An Act (relating clause)

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

Assembly Bill 34

An Act (relating clause)

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

Senate Resolution 10

A resolution relating to, etc.

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

Senate Joint Resolution 50

A joint resolution relating to, etc.

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

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Senate Rule 27 (2) Each committee to which a proposed administrative rule is referred under rule 4 (10) 46 (2) (am) shall submit a report within the review period specified in section 227.19 (4) (b) of the statutes in the form specified in this rule, authenticated by the personal signature of the chairperson or cochairpersons. Whenever a committee schedules a public hearing or a meeting with an agency representative concerning a proposed rule, or whenever modifications to a proposed rule are agreed to be made or received, the committee shall submit an interim report. The form of the report is as follows: shall be in the format specified by the chief clerk.

Senate Rule 27 (3) Any amendment or substitute amendment, recommended by the committee for rejection, may not be reported to the senate. Any such submitted to a standing committee for the committee's consideration shall be reported out of committee only if adoption is recommended or if sub. (4) applies. An amendment or substitute amendment not reported out of committee may, upon motion, be revived by the vote of the majority of the current membership members present while the proposal is still in the amendable stage.

Senate Rule 27 (4) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the chief clerk shall record in the journal that a proposed proposal is reported without recommendation whenever the proposal is withdrawn from committee under rule 18 or 41 (1) (d).

Senate Rule 32 (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 the proposal or petition either in the journal or in messages 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.

Senate Rule 32 (2) No later than one-half hour following the adjournment of each legislative day, members Members may submit to the chief clerk in writing a listing of visitors from their districts who witnessed a part of the day's 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.

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 under rule 46 and the chief clerk shall announce referral shall be printed in the journal under the proper order of business. This rule applies to proposals originating in either house.

Senate Rule 36 (2) (a) All Except as provided in pars. (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.

Senate Rule 36 (2) (b) Only one such reference is required under this rule and the adoption of an amendment does not require rereference, but rereference may be ordered by the senate at any time before passage or concurrence or as provided under rules 41 (1) (e) and 46 (2) (c).

Senate Rule 37 (1) Before a bill, or a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, is amended or ordered to a 3rd reading it shall be read a 2nd time by relating clause.

Senate Rule 37 (4) Any proposal ordered to a 3rd reading is considered engrossed.

Senate Rule 38 (3) A 3rd reading shall be by relating clause.

Senate Rule 40. 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 considered reengrossed before being read a 3rd time the 3rd reading. 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.

Senate Rule 41 (1) (b) A motion to withdraw and rerefer or to withdraw is in order, but the question is divisible, and except that if the senate having 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 requires a suspension of the rules.

Senate Rule 41 (1) (e) During any interim period between regularly scheduled floorperiods, if If the committee on senate organization receives a standing committee's report on a bill that by statute requires review by the joint committee on finance before being passed, the committee on senate organization may, on any day of the interim, rerefer that bill to the joint committee on finance and, in that case, shall direct the. The chief clerk to shall promptly record the rereferral by an appropriate entry in the journal. The committee on senate organization may, with the consent of the senate cochairperson of the joint committee on finance, withdraw a bill from the joint committee on finance and place the bill on the calendar. Withdrawal under this rule satisfies section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.

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 must appear thereon, together with the name of the members introducing or offering the same. If a document is to be reproduced, the The chief clerk shall number the document all proposals, amendments, and petitions.

Senate Rule 46 (1) (b) The chief clerk shall announce promptly record each document or proposal introduced or offered under par. (a), and each proposal received from the assembly, on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. The document or proposal shall be recorded in the first journal published after the document or proposal is received by the chief clerk.

Senate Rule 46 (2) (am) The president shall refer every notice and report concerning a proposed administrative rule received by the presiding officer under section 227.19 of the statutes to the appropriate standing committee of the senate within 7 working days following receipt and provide notice to that committee whenever the president is informed that a proposed rule is being withdrawn. The president shall refer any report received from a standing committee that objects to a proposed rule to the joint committee for review of administrative rules.

Senate Rule 46 (2) (b) Within 3 working days after the time of initial referral by the president under rule 4 (2) par. (am), a proposed rule may, with consent of the 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 at any time.

Senate Rule 46 (2) (c) Within 5 working days after After the time of initial referral by the president under rule 36 (2), a proposal or appointment the president may, with the consent of the chairperson of the standing committee, be withdrawn withdraw a proposal or appointment from the standing committee to which it is referred and rereferred rerefer it to another standing committee, except that such a withdrawal may not take effect during the 7 days preceding any scheduled committee hearing or the 7 days following the date on which a committee hearing is held. Rereferral under this rule may be made at any time, but may not be used to satisfy section 13.093 (1) of the statutes.

Senate Rule 46 (2) (d) The chief clerk shall announce each referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, provided for under the senate rules on the next session day under the appropriate order of business. Each referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, shall be recorded promptly record each referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, in the first journal published after the referral, or withdrawal and rereferral, occurs.

Senate Rule 46 (6) Unless reconsidered under rule 67, a proposal, or an amendment as it affects a proposal, is adversely and finally disposed of for the biennial session of the legislature by any of the following results:

(a) Indefinite postponement (senate bills).

(b) Rejection (senate amendments, senate resolutions, and senate joint resolutions).

(c) Nonconcurrence (assembly bills and assembly joint resolutions).

(d) Failure to be ordered to a 3rd reading (senate bills and assembly bills).

(e) Failure of passage (senate bills).

(f) Failure of concurrence (assembly bills and assembly joint resolutions).

(g) Failure to pass notwithstanding the objections of the governor.

Senate Rule 50 (6) (a) A substitute amendment or amendment that is identical in effect to one previously offered to the same proposal and disposed of as another substitute amendment or amendment to the same proposal.

Senate Rule 50 (6) (b) (intro.) A substitute amendment or amendment to a proposal that relates to a subject that is different from the subject of that proposal, that is intended to accomplish a purpose that is different from the purpose of that proposal, is any of the following:

(c) A substitute amendment or amendment that negates that the original proposal entirely, or that substitutes another proposal pending before the senate.

Senate Rule 50 (6) (b) 1. Irrelevant to the subject matter of the proposal.

2. Inappropriate to the subject matter of the proposal.

3. Not in a natural and logical sequence to the subject matter of the proposal.

4. Substantially expands the scope of the proposal.

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

Senate Rule 70 (2) A bill vetoed in its entirety by the governor may not be divided. When a bill has been vetoed in part and the senate considers a specific item for passage notwithstanding the objections of the governor, any member may request that the item be divided. The item may be divided on request by a member if:

(a) The request proposes to so divide the item that each separate proposition, if passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor, will result in a complete and workable law regardless of the action taken on any other part of the original item.

(b) It is the opinion of the presiding officer that the item involves distinct and independent propositions capable of division and that the division will not be unduly complex.

Senate Rule 70 (3) When a bill has been vetoed in part the committee on senate organization may, by a resolution offered under rule 17 (2), propose to schedule a specific part as a special order. When appropriate, the resolution may divide the part into one or more independent propositions and dependent propositions. The proposed division must include at least one separate proposition that, if passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor, will result in a complete and workable law regardless of the action taken on any other part of the original part. The presiding officer shall first put the question on the independent proposition. The question on any proposition dependent thereon may be put only if the independent proposition has been passed notwithstanding the objections of the governor.

Senate Rule 73m. Missed roll calls. (1) A member who does not vote during a roll call on a proposal may request unanimous consent to have his or her vote included in that roll after the roll is closed, if all of the following apply:

(a) The request does not interrupt another roll call.

(b) The request is made no later than immediately following the close of the next occurring roll call.

(c) The member's vote, if included, will not change the result of the roll call.

(2) If sub. (1) precludes a member from making a request or if the request is objected to, the member may request unanimous consent to have the journal reflect how the member would have voted had he or she been in his or her seat when the roll call was taken. A member may not interrupt a roll call to make a request under this subsection.