HB0145 • 2025

Absentee ballot return-required information.

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring absentee ballots to contain an official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope; requiring absentee voters to provide identification information as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Elections Technology

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor: Representative Smith, S
Last action: 2025-02-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass and was never introduced, so its provisions have no legal effect.

Rules for Returning Absentee Ballots

The bill requires absentee ballots to include an official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope and mandates voters to provide identification information.

What This Bill Does

Requires absentee ballots to have an official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope.
Requiring absentee voters to give their Wyoming driver's license number or, if they don't have one, either a Wyoming ID card number or the last four digits of their social security number.

Who It Names or Affects

Voters who request absentee ballots
Election officials responsible for distributing and processing absentee ballots

Terms To Know

Absentee ballot: A ballot that voters can cast before Election Day, usually by mail or in person at a designated location.
Official envelope: An envelope provided with absentee ballots for voters to return their completed ballots securely.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was never introduced, so it has no effect.
It is unclear how many voters will be affected by the identification requirements since some may already comply with similar rules.

Bill History

2025-02-03 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction
2025-01-13 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-10 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0552
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0552
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0145

Absentee ballot return-required information.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Smith, S, Allemand, Angelos, Brady, Campbell, K, Hoeft, Lucas, Pendergraft and Webb and Senator(s) Hutchings and Ide

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring absentee ballots to contain an official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope; requiring absentee voters to provide identification information as specified; 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. 22
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9
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110(a) by creating a new paragraph (iii) and 22
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111 by creating a new subsection (c) are amended to read:

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Form of absentee ballot envelopes; distribution.

(a)

The secretary of state shall prescribe the form, and distribute to the clerks responsible for the respective elections a supply of the following official envelopes:

(iii)

The official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope for the elector to enter identification information as required by W.S. 22
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9
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111(c).

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111.

Affidavit to be printed on inner envelope; attestation; identification information on envelope inside inner envelope.

(c)

Each elector, as specified in W.S. 22
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105, shall provide the following identification information in the official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope:

(i)

The elector's Wyoming driver's license number or if the elector has no Wyoming driver's license, one (1) of the following:

(A)

The elector's Wyoming identification card number issued under W.S. 31
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101;

(B)

The last four (4) digits of the elector's social security number.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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