ORIGINAL SENATE                                    ENGROSSED
JOINT RESOLUTION
FILE NO. 0006

           ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3, SENATE
       
       FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
                        1999 SESSION



A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the eligibility
requirements for service in the state militia and to repeal
specified qualifications for appointment to a military
office.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING,
two-thirds of all the members of the two houses, voting
separately, concurring therein:

     Section 1.  The following proposal to amend Wyoming
Constitution, Article 6, Section 15 and Article 17, Section
1 is proposed for submission to the electors of the State of
Wyoming at the next general election for approval or
rejection to become valid as a part of the Constitution if
ratified by a majority of the electors at the election:

     Article 6, Section 15.  Qualifications for office.

No person except a qualified elector shall be elected or
appointed to any civil or military office in the state.
"Military  office" shall be limited  to  the  offices  of
adjutant general, assistant adjutant general for the army
national guard and assistant adjutant general for the air
national guard.

     Article 17, Section 1.  Of whom militia constituted.

The militia of the state shall consist of all able-bodied
male citizens qualified residents  of  the  state,  and those 
nonresidents  who are accepted into service,  between the ages
of  eighteen  and  forty-five  seventeen (17) and seventy (70)
years;  except  such  as  are  those exempted by the law of the
United   States  or  of  the  state.  But  all  such citizens 
residents  having scruples of  conscience  averse  to bearing
arms   shall   be   excused  therefrom   upon   suchconditions as
shall be prescribed by law.

     Section 2.  The Secretary of State shall endorse the
following statement on the proposed amendment:

The passage of this amendment would change current
eligibility requirements to allow any qualified resident to
serve  in  the  state militia if he or she  is  between  the ages
of seventeen (17) and seventy (70) and allow nonresidents
who are accepted into service to serve if they meet the
other requirements. This amendment would also repeal the
requirement that any person appointed to a military office,
other than the offices of adjutant general, assistant
adjutant general for the army national guard and assistant
adjutant general for the air national guard, must be a
qualified elector.

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Speaker of the House               President of the Senate




                TIME APPROVED: _________
                DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.


Chief Clerk