AJR15, s. 39 3Section 39. Joint rule 54 (2m) is created to read:
AJR15,26,104 Joint Rule 54 (2m) (a) The chief of the legislative reference bureau and a chief
5clerk of either house may enter into a written agreement under this joint rule to have
6the chief clerk, when the chief clerk's house is in session, receive on the floor of the
7house copies of drafts of proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments
8transmitted electronically by the legislative reference bureau, and place the
9proposals in jacket envelopes and attach jacket cover sheets (stripes) to drafts of
10amendments and substitute amendments.
AJR15,26,1811 (b) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this
12subsection until the legislative technology services bureau makes the computer
13programming changes and the legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk make
14the process changes necessary to permit the legislative reference bureau to transmit
15and the chief clerk to receive the drafts electronically in the chamber of the house,
16in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of the drafts, without changing the way
17the legislative reference bureau jackets proposals, substitute amendments, and
18amendments electronically.
AJR15,26,2119 (c) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this
20subsection unless the chief clerk states in the agreement that the chief clerk and his
21or her employees:
AJR15,26,2322 1. Will comply with the requirements for confidentiality of drafts with which
23the legislative reference bureau must comply.
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12. Provide, maintain, and supervise the equipment and the jackets for the
2electronic transmittal to the chief clerk as if the equipment and jackets were under
3the immediate supervision of the legislative reference bureau.
AJR15,27,54 3. Submit directly to, and only to, the member any proposal in its jacket and
5any substitute amendment or amendment with its jacket attached.
AJR15,27,96 (d) The legislative reference bureau may not transmit a draft of a proposal,
7substitute amendment, or amendment to the chief clerk under this rule unless the
8member requesting the draft waives confidentiality of the draft and requests the
9legislative reference bureau to transmit the draft under this rule.
AJR15, s. 40 10Section 40. Joint rule 55 is amended to read:
AJR15,27,1411 Joint Rule 55. Authors and cosponsors. (1) Any bill, joint resolution, or
12motion under joint rule 7 may have, following and separate from the names of the
13authors of the measure bill, joint resolution, or motion, the names of one or more
14cosponsors from the other house.
AJR15,27,1715 (2) When a proposal or amendment is introduced or offered by request, the
16name of the person requesting introduction or the offering of the proposal or offering
17of the
amendment shall be made a part of the record of the proposal.
AJR15, s. 41 18Section 41. Joint rule 56 (title), (1), (2) and (3) (b) are amended to read:
AJR15,27,2319 Joint Rule 56 (title) Clerical corrections in legislative measures
20proposals and amendments. (1) The chief clerks and the legislative reference
21bureau shall correct all minor clerical errors found in any bill, resolution proposal or
22amendment thereto. Any correction under this rule shall be entered by the chief clerk
23in the history file for the proposal of the house having possession of the proposal.
AJR15,27,2524 (2) The current edition of Webster's new international dictionary shall be used
25as
is the standard on questions of correct spelling, word usage, and proper grammar.
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1(3) (b) Correcting the title of a proposal so that the enumeration of sections
2affected accurately reflects the statutes, session laws, Wisconsin Acts, sections of the
3constitution, or legislative rules treated in the proposal.
AJR15, s. 42 4Section 42. Joint rule 57 (2) (intro.) and (b) are amended to read:
AJR15,28,95 Joint Rule 57 (2) (intro.) The text of a proposed constitutional amendment is
6not subject to change when a joint resolution submits such text for "2nd
7consideration" after the proposal joint resolution was adopted on "first
8consideration" by the last preceding legislature, unless appropriate changes are
9made to revert the status of the constitutional amendment to "first consideration.".
AJR15,28,1610 (b) Because any change in the text of a proposed constitutional amendment
11before the senate or assembly for "2nd consideration" reverts that proposed
12amendment to "first consideration" status, any such change shall be presented to the
13senate or assembly in the form of a substitute amendment which that, in its title, its
14resolving clauses, and its instructions for transmittal to the next succeeding
15legislature, properly sets forth the resultant "first consideration" status of the
16proposed constitution text constitutional amendment.
AJR15, s. 43 17Section 43. Joint rule 59 is amended to read:
AJR15,29,818 Joint Rule 59. Explanative notes. In addition to such notes as are required
19by law or joint rule, explanative notes may be included in revision and correction bills
20prepared by the revisor of statutes, in reconciliation bills introduced by the
21committee on organization of either house, and in bills, joint resolutions, or
22resolutions
proposals introduced or offered and in substitute amendments or
23amendments offered by the joint legislative council or its law revision committee, at
24the request of the judicial council, and by or at the request of any other official interim
25study or investigative group. Such The notes shall be prepared by the requester,

1shall be factual in nature, shall be as brief as may be and, where feasible, shall follow
2the section of the measure proposal or amendment to which they relate. Notes shall
3appear in the original reproduced version of the measure proposal or amendment
4only, and shall not appear in the Wisconsin Acts or session law volumes unless the
5chief of the legislative reference bureau determines that including them is essential
6or in the statutes unless the revisor determines that including them is essential.
7Such The notes constitute no part of the proposed act or engrossed or enrolled
8resolution
.
AJR15, s. 44 9Section 44. Joint rule 60 (title) and (1) are amended to read:
AJR15,29,1910 Joint Rule 60 (title) Enrolled bills proposals. (1) Except as provided in sub.
11(2), immediately after the passage of any bill, or the adoption of and concurrence in
12any joint resolution amending the constitution, and in the case of a bill, before it is
13presented to the governor for approval, the legislative reference bureau shall prepare
14the number of enrolled copies of the proposal requested by the chief clerk of the house
15in which the measure proposal originated. One such copy shall be used as the
16enrolled bill that is presented to the governor or the enrolled resolution that is
17deposited with the secretary of state
. Four copies of the enrolled bill or resolution
18shall be delivered to the secretary of state. A sufficient number of copies of the
19enrolled bill or enrolled resolution shall be delivered to the revisor of statutes.
AJR15, s. 45 20Section 45. Joint rule 62 is amended to read:
AJR15,29,2421 Joint Rule 62. Number of copies. (1) The joint committee on legislative
22organization shall determine the number of copies of each bill, joint resolution, or
23resolution
proposal and amendments thereto which shall to be reproduced on a
24routine basis unless otherwise provided by joint resolution.
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1(2) Additional copies of a legislative proposal may be procured by the house in
2which the measure proposal originated, as provided in the rules of the house or upon
3authorization by the committee on organization or chief clerk of that house.
AJR15, s. 46 4Section 46. Joint rule 63 is amended to read:
AJR15,30,165 Joint Rule 63. Reproduction of engrossed measures proposals and
6amendments
. Upon the finding by the chief clerk of either house that a bill, joint
7resolution, resolution
proposal or major amendment thereto has been amended in
8the house of origin to a considerable degree, the chief clerk may instruct the
9legislative reference bureau to prepare and have reproduced an engrossed copy of the
10measure proposal or amendment. In preparing engrossed copy for a bill, joint
11resolution
or resolution proposal the legislative reference bureau shall, if time
12permits, provide it with a revised analysis. Upon receipt from the legislative
13reference bureau of the engrossed copy, the chief clerk shall enter that fact in the
14history file for the measure proposal. Any subsequent amendments to a measure
15proposal ordered reproduced with all adopted amendments engrossed therein shall
16be drafted to the reproduced engrossed text.
AJR15, s. 47 17Section 47. Joint rule 64 (1) (intro.), (a) and (b) are amended to read:
AJR15,30,2318 Joint Rule 64 (1) (intro.) Any proposal, substitute amendment, or amendment
19that proposes to amend an existing law or legislative rule, and any joint resolution
20that proposes to amend a section of the state constitution or joint rules, shall display
21the full text of the unit of the law, rule, or constitution that is being amended, with
22any matter to be stricken out displayed with a line through the matter, and any new
23matter displayed with underscoring. This requirement shall does not apply to:
AJR15,30,2524 (a) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either
25house or revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
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1(b) Appropriation sections which that only increase or decrease the amount of
2an existing appropriation, which shall instead indicate the amount by which the
3applicable appropriation is to be increased or decreased, and the purpose of the
4increase or decrease.
AJR15, s. 48 5Section 48. Joint rule 66 (2) is amended to read:
AJR15,31,86 Joint Rule 66 (2) Whenever more than one copy of a joint resolution is to be
7distributed, facsimile signatures of the several officers required to sign such the
8resolutions may be used.
AJR15, s. 49 9Section 49. Joint rule 71 is amended to read:
AJR15,31,1610 Joint Rule 71. Legislative manuals. The chief clerk of each house shall
11prepare, and transmit to the department of administration, a copy of a manual of
12procedure, which shall contain such the matter as the house determines and has
13been customarily included in such the manual. The department shall deliver to each
14chief clerk as many copies as the chief clerk requires.
The chief clerks may prepare
15extracts of rules which that have been changed or created for insertion in existing
16manuals for use until the new issues are available.
AJR15, s. 50 17Section 50. Joint rule 72 is amended to read:
AJR15,31,2118 Joint Rule 72. Daily calendars. Such The quantity of daily calendars as
19ordered by the chief clerk of each house shall be reproduced. The format of the
20calendars shall for each house be as provided in the rules of that house or as directed
21by the committee on organization of that house.
AJR15, s. 51 22Section 51. Joint rule 74 (1) is amended to read:
AJR15,32,323 Joint Rule 74 (1) Within 60 days next following the close of any session of the
24legislature, the chief clerk of each house shall prepare the matter for its daily journal,
25which is required by the order of such house to be included therein; and any other

1matter, not already included in either journal, which is required to be included by
2joint action of the legislature, shall be prepared and transmitted by the chief clerk
3of the house in which such the action originated.
AJR15, s. 52 4Section 52. Joint rule 74 (2) (intro.) is renumbered joint rule 74 (2) and
5amended to read:
AJR15,32,126 Joint Rule 74 (2) One hundred copies shall be reproduced and bound. The
7journals for both houses shall be bound in cloth. The journals of regular,
8extraordinary, and special sessions may be bound together in the same volumes if the
9extraordinary or special session is called before the journals of the regular sessions
10have been bound; if not so bound the journals of both houses for the extraordinary
11or special session shall be bound together. Distribution of such The chief clerk of
12each house shall distribute the
copies shall be as follows:.
AJR15, s. 53 13Section 53. Joint rule 74 (2) (a) to (f) are repealed.
AJR15, s. 54 14Section 54. Joint rule 75 (1) to (3) are amended to read:
AJR15,32,1715 Joint Rule 75 (1) The chief clerk of each house shall, before the beginning of
16each week, prepare and have reproduced a schedule of committee activities
17scheduled for such the week by Monday noon of the preceding week.
AJR15,32,2318 (2) The schedule of committee activities shall contain an index by proposal or
19administrative rule number, date, hour, location, and committee; shall set forth the
20name of each standing or special committee, its chairperson, the room number or
21place, and the time and date of each hearing scheduled under sub. (1); and shall
22designate each proposal or administrative rule to be heard by number, author, and
23topic.
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1(3) The schedule of committee activities may announce all meetings to be held
2by the joint committee on finance, by the joint legislative council, or by committees
3of the joint legislative council.
AJR15, s. 55 4Section 55. Joint rule 76 is amended to read:
AJR15,33,155 Joint Rule 76. Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings. (1) After
6the 3rd week of the biennial session, there shall be published at convenient intervals
7a "Bulletin of Proceedings" shall be published at convenient intervals. The senate
8and assembly parts shall each be published under the direction of the respective chief
9clerk and the index part shall be published as provided in joint rule 77. The senate
10and assembly parts shall each contain a directory of the officers, members, and
11committees of the legislature. The senate and assembly parts shall contain the
12complete history of legislative action on the bills, joint resolutions, resolutions
13proposals and petitions originating in that house; in addition, the senate part shall
14contain the history of senate action advice and consent on gubernatorial nominations
15for appointment.
AJR15,33,1916 (2) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the completion of an
17up-to-date record of the actions by that house on all bills and joint resolutions and
18of the actions on resolutions originating in that house. The chief clerk shall publish
19the record for all measures proposals originating in that house as soon as completed.
AJR15, s. 56 20Section 56. Joint rule 77 (1) is amended to read:
AJR15,33,2321 Joint Rule 77 (1) A subject index to legislation, showing a brief description of
22each bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or petition, and may contain a brief
23description of such amendments as materially alter the subject content of a proposal.
AJR15, s. 57 24Section 57. Joint rule 78 is amended to read:
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1Joint Rule 78. Bulletin and index to actions concerning proposed
2administrative rules.
The administrative rules bulletin of proceedings shall be
3prepared jointly by the chief clerks of the 2 houses, the legislative council staff, and
4the legislative reference bureau. The bulletin shall contain a history of each
5transaction affecting a proposed administrative rule received under section 227.15
6(1) of the statutes, prepared by the chief clerk of each house. It shall also contain a
7subject index, and an author index by agency of any proposed administrative rule
8received under section 227.15 (1) of the statutes, prepared by the legislative
9reference bureau. A replacement or supplement to the administrative rules volume
10shall be published at least once every month.
AJR15, s. 58 11Section 58. Joint rule 79 (2), (3) and (5) are amended to read:
AJR15,34,1512 Joint Rule 79 (2) Bill jackets. When jacketing drafted proposals for
13consideration in a special session, the legislative reference bureau shall identify each
14page of the draft, as well as and, except as otherwise provided in joint rule 54 (2m),
15identify
the bill jacket itself, by the month in which a specific special session begins.
AJR15,34,1816 (3) Bills and resolutions Proposals. For each special session, the chief clerks
17shall number the bills, joint resolutions, or resolutions proposals in a new sequence,
18beginning with the number "1" for each type of document proposal.
AJR15,34,2419 (5) Bulletin of proceedings. The history of legislative action on all measures
20proposals introduced or offered in special sessions shall be published in a single
21chapter for each special session, at the end of the senate and assembly parts of the
22bulletin of proceedings. In the subject and author indexes of the index to the bulletin
23of proceedings, special session legislation shall be indexed, together with regular
24session legislation, into a single subject-heading and author-heading-sequence.
AJR15, s. 59
1Section 59. Joint rule 81 (1) (a) to (c), (2) (a) and (c), (3) (b) and (4) are amended
2to read:
AJR15,35,63 Joint Rule 81 (1) (a) The incoming legislature shall convene in the capitol at
42 p.m. to take the oath of office, select officers, and do all other things necessary to
5organize itself for the conduct of its business, but if the first Monday in January falls
6on January 1 or 2, the organizational meeting shall be held on January 3.
AJR15,35,97 (b) Each biennial session period shall be structured into floorperiods,
8committee work periods, and an interim committee work period, and shall include
9at least one meeting of the legislature in January of each year.
AJR15,35,1410 (c) Early in each biennial session, the joint committee on legislative
11organization shall offer introduce a joint resolution setting forth the session schedule
12for that biennium. The joint resolution is amendable and shall, when approved by
13both houses, constitute the session schedule for that biennium unless later changed
14by action of the 2 houses.
AJR15,35,2115 (2) (a) The extension of a floorperiod through earlier convening or later
16adjournment, or the convening of an extraordinary session, may be authorized at the
17direction of a majority of the members of the committee on organization in each house
18or by the passage adoption of and concurrence in a joint resolution on the approval
19by a majority of the members elected to each house, or by the joint petition of a
20majority of the members elected to each house submitted to, and using a form
21approved by, the senate chief clerk and the assembly chief clerk
.
AJR15,36,322 (c) Following the official call of any special or extraordinary session, the joint
23committee on employment relations or on legislative organization, the committees
24on organization in each house, and any committee of either house so authorized
25under the rules thereof, may introduce or offer for introduction proposals germane

1to the call, and such proposals may be numbered, referred to committee, and
2reproduced in advance of the special or extraordinary session under the customary
3procedures of each house.
AJR15,36,74 (3) (b) The committee on senate organization may designate a committee work
5day for senate action on gubernatorial advice and consent on nominations for
6appointment, whether or not that day was already assigned as a session day under
7par. (a).
AJR15,36,108 (4) The biennial session schedule shall specify the final date on which the chief
9clerks of the 2 houses shall submit to the office of the governor all bills approved by
10the 2 houses before that date.
AJR15, s. 60 11Section 60. Joint rule 81m is created to read:
AJR15,36,1512 Joint Rule 81m. Limited-business floorperiod. (1) The biennial session
13schedule shall provide for a floorperiod after the last general-business floorperiod
14scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year and
15before the veto review session in that year.
AJR15,36,1616 (2) The limited-business floorperiod shall be a floorperiod limited to action on:
AJR15,36,1717 (a) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
AJR15,36,2018 (b) Reconciliation bills introduced by the organization committee of either
19house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the legislative
20session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule 60 (2).
AJR15,36,2321 (c) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the
22ratification of state employee collective bargaining contracts under section 111.92 (1)
23of the statutes.
AJR15,36,2424 (d) Matters the purposes of which are allowed under joint rule 7.
AJR15, s. 61 25Section 61. Joint rule 82 (intro.), (1) (c) and (e), (2) and (4) are amended to read:
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1Joint Rule 82. Veto review session, even-numbered year. (intro.) The
2biennial session schedule shall provide for a 3-day veto review session no earlier
3than April 1 of the even-numbered year and no
later than June 30 of the
4even-numbered year.
AJR15,37,55 (1) (c) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
AJR15,37,86 (e) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the
7ratification of state employe employee collective bargaining contracts under section
8111.92 (1) of the statutes.
AJR15,37,119 (2) (a) Any vetoes of regular or special session bills not previously on a calendar
10in the house of origin shall be shown as pending business on the calendar for the veto
11review session's first day.
AJR15,37,1412 (b) Any veto required to be scheduled under par. (a) that does not receive final
13action during the veto review session shall be deemed is sustained. The disposition
14shall be recorded as "failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the governor.".
AJR15,37,1715 (4) The action of either house on the motion to pass a bill, or part thereof,
16notwithstanding the objections of the governor may in no case be is not subject to a
17motion for reconsideration.
AJR15, s. 62 18Section 62. Joint rule 82 (1) (g) is repealed.
AJR15, s. 63 19Section 63. Joint rule 83 (1) to (3) and (5) are amended to read:
AJR15,37,2320 Joint Rule 83 (1) During any scheduled floorperiod the introduction, or offering,
21and disposition of bills, joint resolutions, resolutions proposals and the offering and
22disposition of
amendments thereto, and of certificates under joint rule 7, shall in each
23house be governed by the rules thereof.
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1(2) During any period of committee work preceding the final general-business
2floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered
3year, but not following the conclusion of that floorperiod:
AJR15,38,94 (a) The chairperson of any standing committee on behalf of that standing
5committee, any legislator, and the chairperson of any special committee on behalf of
6that special committee and within the special committee's scope, may deposit with
7the chief clerk of the legislator's house any original bill, joint resolution, or resolution
8proposal or amendments to or substitute amendments for pending proposals
9whether introduced prior to before or during the committee work period.
AJR15,38,1110 (b) The presiding officer of each house may refer to a standing committee any
11new proposal introduced or offered under par. (a).
AJR15,38,1712 (c) The chief clerk of each house shall receive, number, and cause to be
13reproduced all original proposals introduced or offered in compliance with par. (a),
14but no such proposal may be reproduced until it has been referred under par. (b). The
15chief clerk of each house shall similarly receive, number, cause to be reproduced, and
16forward to the appropriate committee, all amendments and substitute amendments
17received under par. (a).
AJR15,38,2018 (3) Any bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal on which final action has
19not been taken at the conclusion of the last general-business floorperiod in the
20odd-numbered year shall be carried forward to the even-numbered year.
AJR15,39,321 (5) Following the conclusion of the last general-business floorperiod scheduled
22by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, no further regular
23session proposals may be introduced for the balance of the legislative biennium, but
24nothing in this rule may be interpreted as limiting the introduction of
except
25proposals under joint rules rule 81 (2) (c) and or 82 (1), ; or required for the conduct

1of any special session called by the governor, of any extraordinary session called by
2the legislature, or of the veto review session, or the continued consideration of any
3proposal during
of any extended floorperiod.
AJR15, s. 64 4Section 64. Joint rule 83 (4) (a) is renumbered 83 (4) and amended to read:
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