HB0178

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Work allowance for voting.

Allow employees up to two hours paid time off work to vote in elections.

Full legal title

AN ACT relating to elections; specifying when an employee is entitled to take time off of work to vote in an election; increasing the amount of time that an employee is entitled to take off of work to vote; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

Elections Labor

Sponsor:

Co-sponsors: Representative(s) Byron, Campbell, E, Harshman, Provenza, Storer, Wylie, Yin, Senator(s) Anderson, Nethercott, Pappas, Rothfuss, Schuler

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What does this bill do?

Increases the amount of paid time off that employees are entitled to take from work to vote in elections from one hour to two hours.

Amends W.S. 22-2-111(a) to increase from one hour to two hours the amount of time an employee may absent themselves from work to vote in primary, general, or special elections for U.S. congressional representatives, whether voting on election day or during early voting. The time off remains unpaid unless the employee actually casts a legal vote. (W.S. 22-2-111(a), Sec. 1)
Maintains the existing exemption that this time-off requirement does not apply to employees who have three or more consecutive nonworking hours available during the time polls are open on election day. (W.S. 22-2-111(b))

Effective: July 1, 2025

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Actions (6)

2/10/2025(House)

H COW:H Did not consider for COW

1/29/2025(House)

H Placed on General File

1/29/2025(House)

H07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0

1/22/2025(House)

H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

1/15/2025(House)

H Received for Introduction