sr8(1)(1) Members, officers, and employees shall wear appropriate attire while the senate is sitting in session. Appropriate attire for men includes the wearing of a coat. Appropriate attire for men and women does not include denim jeans.

sr8(2) (2) While the presiding officer is addressing the senate, or submitting a question, a member may not cross the floor or leave the senate. While a member is speaking, a member may not walk between the speaking member and the presiding officer.

sr8(3) (3) A member or other person may not visit or remain by the clerk's table while the ayes and noes are being called. A member may not leave his or her seat or be disturbed by any other person while the ayes and noes are being called.

sr8(4) (4) A member or other person may not, within the senate chamber, read newspapers, periodicals, magazines, books, or similar materials, unless the publication is relevant to the debate on the senate floor; consume food, beverages, or tobacco products; or take photographs or make any video recording.

sr8(5) (5) A member or other person may not, within the senate chamber, display a chart, sign, or other visual aid or promote a private business by prominently displaying a branded product or logo.

[(2) and (3) am.; (4) r.cr. 1985 S.Res. 2]
[(1) am. 1995 S.Res. 2]
[am. 2001 S.Res. 2]
[(1) am. 2003 S.Res. 3]
[(4) am. 2005 S.Res. 2]
[(5) cr. 2007 S.Res. 2]
[(4) am. 2015 S.Res. 2]
[(1) am. 2021 S.Res. 8]

sr11 Senate Rule 11. Who may be admitted to the floor; recording proceedings; listing of visitors.

sr11(1)(1) Persons of the following classes, and no others, shall be admitted to that portion of the floor of the senate where the members sit in session: the governor, the lieutenant governor, members of the legislature, members of the staff of the sergeant at arms, technical staff designated by the chief clerk, and designated members of the chief clerk's staff.

sr11(2) (2) Persons of the following classes, and no others, shall be admitted to that portion of the floor of the senate designated as the staff lobby while the senate is sitting in session: state officers, employees of either house of the legislature, of legislative committees, and of legislative service agencies while engaged in the performance of their duties, members of congress, justices of the supreme court, and former members of the legislature.

sr11(3)(3) However, none of those persons in subs. (1) and (2) who are registered as lobbyists or engaged in defeating or promoting any pending legislation have the privilege of the floor of the senate.

sr11(4) (4) A former senator or other person who is directly or indirectly interested in defeating or promoting any pending legislation, whether registered as a lobbyist or not, does not have the privilege of the floor of the senate at any time.

sr11(5) (5) All accredited correspondents of the news media, who confine themselves to their professional duties, have the privilege of the floor of the senate, except that while the senate is sitting in session the privilege extends only to the press lobby.

sr11(6)(6) Persons who are not specified in subs. (1) to (5) may be invited on the floor of the senate by the committee on senate organization.

sr11(7) (7) No persons other than members of the chief clerk's staff, members of the staff of the sergeant at arms, members of a senator's staff, and accredited correspondents of the news media may engage in any audio or video recording of the proceedings of the senate or any committee without permission of the committee on senate organization.

sr11(8) (8) A person who provides technical services under a license agreement to broadcast senate proceedings may be invited on the floor of the senate by the presiding officer to perform those services.

sr11(9) (9) A person who delivers the opening prayer may be admitted by the presiding officer to the floor of the senate, but only for the purpose of delivering the opening prayer.

sr11(10)(10) Except for a person described in sub. (1) or (2), no person may be admitted to the senate chamber immediately before convening and immediately after adjourning a floorperiod without the permission of the presiding officer. The presiding officer shall establish the time periods before the convening and after the adjourning of a floorperiod when this subsection shall apply.

[(6) am. 1987 S.Res. 2, 1993 S.Res. 3]
[(2) to (6) am. 2001 S.Res. 2]
[(2), (3) and (5) am. 2003 S.Res. 3]
[(title) am. 2005 S.Res. 2]
[(7) cr. 2005 S.Res. 2]
[(title) am. 2007 S.Res. 2
[(8) cr. 2007 S.Res. 2]
[(9) cr. 2007 S.Res. 2]
[(10) cr. 2015 S.Res. 2]
[(1) am. 2021 S.Res. 8]

sr12 Senate Rule 12. Privileges of senate to contestants for seats. Contestants for seats have the privilege of the senate until their respective cases are disposed of. The privilege extends only so far as access to the chamber, during the time occupied in settling the contest.

sr13 Senate Rule 13. Disturbance in senate chamber. Whenever any disturbance or disorderly conduct occurs in the senate chamber, the presiding officer may order any part of the senate chamber cleared of all persons except members and officers.

[am. 2001 S.Res. 2]
[am. 2003 S.Res. 3]
[am. 2003 S.Res. 21]
[am. 2007 S.Res. 2]
[am. 2015 S.Res. 2]

sr13m Senate Rule 13m. Conduct of individuals in the gallery. Unless otherwise provided by the presiding officer, individuals in the gallery:

sr13m(1) (1) Shall be quiet at all times.

sr13m(2) (2) Shall be seated at all times.

sr13m(3) (3) May not lean over or put any object over the balcony.

sr13m(4) (4) May not display signs or other objects. If an individual brings a sign to the chamber, the sign shall be left in the gallery vestibule.