Effective Date of Changes in Legislative Districts; Election of Holdover Senators.

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28-2-117. Effective date of changes in legislative districts; election of holdover senators.

(a) Changes in all legislative districts are effective for the 2012 general election cycle and the sixty-second legislature.

(b) 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 2012 general election. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no election shall be held in 2012 for senate districts designated as odd-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b) for which members were elected at the 2010 general election and nothing in this act shall affect the terms of those members, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section. 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 2014 general election.

(c) A member elected in the 2010 general election for a senate district designated as an odd numbered district in W.S. 28-2-118(b) who has been removed from his district as a result of district boundary changes made by this act may continue to serve the remainder of his term for the district from which he was elected.

(d) Nothing in this act otherwise affects the terms of members of the sixty-first legislature.


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