SR2: Resolution Text

SR2,29,4 (2) (a) The chief clerk shall advise the presiding officer president of documents which that must be referred under the rules and the presiding officer president shall promptly determine refer the document to the appropriate committee of reference for such documents so that they can be read and referred by the. The chief clerk shall announce the referral on the next session day upon reaching the appropriate order of business.

SR2,29,10 (b) Within 3 working days of after the time of initial referral by the president under rule 4 (10), a proposed rule may, with consent of the chair chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Such action does not extend the standing committee review period. Rereferral may be made during any floorperiod or committee work period at any time.

SR2,29,17 (c) Within 5 working days of after the time of initial referral by the president under rule 36 (2), any bill, joint resolution, resolution proposal or appointment may, with the consent of the chair chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Rereferral under this rule may be made during any committee work period at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.

SR2,29,24 (5) A proposed amendment that is offered shall have a heading stating the number of the bill, joint resolution, or resolution proposal that it is proposed to amend and the name of the member proposing the amendment. The chief clerk shall read the number of the amendment. The amendment shall be reproduced. The jacket copy of the amendment shall be placed in the jacket and copies shall be distributed as provided by the rules. Amendments filed shall be recorded at the end of each day's journal.

SR2, s. 54 Section 54. Senate rule 47 (1), (3) and (5) are amended to read:

SR2,30,3 Senate Rule 47 (1) Consideration of simple amendments or of substitute amendments shall be is in order only upon the second reading of the bill or resolution proposal and if in compliance with rule 34.

SR2,30,8 (3) Any senate resolution or joint resolution which that does not propose an amendment to the constitution may be referred directly to the committee on senate organization. When placed on the calendar under rule 18 such resolutions shall be placed under the proper "2nd reading" order of business and, upon reading, the question shall be is directly upon adoption or concurrence.

SR2,30,10 (5) In no case shall amendment be Amendments are not in order upon consideration of an executive veto.

SR2, s. 55 Section 55. Senate rule 48 is amended to read:

SR2,30,15 Senate Rule 48. Reading of amendments. The full text of each amendment shall be read to the members by the chief clerk, and the number of each amendment shall be stated by the president presiding officer, but the reading at length shall may not occur for amendments which that have been distributed to the members.

SR2, s. 56 Section 56. Senate rule 49 is amended to read:

SR2,30,25 Senate Rule 49. Offering amendments. Amendments shall be numbered in the order received, and shall bear the name of the member or the committee offering the same. Amendments shall be prepared in proper form by the legislative reference bureau, and shall be offered in compliance with rule 29; except that when the proposal is debated on 2nd reading, amendments may be offered from the floor. The chief clerk shall have amendments offered from the floor drawn in proper form as soon as possible and before the bill is subsequently engrossed, and delivered to a committee or to the assembly. This provision does not delay action upon any an amendment offered from the floor.

SR2, s. 57 Section 57. Senate rule 50 (1) to (3), (5), (6), (8) and (10) are amended to read:

SR2,31,6 Senate Rule 50 (1) No A standing committee shall may not report any substitute or amendment for any proposal originating in either house and referred to such the committee nor shall and the senate may not consider any substitute or amendment which that relates to a different subject, is intended to accomplish a different purpose, or would totally alter the nature of the original proposal.

SR2,31,11 (2) Any substitute or amendment so reported shall be rejected involving sub. (1) may not be considered whenever prior to, before its adoption, the senate is advised that the same is in violation of this rule, and the president shall rule presiding officer rules on the admissibility of such the substitute or amendment when the question is raised.

SR2,31,14 (3) The senate may consider the germaneness of senate substitutes and amendments only, and only when such the substitute or amendment is before the senate.

SR2,31,20 (5) An amendment repealing a section amended by the original proposal or amending a section repealed by the original proposal, except to change the effective date, or striking out all new material in the original proposal is not germane, but an amendment restoring a proposal to its original form or an amendment adding new statutory material on the same subject and with the same purpose to a proposal amending or restoring material stricken by a previous amendment is germane.

SR2,32,2 (6) An amendment otherwise germane which adds or repeals material previously adopted or rejected by the senate in another bill is germane. An identical amendment or an amendment identical in effect to one previously rejected as another amendment to the same bill or identical with to a proposal currently before the senate is not germane, but such amendments are germane if not identical with prior rejected amendments to the same bill or proposals currently before the senate.

SR2,32,6 (8) Amendments proposing methods of raising revenues are germane to appropriation measures bills and amendments proposing appropriations are germane to revenue measures bills. Amendments adding appropriation measures appropriations necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal are germane.

SR2,32,9 (10) Amendments to a revision bill are germane, but amendments to a revisor's revision or correction bill are germane only if they make corrections and do not add new substantive material.

SR2, s. 58 Section 58. Senate rule 51 is amended to read:

SR2,32,15 Senate Rule 51. Amendment in the 3rd degree prohibited. In order to prevent confusion, amendments Amendments beyond the degree of an amendment to an amendment to the main proposition are prohibited. For the purposes of this rule any substitute amendment, and any assembly amendment to a senate proposal or amendment, shall be are considered as a main proposition.

SR2, s. 59 Section 59. Senate rule 52 is amended to read:

SR2,32,21 Senate Rule 52. Motions to be germane; how bills may not be amended. No A motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall may not be admitted under color of amendment; and no bill or resolution shall at any time. A proposal may not be amended by annexing thereto or incorporating therein any other bill or resolution proposal pending before the senate.

SR2, s. 60 Section 60. Senate rule 55 is amended to read:

SR2,33,2 Senate Rule 55. Order of action. If adverse action is recommended by a committee, that question shall be put first put. However, the senate may direct the consideration of amendments, but adoption of amendments shall does not change the question.

SR2, s. 61 Section 61. Senate rule 56 is amended to read:

SR2,33,9 Senate Rule 56. Recognition; debate. Members who are about to speak in debate or deliver any matter to the senate shall rise in their places and respectfully address the chair presiding officer, and, upon being recognized, shall proceed, confining themselves to the question under debate, and avoiding personalities. Members may not question the motives of another member. Members may read briefly from printed material unless there is objection.

SR2, s. 62 Section 62. Senate rule 57 is amended to read:

SR2,33,13 Senate Rule 57. President Presiding officer to name first speaker. When any 2 or more members rise at the same time, the president presiding officer shall name the person who is to speak first.

SR2, s. 63 Section 63. Senate rule 58 is amended to read:

SR2,33,20 Senate Rule 58. Member out of order. Any member called to order shall sit down, and shall may not speak, except in explanation, until it shall have been is determined whether or not the member was in order. When a member is called to order for words spoken, the exceptional words shall be taken down in writing to better enable the president presiding officer to judge whether they are in violation of the rules.

SR2, s. 64 Section 64. Senate rule 59 is amended to read:

SR2,34,2 Senate Rule 59. How members may speak. Members shall may not speak except from their assigned places, and not more than twice on a question, except on leave of the senate. And if If a question pending be is lost by adjournment and revived on the succeeding day, no a member who shall have spoken spoke twice on the preceding day shall be permitted may not again to speak without leave of the senate.

SR2, s. 65 Section 65. Senate rule 60 is amended to read:

SR2,34,10 Senate Rule 60. Personal privilege. Members may rise to explain matters personal to themselves by leave of the president presiding officer, but shall may not discuss pending questions in such the explanations. Questions of personal privilege shall be are limited to questions affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of the members in their representative capacities. A member's right to speak on a point of personal privilege shall have precedence over all other questions except a motion to adjourn or a motion to raise a call.

SR2, s. 66 Section 66. Senate rule 61 is amended to read:

SR2,34,20 Senate Rule 61. Special privilege. Any member desiring to make a personal explanation on a matter other than one of personal privilege may rise and, by leave of the president presiding officer, and within such limitation of time as the president presiding officer or senate may determine, discuss any subject relative to state or local government, public welfare, conduct of public officials in relation to their official duties, as well as and matters pertaining to the rights of the senate collectively, and its safety, and dignity, and the integrity of its proceedings. A member shall may not be granted the right to speak on a point of special privilege while any matter is pending or under discussion before the senate.

SR2, s. 67 Section 67. Senate rule 62 is amended to read:

SR2,35,2 Senate Rule 62. Stating motions. When a motion is made, it shall be stated by the president presiding officer or read by the chief clerk, previous to debate. If any member requires it, all motions, except to adjourn, postpone, or refer, shall be reduced to writing. Except as provided in rule 67, any motion may be withdrawn by consent of the senate.

SR2, s. 68 Section 68. Senate rule 63 (1) (intro.), (d), (j) and (k) and (2) are amended to read:

SR2,35,6 Senate Rule 63 (1) (intro.) When a question is under debate, no a motion shall may not be received except:

SR2,35,8 (d) Personal privilege (not debatable, subject to time limit imposed by president the presiding officer, see rule 60).

SR2,35,10 (j) To refer to a standing committee (debatable, in order at any time prior to before passage, see rule 41).

SR2,35,12 (k) To refer to a special committee (debatable, in order at any time prior to before passage, see rule 41).

SR2,35,14 (2) These several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged are set forth in this rule.

SR2, s. 69 Section 69. Senate rule 64 is amended to read:

SR2,35,22 Senate Rule 64. Motion to adjourn always in order. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order except when the senate is voting, but this rule shall not authorize any. However, a member to may not move an adjournment when another member has the floor, nor shall and 2 consecutive motions to adjourn be are not in order unless other business intervenes. A motion to adjourn to a time certain or to recess shall have the same privilege as a motion to adjourn, but such motions shall have the order of precedence prescribed in rule 63.

SR2, s. 70 Section 70. Senate rule 65 is amended to read:

SR2,36,3 Senate Rule 65. Laying on table. (1) A motion to lay on the table shall has only have the effect of disposing of the matter temporarily and it may be taken from the table at any time by order of the senate.

SR2,36,5 (2) A motion to lay a bill or resolution proposal on the table shall, if approved, have the effect of returning the matter to the committee on senate organization.

SR2,36,8 (3) A motion to remove a bill or resolution proposal from the table shall, if approved, have the effect of withdrawing the matter from the committee on senate organization and placing it on the calendar.

SR2, s. 71 Section 71. Senate rule 66 is amended to read:

SR2,36,15 Senate Rule 66. Motion to postpone. A motion to postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall may not be again allowed on the same day unless the matter shall have has been altered by amendment or advanced to a subsequent stage. A 2nd motion to reject an amendment shall be is subject to the provisions of this rule and shall may not be twice allowed on the same day unless altered by amendment.

SR2, s. 72 Section 72. Senate rule 67 (1), (2) and (5) to (9) are amended to read:

SR2,36,23 Senate Rule 67 (1) A motion to reconsider a question may be made by any member having the floor who voted with the majority, or whose position recorded under rule 75 agreed with the majority. In the case of a voice vote or tie vote, the motion for reconsideration may be offered by any member not recorded absent on the question which it that is moved to reconsider be reconsidered. The motion for reconsideration shall be is subject to all rules governing debate as that apply to the question which it is moved to reconsider.

SR2,37,2 (2) On questions requiring by the constitution, statutes, rules, or otherwise, a specified number of affirmative votes, the prevailing side shall be deemed to be is the majority, but such minimum affirmative requirement shall does not apply to the question of reconsideration.

SR2,37,5 (5) After the time for receiving the motion has expired, a pending motion for reconsideration shall may not be challenged on the ground that the member making such the motion did not vote with the majority.

SR2,37,15 (6) A motion for reconsideration, when made on the same day as the action which it that is moved to reconsider be reconsidered, and not acted upon due to adjournment, other than adjournment under call on the question, shall expire expires with adjournment, but if made on the following day shall is not be lost by adjournment. A motion to reconsider amendments to a bill shall be is in order notwithstanding the bill's advancement to a 3rd reading and a motion to reconsider such the advancement shall be is in order notwithstanding the suspension of the rules to take final action if such the motions for reconsideration are otherwise timely and in order. Reconsideration of amendments under this rule shall have the same priority as to order of action as to amend under rule 63.

SR2,37,21 (7) Whenever a bill is returned from the assembly, the governor, or elsewhere for further action pursuant to the senate's request for such the return, motions for reconsideration necessarily incident to opening the bill for further action shall be admitted regardless of the time limitation otherwise imposed by this rule. Action on executive vetoes or appointments or any motion to suspend the rules shall in no case not be subject to a motion for reconsideration.

SR2,37,24 (8) A motion for reconsideration, once entered, may only be withdrawn by the member making such the motion, within the time when such the motion by another member would still be timely; later only by consent of or action by the senate.

SR2,38,3 (9) The motion for reconsideration having been put and lost shall may not be renewed but, if carried, subsequent motions for reconsideration of the same action shall be are in order.

SR2, s. 73 Section 73. Senate rule 68 is amended to read:

SR2,38,11 Senate Rule 68. Questions to be decided without debate. A motion to adjourn, to adjourn to a fixed time, to take a recess, to lay on the table, to take from the table, to place a call, to raise a call, to grant a leave, to suspend the rules, or to reconsider a nondebatable question or a call for the current or previous question, shall be are decided without debate. And all incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for any of the questions named in this rule, and pending such the motion, shall be is decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

SR2, s. 74 Section 74. Senate rule 69 is amended to read:

SR2,38,17 Senate Rule 69. Privileged motion or resolution. Any A motion or resolution relating to the organization or procedure of the senate, or to any of its officers, members, or committees, shall be is privileged in that it need not lie over for consideration, but may be taken up immediately unless referred to the calendar or committee.

SR2, s. 75 Section 75. Senate rule 70 is amended to read:

SR2,39,2 Senate Rule 70. Division of question. Any member may call for the division of a question, which shall be divided if it consists of propositions in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the senate. A motion to delete and substitute shall be deemed is indivisible, but a motion to delete being lost shall does not preclude an amendment or a motion to delete and substitute. Division of action directly upon the substance of a bill or resolution proposal, as to pass, advance to a 3rd reading, indefinitely postpone, or any equivalent, which division may be accomplished by an amendment, shall are not be permitted under this rule.

SR2, s. 76 Section 76. Senate rule 71 is amended to read:

SR2,39,7 Senate Rule 71. Putting question. All questions may be put in this form.: "Those who are of the opinion that the bill pass, be concurred in, etc., (as the case may be) say, `Aye'. Those of contrary opinion say, `No';" or other appropriate words may be used.

SR2, s. 77 Section 77. Senate rule 72 (1) is amended to read:

SR2,39,13 Senate Rule 72 (1) The ayes and noes may be ordered by the president presiding officer for any vote and shall be ordered when demanded by one-sixth of the members present. The chief clerk shall record the votes taken by ayes and noes, report the result, and enter the report in the journal together with the names of those absent or not voting.

SR2, s. 78 Section 78. Senate rule 73 (2) is amended to read:

SR2,39,17 Senate Rule 73 (2) In case When the vote is by ayes and noes, a member entering the chamber after the question is put and before it is decided , may have the question stated and vote, such with the vote to be being counted in the outcome.

SR2, s. 79 Section 79. Senate rule 75 is amended to read:

SR2,40,2 Senate Rule 75. Recording position of absent member. Any member absent from all or part of a day's session by leave of the senate under rule 16 or 23 may, within one week after returning, instruct the chief clerk in writing, on a form entitled "statement of position" to be provided by the chief clerk, to have the journal show that had the member been present when a certain vote was taken the member would on that issue have voted aye or have voted no. If the member returns before the vote is taken, such the statement of position shall be is void and the member shall cast his or her vote as required under rule 73.

SR2, s. 80 Section 80. Senate rule 76 is amended to read:

SR2,40,11 Senate Rule 76. Scheduling time limits for debate. The committee on senate organization may, or the majority leader and the minority leader if that committee does not object may jointly, designate time limits and schedules for debate. The time limits may be rejected or modified by majority vote of the senate, but this question shall is not be debatable. Such The schedules and time limits shall be announced by the chair presiding officer immediately upon being presented. Promptly at the expiration of the time allotted, the president presiding officer shall put the question.

SR2, s. 81 Section 81. Senate rule 77 is amended to read:

SR2,40,17 Senate Rule 77. Current or previous question; time limit on debate. (1) When any matter is under consideration any member may move the "current question" or that the "current question be put". Such." The motion shall be is not debatable and if carried by a majority the subsidiary question then pending before the senate shall be put without debate.

SR2,40,20 (2) A motion to establish the amount of time to be given a particular matter may be made in the same manner as provided in sub. (1), except that this motion shall be is subject to amendment, which also shall be is decided without debate.

SR2,40,24 (3) When any matter is under consideration any member may move the "previous question" or that the "previous question be put". Such." The motion shall not be debatable and if carried by a majority the main question then pending before the senate shall be put without debate.

SR2, s. 82 Section 82. Senate rule 78 is amended to read:

SR2,41,5 Senate Rule 78. Putting of motion; ending debate. (1) The previous question being moved, the question shall then be: "Shall the main question be now put?", which question shall be is determined by the ayes and noes. The main question being ordered to be now put, its effect shall be to put an end to is to end all debate, and bring the senate to a direct vote upon the main question.

SR2,41,8 (2) Amendments or substitute amendments may be offered, but not debated, and shall be considered immediately, and a. A motion to lay on the table shall is not be in order after the main question has been is ordered.

SR2,41,11 (3) Ordering the previous question at any stage of a bill or resolution proposal shall preclude debate on all questions under that order, but not upon a motion to reconsider the question terminating that order.

SR2, s. 83 Section 83. Senate rule 79 is amended to read:

SR2,41,16 Senate Rule 79. Main question may remain before the senate. When, on taking the previous question, the senate shall decide decides that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall remain as the question before the senate, in the same stage of proceedings as before the previous question was moved.

SR2, s. 84 Section 84. Senate rule 80 is amended to read: