Bills & Legislation

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 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.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to public funds; authorizing the deposit of public monies in credit unions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Tara NethercottRepublican

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.

Ed CooperRepublican

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

Ken CloustonRepublican

AN ACT relating to the office of state lands and investments; authorizing firefighters to receive hazard pay and paid time off as specified; providing appropriations; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to recreation safety; adding rock climbing as a recreation activity for purposes of the Recreation Safety Act and for liability of the land owner whose land is used for recreation purposes; and providing for an effective date.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to authorization of a full-time literacy position for the department of education; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend the Wyoming Constitution to specify that the power and control of taxation and spending belongs to the legislative department and the executive department as specified.

Dan LaursenRepublican

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 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