AR3: Resolution Text

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.

AR3,47,25 (8) The adoption by both houses of a joint resolution returning a proposal to the assembly for further action returns the proposal to the stage specified in the resolution. The adoption of a motion for reconsideration shall is not be required to reach that stage.

AR3,48,3 (9) When a motion to reconsider has been entered in order to return a proposal to the amendable stage, the maker of the motion may offer one new amendment to that proposal for introduction and provision, which shall be provided to the members.

AR3,48,6 (10) The entering of a motion for reconsideration does not impair the effectiveness of any adopted resolution relating to the officers, members, procedures, or organization of the assembly.

AR3, s. 75 Section 75. Assembly rule 74 (intro.), (1) and (2) are amended to read:

AR3,48,11 Assembly Rule 74. Tabling; taking from table. (intro.) A motion to table disposes of a matter temporarily. The committee on rules may refer any tabled matter to an appropriate calendar. Unless such the referral has been made, a tabled matter may be taken from the table at any time by order of the assembly.

AR3,48,13 (1) A motion to table a matter is only in order only if the matter is currently before the assembly.

AR3,48,16 (2) A motion to table or to take from the table may not be amended, but may be debated for not exceeding 10 minutes. In debating a motion to table or to take from the table, no a member may not speak for more than 2 minutes.

AR3, s. 76 Section 76. Assembly rule 76 (1), (3), (4) and (6) to (8) are amended to read:

AR3,48,19 Assembly Rule 76 (1) Unless otherwise required by the state constitution, by law, or by legislative rule, all questions shall be are decided by a majority of a quorum.

AR3,48,23 (3) A roll call vote shall be taken when the recording of the "ayes" and "noes" is required by the state constitution, by law, or by legislative rule, when deemed desirable ordered by the presiding officer, or when requested by a member with the support of 15 seconds.

AR3,49,2 (4) When the voting machine is available, the machine shall may be used to record the "ayes" and "noes.". When the voting machine is not available, the chief clerk shall call and tally the roll. On all roll call votes, the record produced by the voting machine or the chief clerk's tally shall be is official and final.

AR3,49,6 (6) During a roll call vote, any member may raise the point of order that a member appears to be absent from the chamber but is shown as voting according to the roll call display boards. If the presiding officer rules the point of order "well taken", the vote of the absent member shall may not be recorded.

AR3,49,10 (7) Any interruption of a roll call vote, from the time the voting machine is opened or the calling commenced to the announcement of the official totals by the presiding officer, shall be is out of order except to raise a point of order concerning the taking of the vote.

AR3,49,14 (8) After the voting machine is closed or the calling completed, a member's request to be recorded as voting or as voting contrary to the way shown in the official record shall be shown in the journal, but shall does not alter the outcome of the roll call vote.

AR3, s. 77 Section 77. Assembly rule 79 (1) and (4) are amended to read:

AR3,49,17 Assembly Rule 79 (1) No A pair may not be recognized unless one or both of the parties thereto are absent with leave.

AR3,49,19 (4) A pair shall is not be counted as part of the official result of a vote, but shall be recorded.

AR3, s. 78 Section 78. Assembly rule 80 (2), (4), (5) (b) and (6) are amended to read:

AR3,49,25 Assembly Rule 80 (2) If it is the opinion of the chair presiding officer that the proposed division of a simple amendment is unduly complex or the purpose of the division can be more clearly or simply accomplished by amendment, or that a call for a division is being used as a substitute for a series of amendments, the question shall may not be divided.

AR3,50,4 (4) Bills, joint resolutions, resolutions, and substitute amendments, and amendments received from the senate for assembly concurrence, may not be divided. A bill vetoed in its entirety by the governor may not be divided. A report of a committee of conference may not be divided.

AR3,50,7 (5) (b) It is the opinion of the chair presiding officer that the item involves distinct and independent propositions capable of division and that the division will not be unduly complex.

AR3,50,17 (6) When a bill has been vetoed in part the committee on rules may, by a resolution offered under rule 33, propose to schedule a specific part as a special order. When appropriate, the resolution may divide the part into one or more independent propositions and dependent propositions. The proposed division must include at least one separate proposition which that, if passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor, will result in a complete and workable law regardless of the action taken on any other part of the original part. The chair presiding officer shall first put the question on any such the independent proposition. The question on any proposition dependent thereon shall may be put only if the independent proposition has been passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor.

AR3, s. 79 Section 79. Assembly rule 81 is amended to read:

AR3,50,20 Assembly Rule 81. Tie loses question. Whenever the assembly casts a tie vote, the question shall be is lost.

AR3, s. 80 Section 80. Assembly rule 82 is amended to read:

AR3,50,24 Assembly Rule 82. Interruptions of clerk during roll call. No A person shall may not visit or remain at the clerk's desk while a roll call vote or tabulation is in progress.

AR3, s. 81 Section 81. Assembly rule 83 (2) and (4) are amended to read:

AR3,51,3 Assembly Rule 83 (2) A call of the assembly is in order at any time, including while a motion to adjourn is pending, but not when voting is in progress , or when a request for a leave of absence or a motion to lift a call is pending.

AR3,51,6 (4) On a call of the assembly being requested, the presiding officer shall state substantially: "It requires 15 members to second a call of the assembly; those in favor of the call will rise.". If 15 members rise, the call is ordered.

AR3, s. 82 Section 82. Assembly rule 84 is amended to read:

AR3,51,10 Assembly Rule 84. Members to remain in chamber when under call. When a call of the assembly is ordered, the sergeant at arms shall close the doors and no member members may not leave the assembly chamber.

AR3, s. 83 Section 83. Assembly rule 86 (1), (3) and (4) are amended to read:

AR3,51,14 Assembly Rule 86 (1) Business may be transacted as if there were no call except that no further action may not be taken on the specific question under consideration when the call was ordered.

AR3,51,16 (3) All motions relating to the call, adjournment, or any recess shall be decided by a roll call vote.