Wyoming State Legislature Sessions, Amendment 5 (1972)
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The Wyoming State Legislature Sessions, Amendment 5, also known as Amendment No. 5, was on the ballot in Wyoming on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved.
For a measure to pass in Wyoming, it must receive a majority of the total votes cast in an election. The total votes cast was 151,541. Therefore, the majority needed was 75,770.[1][1]
Election results
| Wyoming Amendment 5 (1972) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 76,170 | 60.27% | ||
| No | 50,209 | 39.73% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| This proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Wyoming provides that the legislature shall meet for no more than sixty (60) legislative working days during a two-year period for either budget or general session. The legislature shall meet for no more than forty (40) legislative working days excluding Sundays in any one (1) calendar year, except when called into special session. The legislature has the discretion to allot the period of time within the sixty-day limit they shall meet during the biennium in budget or general session. The budget session may be on even-numbered years and the general and budget session shall by on odd-numbered years. In addition, it provides that during the budget session no bills except budget bills may be considered unless placed on all by a special two-thirds vote of either house.[1][2] |
See also
- Wyoming 1972 ballot measures
- 1972 ballot measures
- List of Wyoming ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Wyoming
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS" [Computer file: ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.]
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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