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Wyoming Senate

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Term limits
  
None

Length of term
  
4 years

Type of business
  
Upper House

Seats
  
30

Seat
  
30

New session started
  
10 January 2017

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Majority Leader
  
Drew Perkins (R) Since January 10, 2017

Minority Leader
  
Chris Rothfuss (D) Since January 7, 2013

Authority
  
Article 3, Wyoming Constitution

Headquarters
  
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

President of the Senate
  
Eli Bebout (R); Since January 10, 2017

Vice President of the Senate
  
Michael Von Flatern (R); Since January 10, 2017

Political groups
  
Wyoming Republican Party, Opposition

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The Wyoming Senate is the upper house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 30 Senators in the Senate, representing an equal number of constituencies across Wyoming, each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senate meets at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne.

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Members of the Senate serve four year terms without term limits. Term limits were declared unconstitutional by the Wyoming Supreme Court in 2004, overturning a decade-old law that had restricted Senators to three terms (twelve years).

Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Wyoming Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions, boards, or justices to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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Leadership

Wyoming, along with Arizona, Maine, and Oregon, is one of the four U.S. states to have abolished the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, a position which for most upper houses of state legislatures and indeed for the U.S. Congress (with the Vice President) is the head of the legislative body. Instead, a separate position of Senate President is in place, removed from the Wyoming executive branch.

The current Senate President is Republican Eli Bebout of District 26 (Riverton).

References

Wyoming Senate Wikipedia