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26LSO-0502
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0502
Numbered
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0187
Political parties-county central committees-2.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Webber
A BILL
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AN ACT relating to elections; specifying that duly elected party officials are members of the county central committees of political parties; making conforming amendments; 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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101(b) and 22
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105 are amended to read:
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101.
Application; composition, election and qualifications of county central committees; certificate of election.
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The county central committee of each political party consists of precinct committeemen and committeewomen elected in the county at the regular biennial primary election
, those who have been properly appointed and ratified to fill vacancies in the office of precinct committeeman and committeewoman and the duly elected party officers in accordance with party bylaws
. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, each political party in each precinct shall elect one (1) committeeman and one (1) committeewoman for each two hundred fifty (250) votes or major fraction thereof cast for the party's candidate for representative in congress in the last general election, but provided that no precinct shall be entitled to less than one (1) precinct committeeman and precinct committeewoman. Precinct committeemen and committeewomen shall be electors registered in the party and resident in the precinct. If a precinct boundary line is changed for any reason, the county commissioners shall determine the number of precinct committeemen and committeewomen to which the affected precinct is entitled.
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105.
County central committee odd year meeting; notice; election of chairman, state committeeman and committeewoman.
The county central committee shall meet at the county seat each odd
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numbered year at a time and place determined by the county chairman. The county chairman shall publish notice of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation within the county not less than ten (10) days before this meeting. At the meeting, the county central committee shall elect the chairman of the county central committee, one (1) state committeeman and one (1) state committeewoman and other offices as provided by the party bylaws. A state political party may provide in its rules for the election of additional state committeemen and additional state committeewomen. Neither the chairman, state committeeman or state committeewoman need be members of the county central committee
but may be pursuant to W.S. 22
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Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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