Wyoming Right of Privacy Amendment (2016)
| Wyoming Right of Privacy Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Constitutional rights | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Wyoming Right of Privacy Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016, ballot in Wyoming as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure was defeated in the Wyoming Senate.
The measure would have provided a constitutional right of individual privacy and required a "compelling state interest" to infringe on that privacy.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot summary
The proposed summary title was:[1]
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The adoption of this amendment will provide that the right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest.[2] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article 1, Wyoming Constitution
The proposed amendment would have added a Section 40 to Article I of the Wyoming Constitution. The following text would have been added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: How to amend the Wyoming Constitution
A two-thirds vote in both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature was required to refer the amendment to the ballot. The amendment was defeated in the Wyoming Senate, with 13 senators in favor and 17 against.[3]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wyoming Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 1," accessed March 3, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Wyoming Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 1 Digest," accessed March 3, 2015
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