All Roll Calls
Yes: 154 • No: 10
WyomingHB 2752025 General SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing a misdemeanor offense and amending the offense of felony animal cruelty to address actions where wildlife is reduced to possession; prohibiting the torture of wildlife as specified; specifying the required treatment of certain wildlife; specifying penalties; providing for license revocation and suspension and forfeiture of devices and equipment for specified convictions; clarifying trapping requirements; removing a reporting requirement; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored By: Andrew Byron (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Trappers must promptly handle captured predators
Beginning July 1, 2025, anyone who captures a predatory animal or predacious bird must promptly kill or release it. Wildlife in a trap or snare counts as the owner's possession when the owner discovers it. Owners do not have to check traps sooner than existing Wyoming laws and wildlife rules require. The law also ends Game and Fish's annual report to the Department of Agriculture about predatory animals and predacious birds.
Vehicle hunters must address injured predators
Beginning July 1, 2025, a new duty applies when vehicle pursuit injures or disables a predatory animal or predacious bird. People using vehicles or conveyances covered by Wyoming's pursuit law must make a reasonable effort to kill the animal immediately. Government agencies and their employees, contractors, or designees using aircraft for lawful duties are exempt.
Wildlife cruelty brings stronger criminal penalties
Beginning July 1, 2025, knowingly torturing, tormenting, or mutilating living wildlife in your possession to cause undue suffering is a crime. This ban excludes amphibians, crustaceans, fish, mollusks, and reptiles; immediately killing captured wildlife does not violate it. A first offense carries up to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine, or both; repeat offenses carry felony penalties. For wildlife cruelty and related captured-animal offenses, courts may also revoke wildlife licenses through the rest of the conviction year. Courts may suspend rights to buy or receive wildlife licenses or take wildlife for up to three years; these penalties are not automatic.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Andrew Byron
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Mike Schmid
Republican • House
Daniel Singh
Republican • House
JD Williams
Republican • House
Eric Barlow
Republican • Senate
Lynn Hutchings
Republican • Senate
Bill Landen
Republican • Senate
Tara Nethercott
Republican • Senate
Jared Olsen
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/26/2025
H Concur:Passed 57-2-3-0-0
Yes: 57 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/26/2025
S 3rd Reading:Passed 27-4-0-0-0
Yes: 27 • No: 4
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
S06 - Travel:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
Yes: 4 • No: 1
House vote • 2/6/2025
H 3rd Reading:Passed 57-3-2-0-0
Yes: 57 • No: 3
House vote • 1/28/2025
H06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Assigned Chapter Number 93
3/3/2025Governor Signed HEA No. 0046
3/3/2025GovernorS President Signed HEA No. 0046
2/27/2025SenateH Speaker Signed HEA No. 0046
2/27/2025HouseAssigned Number HEA No. 0046
2/26/2025H Concur:Passed 57-2-3-0-0
2/26/2025HouseH Received for Concurrence
2/26/2025HouseS 3rd Reading:Passed 27-4-0-0-0
2/26/2025SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
2/25/2025SenateS COW:Passed
2/24/2025SenateS Placed on General File
2/20/2025SenateS06 - Travel:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
2/20/2025SenateS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel
2/14/2025SenateS Received for Introduction
2/7/2025SenateH 3rd Reading:Passed 57-3-2-0-0
2/6/2025HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
2/5/2025HouseH COW:Passed
2/4/2025HouseH Placed on General File
1/28/2025HouseH06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
1/28/2025HouseH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
1/23/2025HouseH Received for Introduction
1/22/2025HouseBill Number Assigned
1/21/2025
Bill Text
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