Wyoming Legislative Sessions Amendment (2020)

Wyoming Legislative Sessions Amendment

Election date
November 3, 2020
Topic
State legislatures measures
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment| Origin
State legislature

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The Wyoming Legislative Sessions Amendment (HJR 6) was not on the ballot in Wyoming as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.

The measure would have removed the distinction between general sessions and budget sessions of the legislature, therefore removing the two-thirds supermajority vote required to introduce legislation in budget sessions.[1]

This measure was introduced as House Joint Resolution 6 on January 14, 2019. It was approved in the House on February 6, 2019. It failed in the Senate on February 20, 2019, by a vote of 27-3.

## Contents

* 1 Text of measure
* 2 Path to the ballot
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 Footnotes

## Text of measure[edit]

The full text of the measure can be found here.

## Path to the ballot[edit]

See also: Amending the Wyoming Constitution

To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required in both the Wyoming State Senate and the Wyoming House of Representatives.

This measure was introduced as House Joint Resolution 6 on January 14, 2019. It was approved in the House on February 6, 2019. It failed in the Senate on February 20, 2019, by a vote of 27-3.[2]

| Vote in the Wyoming House of Representatives
February 6, 2019

Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 40 a
| Yes| No| Not voting
Total| 42| 16| 2
Total percent| 75%| 20%| 5%
Democrat| 9| 0| 0
Republican| 32| 16| 2
Independent| 1| 0| 0

| Vote in the Wyoming State Senate
February 20, 2019

Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 20 d
| Yes| No| Not voting
Total| 3| 27| 0
Total percent| 10.00%| 90.00%| 0.00%
Democrat| 2| 1| 0
Republican| 1| 26| 0

## See also[edit]

2020 measures

* 2020 ballot measures
* State legislatures measures on the ballot

Wyoming

* Wyoming ballot measures
* Wyoming ballot measure laws

News and analysis

* Ballot measure lawsuits
* Ballot measure readability
* Ballot measure polls

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## External links[edit]

* HJ 006 full text and bill information

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Text`
2. ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "HJ 006 Overview," accessed February 21, 2019

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