AJR15: Joint Resolution Text

AJR15, s. 39 Section 39. Joint rule 54 (2m) is created to read:

AJR15,26,10 Joint Rule 54 (2m) (a) The chief of the legislative reference bureau and a chief clerk of either house may enter into a written agreement under this joint rule to have the chief clerk, when the chief clerk's house is in session, receive on the floor of the house copies of drafts of proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments transmitted electronically by the legislative reference bureau, and place the proposals in jacket envelopes and attach jacket cover sheets (stripes) to drafts of amendments and substitute amendments.

AJR15,26,18 (b) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this subsection until the legislative technology services bureau makes the computer programming changes and the legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk make the process changes necessary to permit the legislative reference bureau to transmit and the chief clerk to receive the drafts electronically in the chamber of the house, in a manner that ensures the confidentiality of the drafts, without changing the way the legislative reference bureau jackets proposals, substitute amendments, and amendments electronically.

AJR15,26,21 (c) The legislative reference bureau and the chief clerk may not act under this subsection unless the chief clerk states in the agreement that the chief clerk and his or her employees:

AJR15,26,23 1. Will comply with the requirements for confidentiality of drafts with which the legislative reference bureau must comply.

AJR15,27,3 2. Provide, maintain, and supervise the equipment and the jackets for the electronic transmittal to the chief clerk as if the equipment and jackets were under the immediate supervision of the legislative reference bureau.

AJR15,27,5 3. Submit directly to, and only to, the member any proposal in its jacket and any substitute amendment or amendment with its jacket attached.

AJR15,27,9 (d) The legislative reference bureau may not transmit a draft of a proposal, substitute amendment, or amendment to the chief clerk under this rule unless the member requesting the draft waives confidentiality of the draft and requests the legislative reference bureau to transmit the draft under this rule.

AJR15, s. 40 Section 40. Joint rule 55 is amended to read:

AJR15,27,14 Joint Rule 55. Authors and cosponsors. (1) Any bill, joint resolution, or motion under joint rule 7 may have, following and separate from the names of the authors of the measure bill, joint resolution, or motion, the names of one or more cosponsors from the other house.

AJR15,27,17 (2) When a proposal or amendment is introduced or offered by request, the name of the person requesting introduction or the offering of the proposal or offering of the amendment shall be made a part of the record of the proposal.

AJR15, s. 41 Section 41. Joint rule 56 (title), (1), (2) and (3) (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,27,23 Joint Rule 56 (title) Clerical corrections in legislative measures proposals and amendments. (1) The chief clerks and the legislative reference bureau shall correct all minor clerical errors found in any bill, resolution proposal or amendment thereto. Any correction under this rule shall be entered by the chief clerk in the history file for the proposal of the house having possession of the proposal.

AJR15,27,25 (2) The current edition of Webster's new international dictionary shall be used as is the standard on questions of correct spelling, word usage, and proper grammar.

AJR15,28,3 (3) (b) Correcting the title of a proposal so that the enumeration of sections affected accurately reflects the statutes, session laws, Wisconsin Acts, sections of the constitution, or legislative rules treated in the proposal.

AJR15, s. 42 Section 42. Joint rule 57 (2) (intro.) and (b) are amended to read:

AJR15,28,9 Joint Rule 57 (2) (intro.) The text of a proposed constitutional amendment is not subject to change when a joint resolution submits such text for "2nd consideration" after the proposal joint resolution was adopted on "first consideration" by the last preceding legislature, unless appropriate changes are made to revert the status of the constitutional amendment to "first consideration.".

AJR15,28,16 (b) Because any change in the text of a proposed constitutional amendment before the senate or assembly for "2nd consideration" reverts that proposed amendment to "first consideration" status, any such change shall be presented to the senate or assembly in the form of a substitute amendment which that, in its title, its resolving clauses, and its instructions for transmittal to the next succeeding legislature, properly sets forth the resultant "first consideration" status of the proposed constitution text constitutional amendment.

AJR15, s. 43 Section 43. Joint rule 59 is amended to read:

AJR15,29,8 Joint Rule 59. Explanative notes. In addition to such notes as are required by law or joint rule, explanative notes may be included in revision and correction bills prepared by the revisor of statutes, in reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house, and in bills, joint resolutions, or resolutions proposals introduced or offered 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 The 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 proposal or amendment to which they relate. Notes shall appear in the original reproduced version of the measure proposal or amendment only, and shall not appear in the Wisconsin Acts or session law volumes unless the chief of the legislative reference bureau determines that including them is essential or in the statutes unless the revisor determines that including them is essential. Such The notes constitute no part of the proposed act or engrossed or enrolled resolution.

AJR15, s. 44 Section 44. Joint rule 60 (title) and (1) are amended to read:

AJR15,29,19 Joint Rule 60 (title) Enrolled bills proposals. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), immediately after the passage of any bill, or the adoption of and concurrence in any joint resolution amending the constitution, and in the case of a bill, before it is presented to the governor for approval, the legislative reference bureau shall prepare the number of enrolled copies of the proposal requested by the chief clerk of the house in which the measure proposal originated. One such copy shall be used as the enrolled bill that is presented to the governor or the enrolled resolution that is deposited with the secretary of state. Four copies of the enrolled bill or resolution shall be delivered to the secretary of state. A sufficient number of copies of the enrolled bill or enrolled resolution shall be delivered to the revisor of statutes.

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: