, notwithstanding sub. (1), shall be the only original estimate 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.

AJR15, s. 32 Section 32. Joint rule 49 is amended to read:

AJR15,21,21 Joint Rule 49. Bills not conforming. (1) Any member may at any time that a bill is before the house raise the issue that such the bill requires a fiscal estimate, and if the presiding officer determines that such the bill (not having such the estimate) requires an estimate, the presiding officer shall direct the legislative reference bureau to secure the requisite estimate.

AJR15,21,24 (2) Bills requiring fiscal estimates shall not be voted on by either house, and shall receive neither a public hearing nor be voted on by a standing committee, prior to before the receipt of the original fiscal estimate for the bill.

AJR15,22,3 (3) If the fiscal estimate for the bill has not been provided to the members when the vote on passage is taken, then the chief clerk shall read the fiscal estimate at length before the vote.

AJR15, s. 33 Section 33. Joint rule 50 is created to read:

AJR15,22,8 Joint Rule 50. Waiver of requirement to transmit electronically. The president and speaker may jointly waive for a limited time any requirement under joint rules 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, and 48 for electronic transmission and permit, instead, transmission in paper form.

AJR15, s. 34 Section 34. Joint rule 51 (intro.) and (2) are amended to read:

AJR15,22,14 Joint Rule 51. Use of LRB legal services. (intro.) No measure proposal may be introduced or offered for introduction unless it has been put in proper form by the legislative reference bureau. Only the persons authorized by this rule may use the drafting services of the legislative reference bureau to have measures proposals prepared for introduction. Persons authorized to use such the drafting services are:

AJR15,22,16 (2) Any agency of Wisconsin state government, as defined in section 16.70 (1) of the statutes, created under chapter 13, 14, 15, or 758 of the statutes.

AJR15, s. 35 Section 35. Joint rule 51 (4) is created to read:

AJR15,22,18 Joint Rule 51 (4) A party caucus of either house of the legislature.

AJR15, s. 36 Section 36. Joint rule 52 (intro.), (1) (c) and (d) 4. and (e), (4) (intro.), (5) (intro.), (a) and (b), (6) and (7) are amended to read:

AJR15,22,24 Joint Rule 52. Format; text display; structure of proposals. (intro.) All bills shall be reproduced on paper 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Each bill shall have a title, an enacting clause, and subject matter disposed of in one or more sections and shall have the arrangement and wording prescribed by the following:

AJR15,23,4 (1) (c) Any bill may include 2 or more types of actions and treat both general statutory law and nonstatutory law, but the various types of actions used shall be listed in the order shown in par. (a), and, if both statutory and nonstatutory law are treated in the same manner, the statutory law shall be cited first.

AJR15,23,5 (d) 4. Making, continuing, or renewing an appropriation.

AJR15,23,14 (e) Executive budget bills under section 16.47 (1) of the statutes , other lengthy bills that encompass multiple subjects and that are to be introduced at the request of the governor or the committee on organization of either house, 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 revisor's 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:....".

AJR15,23,19 (4) (intro.) The subject matter of the bill shall follow the enacting clause and be displayed in one or more sections which that, except for budget bills or other bills of unusual length, shall be numbered consecutively. Substitute amendments may follow the section numbering of the bill. Each section shall begin in one of the following forms:

AJR15,23,25 (5) (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, 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 typed with a line through the matter, and any new matter underscored. This requirement shall not apply to:

AJR15,24,2 (a) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either house and revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.

AJR15,24,6 (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 this increase or decrease.

AJR15,24,10 (6) All parts of the statutes and of other laws which that are intended to be superseded or repealed should be specifically referred to, so far as practicable, and expressly superseded or repealed. This directive is not intended to affect judicial construction.

AJR15,24,17 (7) Except as necessary to revise the relating clause of the affected bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or substitute amendment, an amendment may not change the title of the proposal. When a substitute amendment or proposal is reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein, or when the proposal is enrolled after passage, or adoption, and concurrence, the legislative reference bureau shall make the required changes in the title so that the title correctly lists all sections provisions affected by the proposal.

AJR15, s. 37 Section 37. Joint rule 53 (1) and (2) (f) and (m) are amended to read:

AJR15,24,22 Joint Rule 53 (1) 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 is indicative of a legislative intent that this text be incorporated into the statutes.

AJR15,24,24 (2) (f) A ratification of a collective bargaining agreement for state employes employees.

AJR15,25,2 (m) Any other provision which that is narrow in scope and intended to be temporary.

AJR15, s. 38 Section 38. Joint rule 54 is amended to read:

AJR15,25,9 Joint Rule 54. Approval and jacketing of drafts. (1) Before jacketing a proposal is jacketed for introduction, the legislative reference bureau shall submit a copy of the draft to the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency for approval, but substitute amendments or amendments shall be immediately prepared for introduction to be offered unless the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency requests prior submittal for approval.

AJR15,25,15 (2) The legislative reference bureau, except as otherwise provided in sub. (2m), shall provide to the authorizing legislator, chief clerk, caucus, or state agency 4 copies of each approved proposal approved under sub. (1) and 6 copies of each approved amendment approved under sub. (1). One copy shall be is for the use of the requester. The other copies shall, if a proposal, be inserted in the jacket envelope or, if a substitute amendment or amendment, be attached to an amendment jacket.