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HB0068 • 2015

Photographing ballot-penalty.

AN ACT relating to elections; creating a misdemeanor offense for photographing or otherwise recording an official ballot as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Elections
Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Byrd
Last action
2015-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2015-03-03 House

    H:POSTPONED until July 1, 2016 in Accordance with House Rule 5-4: 8-1-0-0-0

  2. 2015-02-09 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2015-01-14 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  4. 2015-01-13 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2015-01-08 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0140
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0068

Photographing ballot-penalty.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Byrd and Senator(s) Case and Craft

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; creating a misdemeanor offense for photographing or otherwise recording an official ballot as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 22
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26
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122 is created to read:

22
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26
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122
.

Photographing a
n official
ballot.

Photographing a
n official
ballot consists of photographing, videotaping or otherwise recording the image of a
n official
ballot while in a polling place or while in possession of an absentee ballot unless otherwise permitted by law.

Section 2
.

W.S. 22
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26
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112(a) by creating a new paragraph (xi) is amended to read:

22
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26
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112
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Misdemeanor offenses generally.

(a)

Unless a different penalty is specifically provided in this code, the following acts, if knowingly and willfully committed, are misdemeanor offenses punishable by not more than six (6) months in a county jail or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both:

(xi)

Photographing
a
n official
ballot.

Section
3
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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