CHEYENNE -- A proposal designed to block the federal health-care act's insurance mandate in Wyoming will go before state voters on Nov. 6.

But legal experts say proposed Constitutional Amendment A will have little, or no, real impact.

It may play well politically in Wyoming, but it wont have any effect, said Timothy Jost, a law professor and expert in health care law at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

The supremacy clause (of the U.S. Constitution) says that federal laws are supreme over state laws and that any state laws would be pre-empted.

The proposal is one of three proposed constitutional amendments on the general election ballot in Wyoming.

Ballot language on proposed Amendment A

reads:

The adoption of this amendment will provide that the right to make health-care decisions is reserved to the citizens of the state of Wyoming. It permits any person to pay and any health care provider to receive direct payment for services.

It also says the Legislature can place reasonable and necessary restrictions on health care and that the state shall preserve residents rights from undue governmental infringement.

Lawmakers passed a bill during the 2011 session to create the ballot measure.

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