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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AJR 17

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Relating to: requiring the committees on assembly and senate organization to immediately appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy.

Energy conservation Legislature — Committees

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Adopted, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

The resolution requires the committees on assembly and senate organization

to immediately appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy, consisting

of an equal number of majority and minority party members in each house of the

legislature, to devise ways to facilitate the development of clean energy solutions,

create jobs while reducing pollution, move Wisconsin away from fossil fuel-based

energy production, and prevent foreign nations from dominating the clean energy

field.

Under the resolution, the task force must deliver its findings to the assembly

and the senate before February 1, 2016.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barca (D) , Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Johnson (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Meyers (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D)

4 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , Lassa (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

Failed 36–61 Nov 3, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Mar 5, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Brostoff, Goyke, Genrich, Pope, Stuck, Mason, C. Taylor, Considine, Subeck, Berceau, Sinicki, Kolste, Ohnstad, Spreitzer, Johnson, Hesselbein, Wachs, Hebl, Barca, Zamarripa, Meyers and Bowen; cosponsored by Senators Lassa, Wirch, Harris Dodd and C. Larson

  2. Mar 5, 2015 · Assembly

    Read and referred to Committee on Rules

  3. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1