SR2: Resolution Text

SR2,9 Section 9 . Senate rule 28 is amended to read:

SR2,5,19 Senate Rule 28. Minority reports. Any member or members dissenting from a report of a committee may make, at the time of the committee's final vote on the matter, notify the chairperson of his or her intent to file a separate minority report stating the reasons and conclusions; and all reports . A minority report must be filed with the committee chairperson no later than the 2nd business day after the committee's vote. A minority report, if decorous in language and respectful to the senate, shall be entered at length on the journal. Any minority report must be filed on the same or the next legislative day as the majority report or recommendation.

SR2,10 Section 10 . Senate rule 33 (2) is amended to read:

SR2,5,25 Senate Rule 33 (2) A senate 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 may be considered for concurrence and any bill repealing a former act of the same biennial session may be introduced or offered.

SR2,11 Section 11. Senate rule 34 (1) is amended to read:

SR2,6,5 Senate Rule 34 (1) All bills and joint resolutions, and all resolutions except those privileged for immediate consideration under rule 69, after introduction, must lay over at least 24 hours before being considered for passage, adoption, or concurrence.

SR2,12 Section 12 . Senate rule 35 is amended to read:

SR2,6,10 Senate Rule 35. Three separate readings. Every bill, and every joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, must receive 3 separate readings by relating clause prior to its passage or adoption except where otherwise provided, but may not receive 2 readings on the same day.

SR2,13 Section 13 . Senate rule 36 (2) (a) is amended to read:

SR2,6,17 Senate Rule 36 (2) (a) Except as provided in pars. par. (c) and (d), all bills introduced in the senate which by 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.

SR2,14 Section 14 . Senate rule 36 (2) (c) is amended to read:

SR2,6,25 Senate Rule 36 (2) (c) Notwithstanding par. (a), the The president may refer 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.

SR2,15 Section 15. Senate rule 41 (1) (a) is amended to read:

SR2,7,6 Senate Rule 41 (1) (a) A proposal or other matter may be rereferred at any time prior to its passage, except that a motion to withdraw the proposal or other matter from committee may not take effect during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee meeting on that proposal or other matter or the 7 days following the date on which such a committee meeting is held.

SR2,16 Section 16 . Senate rule 41 (1) (b) is amended to read:

SR2,7,12 Senate Rule 41 (1) (b) A motion to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw is in order, except that if the senate has once refused to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw a proposal or other matter from committee, any subsequent motion to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw the proposal or other matter from committee requires a suspension of the rules.

SR2,17 Section 17 . Senate rule 47 (5) is amended to read:

SR2,7,15 Senate Rule 47 (5) Amendments are not in order upon consideration of an executive veto or a report of a conference committee.

SR2,18 Section 18 . Senate rule 98 (4) is amended to read:

SR2,7,19 Senate Rule 98 (4) All citations on behalf of the senate must be prepared on an artistic form, must first be approved by the committee on senate organization, must be suitable for framing, and must be in substantially the following form:

SR2,7,20 (Scrollwork Incorporating State Coat of Arms)

SR2,7,21 CITATION BY THE SENATE

SR2,7,22 Know You By These Presents:

SR2,7,23 Whereas, ...; and

SR2,7,24 Whereas, ...; now,

SR2,8,2 Therefore, The Members of the Wisconsin Senate, on the motion of Senator(s)...hereby .... .

SR2,8,3 State Capitol

SR2,8,4 Madison,Wisconsin

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SR2,8,6 (Date)

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SR2,8,8 (Appropriate Signatures)

SR2,8,9 (End)