AR3: Resolution Text

AR3,37,11 Assembly Rule 52 (1) Amendments to proposals may be offered during the period of time following after introduction of and preceding a decision on the proposal at the end of the 2nd reading stage, and as authorized by rule 73 (9).

AR3,37,13 (2) (intro.) Amendments to amendments may be offered, but amendments in the 3rd degree shall may not be accepted.

AR3,37,15 (3) Every amendment received by the chief clerk shall be provided as provided by the assembly rules.

AR3, s. 54 Section 54. Assembly rule 52 (4) is created to read:

AR3,37,18 Assembly Rule 52 (4) An amendment to a report of a committee of conference may not be offered.

AR3, s. 55 Section 55. Assembly rule 53 (intro.) and (4) (b) are amended to read:

AR3,38,3 Assembly Rule 53. Drafting of amendments. (intro.) Except as authorized in sub. (2), amendments shall be drafted by the legislative reference bureau before being offered for consideration to the assembly, or to any committee by a person other than a member thereof. No An amendment prepared by the legislative reference bureau may not be received for consideration if changes have been made in to the 5-copy set draft prepared by the bureau. Amendments may be deposited at the chief clerk's office on any day of the legislative session for the purpose of allowing them to be provided prior to before the 2nd reading stage for the proposals to which the amendments pertain.

AR3,38,11 (4) (b) Following the commencement of debate on any floor amendment the principal author may request permission to substitute the version of the amendment drafted by the legislative reference bureau for the version provided or read to the membership by the chief clerk. Unless such the permission is requested and granted, the substantive text of any floor amendment adopted by the assembly shall remain remains as provided or read to the membership by the chief clerk, but the legislative reference bureau shall prepare a copy which that incorporates any nonsubstantive, technical corrections required by rule 36.

AR3, s. 56 Section 56. Assembly rule 54 (1), (2), (3) (intro.) and (d) to (g) and (4) (intro.), (b), (d) and (f) are amended to read:

AR3,38,19 Assembly Rule 54 (1) General statement: The assembly shall may not consider any assembly amendment or assembly substitute amendment which that relates to a different subject or is intended to accomplish a different purpose than that of the proposal to which it relates or which that, if adopted and passed, would require a relating clause for the proposal which is substantially different from the proposal's original relating clause or which that would totally alter the nature of the proposal.

AR3,38,23 (2) Procedure: The presiding officer shall rule on the admissibility of any assembly amendment or assembly substitute amendment when the question of germaneness is raised, but any such question shall is not be in order once an the amendment has been is adopted.

AR3,38,24 (3) (intro.) Assembly amendments which that are not germane include:

AR3,39,3 (d) An amendment: 1) amending a statute or session law when the purpose of the proposal bill is limited to repealing such the law; or 2) repealing a statute or session law when the purpose of the proposal bill is limited to amending such the law.

AR3,39,5 (e) An amendment which that negates the effect of another assembly amendment previously adopted.

AR3,39,6 (f) An amendment which that substantially expands the scope of the proposal.

AR3,39,8 (g) An amendment to a bill when legislative action on that bill is by law limited to passage, concurrence, indefinite postponement, or nonconcurrence as introduced.

AR3,39,9 (4) (intro.) Amendments which that are germane include:

AR3,39,11 (b) An amendment which that accomplishes the same purpose in a different manner.

AR3,39,13 (d) An amendment adding appropriations necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal bill.

AR3,39,16 (f) An amendment which that changes the effective date of a repeal, reduces the scope of a repeal, or adds a short-term nonstatutory transitional provision to facilitate a repeal.

AR3, s. 57 Section 57. Assembly rule 55 (1) (a) and (c) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,39,20 Assembly Rule 55 (1) (a) Substitute amendments offered prior to before the present consideration of the proposal shall be considered beginning with the substitute amendment most recently received.

AR3,39,23 (c) Substitute amendments offered during the consideration of a substitute amendment to the proposal shall be considered in the sequence in which received, but only if no other another substitute amendment has not been adopted.

AR3,40,3 (2) (a) Whenever a substitute amendment is before the assembly, simple amendments to it shall be considered in numerical sequence prior to before action on the substitute amendment.

AR3,40,6 (b) Whenever a simple amendment is before the assembly, amendments to it shall be considered in numerical sequence prior to before action on the simple amendment.

AR3, s. 58 Section 58. Assembly rule 57 (1) (intro.) and (f) are amended to read:

AR3,40,10 Assembly Rule 57 (1) (intro.) Once a member has been recognized and has the floor, the member may speak without interruption unless questions arise which that require immediate consideration. Such questions are:

AR3,40,14 (f) Rising to ask whether the member who has the floor will yield to a proper question. The member who has the floor may yield to a proper question even if the member obtained the floor for the purpose of making a motion or raising a question which that is not debatable.

AR3, s. 59 Section 59. Assembly rule 58 (2) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,40,18 Assembly Rule 58 (2) When the presiding officer calls a member to order, that the member shall may not speak, except in explanation, until it is determined whether or not the member is in order.

AR3,40,22 (3) When a member is called to order for the use of improper or disorderly language, the specific words to which exception has been taken shall be put in writing, thus enabling the presiding officer better to be able to judge whether the words spoken were in violation of the assembly rules.

AR3, s. 60 Section 60. Assembly rule 59 (intro.) and (3) are amended to read:

AR3,41,3 Assembly Rule 59. Conduct during debate. (intro.) Unless permission is given by unanimous consent or the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present, no a member may not:

AR3,41,7 (3) Display documents or exhibits or read aloud from documents other than from the proposal then under debate or any amendment thereto, or from any statute, session law, constitutional provision, assembly rule, or joint rule directly related to the proposal or its amendments.

AR3, s. 61 Section 61. Assembly rule 60 (1) is amended to read:

AR3,41,11 Assembly Rule 60 (1) Whenever the assembly has one or more calendars pending of a later date than the calendar on which the assembly is then working, debate is limited, as follows:

AR3,41,12 (a) No A member may not speak for more than 5 minutes on any question.

AR3,41,13 (b) No A question may not be considered for more than 20 minutes.

AR3, s. 62 Section 62. Assembly rule 61 (intro.) and (1) to (3) are amended to read:

AR3,41,19 Assembly Rule 61. Questions of privilege. (intro.) Questions of privilege are under the immediate control of the presiding officer and the assembly. Such questions pertain to the rights, integrity, and safety of the assembly collectively, to the rights, reputation, or conduct of members of the assembly in their representative capacity, or to the conduct of government in general.

AR3,41,23 (1) "Assembly privilege": With recognition by the presiding officer, any member may raise and discuss a question pertaining to the safety, dignity, decorum, comfort, rights, organization, or officers of the assembly which that requires immediate attention.

AR3,42,2 (2) "Personal privilege": With recognition by the presiding officer, any member may rise to explain a personal matter which that affects the rights, reputation, and conduct of the member in his or her representative capacity. No A pending question may not be discussed in any such the explanation.

AR3,42,9 (3) "Special privilege": Any member desiring to make a statement on a matter other than one of assembly or personal privilege may rise and, with recognition by the presiding officer and within any time limits determined by the presiding officer or the assembly, may discuss any subject relative to state or local government, the conduct of public officials in relation to their official duties, or other matters concerning the public welfare, or any question pertaining to the rights of the assembly collectively, its safety, dignity, or the integrity of its proceedings.

AR3, s. 63 Section 63. Assembly rule 62 (2), (3) (a) and (b) 1., (3m), (6) and (7) are amended to read:

AR3,42,13 Assembly Rule 62 (2) No A member may not speak more than once on any point of order.

AR3,42,15 (3) (a) Immediately announce and explain a ruling on a point of order which that has been raised; or

AR3,42,19 (b) 1. When the point of order concerns a proposal or a question currently pending on such proposal, taking the point of order under advisement shall remove removes the proposal from further consideration until the presiding officer announces the ruling on the point of order.

AR3,42,22 (3m) The presiding officer shall rule on a point of order within 7 legislative days after the point of order is raised or on the final legislative day of the last scheduled general-business floorperiod preceding the veto review session, whichever is earlier.

AR3,42,25 (6) Any member may appeal a ruling of the presiding officer on any point of order. When an appeal is made, the question shall be is: "Shall the decision of the chair stand as the decision of the assembly?"

AR3,43,2 (7) Appeals are debatable and shall be are decided by a majority of the members present and voting on a roll call vote. The presiding officer may vote on appeals.

AR3, s. 64 Section 64. Assembly rule 63 is amended to read:

AR3,43,5 Assembly Rule 63. Putting a motion. When a motion is made, it shall be stated by the presiding officer or read by the chief clerk prior to before debate.

AR3, s. 65 Section 65. Assembly rule 64 is amended to read:

AR3,43,12 Assembly Rule 64. Seconding. Whenever a requested action is required to be seconded, immediately after the request is made, the presiding officer shall ask if there are sufficient seconds. Any member wishing to be a second shall then stand in his or her assigned place until counted. The presiding officer shall count the seconds and immediately announce whether or not there are sufficient seconds for the request to be granted by the assembly.

AR3, s. 66 Section 66. Assembly rule 65 (1) (intro.) and (i), (2) (h), (3) (b) and (4) are amended to read:

AR3,43,17 Assembly Rule 65 (1) (intro.) When a main question is under debate the following privileged motions and requests are in order if appropriate under the rules governing motions, requests, and proposals:

AR3,43,19 (i) To introduce offer and ask consideration of a privileged resolution [rules 33 and 43].

AR3,43,21 (2) (h) To postpone indefinitely, reject, or nonconcur in a proposal [rules 49 and 72].

AR3,43,23 (3) (b) Amendments to amendable motions are not in order as long as no while a question of higher precedence is pending; and

AR3,44,2 (4) If any motion is made while no other question is before the assembly, or is made subject to qualifications not specifically authorized in these the assembly rules, such the motion loses its precedence and becomes a main motion, subject to the rules that apply to main motions.

AR3, s. 67 Section 67. Assembly rule 66 (1) (intro.) and (f) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,44,7 Assembly Rule 66 (1) (intro.) In addition to the motions and requests listed in rule 65 (1) and (2), and subject to the limitations imposed by other rules, the following incidental motions, requests, and questions are in order while a proposal or question is under debate:

AR3,44,9 (f) A request or motion by the maker of a pending motion that it be withdrawn, provided that if rule 73 (6) does not apply.

AR3,44,13 (2) The motions, requests, and questions listed in sub. (1) do not have no an order of precedence, can be initiated at any time they are timely, and shall be disposed of before any question to which they relate is returned to or any other incidental motion, request, or question is entertained.

AR3, s. 68 Section 68. Assembly rule 67 is amended to read:

AR3,44,17 Assembly Rule 67. Nondebatable motions. Any motion to adjourn, recess, end debate, or suspend the rules, and all incidental questions relating to such motions including appeals, shall be are decided without debate.

AR3, s. 69 Section 69. Assembly rule 68 is amended to read:

AR3,44,21 Assembly Rule 68. Amendments to motions to be germane. Amendments to amendable motions shall comply with are subject to the rules of germaneness in rule 54 as if they were amendments to proposals and amendments.

AR3, s. 70 Section 70. Assembly rule 69 (3) and (4) are amended to read:

AR3,44,25 Assembly Rule 69 (3) Two consecutive motions to adjourn shall are not be in order unless other significant business has intervened between the motions or unless there is no other business is pending before the assembly.

AR3,45,4 (4) While a motion remains undecided pending the chair's presiding officer's ruling on a point of order taken under advisement, it is dilatory to enter a substantially similar motion on the same question, but it is proper to request an expansion of the question under advisement.

AR3, s. 71 Section 71. Assembly rule 70 (4) is amended to read:

AR3,45,8 Assembly Rule 70 (4) A motion to fix the time for convening the next daily session may be amended by altering the time. The motion is debatable and in order only when there is no other main question is before the assembly.

AR3, s. 72 Section 72. Assembly rule 71 is amended to read:

AR3,45,13 Assembly Rule 71. Ending debate. (1) When a proposal is under consideration, any member who obtains the floor may move that debate on the proposal be ended. Any such motion shall be seconded by at least 15 members, shall may not be debated, and shall be is decided by a roll call vote.

AR3,45,16 (2) If the motion prevails, debate on the proposal shall be ended ends and all pending and subsequently entered motions concerning the proposal shall be are decided without debate in the order prescribed by these the assembly rules.

AR3, s. 73 Section 73. Assembly rule 72 is amended to read:

AR3,45,21 Assembly Rule 72. Postponing; rejecting; referring. When a motion to postpone to a day or time certain, to postpone indefinitely, to reject, to nonconcur, or to refer to a specific standing or special committee has failed, it may not be allowed again on the same day at the same stage in the consideration of that proposal.

AR3, s. 74 Section 74. Assembly rule 73 (intro.), (2) (b) and (3) to (10) are amended to read:

AR3,46,2 Assembly Rule 73. Reconsidering. (intro.) A motion to reconsider an assembly decision on any question may only be made by a member who voted with or was paired with the side which that prevailed on that question, except that in the case of a tie vote or voice vote any member may move reconsideration.

AR3,46,5 (2) (b) For any decision other than passage, adoption, concurrence, indefinite postponement, rejection, or nonconcurrence, the motion for reconsideration shall be considered when the proposal is next regularly scheduled for consideration.

AR3,46,16 (3) (a) A motion for reconsideration of the vote by which a proposal is passed, adopted, concurred in, indefinitely postponed, rejected, or nonconcurred in may be entered: 1) before the relating clause of the next proposal is read by the clerk, the next order of business is announced by the presiding officer, or other business is begun; or 2) on the 13th order of business on the next roll call day. Any motion to reconsider such final action shall be taken up immediately if the roll call day on which it is entered is already the 2nd or a later actual day following the vote constituting final action on the proposal, but consideration of any other motion for reconsideration of such final action, entered on the roll call day following the day on which the final action was taken, shall be laid over and placed on the calendar for the first legislative day which that occurs at least 2 calendar days after the decision was made.

AR3,46,21 (b) On the final legislative day of the last scheduled general-business floorperiod preceding the veto review session in any legislative biennium, any pending motion to reconsider shall be taken up on the 7th order of business on that day. Any motion to reconsider entered subsequently may be taken up at any time on such that day by majority vote of a majority of the members present and voting.

AR3,47,2 (4) (a) A motion to reconsider the decision on an amendment shall be placed on the same calendar as the motion to reconsider the final 2nd reading stage decision on the proposal to which the amendment relates, regardless of when made. The failure of any calendar that has been provided to members to show any such a motion to reconsider a decision on an amendment shall does not prevent the consideration of such the motion under the proper order of business on that calendar day.

AR3,47,4 (b) Reconsideration of decisions on amendments shall follow follows the sequence in rule 55 for consideration of amendments.

AR3,47,11 (c) No A motion to reconsider a decision on any amendment may not be considered unless the final decision on the proposal at the end of the 2nd reading stage is reconsidered, returning the proposal to the amendable stage. If the engrossed proposal consists of a substitute amendment, with or without adopted amendments, both the vote to engross and the vote to adopt the substitute amendment must be reconsidered in order to return the proposal to the amendable stage.

AR3,47,15 (5) The decision on any motion to reconsider is final and may not be reconsidered, but motions to reconsider subsequent decisions on the same proposal, at the same or a later stage, shall be are in order if otherwise permitted under this rule.

AR3,47,18 (6) Once a motion to reconsider has been is entered, it may only be withdrawn only by the member who made the motion and only before the expiration of the time period for making the motion unless thereafter authorized by the assembly.

AR3,47,21 (7) A motion to reconsider is only debatable when the question to which it relates is debatable. In any such debate, no a member may not speak more than once nor or for more than 3 minutes.