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.

[(7) and (8) am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(4), (5) and (6) am. 1991 SJR-1]
[(intro.) and (4) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(1) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(8) and (9) rn; (7) rn.am.; (3) and (4) am.; (8) cr. 2011 SJR-2]

jr78 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.

jr79 Joint 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.

[rn. from Jt.Rule 78, 1981 SJR-1]
[(intro.), (1) and (6) am. 1987 SJR-48]
[(1) and (5) am. 1997 AJR-1]
[(2), (3) and (5) am. 2001 AJR-15]
[(intro.), (1), (4), and (6) am. 2011 SJR-2]

jr81 Joint 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.