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HB0125 • 2015

Law enforcement citation quotas-prohibition.

AN ACT relating to regulation of traffic on highways; prohibiting the use of citation quotas by law enforcement for traffic violations; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Pelkey
Last action
2015-03-04
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2015-03-04 House

    H:Amend and DO PASS FAILED in Accordance with House Rule 5-4: 4-5-0-0-0

  2. 2015-02-09 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2015-01-22 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation

  4. 2015-01-20 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2015-01-16 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0366
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0125

Law enforcement citation quotas-prohibition.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Pelkey, Baker, Byrd, Edmonds, Esquibel, K., Halverson, Kroeker and Krone and Senator(s) Rothfuss

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to regulation of traffic on highways; prohibiting the use of citation quotas by law enforcement for traffic violations; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 31
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5
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1215 is created to read:

31
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5
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1215.

Citation quotas prohibited.

(a)

No state, county, municipal or other governmental entity
engaged in the

enforcement of any motor vehicle
laws
of this state
or any local ordinance

governing motor vehicle traffic, may establish or maintain any policy, formally or

informally, requiring any officer to meet a quota or suggest, formally or informally, a quota for

any such officer.

(b)

As used in this section
:

(i)

"
Officer
"
mean
s
any peace officer as defined in

W.S.
7
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2
‑
101(a)(iv)(A)
and
(B); and

(ii)

"
Quota
"
means any requirement regarding the number of arrests or investigative stops

made, or summonses or citations issued, by an officer regarding motor vehicle traffic violations.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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