2/11/25
HB0116 Driver’s licenses-unauthorized alien restrictions is a CONSTITUTIONAL bill that specifies “that driver’s licenses and driving operating privilege cards issued by other jurisdictions to unauthorized aliens are invalid in Wyoming”.
This bill is CONSTITUIONAL per the following Wyoming constitutional provisions (emphasis added):
Article 1, Section 1
All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness; for the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper.
Article 1, Section 3
Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights is only made sure through political equality, the laws of this state affecting the political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or condition whatsoever other than individual incompetency, or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction.