2024 24LSO-0094
STATE OF WYOMING
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0041
Candidates for state legislature-residency requirement.
Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the residency
2 requirement for candidates for the state legislature; and
3 providing for an effective date.
4
5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
6
7 Section 1. W.S. 22-5-102(a)(intro) and (ii) is
8 amended to read:
9
10 22-5-102. Eligibility to be a candidate for state
11 legislature; residency.
12
13 (a) For the purpose of meeting residency requirements
14 of the Wyoming constitution, a person shall not be a
15 candidate for the state legislature from a legislative
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1 district unless he has been a resident of that legislative
2 district for at least one (1) year next preceding his
3 before the date of the applicable general election. In any
4 general election year in which a plan of legislative
5 districts is required but has not been enacted into law at
6 least one (1) year prior to the applicable filing periods,
7 a person may be a candidate for the state legislature from
8 a legislative district if he:
9
10 (ii) Has been a resident of a county for at
11 least one (1) year next preceding his before the date of
12 the applicable general election in which any portion of
13 that legislative district is located.
14
15 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2024.
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17 (END)
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 22-5-102