sr31(1)(1)
The chief clerk shall correct minor clerical errors in any proposal, such as errors in orthography or grammar, or the use of one word for another, such as “affect" for “effect," wrong numbering or references, whether the errors occur in the original proposal or in any amendment thereto.
sr31(2)
(2) The chief clerk shall insert the enacting or usual enabling clause in any proposal before its passage or adoption if the same has been omitted. When necessary, the chief clerk shall correct the title of any bill so that the title shows the sections affected, the subject to which the bill relates, and the making of an appropriation, if such is made by the bill.
sr31(3)
(3) The chief clerk shall enter any corrections made by the clerk under this rule in the journal.
sr31(4)
(4) The current edition of Webster's New International Dictionary is the standard.
sr32
Senate Rule 32.
Reference to proposals and other matters. 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.
sr33
Senate Rule 33.
Introduction or offering of new proposals; admissibility of identical proposals; admissibility of resolutions in special session. sr33(1)(1)
A member may introduce or offer new proposals in accordance with rule
46 (1). Before a member introduces or offers a new proposal to the senate, the legislative reference bureau shall prepare the proposal in the proper form, and with the requisite number of copies for introduction or offering. A proposal may not be received if it contains handwritten changes in the copies prepared by the legislative reference bureau.
sr33(2)
(2) A proposal identical with one already rejected may not be introduced or offered. However, an assembly bill or joint resolution that is identical to a senate bill or joint resolution previously rejected by the senate or any bill repealing a former act of the same biennial session may be introduced or offered.
sr34
Senate Rule 34.
Proposals to be on file one day before action. sr34(1)(1)
All bills and joint resolutions, and all resolutions except those privileged for immediate consideration under rule
69, after introduction, must lay over at least 24 hours before being considered.
sr34(2)
(2) The requirement for a one-day layover does not apply to amendments, but a copy of the full text of each amendment shall be made available to the members before adoption of the amendment.
sr35
Senate Rule 35.
Three separate readings. Every bill, and every joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, must receive 3 separate readings by relating clause prior to its passage except where otherwise provided, but may not receive 2 readings on the same day.
sr36
Senate Rule 36.
First reading; reference to committee. sr36(1)(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 referral shall be printed in the journal under the proper order of business. This rule applies to proposals originating in either house.
sr36(1m)(a) (a) Whenever a senate proposal or petition is introduced or offered and referred or an assembly proposal is received and referred, the referral by the president constitutes the proposal's first reading.
sr36(1m)(b)
(b) Whenever a senate proposal or petition is introduced or offered and referred or an assembly proposal is received and referred on a day on which the senate does not meet, the chief clerk's act of recording the proposal in the journal constitutes the proposal's first reading.
sr36(2)(a)(a)
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.
sr36(2)(b)
(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).
sr36(2)(c)(c) Notwithstanding par.
(a), the president may refer a bill that pertains only incidentally to a matter of concern to a joint survey committee directly to the committee appropriate to the major substance of that bill, and in that case shall direct the appropriate joint survey committee to prepare its report on the bill while that bill is in the possession of the other committee. This rule does not suspend the requirement that the report of the appropriate joint survey committee must be received before the bill is given its 2nd reading.
sr36(2m)
(2m) Bills referred to a statutory joint survey committee shall, upon report by that committee, be referred by the president to the appropriate standing committee of the senate.
sr36(3)
(3) Whenever a proposal or other matter is referred to a special committee and the special committee makes its report thereon, the referral and report have the same effect as a reference to and a report by a standing committee.