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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.

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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 material does not provide specific details on how employers must schedule voting leave.

Work Allowance for Voting

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

What This Bill Does

  • Allows workers to take up to two hours off during early voting or on election day to cast a ballot.
  • Requires employers not to deduct pay for this time if employees actually vote.
  • Doesn't apply if an employee already has three or more non-working hours when polls are open.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Employees who want to vote in primary, general, and special elections.
  • Employers of workers covered by the bill.

Terms To Know

Elector
A person eligible to vote in an election.
Conforming amendment
An adjustment made to existing laws to match new legislation.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass and was not considered by the Committee of the Whole (COW).
  • Details about how employers must schedule voting leave are not specified.
  • It would have taken effect on July 1, 2025, if passed.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-10 House

    H COW:H Did not consider for COW

  2. 2025-01-29 House

    H Placed on General File

  3. 2025-01-29 House

    H07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0

  4. 2025-01-22 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  5. 2025-01-15 House

    H Received for Introduction

  6. 2025-01-14 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
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

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.

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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