Amendment ASA2-AB388

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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 388

October 15, 2015 - Offered by Representatives Kessler, Berceau and Zamarripa.

AB388-ASA2,1,2 An Act to amend 15.60 (1), 15.60 (2) and 15.60 (3); and to create 15.60 (1m) of the statutes; relating to: membership of the government accountability board.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This substitute amendment increases the membership of the Government Accountability Board to include two former municipal or county clerks, selected by the leadership in both houses and nominated by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate confirmed. These new members are nonvoting members.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB388-ASA2,1 Section 1. 15.60 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB388-ASA2,1,6 15.60 (1) There is created a government accountability board consisting of 6 persons voting members and 2 nonvoting members. Members shall serve for 6-year terms.

AB388-ASA2,2 Section 2. 15.60 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB388-ASA2,2,3 15.60 (1m) The 2 nonvoting members of the board shall be former county or municipal clerks and who are nominated by the governor, with the advice and consent of a majority of the members of the senate confirmed.

AB388-ASA2,3 Section 3. 15.60 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB388-ASA2,2,12 15.60 (2) All voting members of the board shall be appointed from nominations submitted to the governor by a nominating committee to be called the governmental accountability candidate committee, which shall consist of one court of appeals judge from each of the court of appeals districts. The members of the committee shall serve for 2-year terms expiring on March 1. The court of appeals judges shall be chosen as members by lot by the chief justice of the supreme court in the presence of the other justices of the supreme court. Service on the committee is mandatory except as provided in s. 758.19 (9).

AB388-ASA2,4 Section 4. 15.60 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB388-ASA2,2,16 15.60 (3) Each voting member of the board shall be an individual who formerly served as a judge of a court of record in this state and who was elected to the position in which he or she served.

AB388-ASA2,2,17 (End)