AR17: Resolution Text

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

2009 Assembly RESOLUTION 17

January 12, 2010 - Introduced by Representative Schneider. Referred to Committee on Assembly Organization.

AR17,1,2 To amend assembly rule 32 (1) (a), assembly rule 39 (1) and assembly rule 41 (1); relating to: the prohibition against memorializing the federal government.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This resolution eliminates a prohibition against offering of any assembly joint resolution or resolution memorializing Congress or any branch or officer of the federal government, a prohibition against the assembly receiving a senate joint resolution memorializing Congress or any branch or officer of the federal government, and a requirement that each such senate joint resolution must be transmitted back to the senate immediately after the message referring to the senate joint resolution is read.

AR17,1,3 Resolved by the assembly, That:

AR17, s. 1 Section 1. Assembly rule 32 (1) (a) is amended to read:

AR17,2,6 Assembly rule 32 (1) (a) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, messages Messages from the senate or from the governor may be received and read, and any proposal referenced in the messages that is a senate proposal initially received for consideration of the assembly shall be referred and any other proposals referenced in the messages shall be taken up immediately unless referred by the presiding officer to a standing committee or to the calendar. Any messages from the senate referring to a senate joint resolution memorializing Congress or any branch or officer of the federal government that is received for consideration of the assembly may be read but the senate joint resolution may not be received for consideration. The senate joint resolution shall be transmitted to the senate immediately after the message is read;

AR17, s. 2 Section 2. Assembly rule 39 (1) is amended to read:

AR17,2,12 Assembly rule 39 (1) Except as otherwise provided in joint rule 83 (2) and this subsection, any member or standing committee may introduce or offer proposals in the assembly on any day of the biennial legislative session. No member or standing committee may offer any assembly joint resolution or resolution memorializing Congress or any branch or officer of the federal government.

AR17, s. 3 Section 3. Assembly rule 41 (1) is amended to read:

AR17,2,22 Assembly rule 41 (1) Except as further provided in subs. (2) and (3) and except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any assembly joint resolution or resolution, and any senate joint resolution received by the assembly for consideration, shall receive a reading on each of 2 separate and nonconsecutive legislative days under the appropriate order of business designated in rule 31. Unless otherwise ordered, each reading shall consist of reading the relating clause in the resolution's title or on first reading be as provided in rule 42 (2) or (3). This subsection does not apply to any senate joint resolution that the assembly is prohibited from considering under rule 32 (1) (a).

AR17,2,23 (End)