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joint rulesJOINT RULES
* The joint rules of the Wisconsin Legislature are printed as last reenacted by 1977 Assembly Joint Resolution 1 (enrolled as 1977 EJR‐10), and subsequently modified by 1979 Assembly Joint Resolution 1 (EJR‐1), 1981 Senate Joint Resolution 1 (EJR‐1), 1981 Senate Joint Resolution 32 (EJR‐26), 1987 Assembly Joint Resolution 1 (EJR‐1), 1987 Senate Joint Resolution 48 (EJR‐41), 1989 Assembly Joint Resolution 24 (EJR‐15), 1991 Senate Joint Resolution 1 (EJR‐1) and Assembly Joint Resolution 2 (EJR‐10), 1993 Senate Joint Resolution 1, 1997 Assembly Joint Resolution 1, 1999 Assembly Joint Resolution 18, 2001 Assembly Joint Resolution 15, 2005 Senate Joint Resolution 1 (EJR-1), 2007 Senate Joint Resolution 1, 2011 Senate Joint Resolution 15, and 2013 Senate Joint Resolution 6.

REPRINTED MARCH 2019
Revised by Legislative Reference Bureau
(January 2013)
A
  Joint Rule
Act, definition   99 (1)
Acts, Wisconsin:
index to, legislative reference bureau prepares   77 (5), (6)
numbered in continuous sequence for biennium   79 (6)
publication date and enactment date of (s. 35.095, stats.)   65
Address of the legislature, removal of judge
by (2/3 vote required)   12 (2)(c)
Adjourn, definition   99 (2)
Adjournment:
for more than 3 days requires consent of other house   13
smaller than majority   11 (3)
Administration, department of:
consolidates agency fiscal estimates   41 (3)(d)
coordinates fiscal estimate procedure   46
drafting requests, may submit to legislative
reference bureau   51 (2)
local fiscal effect   42 (1)(c)
minor clerical corrections in agency fiscal
estimates   41 (3)(i), 46 (5)
supplemental fiscal estimate
(if disagreement)   41 (3)(c), (f), 48 (3)
Administrative rules, review of proposed:
history, information recorded   32 (1)
notice of, published in journal   73 (4)
public hearing, announced in schedule of
committee activities   75
report on committee proceedings   31
status of legislative action on   78
Adoption, definition   99 (3)
Advance notice of committee activities   27, 75
Advance reproduction of bills, extraordinary
or special session   81 (2)(c)
Advice and consent on nominations   76 (1), 81 (3)(b)
Amendatory proposals and acts, display of text in   64
Amendment, definition   99 (4)
Amendment:
catalog of sections affected (in bill title) not changed by   52 (7)
clerical correction in, by chief clerk or legislative
reference bureau   56
constitution, Wisconsin or United States   57, 58
disagreement on, between houses   3 (1)
enacting or enabling clause (Joint Rule 52 (3)),
reinserted if deleted by amendment   56 (3)(a)
fiscal estimate not required   41 (2)(a), 48 (2)
major amendment, chief clerk may order
reproduction of engrossed   63
nonconcurrence by other house, how reconsidered
and rejected   2
offered by request, name to be recorded   55 (2)
offering of, 4 copies required   54 (2)
of statute law, how shown in text   52 (5), 64
receding from position on   2
supplemental fiscal estimate on bill as affected by
amendment may be requested:
by joint committee on finance   41 (3)(a)
by presiding officer on request of bill's author   41 (3)(b)
by primary author during 5‐day review of bill's
estimate   48 (2)
title of proposal, how treated in   52 (7)
to United States constitution, how considered   58
to Wisconsin constitution, 2nd consideration   57
Analyses on substitute amendments   51m
Appeal, definition   99 (5)
Appropriation:
ayes and noes (3/5 quorum) required   11 (2)
fiscal estimates   41
increase or decrease, how shown in bill   52 (5)(b), 64 (1)(b)
Approval and jacketing of draft proposals   54
Assembly chamber, definition   99 (6)
Assembly organization, committee on, see Committee
on organization (of either house)
Author index to legislation, legislative reference
bureau prepares   77 (2), (3)
Authors, coauthors, and cosponsors on bills, joint
resolutions, citations   55 (1)
Ayes and noes required:
appropriation bill (quorum of 3/5 of members
elected required)   11 (2)
conference report approval (majority of quorum
or qualified majority)   3 (1)(b), (c)
constitutional amendment:
United States constitution (quorum of majority of
current membership (Joint Rules 11 and 12))   58 (2)
Wisconsin constitution (majority of members
elected)   12 (2)(f)
expulsion of member (2/3 of members elected)   12 (2)(b)
fiscal bills defined (3/5 quorum of members
elected required)   11 (2)
impeachment:
investigation by assembly (majority of members
elected)   12 (2)(g)
trial by senate (2/3 vote of members elected)   12 (2)(e)
joint rules: amend, create, or repeal (majority of
actual membership)   96
joint rules: suspend (2/3 of members present)   96 (3)
judge, removal by address of the legislature
(2/3 vote of members elected required)   12 (2)(c)
one-sixth of members may require entry of ayes
and nays in journal   12 (3)
pension bills (3/4 vote of all members elected
to both houses required)   12 (2)(am)
state debt and bonding (majority of members elected)   12 (2)(f)
suspending joint rule (2/3 vote or of members
present unanimous consent)   96 (3)
veto override (2/3 of members present)   12 (2)(d)
B
Biennial session, art. XIII-1, Wis. Con., s. 13.02, stats.:
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