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

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 official source does not provide a specific summary text or digest for HB0145.

Rules for Returning Absentee Ballots

The bill requires absentee ballots to include an official envelope with identification information and sets a date when these rules will start.

What This Bill Does

Requires absentee ballot envelopes to have an inner envelope where voters write their identification details.
Specifies that voters must provide either their Wyoming driver's license number or another form of ID, such as a Wyoming state ID card or the last four digits of their social security number.

Who It Names or Affects

Voters who request and return absentee ballots in Wyoming.

Terms To Know

Absentee ballot: A ballot that voters can receive and fill out before election day, usually when they cannot vote at their polling place on election day.
Official envelope: The special envelope provided by the state for absentee ballots to ensure security and proper identification of voters.

Limits and Unknowns

This bill did not pass, so these rules are not currently in effect.
It is unclear how many voters will be affected since it depends on those who use absentee voting.

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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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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