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Wyoming Legislative Sessions Amendment (2020)
| Wyoming Legislative Sessions Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic State legislatures measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
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.
Text of measure
The full text of the measure can be found here.
Path to the ballot
- 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]
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- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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