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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
2021 Assembly BILL 624
October 21, 2021 - Introduced by Representative Vos, cosponsored by Senator
LeMahieu. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
AB624,1,2 1An Act to repeal and recreate subchapter III of chapter 4 [precedes 4.01] of the
2statutes; relating to: legislative redistricting.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill redistricts, according to the number of inhabitants, the legislative
districts of this state based on the results of the 2020 federal decennial census of
population. The bill maintains the number of assembly districts at 99 and the
number of senate districts at 33. All assembly districts created by the bill are
composed of whole counties or municipalities or U.S. census tracts or blocks
(subunits of tracts) reflecting population and boundaries as of April 1, 2020. In
accordance with article IV, section 5, of the state constitution, no assembly district
created under the bill is divided in the creation of a senate district.
Current law requires legislative districts to be substantially equal in
population. The table below illustrates, for the assembly and senate districts
proposed under the bill, the numeric amount and the percentage by which the
districts with the smallest and largest populations deviate from the ideal population
for the same type of district. The population figures contained in the table are
derived from the results of the federal decennial census. - See PDF for table PDF

The bill also requires the legislative reference bureau, in enrolling any
redistricting plan that has passed both houses of the legislature, to attach an
updated appendix that includes all of the following: the population statistics for the
legislative districts created under the bill; a statewide map of the legislative districts
created under the bill; a map of the legislative districts created under the bill that
are in Milwaukee County; and, with certain exceptions, a detail map illustrating the
division of any city, village, or town among two or more legislative districts.