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HB0182 • 2025

Elections-prohibiting use of secondary address.

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying that residence does not include a secondary address or commercial address that is not used for habitation; and providing for an effective date.

Elections
Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Brown, G
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on enforcement mechanisms or consequences of non-compliance with the new definition of 'residence'.

Elections: No Secondary Addresses as Residence

The bill changes the definition of 'residence' in election laws to exclude secondary and commercial addresses that are not used for living purposes.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the law so that a person's residence cannot be a secondary or commercial address unless it is used as their main home.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who register to vote or participate in elections
  • Election officials responsible for verifying voter addresses

Terms To Know

Residence
The place where someone lives and intends to return to after being away.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if a person's primary residence is unavailable.
  • It is unclear how this change will be enforced or checked by election officials.
  • This bill was marked as inactive, meaning it did not pass in the current session.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 House

    H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4

  2. 2025-02-07 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  4. 2025-01-15 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2025-01-14 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0585
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0585
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0182

Elections-prohibiting use of secondary address.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Brown, G, Allemand, Andrew, Angelos, Bear, Brady, Campbell, K, Guggenmos, Hoeft, Johnson, Kelly, Knapp, Lien, Locke, McCann, Neiman, Ottman, Rodriguez-Williams, Schmid, Singh, Smith, S, Styvar, Tarver, Washut, Webb, Webber, Wharff and Winter and Senator(s) Boner, Hutchings, Ide, Pearson and Smith, D

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying that residence does not include a secondary address or commercial address that is not used for habitation; 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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102(a)(xxx)(A) is amended to read:

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102.

Definitions.

(a)

The definitions contained in this chapter apply to words and phrases used in this Election Code and govern the construction of those words and phrases unless they are specifically modified by the context in which they appear. As used in this Election Code:

(xxx)

"Residence" is the place of a person's actual habitation. The construction of this term shall be governed by the following rules:

(A)

Residence is the place where a person has a current habitation and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning
, provided it is not a secondary, commercial or other address which the person does not use for the purpose of habitation
;

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)

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