AB415,12,1623 5.15 (4) (a) Except as provided in par. (c), the division ordinance or resolution
24shall number all wards in the municipality with unique whole numbers in
25consecutive order, beginning with the number one, shall designate the polling place

1for each ward, and shall describe the boundaries of each ward consistent with the
2conventions set forth in s. 4.003 4.008 (1). The ordinance or resolution shall be
3accompanied by a list of the block numbers used by the U.S. bureau of the census that
4are wholly or partly contained within each ward, with any block numbers partly
5contained within a ward identified, and a map of the municipality which illustrates
6the revised ward boundaries. If the legislature, in an act redistricting legislative
7districts under article IV, section 3, of the constitution, or in redistricting
8congressional districts, establishes a district boundary within a municipality that
9does not coincide with the boundary of a ward established under the ordinance or
10resolution of the municipality, the municipal governing body shall, no later than
11April 10 of the 2nd year following the year of the federal decennial census on which
12the act is based, amend the ordinance or resolution to the extent required to effect
13the act. The amended ordinance or resolution shall designate the polling place for
14any ward that is created to effect the legislative act. Nothing in this paragraph shall
15be construed to compel a county or city to alter or redraw supervisory or aldermanic
16districts.
AB415,4 17Section 4. 5.15 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB415,13,418 5.15 (4) (b) Within 5 days after adoption or enactment of an ordinance or
19resolution under this section or any amendment thereto, the municipal clerk shall
20transmit one copy of the ordinance or resolution or the amendment to the county
21clerk of each county in which the municipality is contained and one copy of the
22ordinance or resolution or the amendment to the legislative reference bureau
,
23accompanied by the list and map specified in par. (a), together with a report
24confirming the boundaries of the municipality and of all wards in the municipality.
25Within 5 days after notice to the municipal clerk of a judgment that has the effect of

1changing the municipal boundaries, the clerk shall file the same report. The
2municipal clerk shall ensure that each copy of the ordinance or resolution or
3amendment and each accompanying report identify the name of the municipality
4and the county or counties in which it is located.
AB415,5 5Section 5. 13.49 of the statutes is created to read:
AB415,13,6 613.49 Redistricting advisory commission. (1) Definitions. In this section:
AB415,13,87 (a) “Chief election officer" means the chief election officer of the elections
8commission.
AB415,13,99 (b) “Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:
AB415,13,1010 1. The majority leader of the senate.
AB415,13,1111 2. The minority leader of the senate.
AB415,13,1212 3. The speaker of the assembly.
AB415,13,1313 4. The minority leader of the assembly.
AB415,13,1414 (c) “Partisan public office" means any of the following:
AB415,13,1615 1. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
16attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.
AB415,13,1817 2. A county office that is filled by an election process involving nomination and
18election of candidates on a partisan basis.
AB415,13,2019 (d) “Political party office" means an elective office in a political party, as defined
20in s. 5.02 (13), or in a national political party.
AB415,14,221 (e) “Relative" means an individual who is related to the person in question as
22father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece,
23husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
24son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather,

1stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half
2sister.
AB415,14,11 3(2) General provisions. (a) Not later than February 15 of the first year
4following the federal decennial census, a temporary redistricting advisory
5commission is created consisting of 5 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities
6shall certify to the chief election officer the selecting authority's appointment of an
7individual to serve on the commission. Within 30 days after the last selecting
8authority has certified his or her appointment, but not later than February 15 of the
9first year following the federal decennial census, the 4 commission members so
10appointed shall select, by a vote of at least 3 members, and certify to the chief election
11officer the 5th commission member, who shall serve as chairperson.
AB415,14,1312 (b) No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission
13who satisfies any of the following:
AB415,14,1514 1. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the
15appointment.
AB415,14,1616 2. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.
AB415,14,1817 3. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature
18or of Congress, or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.
AB415,14,2519 (c) Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting
20authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation account under s. 20.765 (1) (a)
21or (b), depending upon the house in which that member's appointing authority holds
22office, for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a
23commission member. The member who is not appointed by a selecting authority
24shall be reimbursed from the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) for actual and
25necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.
AB415,15,2
1(d) A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as
2provided in s. 17.20 (1) within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.
AB415,15,43 (e) Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with
4sub. (3).
AB415,15,5 5(3) Duties. The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:
AB415,15,96 (a) If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction
7to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference
8bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 for which
9no clearly applicable standard is provided under s. 4.007.
AB415,15,1210 (b) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of a bill embodying a
11redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006, make available to the public at the
12earliest feasible time all of the following information:
AB415,15,1313 1. Copies of the bill.
AB415,15,1414 2. Maps illustrating the plan.
AB415,15,1615 3. A summary of the standards prescribed under s. 4.007 for development of the
16plan.
AB415,15,1817 4. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan, and the
18relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.
AB415,15,2019 (c) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying
20a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006 (1), do all of the following:
AB415,15,2421 1. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct at least 3
22public hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied
23in the bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison and
24at least one public hearing shall be held in the northern half of the state.
AB415,16,7
12. Following the hearings held under subd. 1., promptly prepare and submit
2to the legislature in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (2) a report summarizing
3information and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings.
4The report may include any comments and conclusions that the commission's
5members deem appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at
6the hearings or otherwise presented to the commission. The report shall be treated
7in the same manner as a report submitted under s. 13.172 (2).
AB415,16,14 8(4) Confidentiality. The redistricting advisory commission may establish
9policies limiting the information that the legislative reference bureau may provide
10to persons other than the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan prepared
11under subch. I of ch. 4, except that any such policy does not apply to a redistricting
12plan after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau
13as required under s. 4.006 or to population data furnished to the legislative reference
14bureau by the U.S. bureau of the census.
AB415,6 15Section 6. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB415,16,2216 (1) Notwithstanding the deadline for establishing the commission under s.
1713.49 (2), the redistricting advisory commission may be established after the
18effective date of this subsection. For the decennial period beginning in 2020, and
19notwithstanding any other deadline under this act, the legislative reference bureau
20shall expeditiously obtain census data and deliver any plan prepared in accordance
21with s. 4.007 to the majority leader of the senate and the speaker of the assembly
22upon the completion of the redistricting plans no later than January 1, 2024.
AB415,7 23Section 7. Initial applicability.
AB415,16,2424 (1) This act first applies to the 2020 federal decennial census.
AB415,16,2525 (End)
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