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(a) If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction
25to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference
1bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 for which
2no clearly applicable guideline is provided under s. 4.007.
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(b) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of a bill embodying a
4redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006, make available to the public at the
5earliest feasible time all of the following information:
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1. Copies of the bill.
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2. Maps illustrating the plan.
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3. A summary of the standards prescribed under s. 4.007 for development of the
9plan.
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4. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan, and the
11relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.
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(c) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying
13a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006 (1), do all of the following:
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1. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct at least 3
15public hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied
16in the bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison and
17at least one public hearing shall be held in the northern half of the state.
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2. Following the hearings held under subd. 1., promptly prepare and submit
19to the legislature in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (2) a report summarizing
20information and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings.
21The report may include any comments and conclusions which the commission's
22members deem appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at
23the hearings or otherwise presented to the commission. The report shall be treated
24in the same manner as a report submitted under s. 13.172 (2).
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1(4) Confidentiality. The redistricting advisory commission may establish
2policies limiting the information that the legislative reference bureau may provide
3to persons outside of the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan prepared
4under subch. I of ch. 4, except that any such policy does not apply to a redistricting
5plan after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau
6as required under s. 4.006 or to population data furnished to the legislative reference
7bureau by the U.S. bureau of the census.
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9(1m) Redistricting. The repeal of section 3.002 (2) of the statutes, the
10consolidation, renumbering, and amendment of section 3.002 (intro.) and (1m) of the
11statutes, the amendment of sections 3.004 (2) and 5.15 (4) (a) of the statutes, the
12repeal and recreation of subchapter I of chapter 4 [precedes 4.001] of the statutes,
13and the creation of section 13.49 of the statutes first apply to redistricting plans
14based on the 2020 decennial federal census.".
