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HB0160 • 2025
Voter identification-revisions.
AN ACT relating to elections; repealing school identification cards as acceptable forms of identification for in person voter identification purposes; and providing for an effective date.
Education
Elections
Inactive
Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.
- Sponsor
- Representative Tarver
- Last action
- 2025-03-03
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2025
Plain English Breakdown
The bill summary does not provide information on what other forms of ID can be used instead of school ID cards.
Changes to Voter Identification Rules
The bill removes school identification cards as a valid form of voter ID for in-person voting.
What This Bill Does
- Removes school identification cards from the list of acceptable forms of identification for voters who vote in person at polling places.
Who It Names or Affects
- Voters who use school ID cards to vote in person at polling places.
Terms To Know
- Acceptable identification
- The types of photo IDs allowed for voter identification when voting in person.
Limits and Unknowns
- It is unclear if the bill will change how absentee or mail-in voters identify themselves.
- Since the bill is marked as inactive, it may no longer be considered in its current form.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes the bill to specify that only certain types of photo IDs are acceptable for in-person voter identification, removing school ID cards and adding specific university and community college IDs.
- Replaces 'repealing' with 'specified' in the original bill text.
- Inserts new language after line 9 on page 1 to amend the definition of 'acceptable identification'.
- Adds photo IDs issued by the University of Wyoming, Wyoming community colleges, and Wyoming public schools as acceptable forms for voter identification.
- The amendment text does not specify which school ID cards are being removed or provide details on how this change affects voters.
- It is unclear if there were any other types of IDs that might be affected by the removal of 'repealed.' and addition of new language.
Plain English: The amendment changes the bill's title to focus on removing student identification cards as a form of acceptable voter identification.
- Changes the bill’s catch title from 'Voter identification-revisions' to 'Student ID for voter ID repeal'.
- The amendment text does not provide details about how or why student IDs will be removed as a form of acceptable voter ID, only that it aims to remove them.
Bill History
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2025-03-03
Senate
S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
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2025-02-28
Senate
S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
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2025-02-20
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals
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2025-01-30
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2025-01-30
House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 53-8-1-0-0
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2025-01-29
House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-01-28
House
H COW:Passed
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2025-01-24
House
H Placed on General File
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2025-01-24
House
H07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
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2025-01-17
House
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
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2025-01-14
House
H Received for Introduction
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2025-01-13
LSO
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Current Bill Text
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25LSO-0368
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0160
Voter identification-revisions.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Tarver, Angelos, Banks, Davis, Haroldson, Heiner, Kelly, Knapp and Locke and Senator(s) Hutchings, Ide and Kolb
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to elections; repealing school identification cards as acceptable forms of identification for in person voter identification purposes; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 22-1-102(a)(xxxix)(B)(VII) is repealed.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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