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Committee advances bill to expand employee time off for voting, add early-voting coverage
Summary
A House committee voted to advance House Bill 178 to allow employees up to two hours off to vote and to explicitly extend that protection to early voting, expanding the current one-hour statutory allowance.
A House committee on Monday voted to advance House Bill 178, a measure to expand Wyoming law so that employers must give employees up to two hours to vote and to make that time-off protection explicit for early voting.
Representative Josiah Provenza, presenting the bill on behalf of the primary sponsor, told the Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee the change is intended to reflect current work patterns and longer lines at polling places. “This bill comes, as a as a way to increase the work allowance time for our constituents to be able to vote,” Provenza said during the committee hearing. He described the change as an expansion to the existing statute (22-2-111) and said the measure would add language allowing time off during early voting and…
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