Senator Flynn raised the point of order that senate amendment 1 to senate amendment 263 to senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 79 [relating to state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget bill of the 1979 legislature, and making appropriations] was not germane.
[Note:] S.Amdt. 263 to S.Sub.1 was a 5%, across the board, cut-back imposed on all appropriations funded from general purpose revenues. SA-1 to SA-263 proposed to require DOT to allocate $18 million from segregated revenue for "construction of the 18-151 Expressway project".
The point of order was well taken.
Senator Kreul appealed the ruling of the chair. The question was: Shall the decision of the chair stand as the ruling of the Senate?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: [Display of roll call vote omitted; ayes-23, noes-9.] The decision of the chair shall stand as the ruling of the senate.
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Assembly Journal of March 31, 1978 .......... Page: 4270
Point of order:
Representative Kedrowski rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 1 to senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 881 was not germane under Assembly Rule 50 (5).
The speaker [Jackamonis] ruled the point of order well taken.
Assembly Journal of March 30, 1978 .......... Page: 4212
Point of order:
Representative Kedrowski rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 1 to senate amendment 1 to assembly substitute amendment 2 to Senate Bill 71 was not germane under Assembly Rule 50 (5).
The chair ruled the point of order well taken.
Assembly Journal of November 10, 1977 .......... Page: 2538
Point of order:
Representative Tuczynski rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 2 to assembly amendment 5 to assembly substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 2, November 1977 Special Session was not germane under Assembly Rule 50 (5).
The chair ruled the point of order well taken.
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Senate Journal of September 13, 1977 .......... Page: 1127
[Point of order:]
Senator Flynn raised the point of order that senate amendment 2 to senate amendment 4 [to Assembly Bill 216] was not germane.
The chair [Lt.Gov. Schreiber] ruled the point of order not well taken pursuant to senate rule 50 (4).
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Senate Journal of June 11, 1975 .......... Page: 867
[Point of order:]
Senator Peloquin raised the point of order that senate amendment 1 to senate amendment 111 [to Assembly Bill 222, relating to state finances and appropriations constituting the executive budget bill of the 1975 legislature, and making appropriations] was not germane. The chair took the point of order under advisement.
Senate Journal of June 13, 1975 .......... Page: 887
As it relates to the point of order raised Wednesday, the chair [Lt.Gov. Schreiber] ruled that pursuant to senate rule 50 (4), senate amendment 1 to senate amendment 111 to Assembly Bill 222 was not germane.
163Germaneness: appropriation to implement intent (addition permitted)
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Assembly Journal of June 14, 1994 .......... Page: 1022
Point of order:
Representative Prosser rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 16 to assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 2, June 1994 Spec.Sess. [relating to regulation of the telecommunications industry, statutes affecting telecommunications, creating a telecommunications retraining board, surveillance of state agencies and authorities, fraudulent data alteration, confidentiality of pharmaceutical records, state master lease agreements, granting rule-making authority, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, extending the time limit for emergency rules, making appropriations and providing penalties] was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3) (f).
[Note:] A part of the "information super-highway" bill required schools to participate in interactive telecommunications.
A.Amdt-16 to A.Sub-1, which increased each school district's revenue limit by the revenue budgeted for interactive telecommunications, did not expand the scope of the proposal, but could be held germane under A.Rule 54 (4) (d) as an "amendment adding appropriations necessary to fulfill to original intent of a proposal".
The chair (Speaker pro tempore Carpenter) ruled the point of order not well taken.
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Senate Journal of June 15, 1994 .......... Page: 1049
[Point of order:]
Senator Leean raised the point of order that the amendment [Sen.Amdt-9 to June 1994 Spec.Sess. Assembly Bill 2, relating to regulation of the telecommunications industry, statutes affecting telecommunications, creating a telecommunications retraining board, surveillance of state agencies and authorities, fraudulent data alteration, confidentiality of pharmaceutical records, state master lease agreements, granting rule-making authority, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, extending the time limit
for emergency rules, making appropriations and providing penalties] was not germane.
164 [Note:] A part of the "information super-highway" bill required schools to participate in interactive telecommunications.
S.Amdt-9 increased each school district's revenue limit by the revenue budgeted for interactive telecommunications. Because school revenue limits were not mentioned in the bill, the amendment expanded the scope of the proposal and, on that basis, was not germane.
On the other hand, the identical amendment had been held germane in the assembly [A.Jour. 6/14/94, page 1022] as an "amendment adding appropriations necessary to fulfill to original intent of a proposal"; the corresponding senate rule is found in Sen.Rule 50 (8).
The Chair [Sen. Lasee] ruled the point well taken.
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Assembly Journal of March 21, 1990 .......... Page: 975
Point of order:
Representative Radtke rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 190 [relating to Wisconsin conservation corps board participation in human services activities and making an appropriation] was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3) (f) [substantial expansion of scope].
[Note:] A.Amdt-1 added an appropriation to fund a Milwaukee project under the provisions of the substitute.
Under A.Rule 54 (4) (d), an "amendment adding appropriations necessary to fulfill the original intent of the proposal" is germane.
The chair [Rep. Clarenbach, speaker pro tem] ruled the point of order not well taken.
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Assembly Journal of May 19, 1988 .......... Page: 1116
Point of order:
Representative Prosser rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 598 [relating to the homestead credit, farmland preservation credit, school property tax credit, vocational, technical and adult education incentive grants and making an appropriation] was not germane under Assembly Rule (54) (3) (f) [substantial expansion of scope].
[Note:] In 1987 WisAct 399 [annual budget], the Legislature had enacted a sec. 3044 (6f), reading: "It is the intent of the legislature that state aid for elementary and secondary education funded with general purpose revenue will increase by at least $90,000,000 in the 1989-90 fiscal year as compared to the amount of such aid in the 1988-89 fiscal year."
A.Amdt.1 proposed to raise the amount of the intended increase from $90 million to $192 million.
The chair [Rep. Clarenbach, speaker pro tem] ruled the point of order well taken.
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Assembly Journal of May 22, 1986 .......... Page: 1114-15
Point of order:
165 Representative R. Travis rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 5 to Assembly Bill 13, May 1986 Spec. Sess., [relating to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, drugs or both, administrative and court-ordered revocation of operating privileges and chemical tests for intoxication, making an appropriation and granting rule-making authority] was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) [expansion of scope] and Assembly Rule 93 (1) [scope of session call exceeded].
The chair [Rep. Clarenbach, speaker pro tem] took the point of order under advisement. [Intervening text omitted]
[Note:] The bill provided for administrative or court-ordered driver's license revocation for drunk driving.
A.Amdt.5 increased, by $650,000, the state appropriation to the public defender board for investigators and private bar attorneys to handle some of the anticipated workload.
The chair [Rep. Clarenbach, speaker pro tem] ruled the point of order on assembly amendment 5 to Assembly Bill 13, May 1986 Spec. Sess., not well taken.
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Assembly Journal of May 24, 1983 .......... Page: 220
Point of order:
Representative D. Travis rose to the point of order that assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 450 [relating to applicability of the Wisconsin environmental protection act and a schedule for the establishment of any new Milwaukee correctional institution, judicial review of related decisions and injunctive and other relief and right of first acquisition of abandoned railroad property] was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (1) and (3) (f) [substantial expansion of scope] because it increases bonding authority and sets a specific site for the location of a prison.
Representative D. Travis also rose to the point of order that the bill was not properly before the assembly under section 13.49 (6) of the Wisconsin Statutes.
The speaker [Loftus] ruled that the bill was properly before the assembly because section 13.49 (6) of the Wisconsin Statutes did not require the referral of substitute amendments to the Joint Survey Committee on Debt Management.
The speaker also ruled that the substitute was germane under Assembly Rule 54 (4) (d) [adding appropriations necessary to fill original intent].
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Assembly Journal of February 27, 1979 .......... Page: 215
Point of order:
166 Representative Lallensack rose to the point of order that assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 46 [relating to increasing the ceiling on the public debt for veterans' mortgage loans and making an appropriation] was not germane under Assembly Rule 50 because the constitutional amendment providing for public debt for veterans' housing which was approved by the people in April 1975 (Wis. Constitution Article VIII,
Sections 3 and 7) provided for general obligation bonding and not revenue bonding as contained in the substitute amendment.
The speaker [Jackamonis] ruled the point of order not well taken because amendments to bills are not required to be germane to the constitution. He also ruled: 1) the substitution of revenue bonding for general obligation bonding was a matter of particularized details and not one individual proposition amending another, 2) the substitute was intended to accomplish the same purpose in a different manner, and 3) the scope of the proposal was not expanded by changing the amount of the appropriation.
Germaneness: expanding scope of proposal (not permitted)
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Assembly Journal of March 10, 1994 .......... Page: 772
Point of order:
Representative Freese rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 1245 [relating to benefits under the work-not-welfare pilot program and the food stamp program; the treatment of stepparent income in determining eligibility for aid to families with dependent children; setting off certain amounts from state tax refunds; affecting funding and position authorizations for economic support programs; and making appropriations] was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3) (f).
The chair took the point of order under advisement.
[Note:] A.Amdt-1 dealt with the amount of state supplements to the federal supplemental security income program.
A.Amdt-3 proposed to establish, in Milwaukee county only, an electronic system to transfer food stamp benefits to their recipients.
Ruling of the chair:
The chair (Speaker pro tempore Carpenter) ruled well taken the point of order raised by Representative Freese that assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 1245 was not germane.
Point of order:
Representative Bell rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 1245 was not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3) (f).
The chair (Speaker pro tempore Carpenter) ruled the point of order well taken.
Assembly Journal of March 10, 1994 .......... Page: 770
Point of order:
167 Representative Bell rose to the point of order that assembly amendment 5 to Assembly Bill 1244 [relating to treatment of trusts and of certain transfers of assets for purposes of medical assistance eligibility; recovery of medical assistance benefits; requiring reduced spending for mental health institutes in certain circumstances; requiring payment to
mental health institutes for care of certain youths; expanding the allowable period for reduction of the mental health institutes' deficit; prohibiting medical assistance reimbursement for
