AJR137, s. 4 19Section 4. Section 28 of article I of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,6,2120 [Article I] Section 28. Every child between the ages of 4 and 20 shall have the
21right to a quality education.
AJR137, s. 5 22Section 5. Section 29 of article I of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,7,1
1[Article I] Section 29. Every person shall have the right to health care services.
AJR137, s. 6 2Section 6. Section 1 of article III of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,7,63 [Article III] Section 1. Every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a
4resident of
has resided in an election district or ward in this state for 10 consecutive
5days immediately preceding an election
is a qualified elector of that district or ward.
6The state shall take no action that abridges the right to vote.
AJR137, s. 7 7Section 7. Section 2 (intro.) of article III of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,7,98 [Article III] Section 2 (intro.) Laws that do not create any obstruction to voting
9may be enacted:
AJR137, s. 8 10Section 8. Section 2 (4) (a) of article III of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,7,1211 [Article III] Section 2 (4) (a) Convicted of a felony, unless restored to civil rights
12or placed on probation or parole.
AJR137, s. 9 13Section 9. Section 7 of article III of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,7,1614 [Article III] Section 7. Voting standards and procedures shall be uniform
15throughout the state. In any election for public office, if the results are within
16one-half of one percent, the state shall provide a manual recount of the ballots.
AJR137, s. 10 17Section 10. Section 3 of article IV of the constitution is renumbered section 3
18(1) of article IV and amended to read:
AJR137,7,2219 [Article IV] Section 3 (1) At its During the first legislative session after each
20enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the legislature government
21accountability board
shall apportion and district anew the members of the senate
22and assembly, according to the number of inhabitants.
AJR137, s. 11 23Section 11. Section 3 (2) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,8,324 [Article IV] Section 3 (2) Within 120 days after receipt of the final census report
25of the population count by census block, the government accountability board shall

1adopt standards for legislative and congressional redistricting that comply with the
2Wisconsin Constitution and the U.S. Constitution and federal law governing voting
3rights.
AJR137, s. 12 4Section 12. Section 3 (3) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,8,85 [Article IV] Section 3 (3) Not later than January 1 of the 2nd year following the
6decennial federal census, the government accountability board shall create plans of
7legislative and congressional redistricting, prepared in accordance with standards
8developed by the government accountability board under sub. (2).
AJR137, s. 13 9Section 13. Section 9 of article IV of the constitution is renumbered section 9
10(1) of article IV.
AJR137, s. 14 11Section 14. Section 9 (2) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,8,1312 [Article IV] Section 9 (2) (a) There is created a government accountability board
13consisting of 6 persons. Members shall serve for 6-year terms.
AJR137,8,1914 (b) Members shall be appointed. The chief justice of the supreme court, in the
15presence of the other justices of the supreme court, shall choose by lot one court of
16appeals judge from each of the court of appeals districts to serve on a nominating
17committee for 2-year terms expiring on March 1. The nominating committee shall
18forward nominations to the governor who shall make appointments to the board from
19those nominations.
AJR137,8,2120 (c) Each member of the board shall have served as a judge of a court of record
21in this state and shall have been elected to that office.
AJR137,8,2322 (d) No member may hold another office or position that is a state public office
23or a local public office except as a reserve judge.
AJR137,8,2524 (e) No member, for one year immediately prior to the date of nomination may
25have been, or while serving on the board may become, a member of a political party.
AJR137,9,2
1(f) No member, while serving on the board, may become a candidate for state
2office or local office.
AJR137,9,43 (g) No member, while serving on the board, and for 12 months prior to beginning
4that service, may make a contribution to a political campaign.
AJR137,9,55 (h) No member may be a lobbyist or be engaged in lobbying.
AJR137, s. 15 6Section 15. Section 9 (3) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,9,97 [Article IV] Section 9 (3) The government accountability board shall have
8exclusive jurisdiction to administer the state election laws, the state ethics laws, the
9state lobbying laws, and to redistrict the legislative and congressional districts.
AJR137, s. 16 10Section 16. Section 10 of article IV of the constitution is renumbered section
1110 (1) of article IV and amended to read:
AJR137,9,1712 [Article IV] Section 10 (1) Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings
13and publish the same, except such parts as require secrecy. The doors of each house
14shall be kept open except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither
15house shall, without consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days. All public
16spaces of the capitol shall be open to the public when the building is open except in
17a public emergency.
AJR137, s. 17 18Section 17. Section 10 (2) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,9,2419 [Article IV] Section 10 (2) The legislature shall enact laws requiring
20governmental bodies to conduct business in meetings that are held with reasonable
21prior notice and accessible to the public and make these laws applicable to the
22legislature. Notwithstanding section 8 of this article, courts of law may apply these
23laws to the senate, the assembly, and other legislative bodies. Notwithstanding
24section 15 of this article, members of the legislature are subject to citation and civil

1penalties during a legislative session while a house is in recess for violations of such
2laws.
AJR137, s. 18 3Section 18. Section 17 (4) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,10,64 [Article IV] Section 17 (4) No act passed by the legislature shall go into effect
5until 90 days after the governor has filed it in the office of the secretary of state,
6except as provided in sub. (5).
AJR137, s. 19 7Section 19. Section 17 (5) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,10,158 [Article IV] Section 17 (5) Acts or portions of acts providing only for tax levies,
9acts or portions of acts that expand or promote the rights of the people, and
10emergency acts necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health,
11or safety, shall go into effect on the date or dates provided in the acts and shall not
12be subject to referendum. To be exempt from referendum, an emergency act must
13receive the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the
14legislature, and the reasons for the necessity of the emergency act must be set forth
15in one section of the act, which section must be passed upon a separate roll call vote.
AJR137, s. 20 16Section 20. Section 17 (6) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,10,2217 [Article IV] Section 17 (6) The electors may petition for a referendum on any
18act, section of an act, or item of appropriation in an act, except as provided in sub.
19(5). The petition for a referendum shall be signed by electors equaling at least 25
20percent of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last preceding election and
21shall be filed with the government accountability board within 60 days after the
22governor files the act with the secretary of state.
AJR137, s. 21 23Section 21. Section 17 (7) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,11,324 [Article IV] Section 17 (7) After verifying the sufficiency of the signatures, the
25government accountability board shall order to be submitted to the electors of the

1state, for their approval or rejection, the act, section of the act, or item of
2appropriation the act specified in the petition, at the first general election occurring
3subsequent to 125 days after the filing of the petition.
AJR137, s. 22 4Section 22. Section 17 (8) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,11,95 [Article IV] Section 17 (8) No such act, section, or item subject to referendum
6shall go into effect until and unless approved by a majority of those voting upon the
7same. If, however, a referendum petition is filed against any such section or item,
8the remainder of the act shall not thereby be prevented or delayed from going into
9effect.
AJR137, s. 23 10Section 23. Section 17 (9) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,11,1211 [Article IV] Section 17 (9) No act, section, or item rejected in a referendum may
12be reenacted during the legislative session in which it was rejected.
AJR137, s. 24 13Section 24. Section 4 (1) of article VII of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,11,2014 [Article VII] Section 4 (1) The supreme court shall have 7 members who shall
15be known as justices of the supreme court. Justices shall be elected for 10-year terms
16of office commencing with the August 1 next succeeding the election. Only one justice
17may be elected in any year. Candidates for the office of justice shall finance their
18election campaigns with public funding.
Any 4 justices shall constitute a quorum for
19the conduct of the court's business. All deliberations of the supreme court shall be
20open to the public.
AJR137, s. 25 21Section 25. Section 1 of article VIII of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,12,1022 [Article VIII] Section 1. The rule of taxation shall be uniform but the legislature
23may empower cities, villages or towns to collect and return taxes on real estate
24located therein by optional methods. Taxes shall be levied upon such property with
25such classifications as to forests and minerals including or separate or severed from

1the land, as the legislature shall prescribe. Taxation of agricultural land and
2undeveloped land, both as defined by law, need not be uniform with the taxation of
3each other nor with the taxation of other real property. Taxation of merchants'
4stock-in-trade, manufacturers' materials and finished products, and livestock need
5not be uniform with the taxation of real property and other personal property, but
6the taxation of all such merchants' stock-in-trade, manufacturers' materials and
7finished products and livestock shall be uniform, except that the legislature may
8provide that the value thereof shall be determined on an average basis. Taxes may
9also be imposed on incomes, privileges and occupations, which taxes may shall be
10graduated and progressive, and reasonable exemptions may be provided.
AJR137, s. 26 11Section 26. Section 1 of article IX of the constitution is renumbered section 1
12(1) of article IX and amended to read:
AJR137,12,2113 [Article IX] Section 1 (1) The state shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all
14rivers and lakes bordering on this state so far as such rivers or lakes shall form a
15common boundary to the state and any other state or territory now or hereafter to
16be formed, and bounded by the same; and the river Mississippi and the navigable
17waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places
18between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the
19inhabitants of the state as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax,
20impost or duty therefor. Every person shall have the right to a clean, healthy
21environment, safe drinking water, and clean air.
AJR137, s. 27 22Section 27. Section 1 (2) of article IX of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,13,623 [Article IX] Section 1 (2) There is created a department of natural resources to
24oversee the laws for the protection, development, and use of forests, fish and game,
25lakes, streams, plant life, flowers, and other outdoor resources of this state. The

1department shall be overseen by a board of natural resources of 5 members to be
2appointed by the governor, the attorney general, the superintendent of public
3instruction, the state treasurer, and the secretary of state, respectively. Board
4members shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authority. The board shall
5appoint the secretary of natural resources who shall administer the department of
6natural resources.
AJR137, s. 28 7Section 28. Section 1 of article X of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,13,178 [Article X] Section 1. The supervision of public instruction shall be vested in
9a state superintendent and such other officers as the legislature shall direct; and
10their qualifications, powers, duties and compensation shall be prescribed by law. The
11state superintendent shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the same
12time and in the same manner as members of the supreme court, and shall hold office
13for 4 years from the succeeding first Monday in July. The state superintendent shall
14be independent of the other officers of the executive branch.
The term of office, time
15and manner of electing or appointing all other officers of supervision of public
16instruction shall be fixed by law. The state superintendent shall have the authority
17to require minimum staffing levels and minimum funding levels for public schools.
AJR137, s. 29 18Section 29. Section 3 of article X of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,13,2519 [Article X] Section 3. The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment
20of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such schools
21shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of 4 and
2220 years; and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein; but the legislature
23by law may, for the purpose of religious instruction outside the district schools,
24authorize the release of students during regular school hours. Public funds shall not
25be appropriated to support sectarian schools.
AJR137, s. 30
1Section 30. Section 1 of article XI of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR137,14,72 [Article XI] Section 1. Corporations without banking powers or privileges may
3be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act, except for
4municipal purposes. All general laws or special acts enacted under the provisions of
5this section may be altered or repealed by the legislature at any time after their
6passage. The state shall not recognize any constitutional rights asserted by
7corporations except as required by federal law.
AJR137, s. 31 8Section 31. Section 14 of article XIII of the constitution is created to read:
AJR137,14,109 [Article XIII] Section 14. All employees shall have the right to collectively
10bargain on the subjects of wages, hours, and working conditions.
AJR137, s. 32 11Section 32. Numbering of new provisions. If another constitutional
12amendment ratified by the people creates the number of any provision created in this
13joint resolution, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall determine the
14sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers conflict and adjust
15any cross-references thereto.
AJR137,14,18 16Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the
17legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for three
18months previous to the time of holding such election.
AJR137,14,1919 (End)
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