SB488,5 11Section 5 . 13.49 of the statutes is created to read:
SB488,13,12 1213.49 Redistricting advisory commission. (1) Definitions. In this section:
SB488,13,1413 (a) “Chief election officer" means the chief election officer of the elections
14commission.
SB488,13,1515 (b) “Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:
SB488,13,1616 1. The majority leader of the senate.
SB488,13,1717 2. The minority leader of the senate.
SB488,13,1818 3. The speaker of the assembly.
SB488,13,1919 4. The minority leader of the assembly.
SB488,13,2020 (c) “Partisan public office" means any of the following:
SB488,13,2221 1. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
22attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.
SB488,13,2423 2. A county office that is filled by an election process involving nomination and
24election of candidates on a partisan basis.
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1(d) “Political party office" means an elective office in a political party, as defined
2in s. 5.02 (13), or in a national political party.
SB488,14,83 (e) “Relative" means an individual who is related to the person in question as
4father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece,
5husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
6son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather,
7stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half
8sister.
SB488,14,23 9(2) General provisions. (a) Not later than February 15 of the first year
10following the federal decennial census, a temporary redistricting advisory
11commission is created consisting of 5 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities
12shall certify to the chief election officer the selecting authority's appointment of an
13individual to serve on the commission. Within 30 days after the last selecting
14authority has certified his or her appointment, but not later than February 15 of the
15first year following the federal decennial census, the 4 commission members so
16appointed shall select, by a vote of at least 3 members, and certify to the chief election
17officer the 5th commission member, who shall serve as chairperson. No commission
18member may abstain from any vote taken by the commission on any matter before
19the commission, and no vote may be taken by the commission without all 5 members
20of the commission present and voting. The commission members shall, upon the
21legislative reference bureau's recommendation, appoint a person with expertise in
22the federal Voting Rights Act to provide the commission guidance regarding federal
23Voting Rights Act compliance.
SB488,14,2524 (b) No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission
25who satisfies any of the following:
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11. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the
2appointment.
SB488,15,33 2. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.
SB488,15,54 3. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature
5or of Congress, or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.
SB488,15,126 (c) Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting
7authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation account under s. 20.765 (1) (a)
8or (b), depending upon the house in which that member's appointing authority holds
9office, for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a
10commission member. The member who is not appointed by a selecting authority
11shall be reimbursed from the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) for actual and
12necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.
SB488,15,1413 (d) A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as
14provided in s. 17.20 (1) within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.
SB488,15,1615 (e) Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with
16sub. (3).
SB488,15,1817 (f) The legislative reference bureau shall provide assistance to the commission
18regarding the operations of the commission.
SB488,15,19 19(3) Duties. The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:
SB488,15,2320 (a) If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction
21to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference
22bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 for which
23no clearly applicable standard is provided under s. 4.007.
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1(b) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of a bill embodying a
2redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006, make available to the public at the
3earliest feasible time all of the following information:
SB488,16,44 1. Copies of the bill.
SB488,16,55 2. Maps illustrating the plan.
SB488,16,76 3. A summary of the standards prescribed under s. 4.007 for development of the
7plan.
SB488,16,98 4. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan, and the
9relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.
SB488,16,1110 (c) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying
11a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006 (1), do all of the following:
SB488,16,1612 1. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct at least 8
13public hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied
14in the bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison, one
15public hearing shall be held in a city of the first class, and at least one public hearing
16shall be held in the northern half of the state.
SB488,16,2317 2. Following the hearings held under subd. 1., promptly prepare and submit
18to the legislature in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (2) a report summarizing
19information and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings.
20The report may include any comments and conclusions that the commission's
21members deem appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at
22the hearings or otherwise presented to the commission. The report shall be treated
23in the same manner as a report submitted under s. 13.172 (2).
SB488,17,7 24(4) Confidentiality. The redistricting advisory commission may establish
25policies, consistent with s. 13.92 (1) (c) and notwithstanding s. 19.35 (1), limiting the

1information that the legislative reference bureau may provide to persons other than
2the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan prepared under subch. I of ch. 4,
3except that any such policy does not apply to a redistricting plan after a bill
4embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau as required
5under s. 4.006 or to population data furnished to the legislative reference bureau by
6the U.S. bureau of the census. Upon the plan's introduction, the legislative reference
7bureau shall make the drafting file of the plan available for public inspection.
SB488,6 8Section 6 . Nonstatutory provisions.
SB488,17,159 (1) Notwithstanding the deadline for establishing the commission under s.
1013.49 (2), the redistricting advisory commission may be established after the
11effective date of this subsection. For the decennial period beginning in 2020, and
12notwithstanding any other deadline under this act, the legislative reference bureau
13shall expeditiously obtain census data and deliver any plan prepared in accordance
14with s. 4.007 to the majority leader of the senate and the speaker of the assembly
15upon the completion of the redistricting plans no later than January 1, 2024.
SB488,7 16Section 7 . Initial applicability.
SB488,17,1717 (1) This act first applies to the 2020 federal decennial census.
SB488,17,1818 (End)
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