Professional licensing-time limit regarding convictions.

2018
STATE OF WYOMING
18LSO-0026
Numbered
1.4

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0011

Professional licensing-time limit regarding convictions.

Sponsored by:
Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; creating a time limit for criminal convictions that are considered for purposes of professional licensing, certification or registration; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S.
33
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304
is created
to read:

33
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304
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Lifetime ban
for criminal conviction
prohibited.

(a)

No board or commission authorized to regulate through licensure or certification a profession or occupation under this title, or under W.S.

7
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4
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211, 9
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702, 11
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105, 15
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103, 21
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802 or 23
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414, shall consider evidence of any conviction more than twenty (20) years old, or for a lesser period of time if expressly provided by applicable statute, when analyzing a person's criminal history pursuant to the board's or commission's regulatory duties, except when:

(
i
)

The sentence, including all incarceration, parole and probation, for the conviction is incomplete or has been completed within fewer than the last ten (10) years; or

(ii)

The conviction is related to the duties and responsibilities of the profession or occupation or as otherwise permitted by licensing statutes.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 201
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