Escape-parole eligibility.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide a specific effective date for the bill since it did not pass.

Clarifying Parole Ineligibility for Assault and Escape

The bill aims to make prisoners ineligible for parole if they are convicted of assault or escape while serving their sentences, with both court decisions and administrative findings considered.

What This Bill Does

• Adds assault convictions to the list of reasons a prisoner cannot get parole.
• Includes escape from prison as another reason for ineligibility for parole.
• Clarifies that both judicial convictions and administrative disciplinary findings can make someone ineligible for parole.

Who It Names or Affects

• Prisoners who have been convicted of assault or escape while serving their sentences.
• The Wyoming Department of Corrections and its administrative hearing process.

Terms To Know

Parole

An early release from prison that is supervised by the state.

Conviction

A legal finding of guilt for a crime.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass and was never introduced in the House.
• It does not specify what happens to prisoners who were eligible for parole before this change but might become ineligible due to assault or escape after July 1, 2026.

Current Bill Text

26LSO-0428
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0428
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0170

Escape-parole eligibility.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Webb, Banks, Brady, Erickson, Guggenmos, Hoeft, Lucas, McCann, Schmid, Singh, Washut and Webber and Senator(s) Boner

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to probation and parole generally; clarifying that judicial convictions and administrative disciplinary findings for assault or escape determine parole ineligibility; 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. 7
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402(b)(intro) is amended to read:

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402.

General powers and duties of board; eligibility for parole; immunity.

(b)

A prisoner is not eligible for parole on a sentence if, while serving that sentence, he has
been convicted in the district court or found, by a final determination of the Wyoming department of corrections administrative hearing process, of having
:

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)

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