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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
August 21, 2001 - Introduced by Representatives Musser, Coggs, Schneider,
Ainsworth, La Fave, Boyle, Berceau, Pocan, Riley and Morris-Tatum,
cosponsored by Senators George and Moore. Referred to Committee on
Assembly Organization.
AB478,1,2
1An Act to create 13.015 of the statutes;
relating to: delegates from tribal
2governments to the legislature.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires each house of the legislature to permit at least one tribal
delegate to be seated in the house. The bill allows each house to determine the
number of delegates that have a seat and the privileges that a delegate has under
the rules of the house or under the joint rules or both. It requires that delegates be
selected by a process that is unanimously agreed upon by the elected governing
bodies of the tribes. The delegates would represent tribal governments.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB478, s. 1
3Section
1. 13.015 of the statutes is created to read:
AB478,2,3
413.015 Tribal delegates. Each house of the legislature shall permit at least
5one delegate of the governments of the federally recognized American Indian tribes
6and bands in this state, who is selected by a process that is unanimously agreed upon
1by the elected governing bodies of those tribal governments, to have a seat in the
2house. Delegates having a seat under this section have the privileges specified for
3them in the rules of the house in which they have a seat or in the joint rules or both.
