Legislature-electronic voting system.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0390
Introduced
1.2

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0168

Legislature-electronic voting system.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Bouchard and Representative(s) Lone

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to legislative process; requiring the installation of an electronic voting system; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section
1
.

(
a
)

Six hund
red fifty thousand dollars ($65
0,000.00)
is appropriated from the general fund to the
legislative service office
. These funds shall be used only for the purpose of
providing
electronic voting systems in the house chambers and senate chambers
at
the Wyoming state capitol
building,
which systems shall be operable at the time the Wyoming legislature returns to the state capitol building after its rehabilitation and restoration. The electronic voting systems required by this act shall:

(i)

Include a

device
located at each legislator's desk which allows each legislator to cast a vote
by electronic means
and allows vote tabulation by electronic means;

(ii)

Allow the
displ
ay

of
vote
s
cast on the electronic voting systems
in the chamber where

each
vote was cast and on the legislature's website;

(iii)

Include security measures which
, to the greatest extent reasonably practical,
assure that
all votes
cast
for a
legislator were entered by that legislator and not by any other person
;

(iv)

Include
the capacity to perform other functions
.
This paragraph shall be applicable only if the excess functionality
authorized
by this paragraph
can be
provided
without exceeding the app
ropriation provided by this act;

(v
)

Be developed in collaboration with the
l
egislative
s
ervice
o
ffice and shall i
ntegrate with the
software
system
s
currently
used by the Wyoming legislature.
The system
s
shall be
designed and
installed in coordination with other low voltage work performed during the rehabilitation and restoration of the Wyoming capitol building.

(b)

The funds appropriated in subsection (a) of this section shall not be transferred or expended for any purpose other than for the planning,
design,
purchase and installation of the electronic voting system required by subsection (a) of this section. Notwithstanding W.S. 9
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2
‑
1008, 9
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2
‑
1012(e), 9
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4
‑
207(a) or any other provision of law, the funds appropriated in subsection (a) of this section shall not lapse or revert until
rehabilitation and restoration of the Wyoming state
capitol building is complete or on June 30, 2021, whichever date is earlier.
The amount
s
appropriated in subsection (a) of this section
are intended to provide a maximum amount for the electronic voting system provided by this act and shall not be construed to be an en
titlement or guaranteed amount.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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