Voting rights.

WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0100

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0018

Voting rights.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Zwonitzer, Dn. and Connolly and Senator(s) Burns and Vasey

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
elections and voting rights;
reduc
ing the
time period required before the
restoration of voting rights of convicted felons as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 7
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13
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105(b)(iii) is amended to read:

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105.

Certificate of restoration of rights; procedure for restoration in general; procedure for restoration of voting rights for nonviolent felonies; filing requirements.

(b)

A person convicted of a nonviolent felony or nonviolent felonies arising out of the same occurrence or related course of events may apply in writing to the state board of parole for a certificate which restores the person's voting rights lost pursuant to W.S. 6
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106. The application shall specifically state that the requirements of this subsection have been met and shall be on a form approved by the state board of parole. The state board of parole shall issue a certificate restoring a person's voting rights if:

(iii)

It has been at least
five (5) years

one (1) year
since the expiration of all of the applicant's terms of sentence, or in the case of probation, the completion of all probation periods.

Section 2
.
This act is effective July 1, 2009
.

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