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Bills from the 2017–18 session

Assembly Joint Resolution 3

Requiring the committees on assembly and senate organization to immediately appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy

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

    Jan 31, 2017

  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, Mar 28, 2018: “Failed to adopt pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Rules. 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.

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, 2018.

Who's behind it

25 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 25 are Democrats.

7 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 32 names

Authors (25)

Signed on in support (7)

What happened

  1. Mar 28, 2018

    The session ended, and the proposal died with it.

  2. Jan 31, 2017

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Jan 31, 2017

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 31, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sargent, Goyke, Doyle, Anderson, Ohnstad, Crowley, Considine, Billings, Berceau, Bowen, Hebl, Shankland, Stuck, Subeck, Kolste, Sinicki, Pope, Barca, Spreitzer, Wachs, Milroy, Zamarripa, C. Taylor, Fields and Genrich; cosponsored by Senators C. Larson, Risser, Ringhand, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Vinehout and Erpenbach

  2. Jan 31, 2017 · Assembly

    Read and referred to Committee on Rules

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

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

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Public hearing

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

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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

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

Author

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

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

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

Official term: Cosponsor