WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1985-1986


the substitute, but that the Senate's vote on the report would decide the
issue.
The Senate adopted the conference report 27 to 5.
   The situation was different in the case of the revision of the right to
bail
 considered in the June 1980 Special Session, when Assembly Minority Leader
 John Shabaz and Speaker Ed Jackamonis both agreed that the version sub-
 mitted by the conference committee and already approved by the Senate vio-
 lated the constitutional restriction that the business of the special session
may
 not exceed the "special purposes" (Art. IV, Sec. 11, Wis. Const.)
for which the
 session was convened (Assembly Journal 6/25/80, page 3649). Governor Dreyfus
 issued a supplementary call and the conference committee's proposal, rein-
 troduced as a new joint resolution complying with the call as expanded,
was
 passed.
   When the joint rule says that the "vote by each house on the conference
 report constitutes final action on the proposal", it really means only
positive
 action. Approval of the conference report by the first house returns the
bill to
 the house of origin. Approval of the conference report by the house of bill
 origin sends the bill to the Legislative Reference Bureau for enrolling.
On the
 other hand, rejection of a conference report does not have to be final action.
 The rejection could be reconsidered (see Assembly Rule 73 (1)(b)).



                              CHAPTER 7
                        Vetoes and Veto Review
   Even after a bill has been agreed to by both houses of the Legislature,
it is
not a law. The bill must be either approved by the Governor (an unsigned
bill
can become law if the Governor fails to act within the prescribed time and
the
Legislature is still in session) or, having been vetoed, passed by a two-thirds
vote of each house over the Governor's veto.
    [Article V, Section 10] .... If any bill shall not be returned by the
governor within six days
    (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same
shall be a law
    unless the legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return,
in which case it shall
    not be a law.
Gubernatorial review
  The 6-day period starts from the delivery of the enrolled bill to the Office
of
the Governor and not, as is the case in some other jurisdictions, from the
date
of final legislative concurrence in the proposal. By tradition, the Chief
Clerk
of each house presents enrolled bills to the executive office as requested
by the
Governor. In recent years, the Legislature's biennial "session schedules"
have imposed deadlines for bill presentation. Under the schedule governing
the 1985-86 biennium, enacted by 1985 Assembly Joint*Resolution 1, such
deadlines are: August 30, 1985, for bills passed to August 9; November 15,
1985 (to 11/8/85); April 25, 1986 (to 4/18/86); and June 6, 1986 (to 5/30/86).
  Under the Wisconsin Constitution, the Governor has "six days (Sundays
excepted)" to return a vetoed bill with his objections while the Legislature
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