AJR148,13,1212 1. “Chief election officer" means the elections commission administrator.
AJR148,13,1313 2. “Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:
AJR148,13,1414 a. The majority leader of the senate.
AJR148,13,1515 b. The minority leader of the senate.
AJR148,13,1616 c. The speaker of the assembly.
AJR148,13,1717 d. The minority leader of the assembly.
AJR148,13,1818 3. “Partisan public office" means any of the following:
AJR148,13,2019 a. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
20attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.
AJR148,13,2221 b. A county office that is filled by an election process involving nomination and
22election of candidates on a partisan basis.
AJR148,13,2423 4. “Political party office" means an elective office in a political party or in a
24national political party.
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15. “Relative" means an individual who is related to the individual in question
2as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew,
3niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
4son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather,
5stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half
6sister.
AJR148,14,157 (b) 1. Not later than February 15 of the first year following the federal decennial
8census, a temporary redistricting advisory commission shall be created consisting of
95 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities shall certify to the chief election
10officer the selecting authority's appointment of a person to serve on the commission.
11Within 30 days after the last selecting authority has certified his or her appointment,
12but not later than February 15 of the first year following the federal decennial
13census, the 4 commission members so appointed shall select, by a vote of at least 3
14members, and certify to the chief election officer the 5th commission member, who
15shall serve as chairperson.
AJR148,14,1716 2. No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission
17who satisfies any of the following:
AJR148,14,1918 a. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the
19appointment.
AJR148,14,2020 b. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.
AJR148,14,2221 c. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature
22or of Congress or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.
AJR148,15,223 3. Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting
24authority shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in
25performance of duties as a commission member. The member who is not appointed

1by a selecting authority shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses
2incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.
AJR148,15,43 4. A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as
4provided by law within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.
AJR148,15,65 5. Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with
6par. (c).
AJR148,15,77 (c) The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:
AJR148,15,118 1. If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction
9to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference
10bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan for which no clearly applicable
11guideline is provided under sub. (5).
AJR148,15,1712 2. Oversee the work of legislative reference bureau employees engaged in
13preparing a redistricting plan and may enter into contracts for hiring experts to
14assist in the preparation of such plans. The commission may enter into a contract
15to retain experts for preparing a redistricting plan only with the approval of
16three-fourths of the members of the commission and may terminate a contract
17employee only with the approval of three-fourths of the members of the commission.
AJR148,15,2018 3. Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of a bill embodying a
19redistricting plan as required under sub. (4), make available to the public at the
20earliest feasible time all of the following information:
AJR148,15,2121 a. Copies of the bill.
AJR148,15,2222 b. Maps illustrating the plan.
AJR148,15,2423 c. A summary of the standards prescribed under sub. (5) for development of the
24plan.
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1d. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan and the
2relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.
AJR148,16,43 4. Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying
4a redistricting plan as required under sub. (4) (a), do all of the following:
AJR148,16,95 a. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct public
6hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied in the
7bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison, and at least
8one public hearing shall be held in each congressional district of the state. The
9commission shall hold public hearings on weekends whenever it is practicable.
AJR148,16,1510 b. Following the hearings held under subd. 4. a., promptly prepare and submit
11to the legislature in the manner provided by law a report summarizing information
12and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings. The report
13may include any comments and conclusions that the commission's members deem
14appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at the hearings or
15otherwise presented to the commission.
AJR148,16,1916 (d) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the redistricting advisory commission may
17establish policies limiting the information that the legislative reference bureau may
18provide to persons outside of the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan
19prepared under this section.
AJR148,17,220 2. Any policy established under subd. 1. does not apply to a redistricting plan
21after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau as
22required under sub. (4) or to population data furnished to the legislative reference
23bureau by the federal government. Any draft maps, along with the data sets used
24to create the maps, that are produced by the legislative reference bureau in the
25course of its work in preparing a bill under sub. (4) shall be open to public inspection

1and copying and made available on the Internet site of the legislative reference
2bureau as soon as the maps are produced.
AJR148,3 3Section 3 . Section 4 of article IV of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR148,17,84 [Article IV] Section 4. The members of the assembly shall be chosen biennially,
5by single districts, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November in
6even-numbered years, by the qualified electors of the several districts , such districts
7to be bounded by county, precinct, town or ward lines, to consist of contiguous
8territory and be in as compact form as practicable
.
AJR148,4 9Section 4 . Section 5 of article IV of the constitution is amended to read:
AJR148,17,1510 [Article IV] Section 5. The senators shall be elected by single districts of
11convenient contiguous territory
, at the same time and in the same manner as
12members of the assembly are required to be chosen; and no assembly district shall
13be divided in the formation of a senate district. The senate districts shall be
14numbered in the regular series, and the senators shall be chosen alternately from the
15odd and even-numbered districts for the term of 4 years.
AJR148,5 16Section 5 . Section 9 (3) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:
AJR148,17,1817 [Article IV] Section 9 (3) The legislature shall provide by law for the
18establishment of a legislative reference bureau.
AJR148,6 19Section 6 . Numbering of new provisions. If another constitutional
20amendment ratified by the people creates the number of any provision created in this
21joint resolution, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall determine the
22sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers conflict.
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1Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the
2legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3
3months previous to the time of holding such election.
AJR148,18,44 (End)
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