Wyoming Judicial Retirement Age Amendment (2016)
| Judicial Retirement Age Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic State judiciary | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
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The Wyoming Judicial Retirement Age Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Wyoming as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.
The measure would have increased the state's judicial retirement age from 70 to 75.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot summary
The proposed summary title was:[1]
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The adoption of this amendment would raise the current mandatory retirement age to seventy-five (75) for Wyoming supreme court justices and Wyoming judges.[2] |
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Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Wyoming Constitution
A two-thirds vote in both chambers of the Wyoming State Legislature was required to refer the amendment to the ballot.
The amendment was approved in the Wyoming House of Representatives, with 49 representatives in favor and 11 against.[3]
The Wyoming Legislature's 2015 session ended on March 6, 2015, without the bill passing both chambers.[4] Legislators had the opportunity to reintroduce the bill again during the 2016 legislative session, which began on February 8 and continued through early March. The legislature failed to refer the measure to the ballot as of the end of the session on March 4, 2016.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wyoming Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 5," accessed March 3, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 5," accessed March 3, 2015
- ↑ ‘’Wyoming Tribune Eagle’’, “Wyoming lawmakers talk pros, cons of 2015 legislative session,” March 6, 2015
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