Aricle IV
Organization of legislature; quorum; compulsory attendance.
SECTION 7.
Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the ttendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Article VIII
Vote on fiscal bills; quorum.
SECTION 8.
On the passage in either house of the legislature of any law which imposes, continues or renews a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues or renews an appropriation of public or trust money, or releases, discharges or commutes a claim or demand of the state, the question shall be taken by yeas and nays, which shall be duly entered on the journal; and three/fifths of all the members elected to such house shall in all such cases be required to constitute a quorum therein.
Apparently the nature of this legislation binds them to the three/fifths rule for a quorum.
Anyone here KNOW the penalties for non-attendance??
Well, whatever the rules are, that's that.
Somewhere there has to be a "wish-list" of bills of other types which the Wisconsin GOP has wanted to pass, which need merely a majority of those present.
Call the governor, and start passing them rapid-fire, and have the governor sign them.
Then they are LAW.
Do this with five or six of the Dems' favorite things, and watch the missing Senators come back to Madison at Warp Factor 6 or better...
Cheers!
Does anybody know where the text of the bill can be found? Can the bill be re-written so that it is not touching upon appropriations of money, but only the union question (and this eliminate the 3/5 quorum requirement)? Or is the union question necessarily tied into a clause that makes an appropriation dependent upon the union-status-change?