All Roll Calls
Yes: 139 • No: 27
WyomingSF 992026 Budget SessionSenate
AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; providing an easement for electric transmission lines and distributions systems as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored By: Ed Cooper (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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Utility access reshapes homeowners' land rights
Beginning July 1, 2026, Wyoming law gives utilities a nonexclusive easement—a shared right to use land—for qualifying electricity systems. The utility must have installed the system on the property by January 1, 2006. At least part must be visible, giving later owners notice, and use must be continuous. Changes in use, stopped use, or de-energization lasting up to one year do not break continuity. No new easement applies where a valid written agreement already establishes another easement for the system or part of it. Before receiving the easement, the utility must publish notice of the easement enactment date in a local newspaper or customer newsletter. Utilities can rebuild, change electrical phases, maintain, and repair the system, and reattach existing pole attachments. They can also trim or remove vegetation that is hazardous or reasonably likely to become hazardous. The easement must follow historical use and extend no more than 30 feet in any direction from existing system parts. Access must stay within the easement unless that route is hazardous or materially blocked or burdened. Any alternate access must be reasonable and minimize effects on the landowner as much as reasonably possible. Uses or changes that materially increase the burden on the land are barred, except reasonable expansions serving neighboring or local land uses. That exception excludes industrial or manufacturing increases in wattage. The easement ends after more than three consecutive years without use unless the owner or a previous owner agreed to the nonuse. Existing easements, agreements, and other prescriptive-easement laws remain unchanged. The law sets no household payment amount.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Ed Cooper
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Eric Barlow
Republican • Senate
Dan Dockstader
Republican • Senate
Ogden Driskill
Republican • Senate
Larry Hicks
Republican • Senate
Bill Landen
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/5/2026
H 3rd Reading:Passed 47-14-1-0-0
Yes: 47 • No: 14
Senate vote • 3/5/2026
S Concur:Passed 28-3-0-0-0
Yes: 28 • No: 3
House vote • 3/2/2026
H09 - Minerals:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-0-2-0-0
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/24/2026
S 3rd Reading:Passed 29-2-0-0-0
Yes: 29 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/19/2026
S01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/12/2026
S Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary 23-8-0-0-0
Yes: 23 • No: 8
Actions Timeline
Assigned Chapter Number 102
3/7/2026Governor Signed SEA No. 0063
3/7/2026GovernorH Speaker Signed SEA No. 0063
3/6/2026HouseS President Signed SEA No. 0063
3/6/2026SenateAssigned Number SEA No. 0063
3/5/2026S Concur:Passed 28-3-0-0-0
3/5/2026SenateS Received for Concurrence
3/5/2026SenateH 3rd Reading:Passed 47-14-1-0-0
3/5/2026HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
3/4/2026HouseH COW:Passed
3/3/2026HouseH Placed on General File
3/2/2026HouseH09 - Minerals:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-0-2-0-0
3/2/2026HouseH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals
2/25/2026HouseH Received for Introduction
2/25/2026HouseS 3rd Reading:Passed 29-2-0-0-0
2/24/2026SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
2/23/2026SenateS COW:Passed
2/20/2026SenateS Placed on General File
2/19/2026SenateS01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2/19/2026SenateS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary 23-8-0-0-0
2/12/2026SenateS Received for Introduction
2/11/2026SenateBill Number Assigned
2/10/2026
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