State Legislation

AN ACT relating to school finance; removing an additional annual distribution of the county school fund; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing annual permits for hauling prefabricated buildings, panels and trusses; authorizing annual permits for hauling forest products, baled hay and combine headers; specifying permit fees; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; excluding the Affordable Care Act from government sponsored health care programs that would disqualify a volunteer first responder from participating in the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan; authorizing first responder departments to contribute to first responder group insurance premiums; requiring voluntary first responders to provide proof of their volunteer status on an annual basis; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes and other legislative enactments; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; amending obsolete references; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to state land leasing; authorizing a person who is not currently in violation of the terms of their state land lease to have a preferred right to renew their lease; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to abortions; requiring ultrasounds before the procurement of chemical abortions; providing verification requirements; providing definitions; providing penalties; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements for the use of sex-designated restrooms, showers, sleeping quarters and locker room facilities at public facilities; providing for complaints and civil actions; specifying duties for public entities; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to severance tax; decreasing the severance tax rate for surface coal; making conforming changes; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; requiring health insurance carriers to follow specified guidelines regarding health care provider credentialing; specifying that health carriers shall not be required to violate or fail to meet requirements of a nationally recognized accrediting entity; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

AN ACT relating to public property and buildings; amending and creating provisions related to budgeting, planning and reporting for capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance for public buildings, facilities and sites; conforming and repealing definitions; amending requirements for contracting for public works; specifying duties related to capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance for the state construction department, the state building commission, the school districts, the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming and the community college commission; repealing major maintenance funding requirements; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming livestock board; requiring the board to initiate memorandums of understanding regarding the identification of livestock delivered to other states; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

AN ACT relating to education; removing a limitation on the number of charter schools that the Wyoming charter school authorizing board may authorize; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.