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Assembly Joint Resolution 16

The dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration)

Topics: Appropriation, Constitutional amendments: First consideration, Legislature: Procedure

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new proposal.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Feb 17, 2009

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Adopted, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to adopt pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2009 legislature on first consideration, provides that the legislature may abolish by law a state fund, or program revenue appropriation account thereof, other than a fund or account related solely to the issuance or payment of public debt or other obligation, only if two-thirds of all the members elected to each house concur therein.

Any state fund, or program revenue appropriation account thereof, created by law before, on, or after the date of ratification of this amendment remains in effect until abolished by law, and the purpose of the fund or account may not be changed by law.

Read the full summary

The proposal also provides that a state fund, or program revenue appropriation account thereof, created before, on, or after the date of ratification of this amendment may not be lapsed, transferred, or expended in any manner that would conflict with the purpose of the fund or account. If a state fund, or program revenue appropriation account thereof, is abolished, all unencumbered moneys in the fund or account as of the date the fund or account is abolished are transferred to the general fund of the state.

A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.

Who's behind it

37 lawmakers are its ⁠. 36 are Republicans and 1 is a Independent.

17 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 54 names

Authors (37)

Signed on in support (17)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this proposal. Taking a bill up right away needs two-thirds of the members, a higher bar than passing it, so that vote can draw more yeses than the final one.

Assembly vote to take it up right away

Passed, 54 to 44 · Apr 20, 2010

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Ways and Means and take up, Ayes 54, Noes 44”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the proposal died with it.

  2. Feb 17, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means.

  3. Feb 17, 2009

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Feb 17, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Tauchen, Strachota, Gottlieb, Ripp, Ziegelbauer, Nerison, Honadel, Petersen, Suder, Nygren, Kaufert, Montgomery, Bies, Kestell, Knodl, Ballweg, Van Roy, A. Ott, Davis, Lothian, Pridemore, Zipperer, Mursau, Murtha, Gundrum, Nass, Stone, LeMahieu, Brooks, Kleefisch, M. Williams, Gunderson, Vos, Kramer, Kerkman, Roth and Spanbauer;Cosponsored by Senators Plale, Cowles, Carpenter, Holperin, Grothman, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Kedzie, Harsdorf, Olsen, Kapanke, Lazich, S. Fitzgerald, Schultz, Darling, Leibham and Hopper

  2. Feb 17, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Ways and Means

  3. Apr 20, 2010 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Ways and Means and take up, Ayes 54, Noes 44

  4. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Public hearing

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary