jr73(1)(1) The chief clerk of each house shall prepare and transmit for reproduction, after the adjournment of each daily session, its daily journal.
jr73(2)
(2) The journals shall contain a concise description of the business conducted by each house. Each proposal shall be identified in the journal by number and relating clause when it is introduced or offered, when reported by a committee, when first considered on any legislative day, or after significant business relating to another subject has intervened. All other journal references to the proposal shall be by number only. Either house may order any other of its proceedings included in its journal.
jr73(3)
(3) All executive messages to the legislature, except veto messages and nominations for appointment requiring the advice and consent of the assembly, shall be included in the senate journal only. Executive pardon communications or reports and reports of the claims board under section
16.007 of the statutes and reports of lobbyist registrations required by section
13.685 (7) of the statutes shall be included in the senate journal. The report of a joint committee shall be included in the journal of the house in which the resolution or act creating the committee originated. Joint resolutions and amendments to bills and joint resolutions may not be included in the journal except as required by
section 1 of
article XII of the constitution.
jr73(4)
(4) The presiding officer of each house shall direct that notice of receipt of any proposed administrative rule under section
227.19 of the statutes be included in the journal of the house, together with a notice of the standing committee to which the proposed rule is referred and the date of referral. The presiding officer shall direct that a similar notice be included whenever a proposed rule is withdrawn.
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oint Rule 74.
Journals in book form. jr74(1)(1) Within 90 days after the final adjournment of any biennial session of the legislature, the chief clerk of each house shall prepare the matter for its daily journal, which is required by the order of such house to be included therein; and any other matter, not already included in either journal, which is required to be included by joint action of the legislature, shall be prepared and transmitted by the chief clerk of the house in which the action originated.
jr74(2)
(2) The journals for both houses shall be bound in cloth. The journals of regular, extraordinary, and special sessions may be bound together in the same volumes if the extraordinary or special session is called before the journals of the regular sessions have been bound; if not so bound the journals of both houses for the extraordinary or special session shall be bound together. The legislative reference bureau shall distribute the copies.
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oint Rule 75.
Schedule of committee activities. The chief clerk of each house shall publish, on a daily basis on the legislature's committee Internet Web site, a committee schedule containing the name of each committee, its chairperson, the room number or place, and the time and date of each meeting scheduled; and, if applicable, shall designate each proposal, appointment, or administrative rule to be heard by number or name, author, and topic.
jr76
Joint Rule 76.
Bulletins of senate and assembly proceedings. jr76(1)(1) After the 3rd week of the biennial session, a “Bulletin of Proceedings" shall be published at convenient intervals. The senate and assembly parts shall each be published under the direction of the respective chief clerk and the index part shall be published as provided in joint rule
77. The senate and assembly parts shall each contain a directory of the officers, members, committees of the legislature, status of business, bills enacted into law, acts originating in that house, bills vetoed, joint resolutions enrolled and deposited with the secretary of state, and the complete history of legislative action on the proposals and petitions originating in that house; in addition, the senate part shall contain the history of senate advice and consent on nominations for appointment.
jr76(2)
(2) The chief clerk of each house shall supervise the completion of an up-to-date record of the actions by that house on all bills and joint resolutions and of the actions on resolutions originating in that house. The chief clerk shall publish the record for all proposals originating in that house as soon as completed.
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oint Rule 77.
Index to bulletin of proceedings. The index to the bulletin of proceedings shall be prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The index shall contain:
jr77(1)
(1) A subject index to legislation, showing a brief description of each proposal or petition, and may contain a brief description of such amendments as materially alter the subject content of a proposal.
jr77(2)
(2) A senate and an assembly author index to legislation. In the author indexes, the brief description of each proposal shall be shown routinely only under the first and second author, and under the first cosponsor, of each proposal. For additional authors and cosponsors, the proposal shall be listed in the author index by number only.
jr77(3)
(3) Author indexes to proposals introduced or offered by committees, or by the entire membership of one or both houses.
jr77(4)
(4) A subject index to the legislative journals.
jr77(5)
(5) A subject index to Wisconsin Acts and enrolled proposals, vetoed and partially vetoed bills, and supreme court orders.
jr77(6)
(6) A numeric listing of statute sections and prior session laws or acts affected by current Wisconsin Acts and enrolled proposals.
jr77(7)
(7) An index to constitutional amendments, including the full text of all constitutional amendments ratified by the people since the last publication of the statutes.
jr77(8)
(8) If provided the necessary information by the government accountability board, a list of organizations employing lobbyists; a list of registered lobbyists and the organizations represented by each lobbyist; and a list of state agency legislative liaisons.
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Joint Rule 78.
Bulletin and index to actions concerning proposed administrative rules. The administrative rules bulletin of proceedings shall be prepared jointly by the chief clerks of the 2 houses, the legislative council staff, and the legislative reference bureau. The bulletin shall contain a history of each transaction affecting a proposed administrative rule received under section
227.15 (1) of the statutes, prepared by the chief clerk of each house. It shall contain a subject index prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The administrative rules volume shall be published at the end of the biennial session.
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oint Rule 79.
Biennial record continuity; special sessions. For each biennial session, the chief clerks of the 2 houses and the legislative reference bureau shall, and the offices of the governor and secretary of state are requested to, treat the legislative documents of the regular session and of any special sessions convened by the governor during that biennial session in the following manner:
jr79(1)
(1)
Drafting requests. The legislative reference bureau shall number all drafting requests received by it in a continuing sequence throughout each biennial session. Separate sequences may be used to distinguish proposals, substitute amendments, simple amendments to proposals other than the budget bill, floor amendments to proposals, and drafts for incorporation into the budget bill or any amendments thereto.
jr79(2)
(2)
Bill jackets. When jacketing drafted proposals for consideration in a special session, the legislative reference bureau shall identify each page of the draft, and, except as otherwise provided in joint rule
54 (2m), identify the bill jacket, by the month in which a specific special session begins.
jr79(3)
(3)
Proposals. For each special session, the chief clerks shall number the proposals in a new sequence, beginning with the number “1" for each type of proposal.
jr79(4)
(4)
Journals. The daily journals for each special session shall be identified as journals of the legislature meeting in special session, but shall be filed in consecutive order, by date, together with the journals recording the action in regular session throughout the biennial session. When the legislature, at different times within a single day, conducts the business of the regular session as well as business under the governor's special session call, the actions may be recorded in a single journal for that day but actions under the special session call shall be clearly identified as actions of the legislature meeting in special session.
jr79(5)
(5)
Bulletin of proceedings. The history of legislative action on all proposals introduced or offered in special sessions shall be published in a single chapter for each special session, at the end of the senate and assembly parts of the bulletin of proceedings. In the subject and author indexes of the index to the bulletin of proceedings, special session legislation shall be indexed, together with regular session legislation, into a single subject-heading and author-heading-sequence.
jr79(6)
(6)
Wisconsin Acts. The office of the governor is requested and the chief clerks of the senate and assembly are directed to number all Wisconsin Acts enacted throughout a single biennial session, whether enacted in regular or in special session, into a single consecutive act number sequence.
Chapter 9:
SESSION SCHEDULE
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oint Rule 81.
Scheduled floorperiods and committee work. jr81(1)(1) Each biennial session begins and ends on the first Monday in January of the odd‐numbered year, as follows:
jr81(1)(a)
(a) The incoming legislature shall convene in the capitol at 2 p.m. to take the oath of office, select officers, and do all other things necessary to organize itself for the conduct of its business, but if the first Monday in January falls on January 1 or 2, the organizational meeting is held on January 3.
jr81(1)(b)
(b) Each biennial session shall be structured into floorperiods, committee work periods, and an interim committee work period, and shall include at least one meeting of the legislature in January of each year.
jr81(1)(c)
(c) Early in each biennial session, the joint committee on legislative organization shall introduce a joint resolution setting forth the session schedule for that biennial session. The joint resolution is amendable and shall, when approved by both houses, constitute the session schedule for that biennial session unless later changed by action of the 2 houses.
jr81(2)
(2) Each scheduled floorperiod shall be held as set forth in the session schedule. Any floorperiod may be extended or convened or recessed on a date earlier than the date specified in the session schedule, as follows:
jr81(2)(a)
(a) The extension of a floorperiod through earlier convening or later adjournment, or the convening of an extraordinary session, may be authorized at the direction of a majority of the members of the committee on organization in each house or by the adoption of and concurrence in a joint resolution on the approval by a majority of the members elected to each house, or by the joint petition of a majority of the members elected to each house submitted to, and using a form approved by, the senate chief clerk and the assembly chief clerk.
jr81(2)(b)
(b) Any extended floorperiod or extraordinary session is limited to the business specified in the action by which it is authorized and to advice and consent on nominations for appointment.
jr81(2)(c)
(c) Following the official call of any special or extraordinary session, the joint committee on employment relations or on legislative organization, the committees on organization in each house, and any committee of either house so authorized under the rules thereof, may introduce or offer proposals germane to the call, and such proposals may be numbered, referred to committee, and reproduced in advance of the special or extraordinary session under the customary procedures of each house.
jr81(3)
(3) Any day of the biennial session that is not reserved by the session schedule to conduct an organizational meeting or to be part of a scheduled floorperiod of the legislature is available for committee work, but:
jr81(3)(a)
(a) Any such day may be assigned to an extended floorperiod or extraordinary session as authorized under sub.
(2).
jr81(3)(b)
(b) The committee on senate organization may designate a committee work day for senate advice and consent on nominations for appointment and the committee on assembly organization may designate a committee work day for assembly advice and consent on nominations for appointment, whether or not that day was already assigned under par.
(a).
jr81(4)
(4) The biennial session schedule shall specify the dates on which the chief clerks of the 2 houses shall present to the governor all bills approved by the 2 houses.
jr81m
Joint Rule 81m.
Limited-business floorperiod. jr81m(1)(1) The biennial session schedule shall provide for a floorperiod after the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year and before the veto review session in that year.
jr81m(2)
(2) The limited-business floorperiod is a floorperiod limited to action on:
jr81m(2)(a)
(a) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
jr81m(2)(b)
(b) Reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the biennial session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule
60 (2).
jr81m(2)(c)
(c) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the ratification of state employee collective bargaining contracts under section
111.92 (1) of the statutes.
jr81m(2)(d)(d) Matters the purposes of which are allowed under joint rule
7.
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Joint Rule 81r.
Limited-business floorperiod; bills introduced by the joint committee for review of administrative rules. In addition to the floorperiod required under joint rule
81m, the biennial session schedule may provide for a floorperiod after the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year that is limited to action on bills introduced by the joint committee for review of administrative rules under section
227.19 (5) (e) of the statutes.
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oint Rule 82.
Veto review session, even-numbered year. jr82(1)(1) The biennial session schedule shall provide for a veto review session no earlier than April 1 of the even-numbered year and no later than June 30 of the even-numbered year.
jr82(1m)
(1m) The veto review session is a floorperiod limited to action on:
jr82(1m)(a)
(a) Gubernatorial vetoes or partial vetoes.
jr82(1m)(b)
(b) Pending nominations for appointments requiring senate or assembly confirmation.
jr82(1m)(c)
(c) Revisor's correction or revisor's revision bills.
jr82(1m)(d)
(d) Reconciliation bills introduced by the committee on organization of either house that resolve conflicts between mutually inconsistent acts of the biennial session and proposals recalled for further legislative action under joint rule
60 (2).
jr82(1m)(e)
(e) Bills introduced by the joint committee on employment relations for the ratification of state employee collective bargaining contracts under section
111.92 (1) of the statutes.
jr82(1m)(f)
(f) Resolutions or joint resolutions introduced by the committee on organization of either house.
jr82(1m)(g)
(g) Resolutions or joint resolutions offering recognition or condolences introduced by any member of the legislature.
jr82(2)(a)(a) Unless otherwise provided by the committee on senate organization or the assembly committee on rules, any vetoes of regular or special session bills not previously on a calendar in the house of origin shall be shown as pending business on the calendar for the veto review session's first day.
jr82(2)(b)
(b) Any pending veto that does not receive final action during the veto review session is sustained. The disposition shall be recorded as “failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the governor."
jr82(3)
(3) Any veto received from the other house for concurrence notwithstanding the objections of the governor may be taken up immediately.
jr82(4)
(4) The action of either house on the motion to pass a bill, or part thereof, notwithstanding the objections of the governor is not subject to a motion for reconsideration.
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oint Rule 83.
Introduction and disposition of proposals. jr83(1)(1) During any scheduled floorperiod the introduction, or offering, and disposition of proposals and the offering and disposition of amendments, and citations, shall, in each house, be governed by the rules thereof.
jr83(3)
(3) Any proposal on which final action has not been taken at the adjournment of the last general-business floorperiod in the odd-numbered year is carried forward to the even-numbered year.
jr83(4)(a)(a) Except as provided in par.
(b), at the adjournment of the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, any bill or joint resolution not yet agreed to by both houses, and any resolution not yet passed by the house of origin, is adversely disposed of for the biennial session and recorded as “failed to pass," “failed to adopt," or “failed to concur."
jr83(4)(b)
(b) If the biennial session schedule provides for a limited-business floorperiod under joint rule
81r, any bills introduced by the joint committee for review of administrative rules that are not yet agreed to by both houses are adversely disposed of for the biennial session at the conclusion of the limited-business floorperiod under joint rule
81r and are recorded as “failed to pass."
jr83(5)
(5) Following the adjournment of the last general-business floorperiod scheduled by the session schedule for the spring of the even-numbered year, no further regular session proposals may be introduced or offered for the balance of the biennial session, except proposals under joint rule
81 (2) (c) or
82 (1m); or required for the conduct of any special session called by the governor, of any extraordinary session called by the legislature, of the veto review session, or of any extended floorperiod.
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oint Rule 84.
Committees continue throughout biennial session. Every standing committee and, unless otherwise ordered, every special committee of one or both houses, continues throughout the entire biennial session of the legislature creating the committee. Any such committee may:
jr84(1)
(1)
Meetings. Meet, on call of the chairperson, in the capitol. As authorized by section
13.123 (3) (a) of the statutes, any committee may, with the prior consent of the committee on senate organization in the case of senate committees or of all of the officers required by assembly rule in the case of assembly committees, meet at such other locations throughout this state as the chairperson announces. Each committee meeting shall be given due public notice. No such committee may schedule an executive session outside the capitol unless the executive session is held in conjunction with a public meeting of the committee.
jr84(2)
(2)
Public notice. In compliance with the appropriate senate and assembly rules, hold public hearings and executive sessions and conduct any other committee business on the proposals that have been referred to the committee.
jr84(3)
(3)
Studies, investigations,
and reviews. Conduct, on instruction by the appropriate house or on the motion of the chairperson with majority vote approval by the committee, studies, investigations, and reviews, within the subject matter area customarily within the purview of the respective committee, regarding any matter that may then be appropriate to legislative inquiry. In case of duplication or of overlapping areas of original inquiry the committee on senate organization in the case of senate committees, the speaker in the case of assembly committees, or the joint committee on legislative organization in the case of joint committees, shall define and delimit the subject matter area assigned to each committee and determine the scope of the inquiry conducted by each committee.
