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1(2) Reference to committee is not in order after a proposal
has been is passed
2or indefinitely postponed or finally disposed of by any action equivalent thereto.
3Questions of reconsideration, concurrence in amendments of the
other house 4assembly, conference committee reports, or executive vetoes may be placed on the
5table, but
shall may not be referred to committee.
SR3, s. 37
6Section
37. Senate rule 42 is amended to read:
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7Senate Rule 42.
Messaging to the assembly; proposals held during
8reconsideration period. (1) Every bill or joint resolution upon which such action
9has been taken that it is next to be messaged to the assembly shall be so messaged
10by the chief clerk, but shall be held in the chief clerk's office until the time for
11reconsideration of the bill or joint resolution has expired. If the rules have been
12suspended for immediate messaging, the chief clerk shall enter the action in the
13history file for the bill or joint resolution. Every privileged joint resolution
shall be 14is messaged immediately
without a suspension of the rules unless it is otherwise
15ordered by the senate.
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(2) A bill or joint resolution that has been ordered immediately messaged to the
17assembly by the suspension of this rule is subject to further action by the senate while
18the bill or joint resolution is in
actual physical possession of the senate. The further
19action is contingent upon a motion to rescind the action of ordering its immediate
20messaging being decided by a two-thirds vote.
SR3, s. 38
21Section
38. Senate rule 45 is amended to read:
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22Senate Rule 45.
Offering of privileged resolution. Any A resolution
23privileged by rule 69 shall, when sent to the clerk's desk, be read at length by the chief
24clerk, but may be read by its relating clause if copies of the text have been distributed
1to the members. When so read, the privileged resolution is
considered to be before
2the senate.
SR3, s. 39
3Section
39. Senate rule 46 (1) is renumbered senate rule 46 (1) (a) and
4amended to read:
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5Senate Rule 46
(1) (a) Proposals, amendments, petitions, reports,
6communications, or other documents that may properly come before the senate shall
7be presented by a member thereof to the chief clerk, or a staff member designated by
8the chief clerk, at anytime
, except as otherwise provided in senate rule 93 (1p) and
9joint rule 83 (2). A brief statement of the contents thereof
shall must appear thereon,
10together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. If a
11document is to be reproduced, the chief clerk shall number the document.
SR3, s. 40
12Section
40. Senate rule 46 (1) (b) is created to read:
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13Senate Rule 46 (1) (b) The chief clerk shall announce each document
14introduced or offered under par. (a), and each proposal received from the assembly,
15on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. The document or
16proposal shall be recorded in the first journal published after the document or
17proposal is received by the chief clerk.
SR3, s. 41
18Section
41. Senate rule 46 (2) is amended to read:
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19Senate Rule 46 (2)
(a) The chief clerk shall advise the president of documents
20that must be referred under the rules and the president shall promptly refer the
21document to the appropriate committee.
The chief clerk shall announce the referral
22on the next session day upon reaching the appropriate order of business.
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(b) Within 3 working days after the time of initial referral by the president
24under rule 4
(10) (2), a proposed rule may, with consent of the chairperson of the
25standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee to which it is
1referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Such action does not extend
2the standing committee review period. Rereferral may be made at any time.
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(c) Within 5 working days after the time of initial referral by the president
4under rule 36 (2),
any a proposal or appointment may, with the consent of the
5chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn from the standing committee
6to which it is referred and rereferred to another standing committee. Rereferral
7under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section
813.093 (1) of the statutes.
SR3, s. 42
9Section
42. Senate rule 46 (2) (d) is created to read:
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10Senate Rule 46 (2) (d) The chief clerk shall announce each referral, or
11withdrawal and rereferral, provided for under the senate rules on the next session
12day under the appropriate order of business. Each referral, or withdrawal and
13rereferral, shall be recorded in the first journal published after the referral, or
14withdrawal and rereferral, occurs.
SR3, s. 43
15Section
43. Senate rule 46 (5) is amended to read:
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16Senate Rule 46 (5) A proposed amendment that is offered
shall must have a
17heading stating the number of the proposal that it is proposed to amend and the
18name of the member proposing the amendment. The chief clerk shall read the
19number of the amendment. The amendment shall be reproduced. The jacket copy
20of the amendment shall be placed in the jacket and copies shall be distributed as
21provided by the rules.
Amendments filed shall be recorded at the end of each day's
22journal.
SR3, s. 44
23Section
44. Senate rule 47 (3) and (4) are amended to read:
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24Senate Rule 47 (3)
Any A senate resolution or joint resolution that does not
25propose an amendment to the constitution may be referred directly to the committee
1on senate organization. When placed on the calendar under rule 18 such resolutions
2shall be placed under the proper "2nd reading" order of business and, upon reading,
3the question is directly upon adoption or concurrence.
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(4) During consideration of amendments when both simple amendments and
5substitute amendments to a proposal are pending, the question
shall, in ascending
6numerical order
be, is first upon amendments to the substitute amendment, unless
7the senate by majority vote otherwise orders.
SR3, s. 45
8Section
45. Senate rule 48 is amended to read:
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9Senate Rule 48.
Reading of amendments. The
chief clerk shall read the full
10text of each amendment
shall be read to the members
by the chief clerk, and the
11presiding officer shall state the number of each amendment
shall be stated by the
12presiding officer, but
the reading at length may not occur for amendments that have
13been distributed to the members
may not be read at length.
SR3, s. 46
14Section
46. Senate rule 49 is amended to read:
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15Senate Rule 49
Offering amendments. Amendments shall be numbered in
16the order received, and shall bear the name of the member or the committee offering
17the same. Amendments shall be prepared in proper form by the legislative reference
18bureau, and
shall must be offered in compliance with rule 29; except that when the
19proposal is debated on 2nd reading amendments may be offered from the floor. The
20chief clerk shall have amendments offered from the floor drawn in proper form as
21soon as possible and before the
bill proposal is subsequently engrossed and delivered
22to a committee or to the assembly. This provision does not delay action upon an
23amendment offered from the floor.
SR3, s. 47
24Section
47. Senate rule 50 (title) is amended to read:
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1Senate Rule 50 (title)
Amendments Substitute amendments and
2amendments must be germane, general statement
.
SR3, s. 48
3Section
48. Senate rule 50 (1) is renumbered senate rule 50 (1m) and amended
4to read:
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5Senate Rule 50 (1m) A standing committee may not report any substitute
6amendment or amendment
for any to a proposal originating in either house
and
7referred to the committee, and the senate may not consider any substitute
8amendment or amendment
to a proposal, that
relates to a different subject, is
9intended to accomplish a different purpose, or would totally alter the nature of the
10original is not germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 49
11Section
49. Senate rule 50 (1) is created to read:
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12Senate Rule 50 (1) Every substitute amendment and amendment to a proposal
13must be germane to that proposal.
SR3, s. 50
14Section
50. Senate rule 50 (2) to (4) are amended to read:
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15Senate rule 50 (2)
Any substitute or A substitute amendment or amendment
16reported involving sub. (1) to a proposal may not be considered
whenever, before its
17adoption, the senate is advised that the same is in violation of this rule, and if the
18presiding officer rules
on the admissibility of the substitute or amendment when the
19question is raised that the substitute amendment or amendment is not germane to
20that proposal.
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(3) The
senate may consider presiding officer may rule only on the germaneness
22of
a senate
substitutes and amendments substitute amendment or amendment and 23only
, and only when the substitute
amendment or amendment is before the senate.
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(4) An amendment to an amendment
to a proposal must be germane to the
25amendment as well as to
the original that proposal.
SR3, s. 51
1Section
51. Senate rule 50 (5) is repealed.
SR3, s. 52
2Section
52. Senate rule 50 (6) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (intro.) and
3amended to read:
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4Senate rule 50 (6) (intro.)
An amendment otherwise germane which adds or
5repeals material previously adopted or rejected by the senate in another bill is
6germane. An identical The following substitute amendments or amendments are not
7germane:
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8(a) A substitute amendment or amendment
or an amendment that is identical
9in effect to one previously
rejected offered and disposed of as another
substitute
10amendment or amendment to the same
bill or identical to a proposal currently before
11the senate is not germane, but such amendments are germane if not identical with
12prior rejected amendments to the same bill or proposals currently before the senate 13proposal.
SR3, s. 53
14Section
53. Senate rule 50 (7) is renumbered senate rule 50 (6) (b) and
15amended to read:
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16Senate rule 50 (6) (b) A substitute
amendment or amendment
relating to a
17specific subject or to a general class is not germane to a bill relating to a proposal that
18relates to a
subject that is different
specific subject, but an amendment limiting the
19scope of the proposal is germane from the subject of that proposal, that is intended
20to accomplish a purpose that is different from the purpose of that proposal, that
21negates that proposal entirely, or that substitutes another proposal pending before
22the senate.
SR3, s. 54
23Section
54. Senate rule 50 (8) is renumbered senate rule 50 (8) (intro.) and
24amended to read:
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1Senate rule 50 (8) (intro.)
Amendments The following substitute
2amendments and amendments are germane:
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3(a) A substitute amendment or amendment proposing
methods a method of
4raising revenues
are germane to for an appropriation
bills and amendments bill or 5proposing
appropriations are germane to an appropriation for a revenue
bills.
6Amendments bill.
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7(b) A substitute amendment or amendment adding
appropriations an
8appropriation necessary to fulfill the original intent of a proposal
are germane.
SR3, s. 55
9Section
55. Senate rule 50 (9) to (11) are repealed.
SR3, s. 56
10Section
56. Senate rule 51 is amended to read:
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11Senate Rule 51.
Amendment in the 3rd degree prohibited. Amendments
12beyond the degree of an amendment to an amendment to the main proposition are
13prohibited. For the purposes of this rule
any a substitute amendment, and
any an 14assembly amendment to a senate proposal or amendment, are considered a main
15proposition.
SR3, s. 57
16Section
57. Senate rule 52 is amended to read:
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17Senate rule 52
Motions to be germane; how bills may not be amended. 18A motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration may not
19be admitted under color of amendment.
A proposal may not be amended by annexing
20thereto or incorporating therein any other proposal pending before the senate.
SR3, s. 58
21Section
58. Senate rule 55 is amended to read:
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22Senate Rule 55.
Order of action. If adverse action is recommended by a
23committee, that question
shall be is put first. However, the senate may direct the
24consideration of amendments, but adoption of amendments does not change the
25question.
SR3, s. 59
1Section
59. Senate rule 58 is amended to read:
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2Senate Rule 58.
Member out of order.
Any A member called to order shall
3sit down, and may not speak, except in explanation, until it is determined whether
4or not the member was in order. When a member is called to order for words spoken,
5the exceptional words shall be taken down in writing to better enable the presiding
6officer to judge whether they are in violation of the rules.
SR3, s. 60
7Section
60. Senate rule 59 is amended to read:
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8Senate Rule 59.
How members may speak. Members may not speak except
9from their assigned places, and not more than twice on a question, except on leave
10of the senate. If a question pending is lost by adjournment and revived on the
11succeeding
roll call day, a member who spoke twice on the preceding
roll call day may
12not again speak without leave of the senate.
SR3, s. 61
13Section
61. Senate rule 60 is amended to read:
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14Senate Rule 60.
Personal privilege. Members may rise to explain matters
15personal to themselves by leave of the presiding officer, but may not discuss pending
16questions in the explanations. Questions of personal privilege are limited to
17questions affecting the rights, reputation, and conduct of the members in their
18representative capacities. A member's right to speak on a point of personal privilege
19shall have has precedence over all other questions except a motion to adjourn or a
20motion to raise a call.
SR3, s. 62
21Section
62. Senate rule 62 is amended to read:
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22Senate Rule 62.
Stating motions. When a motion is made,
it shall be stated
23by the presiding officer
shall state it or
read by the chief clerk
, previous shall read
24it prior to debate. If
any a member requires it, all motions, except to adjourn,
1postpone, or refer, shall be reduced to writing. Except as provided in rule 67, any
2motion may be withdrawn by consent of the
senate
majority of those present.
SR3, s. 63
3Section
63. Senate rule 63 (2) is amended to read:
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4Senate Rule 63 (2) These several motions
shall have precedence in the order
5in which they are set forth in this rule.
SR3, s. 64
6Section
64. Senate rule 64 is amended to read:
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7Senate Rule 64.
Motion to adjourn always in order. A motion to adjourn
8shall is always
be in order except when the senate is voting. However, a member may
9not move an adjournment when another member has the floor and 2 consecutive
10motions to adjourn are not in order unless other business intervenes. A motion to
11adjourn to a time certain or to recess
shall have
has the same privilege as a motion
12to adjourn, but such motions
shall have the order of precedence prescribed in rule 63.
SR3, s. 65
13Section
65. Senate rule 65 is amended to read:
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14Senate Rule 65.
Laying on table. (1) A motion to lay on the table has only
15the effect of disposing of the matter temporarily and it may be taken from the table
16at any time by order of the
senate majority of those present.
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(2) A motion to lay a proposal on the table
shall, if approved,
have has the effect
18of returning the matter to the committee on senate organization.
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(3) A motion to remove a proposal from the table
shall, if approved,
have has 20the effect of withdrawing the matter from the committee on senate organization and
21placing it on the calendar.
SR3, s. 66
22Section
66. Senate rule 67 (1), (3), (6), (7) and (8) are amended to read:
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23Senate Rule 67
(1) A motion to reconsider a question may be made by
any a 24member having the floor who voted with the majority, or whose position recorded
25under rule 75 agreed with the majority. In the case of a voice vote or tie vote, the
1motion for reconsideration may be offered by
any a member not recorded absent on
2the question that is moved to be reconsidered. The motion for reconsideration is
3subject to all rules governing debate that apply to the question moved to reconsider.
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(3) The motion for reconsideration shall be made on the same or the next
5succeeding
legislative roll call day and it shall be received under any order of
6business.
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(6) A motion for reconsideration, when made on the same day as the action that
8is moved to be reconsidered, and not acted upon due to adjournment, other than
9adjournment under call on the question, expires with adjournment, but if made on
10the following day is not lost by adjournment. A motion to reconsider amendments
11to a
bill proposal is in order notwithstanding the
bill's proposal's advancement to a
123rd reading and a motion to reconsider the advancement is in order notwithstanding
13the suspension of the rules to take final action if the motions for reconsideration are
14otherwise timely and in order. Reconsideration of amendments under this rule
shall 15have the same priority as to order of action as to amend under rule 63.
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(7) Whenever a
bill proposal is returned from the assembly, the governor, or
17elsewhere for further action pursuant to the senate's request for the return, motions
18for reconsideration necessarily incident to opening the
bill proposal for further action
19shall be admitted regardless of the time limitation otherwise imposed by this rule.
20Action on executive vetoes or appointments or any motion to suspend the rules
shall 21is not
be subject to a motion for reconsideration.
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(8) A motion for reconsideration, once entered, may only be withdrawn by the
23member making the motion,
and only within the time when the motion by another
24member would still be timely; later only by consent of or action by the senate.
SR3, s. 67
25Section
67. Senate rule 68 is amended to read:
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1Senate Rule 68.
Questions to be decided without debate. A motion to
2adjourn, to adjourn to a fixed time, to take a recess, to lay on the table, to take from
3the table, to place a call, to raise a call, to grant a leave, to suspend the rules, or to
4reconsider a nondebatable question or a call for the current or previous question, are
5decided without debate
. And all and may not be placed on the table. All incidental
6questions of order arising after a motion is made for any of the questions named in
7this rule, and pending the motion, is decided, whether on appeal or otherwise,
8without debate.
SR3, s. 68
9Section
68. Senate rule 69 is amended to read:
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10Senate Rule 69.
Privileged motion or resolution. A motion or resolution
11relating to the organization or
procedure proceedings of the senate, or to any of its
12officers, members, or committees, is privileged in that it need not lie over for
13consideration, but may be taken up immediately unless referred to the calendar or
14committee.
SR3, s. 69
15Section
69. Senate rule 70 is amended to read:
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16Senate Rule 70.
Division of question.
Any A member may call for the
17division of a question, which shall be divided if it consists of propositions in substance
18so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition
shall remain 19remains for the decision of the senate. A motion to delete and substitute is
20indivisible, but a motion to delete being lost does not preclude an amendment or a
21motion to delete and substitute. Division of action directly upon the substance of a
22proposal, as to pass, advance to a 3rd reading, indefinitely postpone, or any
23equivalent, which division may be accomplished by an amendment, are not
24permitted under this rule.
SR3, s. 70
25Section
70. Senate rule 72 (2) and (3) are amended to read:
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1Senate Rule 72 (2) Members shall remain in their seats and
shall may not be
2disturbed by any other person while the ayes and noes are being called.
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(3) A request for a roll call
shall is not be in order after the result of the vote
4has been announced.
SR3, s. 71
5Section
71. Senate rule 73 (1) is amended to read:
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6Senate Rule 73
(1) All members present when a question is put shall vote as
7their names are called. For a special cause the senate may excuse a member from
8voting, but it
shall is not
be in order for a member to be excused after the senate has
9commenced voting.
SR3, s. 72
10Section
72. Senate rule 74 is amended to read:
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11Senate Rule 74.
Explanation of vote not allowed. Explanation by a
12member of his or her vote, at the time of the calling of the member's name,
shall is 13not
be allowed.
SR3, s. 73
14Section
73. Senate rule 76 is renumbered senate rule 76 (1) and amended to
15read:
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16Senate Rule 76 (1)
The committee on senate organization may, or the majority
17leader and the minority leader if that committee does not object may jointly,
18designate time Time limits and schedules for debate
may be designated in the
19manner described in sub. (2). The time limits may be rejected or modified by majority
20vote of the senate, but this question is not debatable. The schedules and time limits
21shall be announced by the presiding officer immediately upon being presented.
22Promptly at the expiration of the time allotted, the presiding officer shall put the
23question.