HB0228 • 2021

Highway closure-violation amendment.

AN ACT relating to highways; removing the criminal state of mind element related to traveling on closed highways; 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 Roscoe
Last action: 2021-03-18
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2021

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the impact on law enforcement officers in Wyoming, so this was removed.

Changing the Law for Closed Highways

The bill removes the requirement that a person must have acted willfully when traveling on closed highways in Wyoming.

What This Bill Does

Changes the law to no longer require people to have known they were breaking the law when driving on closed highways.

Who It Names or Affects

People who drive on closed Wyoming highways

Terms To Know

Willfully: Doing something on purpose or with intent to break the law.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not signed into law.
It only affects Wyoming's highway laws.

Bill History

2021-03-18 House
H COW:Failed 24-34-2-0-0
2021-03-11 House
H Placed on General File
2021-03-11 House
H08 - Transportation:Recommend Do Pass 7-2-0-0-0
2021-03-05 House
H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation
2021-03-04 House
H Received for Introduction
2021-03-03 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

21LSO-0536
2021
STATE OF WYOMING
21LSO-0536
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0228

Highway closure-violation amendment.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Roscoe, Blackburn and Paxton

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to highways; removing the criminal state of mind element related to traveling on closed highways; 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. 24
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109(a) is amended to read:

24
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109.

Closing or restricting use; failure to observe signs and markers; exceptions.

(a)

Any person who
willfully
fails to observe any sign, marker, warning, notice, or direction, placed or
given under W.S. 24
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108 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) or to imprisonment for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2021
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