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(b) "Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:
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1. The majority leader of the senate.
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2. The minority leader of the senate.
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3. The speaker of the assembly.
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4. The minority leader of the assembly.
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(c) "Partisan public office" means any of the following:
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1. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
10attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.
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2. A county office which is filled by an election process involving nomination
12and election of candidates on a partisan basis.
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(d) "Political party office" means an elective office in a political party, as defined
14in s. 5.02 (13), or in a national political party.
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(e) "Relative" means an individual who is related to the person in question as
16father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece,
17husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
18son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather,
19stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half
20sister.
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21(2) General provisions. (a) Not later than February 15 of the first year
22following the decennial federal census, a temporary redistricting advisory
23commission is created consisting of 5 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities
24shall certify to the chief election officer the selecting authority's appointment of a
25person to serve on the commission. Within 30 days after the last selecting authority
1has certified his or her appointment, but not later than February 15 of the first year
2following the decennial federal census, the 4 commission members so appointed shall
3select, by a vote of at least 3 members, and certify to the chief election officer the 5th
4commission member, who shall serve as chairperson.
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(b) No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission
6who satisfies any of the following:
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1. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the
8appointment.
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2. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.
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3. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature
11or of Congress, or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.
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(c) Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting
13authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation account under s. 20.765 (1) (a)
14or (b), depending upon the house in which that member's appointing authority holds
15office, for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a
16commission member. The member who is not appointed by a selecting authority
17shall be reimbursed from the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) for actual and
18necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.
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(d) A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as
20provided in s. 17.20 (1) within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.
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(e) Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with
22sub. (3).
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23(3) Duties. The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:
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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.".
