HB0178 • 2025

Work allowance for voting.

AN ACT relating to elections; specifying when an employee is entitled to take time off of work to vote in an election; increasing the amount of time that an employee is entitled to take off of work to vote; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

Elections Labor

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor: Representative Sherwood
Last action: 2025-02-10
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on how employers must handle requests or the exact wording of employee rights.

Allowing More Time Off to Vote

The bill allows employees up to two hours off work on election day or during early voting periods to vote without losing pay, provided they actually cast their ballots.

What This Bill Does

Specifies when an employee is entitled to take time off from work to vote in elections.
Increases the amount of time that an employee can take off work to vote from one hour to two hours.
Ensures employees do not lose pay for taking this time off, provided they actually cast their ballots.
Does not apply if a worker already has three or more non-working hours when polls are open.

Who It Names or Affects

Employees who want time off work to vote in elections
Employers who must provide this time off

Terms To Know

Elector: A person who is eligible and registered to vote.
Polls: The places where people go to cast their votes on election day.

Limits and Unknowns

This bill did not pass in the session it was introduced.
It only applies when an employee requests time off during early voting or on election day itself.
The effective date of July 1, 2025, is mentioned but the bill did not pass.

Bill History

2025-02-10 House
H COW:H Did not consider for COW
2025-01-29 House
H Placed on General File
2025-01-29 House
H07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
2025-01-22 House
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
2025-01-15 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-14 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0642
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0642
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0178

Work allowance for voting.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Sherwood, Byron, Campbell, E, Harshman, Provenza, Storer, Wylie and Yin and Senator(s) Anderson, Nethercott, Pappas, Rothfuss and Schuler

A BILL

for

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 22
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2
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111 is amended to read:

22
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111.

Employees time off to vote.

(a)

Any person entitled to vote at any primary or general election or special election to fill a vacancy in the office of representatives in the congress of the United States is, on the day of
such
the
election
or upon request during the period of early voting
, entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for a period of
one (1) hour
two (2) hours
, other than meal hours, the
hour
hours
being at the convenience of the employer,
between the time of opening and closing of the polls
during a period that the elector has the ability to cast a vote
. Such elector shall not, because of so absenting himself, lose any pay, providing he actually casts his legal vote.

(b)

This section shall not apply to an employee who has three (3) or more consecutive nonworking hours during the time the polls are open
on the day of the election
.

Section 2
.

This act is effective July 1, 2025
.

(END)

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