Comments: WI AJR137 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session

Wisconsin House Joint Resolution 137 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Participation in the legislative and electoral process, the right to vote, the right to an impartial judiciary, the right of privacy, the right to a quality education, the right to health care services, voting rights for certain felons, uniform voting procedures, mandatory recounting of ballots, the procedure for legislative redistricting and congressional reapportionment, the establishment of a state governmental accountability board, administration of election laws, ethics laws, and lobbying laws, public access to the capitol, requiring the legislature to enact laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to meetings of governmental bodies, including the legislature, and making members of the legislature subject to citations and civil penalties for violations of such laws, petition and referendum by the people to reject acts of the legislature, open meetings of the supreme court, public funding of supreme court election campaigns, graduated and progressive taxation of individuals, the right to a clean, healthy environment, safe drinking water, and clean air, establishment of a board and a department of natural resources and the appointment of the secretary of natural resources, independence of the superintendent of public instruction, the authority of the superintendent of public instruction to require minimum staffing levels and minimum funding levels for public schools, appropriating public funds to support sectarian schools, treatment of corporations as natural persons, and the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain (first consideration).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-23 - Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 [AJR137 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]