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HB0225 • 2025

Parking during legislative meetings.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing persons attending legislative meetings in the community or at the Wyoming state capitol to park on the street for unlimited periods of time; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor
Representative Brown, L
Last action
2025-02-10
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

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Parking during legislative meetings.

Digest HB0225.docx HB0225 Parking during legislative meetings.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest HB0225.docx HB0225 Parking during legislative meetings.
  • Sponsored By: Representative(s) Brown, L, Larson, JT, Pendergraft, Washut, Wasserburger and Wylie and Senator(s) Boner, Case, Driskill and Salazar AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing persons attending legislative meetings in the community or at the Wyoming state capitol to park on the street for unlimited periods of time; and providing for an effective date.
  • 1/16/2025 Bill Number Assigned 1/17/2025 H Received for Introduction 1/24/2025 H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation 1/30/2025 H08 - Transportation:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 6-3-0-0-0 ROLL CALL Ayes: Representative(s) Banks, Brown, Geringer, Mccann, Posey, Tarver Nays: Representative(s) Larsen, Nicholas, Wylie Ayes 6 Nays 3 Excused 0 Absent 0 Conflicts 0 1/30/2025 H Placed on General File 2/10/2025 H COW:H Did not consider for COW

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Amendments

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HB0225HS001

Standing Committee • House Transportation, Highways and Military Affair

Filed

Plain English: The amendment modifies HB0225 by specifying that people attending legislative meetings can park on streets for unlimited periods if a free parking lot or structure is within one-quarter mile of the meeting.

  • Adds language to specify that parking time limits do not apply when there is a free public parking option near the meeting location.
  • Changes 'one-half (1/2)' to 'one-quarter (1/4)' in reference to distances for parking provisions.
  • The amendment's text does not provide details on how enforcement or compliance will be handled, which may need further clarification.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-10 House

    H COW:H Did not consider for COW

  2. 2025-01-30 House

    H Placed on General File

  3. 2025-01-30 House

    H08 - Transportation:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 6-3-0-0-0

  4. 2025-01-24 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation

  5. 2025-01-17 House

    H Received for Introduction

  6. 2025-01-16 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0718
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0718
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0225

Parking during legislative meetings.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Brown, L, Larson, JT, Pendergraft, Washut, Wasserburger and Wylie and Senator(s) Boner, Case, Driskill and Salazar

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing persons attending legislative meetings in the community or at the Wyoming state capitol to park on the street for unlimited periods of time; 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. 31
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5
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513 is created to read:

31
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513.

Street parking during legislative meetings.

(a)

No ordinance or regulation enacted pursuant to W.S. 31
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109(a) or 31
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501 shall limit the duration of parking on any street as follows:

(i)

Within the boundaries of the capitol complex as defined in W.S. 9
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101 during the period the state legislature or any of its committees are actively meeting at the capitol for official purposes; or

(ii)

Within one
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half (1/2) mile of the location of official meetings of the state legislature, including

any of its committees, during the period the legislature or committee is actively meeting.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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