Current through the 2024 Budget Session
Section 28-2-117 - Effective date of changes in legislative districts; election of holdover senators(a) Changes in all legislative districts are effective for the 2022 general election cycle and the sixty-seventh legislature.(b) Members for senate districts designated as odd-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b) shall be elected for a term of four (4) years at the 2022 general election. As provided in subsection (c) of this section, no election shall be held in 2022 for senate districts designated as even-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b) for which members were elected at the 2020 general election and nothing in this act shall affect the terms of those members. Members for senate districts designated as even-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b), shall be elected for a term of four (4) years at the 2024 general election.(c) A member elected in the 2020 general election for a senate district designated as an even-numbered district in W.S. 28-2-118(b) who has been removed from the district as a result of district boundary changes made by this act may continue to serve the remainder of the member's term for the district from which the member was elected.(d) Nothing in this act otherwise affects the terms of members of the sixty-sixth legislature.Repealed and recreaated by Laws 2022 , ch. 112, § 1, eff. 3/25/2022.Amended by Laws 2012 , ch. 8, § 1, eff. 3/6/2012.