AJR148,15,22 b. Maps illustrating the plan.

AJR148,15,24 c. A summary of the standards prescribed under sub. (5) for development of the plan.

AJR148,16,2 d. A statement of the population of each district included in the plan and the relative deviation of each district population from the ideal district population.

AJR148,16,4 4. Upon delivery by the legislative reference bureau of an initial bill embodying a redistricting plan as required under sub. (4) (a), do all of the following:

AJR148,16,9 a. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and conduct public hearings, in different geographic regions of the state, on the plan embodied in the bill. No more than one public hearing may be held in the city of Madison, and at least one public hearing shall be held in each congressional district of the state. The commission shall hold public hearings on weekends whenever it is practicable.

AJR148,16,15 b. Following the hearings held under subd. 4. a., promptly prepare and submit to the legislature in the manner provided by law a report summarizing information and testimony received by the commission in the course of the hearings. The report may include any comments and conclusions that the commission's members deem appropriate concerning the information and testimony received at the hearings or otherwise presented to the commission.

AJR148,16,19 (d) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the redistricting advisory commission may establish policies limiting the information that the legislative reference bureau may provide to persons outside of the bureau staff concerning any redistricting plan prepared under this section.

AJR148,17,2 2. Any policy established under subd. 1. does not apply to a redistricting plan after a bill embodying that plan is delivered by the legislative reference bureau as required under sub. (4) or to population data furnished to the legislative reference bureau by the federal government. Any draft maps, along with the data sets used to create the maps, that are produced by the legislative reference bureau in the course of its work in preparing a bill under sub. (4) shall be open to public inspection and copying and made available on the Internet site of the legislative reference bureau as soon as the maps are produced.

AJR148,3 Section 3 . Section 4 of article IV of the constitution is amended to read:

AJR148,17,8 [Article IV] Section 4. The members of the assembly shall be chosen biennially, by single districts, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November in even-numbered years, by the qualified electors of the several districts , such districts to be bounded by county, precinct, town or ward lines, to consist of contiguous territory and be in as compact form as practicable.

AJR148,4 Section 4 . Section 5 of article IV of the constitution is amended to read:

AJR148,17,15 [Article IV] Section 5. The senators shall be elected by single districts of convenient contiguous territory, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the assembly are required to be chosen; and no assembly district shall be divided in the formation of a senate district. The senate districts shall be numbered in the regular series, and the senators shall be chosen alternately from the odd and even-numbered districts for the term of 4 years.

AJR148,5 Section 5 . Section 9 (3) of article IV of the constitution is created to read:

AJR148,17,18 [Article IV] Section 9 (3) The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of a legislative reference bureau.

AJR148,6 Section 6 . Numbering of new provisions. If another constitutional amendment ratified by the people creates the number of any provision created in this joint resolution, the chief of the legislative reference bureau shall determine the sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers conflict.

AJR148,18,3 Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3 months previous to the time of holding such election.

AJR148,18,4 (End)