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HB0041 • 2024

Candidates for state legislature-residency requirement.

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the residency requirement for candidates for the state legislature; 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
Corporations
Last action
2024-02-12
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not provide details about what happens if new legislative districts are not set a year before an election. This information was removed because it is not supported by the official source material.

Clarifying Residency Requirements for State Legislature Candidates

The bill aims to clarify the residency requirements for people who want to run for state legislature in Wyoming.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the law to make sure candidates have lived in their district or county for at least one year before running for state legislature.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who want to be candidates for state legislature in Wyoming

Terms To Know

Residency requirement
A rule that says you must live somewhere for a certain amount of time before you can do something, like run for office.
Legislative district
An area within a state that elects representatives to the legislature.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass and was not introduced in the House.
  • It is unclear how many people will be affected by these changes since they never went into effect.

Bill History

  1. 2024-02-12 House

    H Failed Introduction 40-20-2-0-0

  2. 2024-01-24 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2024-01-03 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
24LSO-0094
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0094
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0041

Candidates for state legislature-residency requirement.

Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the residency requirement for candidates for the state legislature; 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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5
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102(a)(intro) and (ii) is amended to read:

22
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102.

Eligibility to be a candidate for state legislature; residency.

(a)

For the purpose of meeting residency requirements of the Wyoming constitution, a person shall not be a candidate for the state legislature from a legislative district unless he has been a resident of that legislative district for at least one (1) year
next preceding his

before the date of the applicable general
election. In any general election year in which a plan of legislative districts is required but has not been enacted into law at least one (1) year prior to the applicable filing periods, a person may be a candidate for the state legislature from a legislative district if he:

(ii)

Has been a resident of a county for at least one (1) year
next preceding his
before the date of the applicable general
election in which any portion of that legislative district is located.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
.

(END)

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