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AB303,16,5 24(8) In preparing any redistricting plan, the legislative reference bureau shall
25be strictly nonpartisan. No district may be drawn for the purpose of favoring a

1political party, incumbent legislator or member of Congress, or other person or group
2or, except to the extent required under sub. (1), for the purpose of augmenting or
3diluting the voting strength of a language or racial minority group. Except as
4provided in sub. (10), in establishing districts, no use shall be made of any of the
5following data:
AB303,16,66 (a) The residence addresses of incumbent legislators or members of Congress.
AB303,16,77 (b) Political affiliations of registered voters.
AB303,16,88 (c) Previous election results.
AB303,16,109 (d) Demographic information except as necessary to meet the requirements of
10subs. (1) and (10).
AB303,16,19 11(9) The number of assembly districts in any redistricting plan may not be less
12than 54 nor more than 100. The number of senate districts in any redistricting plan
13may not be more than one-third nor less than one-fourth of the number of assembly
14districts. Each senate district shall contain only whole assembly districts. Except
15as otherwise provided in this subsection, to the extent possible, each congressional
16district shall contain only whole senate districts. The other standards specified in
17this section shall take precedence where a conflict arises between those standards
18and the requirement of including only whole senate districts within a congressional
19district.
AB303,16,25 20(10) In preparing any redistricting plan, the legislative reference bureau shall
21test the efficiency gap and competitiveness of each district and make the test results
22available to the public, including publishing the results on its Internet site, no later
23than 72 hours prior to the first public hearing on the proposed plan. The legislative
24reference bureau may use the data described under sub. (8) (b) to (d) to perform the
25tests under this subsection.
AB303,17,2
14.008 Required provisions in redistricting bills. Each bill delivered under
2s. 4.006 shall provide all of the following:
AB303,17,4 3(1) That, wherever territory is described in the bill by geographic boundaries,
4the following conventions are used:
AB303,17,65 (a) Each bound continues to the intersection with the bound next named, or to
6the intersection with a straight-line extension of such bound.
AB303,17,87 (b) If the bound is a street, it follows the center line of the street or the center
8line of the street extended.
AB303,17,109 (c) If the bound is a railroad right-of-way, it follows the center line of the
10railroad right-of-way.
AB303,17,1211 (d) If the bound is a river or stream, it follows the center of the main channel
12of such river or stream.
AB303,17,1313 (e) If the bound follows a municipal boundary, it coincides with such boundary.
AB303,17,17 14(2) That the bill first applies, with respect to regular elections, to offices filled
15at the next occurring general election after the bill takes effect and, with respect to
16special or recall elections, to offices filled or contested on or after the date of that
17general election.
AB303,18,3 184.0085 Challenge based on population inequality; burden of proof. If
19an action is brought challenging a legislative redistricting plan under this
20subchapter on the basis of an excessive population variance among senate or
21assembly districts established in the plan, the legislature has the burden of
22justifying any variance in excess of 10 percent between the population of a senate or
23assembly district and the applicable ideal district population. If an action is brought
24challenging a congressional redistricting plan under this subchapter on the basis of
25an excessive population variance among congressional districts established in the

1plan, the legislature has the burden of justifying any variance in excess of 1 percent
2between the population of a congressional district and the applicable ideal district
3population.
AB303,5 4Section 5 . 5.15 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB303,18,235 5.15 (4) (a) Except as provided in par. (c), the division ordinance or resolution
6shall number all wards in the municipality with unique whole numbers in
7consecutive order, beginning with the number one, shall designate the polling place
8for each ward, and shall describe the boundaries of each ward consistent with the
9conventions set forth in s. 4.003 4.008 (1). The ordinance or resolution shall be
10accompanied by a list of the block numbers used by the U.S. bureau of the census that
11are wholly or partly contained within each ward, with any block numbers partly
12contained within a ward identified, and a map of the municipality which illustrates
13the revised ward boundaries. If the legislature, in an act redistricting legislative
14districts under article IV, section 3, of the constitution, or in redistricting
15congressional districts, establishes a district boundary within a municipality that
16does not coincide with the boundary of a ward established under the ordinance or
17resolution of the municipality, the municipal governing body shall, no later than
18April 10 of the 2nd year following the year of the federal decennial census on which
19the act is based, amend the ordinance or resolution to the extent required to effect
20the act. The amended ordinance or resolution shall designate the polling place for
21any ward that is created to effect the legislative act. Nothing in this paragraph shall
22be construed to compel a county or city to alter or redraw supervisory or aldermanic
23districts.
AB303,6 24Section 6. 13.49 of the statutes is created to read:
AB303,18,25 2513.49 Redistricting advisory commission. (1) Definitions. In this section:
AB303,19,1
1(a) “Chief election officer" means the elections commission administrator.
AB303,19,22 (b) “Four selecting authorities" means all of the following:
AB303,19,33 1. The majority leader of the senate.
AB303,19,44 2. The minority leader of the senate.
AB303,19,55 3. The speaker of the assembly.
AB303,19,66 4. The minority leader of the assembly.
AB303,19,77 (c) “Partisan public office" means any of the following:
AB303,19,98 1. The office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer,
9attorney general, state senator, or state representative to the assembly.
AB303,19,1110 2. A county office that is filled by an election process involving nomination and
11election of candidates on a partisan basis.
AB303,19,1312 (d) “Political party office" means an elective office in a political party, as defined
13in s. 11.0101 (26), or in a national political party.
AB303,19,1914 (e) “Relative" means an individual who is related to the person in question as
15father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece,
16husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
17son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather,
18stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half
19sister.
AB303,20,3 20(2) General provisions. (a) Not later than February 15 of the first year
21following the decennial federal census, a temporary redistricting advisory
22commission is created consisting of 5 members. Each of the 4 selecting authorities
23shall certify to the chief election officer the selecting authority's appointment of a
24person to serve on the commission. Within 30 days after the last selecting authority
25has certified his or her appointment, but not later than February 15 of the first year

1following the decennial federal census, the 4 commission members so appointed shall
2select, by a vote of at least 3 members, and certify to the chief election officer the 5th
3commission member, who shall serve as chairperson.
AB303,20,54 (b) No individual may be appointed to the redistricting advisory commission
5who satisfies any of the following:
AB303,20,76 1. The individual is not an eligible elector of this state at the time of the
7appointment.
AB303,20,88 2. The individual holds partisan public office or political party office.
AB303,20,109 3. The individual is a relative of or is employed by a member of the legislature
10or of Congress or is employed directly by the legislature or Congress.
AB303,20,1711 (c) Members of the redistricting advisory commission appointed by a selecting
12authority shall be reimbursed from the appropriation account under s. 20.765 (1) (a)
13or (b), depending upon the house in which that member's appointing authority holds
14office, for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a
15commission member. The member who is not appointed by a selecting authority
16shall be reimbursed from the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) for actual and
17necessary expenses incurred in performance of duties as a commission member.
AB303,20,1918 (d) A vacancy on the redistricting advisory commission shall be filled as
19provided in s. 17.20 (1) within 15 days after the vacancy occurs.
AB303,20,2120 (e) Each redistricting advisory commission terminates upon complying with
21sub. (3).
AB303,20,22 22(3) Duties. The redistricting advisory commission shall do all of the following:
AB303,21,223 (a) If requested to do so by the legislative reference bureau, provide direction
24to the legislative reference bureau concerning any decision the legislative reference

1bureau must make in preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 for which
2no clearly applicable guideline is provided under s. 4.007.
AB303,21,93 (b) Oversee the work of legislative reference bureau employees engaged in
4preparing a redistricting plan under subch. I of ch. 4 and may enter into contracts
5for hiring experts to assist in the preparing of such plans. The commission may enter
6into a contract to retain experts for preparing a redistricting plan only with the
7approval of three-fourths of the members of the commission and may terminate a
8contract employee only with the approval of three-fourths of the members of the
9commission.
AB303,21,1210 (c) 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:
AB303,21,1313 1. Copies of the bill.
AB303,21,1414 2. Maps illustrating the plan.
AB303,21,1615 3. A summary of the standards prescribed under s. 4.007 for development of the
16plan.
AB303,21,1817 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.
AB303,21,2019 (d) Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill
20embodying a redistricting plan as required under s. 4.006 (1), do all of the following:
AB303,21,2521 1. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct public
22hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied in the
23bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison, and at least
24one public hearing shall be held in each congressional district of the state. The
25commission shall hold public hearings on weekends whenever it is practicable.
AB303,22,7
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).
AB303,22,11 8(4) Confidentiality. (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the redistricting
9advisory commission may establish policies limiting the information that the
10legislative reference bureau may provide to persons outside of the bureau staff
11concerning any redistricting plan prepared under subch. I of ch. 4.
AB303,22,1912 (b) Any policy established under par. (a) does not apply to a redistricting plan
13after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau as
14required under s. 4.006 or to population data furnished to the legislative reference
15bureau by the U.S. bureau of the census. Notwithstanding s. 13.92 (1) (c), any draft
16maps, along with the data sets used to create them, that are produced by the
17legislative reference bureau in the course of its work in preparing a bill under s. 4.006
18shall be open to public inspection and copying under s. 19.35 (1) and made available
19on the Internet site of the legislative reference bureau as soon as they are produced.
AB303,7 20Section 7. Initial applicability.
AB303,22,2221 (1) This act first applies to redistricting plans based on the 2020 decennial
22federal census.
AB303,22,2323 (End)
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