Assembly Joint Resolution 58
Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration)
Topics: Administration, Department of: Budget and fiscal issues, Appropriation, Budget bills and process, Constitutional amendments: First consideration
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.
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Introduced, passed
Jun 16, 2009
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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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 State Affairs and Homeland Security. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
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
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, requires the state to budget and account for all funds it receives or expends in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
The amendment restricts, in the budget bill, expenditures and other financial uses from the general fund that exceed revenues and other financing sources as estimated by the legislature in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. It further requires that any existing budget deficit be extinguished by at least ten percent for each year covered by the budget bill.
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A constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.
Who's behind it
22 lawmakers are its . All 22 are Republicans.
6 more lawmakers .
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Authors (22)
- Garey Bies · Republican, Assembly
- Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
- Brett Davis · Republican, Assembly
- Mark Gottlieb · Republican, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Dan Knodl · Republican, Assembly
- Thomas Lothian · Republican, Assembly
- Mary Williams · Republican, Assembly
- Steve Nass · Republican, Senate
- John Nygren · Republican, Assembly
- Kevin Petersen · Republican, Assembly
- Jerry Petrowski · Republican, Senate
- Don Pridemore · Republican, Assembly
- Roger Roth · Republican, Senate
- Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
- Jeffrey Stone · Republican, Assembly
- Pat Strachota · Republican, Assembly
- Gary Tauchen · Republican, Assembly
- John Townsend · Republican, Assembly
- Karl Van Roy · Republican, Assembly
- Robin Vos · Republican, Assembly
- Leah Vukmir · Republican, Senate
Signed on in support (6)
- Alberta Darling · Republican, Senate
- Randy Hopper · Republican, Senate
- Dan Kapanke · Republican, Senate
- Neal Kedzie · Republican, Senate
- Joe Leibham · Republican, Senate
- Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate
What happened
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Apr 28, 2010
The session ended, and the proposal died with it.
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Jun 16, 2009
Sent to the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security.
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Jun 16, 2009
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Jun 16, 2009 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Strachota, Brooks, Vukmir, Knodl, Nass, Gottlieb, Vos, Nygren, Stone, Kerkman, Lothian, Pridemore, Van Roy, Spanbauer, Bies, Townsend, Petersen, Davis, Petrowski, M. Williams, Tauchen and Roth;Cosponsored by Senators Hopper, Leibham, Kedzie, Schultz, Darling and Kapanke
- Jun 16, 2009 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security
- Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly
Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
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
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.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
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
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
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor