Bills & Legislation

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the state and the Wyoming attorney general to utilize all legal tools available to protect the investment of Wyoming's funds and Wyoming's industries and policies.

Bo BitemanRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION to recognize and commend the National Conference of State Legislatures on the 50th anniversary of its founding in 2025.

Stephan PappasRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to authorize states and Congress to establish reasonable limits on political contributions made to influence elections.

Ed CooperRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to provide for a right of individual privacy.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to physicians and surgeons; authorizing the state board of medicine to provide provisional medical licenses to international physicians as specified; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ogden DriskillRepublican

AN ACT relating to K-12 public school facilities; prohibiting expenditure of state funds generated by the foundation program on capital construction; prohibiting expenditure of major maintenance funds on enhancements; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican

AN ACT relating to the department of family services; creating a new duty for the director of the department of family services to review the effectiveness and impact of the department's programs; authorizing the sharing of data; creating exceptions for the sharing of confidential information; requiring rulemaking; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; specifying requirements for third party access to dental network contracts; providing requirements for the use of virtual credit card payments and other methods of payments for dental services; providing contractual requirements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; providing dental insurance requirements for billing and coding as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to courts; amending the Court Supervised Treatment Program Act to include mental health treatment; authorizing court supervised treatment programs to accept participants from any other jurisdiction in this state; amending the Public Defender Act to allow the public defender to participate as a team member in court supervised treatment programs and represent participants in those programs; changing the term "substance abuse" to "substance use"; amending definitions; creating definitions; making conforming amendments; authorizing rulemaking; repealing provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a rebuttable presumption in favor of acquisition value for specified real property; establishing fair market value of residential real property based on the date the property was last acquired; clarifying the use, disclosure and confidentiality of sworn statements for specified real property; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Troy McKeownRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; restricting and amending the expenditure of teacher resources and other funds generated by the education resource block grant model as specified; requiring data collection; requiring reporting; requiring a study; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; repealing a state excise tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes; removing a mandate on disposal of confiscated cigarettes; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming gaming commission; providing and amending definitions related to pari-mutuel rodeo events; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; amending notice of intent to cancel a registration as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; amending the time for circulating and filing a petition to form a new political party; and providing for an effective date.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing the board of chiropractic examiners to obtain criminal background checks as specified; requiring applicants for licensure and licensees subject to investigation and disciplinary action by the board of chiropractic examiners to submit fingerprints and other necessary information for a criminal background check; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to public funds; repealing the budget reserve account; providing for the transfer from and the reversion of funds from the budget reserve account; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete language; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to public funds; repealing the strategic investments and projects account; providing for the transfer from and the reversion of funds from the strategic investments and projects account; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete language; requiring reports; and providing for effective dates.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; limiting the actions the game and fish department and commission may take in the management of grizzly bears; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; amending requirements for conducting a boundary survey of cities and towns as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Tara NethercottRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; entering into a compact with other states to allow physical therapists licensed in one compact state to practice in other compact states; specifying terms of the compact; authorizing criminal background checks for physical therapists applying for licensure under the compact; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Brian BonerRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating the educational bankruptcy act; establishing a cause of action for educational bankruptcy; specifying requirements to petition for educational bankruptcy; specifying duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; authorizing parents and guardians to petition for educational bankruptcy; specifying duties of the district court; providing for the appointment of educational bankruptcy trustees; specifying conditions for dismissal or release of jurisdiction in educational bankruptcy; modifying teacher certification; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to state legislative districts; providing legislative findings; requiring management council to assign legislative apportionment to a committee of the legislature for study during the 2025 legislative interim as provided by this act; providing that legislation to apportion the legislature based on the requirements of this act may be introduced during the 2026 legislative budget session; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; reducing the maximum length of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; specifying the maximum contribution that may be charged to an employer for the unemployment compensation fund; and providing for an effective date.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to state budgeting and expenditures; creating the residential property tax reduction account; designating specified funds to the account; providing for residential property tax refunds from the account; specifying requirements for the property tax refunds; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the reading assessment and invention program; defining terms; exempting high performing school districts as specified; providing remedies to address inadequacies in students' reading abilities in kindergarten through grade four; providing for retention of students due to reading inadequacies as specified; requiring parental notification as specified; providing for participation of parents in determining educational interventions as specified; creating causes of action; providing for the award of amounts as specified; specifying burdens of proof; requiring reporting; authorizing license revocation of teachers as specified; prohibiting modification of proficiency scores on the English language arts portion of the statewide summative assessment as specified; providing for rulemaking; specifying duties of the department of education staff; creating an operations research staff within the department of education; exempting the operations research staff within the department of education from the state personnel system and requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to sage grouse implementation and mitigation credits; specifying that operator-offered mitigation measures may be used and approved to address impacts to greater sage-grouse habitat; specifying that eminent domain shall not be used to provide for mitigation activities; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements and limitations for supplemental budget requests; repealing a provision regarding the preparation of alternative budgets; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to eminent domain; limiting the exercise of the power of condemnation for energy collector systems; providing compensation standards for condemned property as specified; requiring proof of compliance and notice of condemnation as specified; providing requirements for existing easements; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing an existing provision; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

AN ACT relating to property taxation; revising the definition of fair market value to include replacement cost new less depreciation for specified property; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting the initiation or expansion of solar and wind energy facilities as specified; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the use of paper ballots for elections; requiring hand counting of paper ballots; specifying procedures for hand counting of paper ballots; repealing provisions related to electronic voting machines and electronic pollbooks; revising procedures for the post-election ballot audit; providing for testing of hand counting, tabulating and reporting systems; providing for election observers; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; providing for rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to the taxation of governmental property; providing a definition of "governmental purpose"; providing related definitions; making conforming changes; repealing conflicting provisions; requiring certain property not held for a government purpose to be offered for sale unless good cause is shown; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing requirements and standards for the storage of nuclear fuel by advanced nuclear reactor manufacturers; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT relating to public employee retirement; increasing the employer and employee contributions for the public employee retirement plan; specifying how increased employee contributions shall be paid; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; removing continuing contract status from the Wyoming teacher employment law as specified; modifying hearing requirements for teacher suspension, dismissal and termination; providing definitions; repealing provisions accordingly; specifying applicability; specifying legislative intent; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to the uniform commercial code; clarifying rules for the applicability of the code for investment securities; amending priority rules for securities intermediaries; making conforming amendments; repealing priority rules and applicability rules related to securities intermediaries; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring paper ballots as specified; providing for the automatic tabulation of paper ballots; providing a process for the certain recounts to be conducted by hand counting the votes; requiring proof of United States citizenship to register to vote as specified; revising the time that absentee polling places may be open; revising dates of the primary election and the county and state canvass to allow time for hand counting as specified; creating an account; making conforming amendments; repealing conflicting provisions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to state funds; requiring the state treasurer and the Wyoming retirement board to provide for proxy voting associated with the investment of state funds; specifying investment criteria to ensure investments are made only on pecuniary factors; providing definitions; authorizing contracts and the use of investment earnings; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; authorizing full‑time positions; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to state lands; declaring the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum as a state historic site; requiring the department of state parks and cultural resources to manage the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum state historic site; requiring the development of a strategic master plan for preservation and operation of the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum state historic site; authorizing fees as specified; authorizing expenditure of appropriated funds; providing an appropriation; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring electric utilities to enter into a service agreement with certain customers as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to electronic cigarettes and vapor materials; requiring manufacturers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material to obtain a license; requiring the department of revenue to publish a list of licensed electronic cigarette and vapor material manufacturers; prohibiting the sale of electronic cigarettes and vapor material made by manufactures not included in the list of licensees; prohibiting the sale of nicotine products as specified; requiring biannual inspections of retailers, distributors and wholesalers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Gary CrumRepublican

AN ACT relating to emergency loan programs; establishing an emergency bridge loan program for small businesses during declared natural disasters; specifying eligibility and requirements for the bridge loan program; specifying terms, conditions and obligations for bridge loans; specifying duties; creating an account; requiring reports; providing a loan; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; amending the Second Amendment Protection Act as specified; creating exceptions to the Second Amendment Protection Act; creating a civil penalty; creating a criminal penalty; creating an exception to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Tim SalazarRepublican

AN ACT relating to the investment of state funds; creating the Wyoming generational investment account; specifying the investment of funds in the account; specifying the disposition of investment earnings; providing for the accounting and administration of the account; requiring transfers of funds; requiring reports; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican