SR3: Resolution Text

SR3,12,20 Senate Rule 22 (2) On the question of the confirmation of appointments by the governor or the state superintendent of public instruction, the vote shall be taken by ayes and noes, which shall be entered upon the journal. The question of confirmation of the appointments is not subject to a motion for reconsideration under rule 67. The senate may, but is not required to, act upon an appointment resubmitted by the governor or the state superintendent of public instruction when the identical appointment has once been refused confirmation by the senate. The chief clerk shall record the cumulative status of all appointments in the bulletin of proceedings. The senate shall inform the governor and the assembly of the senate's final action on confirmation of a nomination for appointment that requires assembly confirmation.

SR3, s. 22 Section 22. Senate rule 27 (1), (3) and (4) are amended to read:

SR3,12,24 Senate Rule 27 (1) The chairperson of the committee to which any bill proposal is referred shall report in concise form the action of the committee and the date thereof, and shall authenticate the same by personal signature, e.g. for example:

SR3,12,25 The committee on ..................... reports and recommends:

SR3,13,1 Senate Bill 24

SR3,13,2 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,13,4 Passage: Ayes (3), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (1), Senator ...........; Absent or not voting (1), Senator ............ .

SR3,13,5 Senate Bill 26

SR3,13,6 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,13,8 Adoption of Senate Amendment 1: Ayes (5), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (0); Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,13,10 Passage as amended: Ayes (4), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (1), Senator ............ ; Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,13,11 Senate Bill 28

SR3,13,12 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,13,14 Adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1: Ayes (3), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (2), Senators ............ , ............ ; Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,13,17 Passage as amended: Ayes (2), Senators ............ , ............ ; Noes (2), Senators ............ , ............ ; Absent or not voting (1), Senator ............ . Reported without recommendation.

SR3,13,18 Senate Bill 30

SR3,13,19 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,13,21 Indefinite postponement: Ayes (5), Senators ........... , .......... , .......... , .........., .......... ; Noes (0); Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,13,22 Senate Bill ............ (LRB- ............... / .....)

SR3,13,23 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,13,25 Introduction: Ayes (4), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (1), Senator ............ ; Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,14,1 Assembly Bill 32

SR3,14,2 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,14,4 Concurrence: Ayes (4), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (0); Absent or not voting (1), Senator ............ .

SR3,14,5 Assembly Bill 34

SR3,14,6 An Act (relating clause)

SR3,14,8 Nonconcurrence: Ayes (3), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (0); Absent or not voting (2), Senators ............ and ............ .

SR3,14,9 Senate Resolution 10

SR3,14,10 A resolution relating to, etc.

SR3,14,12 Adoption: Ayes (3), Senators ............ , ............ , ............ ; Noes (1), Senator ...........; Absent or not voting (1), Senator ............ .

SR3,14,13 Senate Joint Resolution 50

SR3,14,14 A joint resolution relating to, etc.

SR3,14,16 Indefinite postponement: Ayes (5), Senators ........... , .......... , .......... , .........., .......... ; Noes (0); Absent or not voting (0).

SR3,14,17 ................................. Chairperson

SR3,14,21 (3) Any amendment or substitute amendment, recommended by the committee for rejection, shall may not be reported to the senate. Any such amendment may, upon motion and a majority vote, be revived by the vote of the majority of the current membership while the proposal is still in the amendable stage.

SR3,14,24 (4) (a) A committee may report out a proposal or appointment without recommendation only if the vote is tied. The committee report shall indicate the actual numerical vote on the motion on which the recommendation is based.

SR3,15,3 (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the chief clerk shall record in the journal that a bill proposal is reported without recommendation whenever the bill proposal is withdrawn from committee under rule 18 or 41 (1) (d).

SR3, s. 23 Section 23. Senate rule 28 is amended to read:

SR3,15,9 Senate Rule 28. Minority reports. Any member or members dissenting from a report of a committee may make a separate report stating the reasons and conclusions; and all reports, if decorous in language and respectful to the senate, shall be entered at length on the journal. Any minority report shall must be filed on the same or the next legislative day as the majority report or recommendation.

SR3, s. 24 Section 24. Senate rule 29 is amended to read:

SR3,15,14 Senate Rule 29. Copies of proposals. Copies of all proposals The primary author of a proposal to be introduced or offered shall be presented by the primary author present copies of it to the chief clerk, enclosed in a jacket envelope as provided in rule 30.

SR3, s. 25 Section 25. Senate rule 30 (title), (1) and (3) (a) are amended to read:

SR3,15,21 Senate Rule 30 (title) Filing of bills, etc. proposals. (1) The legislative reference bureau shall provide jacket envelopes of a suitable size to hold any a proposal and the papers pertaining thereto, respectively, without folding or rolling. The clerk shall may not file any paper for any purpose, the cover of which has been either folded or rolled. The jacket envelopes shall must be distinguished distinguishable from those of the assembly by color.

SR3,15,22 (3) (a) The actual date of each public hearing on the proposal.

SR3, s. 26 Section 26. Senate rule 31 (title), (1) and (2) are amended to read:

SR3,16,3 Senate Rule 31 (title) Clerical corrections to bills proposals. (1) Minor The chief clerk shall correct minor clerical errors in any proposal, such as errors in orthography or grammar, or the use of one word for another, such as "affect" for "effect," wrong numbering or references, whether the errors occur in the original bill proposal or in any amendment thereto, shall be corrected by the chief clerk.

SR3,16,8 (2) The chief clerk shall insert the enacting or usual enabling clause in any bill proposal before its passage or adoption if the same has been omitted. When necessary, the chief clerk shall correct the title of any bill so that the title will show shows the sections affected, the subject to which the bill relates, and the making of an appropriation, if such is made by the bill.

SR3, s. 27 Section 27. Senate rule 32 is amended to read:

SR3,16,18 Senate Rule 32. Reference to proposals and other matters. (1) When first considered and thereafter each time that a proposal is considered after business relating to another subject has intervened, it shall be identified in the journal by number and relating clause. Thereafter all reference to any the proposal or petition either in the journal, or in messages shall must be by number only, except in the journal where the ayes and noes are entered. The chief clerk shall read the relating clauses except when the senate directs otherwise, except that in messages of approval of bills by the governor the chief clerk shall read the bill number only unless a member requests the relating clause to be read.

SR3,16,23 (2) No later than one-half hour following the adjournment of each day's session legislative day, members may submit to the chief clerk in writing a listing of visitors from their districts who witnessed a part of the day's session meeting. The list, together with the record of the guests introduced on that legislative day under rule 17 (4), shall be entered at the end of the day's journal.

SR3, s. 28 Section 28. Senate rule 33 is amended to read:

SR3,17,8 Senate Rule 33. Introduction or offering of new proposals; admissibility of identical proposals; admissibility of resolutions in special session. (1) Any A member may introduce or offer new proposals in accordance with rule 46 (1). Before introducing or offering a member introduces or offers a new proposal to the senate, the member shall cause the legislative reference bureau to shall prepare the proposal in the proper form, and with the requisite number of copies for introduction or offering. A proposal may not be received if it contains handwritten changes in the copies prepared by the legislative reference bureau.

SR3,17,12 (2) A proposal identical with one already rejected may not be introduced or offered. However, an assembly bill or joint resolution that is identical to a senate bill or joint resolution previously rejected by the senate or any bill repealing a former act of the same biennial session may be introduced or offered.

SR3,17,18 (3) Resolutions offering commendations, congratulations, or condolences, memorializing congress or an individual, or affecting senate or legislative rules or procedures proceedings are declared not to be within the meaning of the term "business" under the constitutional provision limiting the matters to be considered during special sessions to those enumerated in the governor's call for a special session.

SR3, s. 29 Section 29. Senate rule 33 (3) is renumbered senate rule 93 (1d).

SR3, s. 30 Section 30. Senate rule 34 (1) and (4) are amended to read:

SR3,17,23 Senate Rule 34 (1) All bills and joint resolutions, and all resolutions except those privileged for immediate consideration under rule 69, shall, after being distributed, must lay over one day before being considered.

SR3,18,7 (4) Any proposal for a certificate A proposed citation under joint rule 7 shall, when received by the senate and whether originating in this house or in the assembly, be laid aside to allow time to examine the proposal proposed citation for its appropriateness under compliance with joint rule 7 (1), (1m), and (2). Upon approval by the president and the chief clerk, the proposals citations are deemed considered approved by the senate and shall be so recorded in the journal. If the president or chief clerk refuses to approve a proposal for a certificate proposed citation, the committee on senate organization may require the president and chief clerk to approve it. A written committee report is not necessary.

SR3, s. 31 Section 31. Senate rule 35 is amended to read:

SR3,18,12 Senate Rule 35. Three separate readings. Every bill, and every joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, shall must receive 3 separate readings by relating clause previous prior to its passage except where otherwise provided, but shall may not receive 2 readings on the same day.

SR3, s. 32 Section 32. Senate rule 36 (1), (1m) and (2) are amended to read:

SR3,18,19 Senate Rule 36 (1) On the first reading, every bill requiring 3 readings under rule 35 and all resolutions not privileged by rule 69 shall be referred to the appropriate committee. The president shall determine the appropriate committee shall be determined by the president under rule 46 and shall be announced by the chief clerk shall announce referral under the proper order of business. This rule applies to proposals originating in either house.

SR3,19,2 (1m) (a) On any legislative day when a report, showing the number and relating clause of proposals introduced or offered for introduction together with the president's referral, has been provided to the members prior to before the 2nd order of business, such the provision shall serve serves as the first reading and the announcement of the referral of such the proposals, and the content of the report shall be entered in the daily journal under the appropriate order of business. Rereferral under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.

SR3,19,8 (b) Whenever the introduction and referral of a senate proposal is introduced or offered and referred or the receipt and referral of an assembly proposal occurs is received and referred on a day on which the senate does not meet, the chief clerk shall record in the journal the appropriate information concerning the proposal and such recording shall constitute clerk's act of recording the proposal in the journal under rule 46 (1) (b) constitutes the proposal's first reading.

SR3,19,13 (2) (a) All bills introduced in the senate which by any statute require reference in the senate to a particular committee shall be so referred upon first reading and all assembly bills when received from the assembly shall be so referred upon first reading except where the assembly record on the bill discloses that the statutory requirement has been satisfied by reference to the committee in the assembly.

SR3,19,16 (b) Only one such reference is required under this rule and the adoption of an amendment does not require rereference, but such rereference may be ordered by the senate at any time before passage or concurrence.

SR3,19,23 (c) Notwithstanding par. (a), the president may refer any a bill that pertains only incidentally to a matter of concern to a joint survey committee directly to the committee appropriate to the major substance of that bill, and in that case shall direct the appropriate joint survey committee to prepare its report on the bill while that bill is in the possession of the other committee. This rule does not suspend the requirement that the report of the appropriate joint survey committee must be received before the bill is given its 2nd reading.

SR3, s. 33 Section 33. Senate rule 37 (2) and (3) are amended to read:

SR3,20,2 Senate Rule 37 (2) All amendments to the bill a proposal shall be retained in the original bill jacket for the proposal.

SR3,20,5 (3) Amendments to a substitute amendment already adopted are in order before the bill or resolution is ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time without reconsideration of the adoption of the substitute amendment.

SR3, s. 34 Section 34. Senate rule 38 is amended to read:

SR3,20,13 Senate Rule 38. Third reading; question. (1) Upon the 3rd reading of the bill the question is stated thus: "This bill having been read 3 separate times, the question is, "Shall the bill pass' or "Shall the bill be concurred in'," as the case may be, or other appropriate language may be used. A proposal on the calendar for 3rd reading is not subject to amendment but it may, on motion or by unanimous consent, be referred back to 2nd reading for the consideration of proposed amendments. Such a The motion requires a majority vote and is debatable.

SR3,20,18 (2) The position of a proposal on the calendar for 3rd reading is subject to removal from that position if such the removal is necessitated by a motion for reconsideration that is pending or decided under rule 67, but if the motion is negatively decided before the proposal is reached for consideration under that order, the position of the proposal under the order remains unchanged.

SR3, s. 35 Section 35. Senate rule 40 is amended to read:

SR3,21,2 Senate Rule 40. Bill Proposal amended on 3rd reading to be reengrossed. If a senate proposal ordered engrossed and read a 3rd time is amended or otherwise changed it shall be reengrossed before being read a 3rd time. Any senate proposal that passed the senate with amendments shall be engrossed under the supervision of the chief clerk before being messaged to the assembly. However, if the amendment is an unamended substitute amendment, the original substitute amendment is the bill.

SR3, s. 36 Section 36. Senate rule 41 (1) (a) to (d) and (2) are amended to read:

SR3,21,9 Senate Rule 41 (1) (a) Any A proposal or other matter may be rereferred at any time previous prior to its passage, except that a motion to withdraw from committee may not take effect before a during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee hearing if a hearing has been scheduled when the motion to withdraw is made during the week in which the proposal or other matter is scheduled for a public hearing or the 7 days following the date on which a committee hearing is held.

SR3,21,13 (b) A motion to rerefer or withdraw is in order, but the question is divisible, and the senate having once refused to rerefer or withdraw a proposal or other matter from committee, any subsequent motion to rerefer or withdraw shall require requires a suspension of the rules.

SR3,21,18 (c) A motion to withdraw a matter from the committee on senate organization shall, if approved, place places the matter on the calendar. A motion to withdraw a matter from any other committee shall, if approved, place places the matter in the committee on senate organization unless the senate rerefers the matter to a different committee.

SR3,21,25 (d) Whenever a bill is introduced in the senate or assembly under section 227.19 (5) (e) or 227.26 (2) (f) of the statutes, the bill is considered reported without recommendation and shall be placed before the committee on senate organization if a report is not received from the standing committee within 30 days after the date of referral. This paragraph does not apply if the bill is introduced within 30 days after the time at which further proposals may not be introduced or offered in the regular biennial session under joint rule 83 (2).

SR3,22,5 (2) Reference to committee is not in order after a proposal has been is passed or indefinitely postponed or finally disposed of by any action equivalent thereto. Questions of reconsideration, concurrence in amendments of the other house assembly, conference committee reports, or executive vetoes may be placed on the table, but shall may not be referred to committee.

SR3, s. 37 Section 37. Senate rule 42 is amended to read:

SR3,22,15 Senate Rule 42. Messaging to the assembly; proposals held during reconsideration period. (1) Every bill or joint resolution upon which such action has been taken that it is next to be messaged to the assembly shall be so messaged by the chief clerk, but shall be held in the chief clerk's office until the time for reconsideration of the bill or joint resolution has expired. If the rules have been suspended for immediate messaging, the chief clerk shall enter the action in the history file for the bill or joint resolution. Every privileged joint resolution shall be is messaged immediately without a suspension of the rules unless it is otherwise ordered by the senate.

SR3,22,20 (2) A bill or joint resolution that has been ordered immediately messaged to the assembly by the suspension of this rule is subject to further action by the senate while the bill or joint resolution is in actual physical possession of the senate. The further action is contingent upon a motion to rescind the action of ordering its immediate messaging being decided by a two-thirds vote.

SR3, s. 38 Section 38. Senate rule 45 is amended to read:

SR3,23,2 Senate Rule 45. Offering of privileged resolution. Any A resolution privileged by rule 69 shall, when sent to the clerk's desk, be read at length by the chief clerk, but may be read by its relating clause if copies of the text have been distributed to the members. When so read, the privileged resolution is considered to be before the senate.

SR3, s. 39 Section 39. Senate rule 46 (1) is renumbered senate rule 46 (1) (a) and amended to read:

SR3,23,11 Senate Rule 46 (1) (a) Proposals, amendments, petitions, reports, communications, or other documents that may properly come before the senate shall be presented by a member thereof to the chief clerk, or a staff member designated by the chief clerk, at anytime, except as otherwise provided in senate rule 93 (1p) and joint rule 83 (2). A brief statement of the contents thereof shall must appear thereon, together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. If a document is to be reproduced, the chief clerk shall number the document.