Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to stalking, sexual assault and domestic violence protection orders; amending provisions regarding the appointment of counsel; amending filing, service and notice requirements for protection orders; authorizing orders extending protection orders to be served upon the respondent by mail as specified; specifying who may file a petition on behalf of a victim of domestic abuse; amending definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to protection orders; specifying the applicability of stalking, sexual assault and domestic violence protection orders during appeal or review; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; specifying eligibility for the restoration of rights; expanding the scope of judicial review of restoration of rights eligibility determinations; amending notification requirements regarding the issuance of restoration of rights certificates; clarifying the effect of a new felony conviction upon a prior restoration of rights; amending the definition of violent felony; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a definition associated with a sales tax exemption for power and fuel sales related to pipeline transportation as specified; clarifying ownership requirements for the exemption; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; creating the select committee on school finance recalibration; providing for a study to recalibrate the education resource block grant model; authorizing the use of consultants; providing funding for an external cost adjustment to the education resource block grant model; providing funding for school district entitlement payments and special education payments; requiring a report; appropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the duties of the secretary of state related to verification of voter registration data; specifying when notice of intent to cancel a registration may be provided; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring groups, political action committees and organizations that are influencing a statewide initiative or referendum to file statements related to funding from prohibited sources; prohibiting a foreign national from controlling or influencing the decision making of a group, political action committee or organization influencing a statewide initiative or referendum; providing a cause of action; specifying penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Nina WebberRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to introduce a bill and enact law to amend Wyoming's act of admission to authorize the expenditure of earnings for the support of the common schools in Wyoming.

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A JOINT RESOLUTION in support of rural schools in Wyoming.

Trey SherwoodDemocrat

AN ACT relating to school building and facility projects; providing for appropriations for the remainder of the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; specifying conditions for expenditures; reappropriating funds; requiring a study and reporting; and providing for an effective date.

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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.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to property taxation; specifying that if multiple property tax exemptions apply to the same property the exemptions shall be applied in the manner determined by the department of revenue; specifying requirements for the order of application of exemptions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; reclassifying specified criminal offenses to require more frequent sex offender registry verification and prevent petitions to be relieved from sex offender registration; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the department of health to approve alterations or additions to health care facilities for purposes of health care and life safety compliance determinations only; repealing bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals as specified; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Rob GeringerRepublican

AN ACT relating to religious freedom; creating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; providing definitions; limiting specified governmental actions that burden religious freedom; authorizing claims and defenses against governmental action that burden religious freedom; providing exceptions; and providing for an effective date.

Art WashutRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing persons to hunt specified animals from aircraft, automotive vehicles, trailers, motor-propelled wheeled vehicles or snowmobiles; and providing for an effective date.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; authorizing local governments to pay claims and demands through electronic payment means; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Pam ThayerRepublican

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing a perpetual easement over state and school lands for county and municipal roads; specifying requirements for easements; specifying duties for the board of land commissioners and the office of state lands and investments; making conforming amendments; providing legislative findings; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing specially designed license plates to be issued to benefit search and rescue efforts; specifying requirements; authorizing fees; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting government officials and election officials from accepting private funds to conduct elections as specified; prohibiting any person from providing or offering private funds for purposes of conducting an election; providing exceptions; creating new misdemeanor offenses; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring applicants for motor vehicle dealer licenses who sell trailers to submit a sales authorization agreement; exempting motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers who sell trailers from specified provisions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to legal time and holidays; designating Wyoming Wednesday as a state recognized commemorative day to be observed as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a qualified elector to be a bona fide resident of the state of Wyoming for not less than thirty (30) days before the date of the election in which they offer to vote; requiring documentation proving residence to register to vote; prohibiting registration based on documentation showing noncitizen status; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing prescribers to prescribe medications for off-label indication as specified; authorizing pharmacists to dispense medications for off-label indication as specified; providing prescribers and pharmacists immunity from disciplinary action as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying that elections shall not be conducted by ranked choice voting; clarifying that ballots are required to specify only one (1) vote per office to be filled; and providing for an effective date.

Joe WebbRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; requiring that the state auditor provide the public with information on payments made to vendors as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Laurie BrattenRepublican

AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; repealing gun free zones; providing for the carrying of concealed weapons as specified; creating a criminal offense for prohibiting entry to a person carrying a concealed weapon as specified; clarifying that only the state legislature may regulate firearms, weapons and ammunition; providing for exceptions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to insurance; amending investment authorization for prepaid or prearranged funeral contract proceeds; amending related surety bond provisions; specifying application of purchase monies and investment earnings; requiring notice to contract purchasers; and providing for effective dates.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to child care facilities; exempting child care facilities with certain specifications from child care facility certification requirements; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring public utilities to prepare and submit wildfire mitigation plans; specifying procedures for the submission and review of wildfire mitigation plans; specifying how costs associated with wildfire mitigation plans may be recovered; specifying limits for liability and damages for public utilities related to wildfires; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

J.T. LarsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the education savings accounts program; changing the name of the program to the steamboat legacy scholarship act; creating the steamboat legacy scholarship program account; modifying definitions; increasing the maximum scholarship award; modifying eligibility requirements; repealing provisions; providing appropriations; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to cemeteries and burials; amending provisions related to the structural integrity and esthetics of columbariums; and providing for an effective date.

Trey SherwoodDemocrat

AN ACT relating to driver's licenses; specifying that driver's licenses and driving operating privilege cards issued by other jurisdictions to unauthorized aliens are invalid in Wyoming; providing definitions; providing a penalty; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and provide for effective dates.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing construction of designated water projects; describing projects; specifying terms and conditions of funding for projects; providing grants; providing loans; providing appropriations; amending the sponsor's contingency fund; amending amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring projects; repealing a project; authorizing one full‑time position; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to counties; amending the length of time for approval of a mill levy proposition for senior citizen service districts; and providing for an effective date.

Marilyn ConnollyRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; repealing the crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle; and providing for an effective date.

Art WashutRepublican

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

J.T. LarsonRepublican

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.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; prohibiting the implementation of immigration sanctuary policies by cities, towns, counties and the state; prohibiting the designation of sanctuary cities, towns, counties and the state; creating a new felony offense; providing penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joel GuggenmosRepublican

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.

Andrew ByronRepublican

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.

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AN ACT relating to courts; authorizing the assignment of cases and proceedings from circuit courts and district courts to chancery court judges; specifying requirements for transfers; authorizing retired chancery court judges to provide judicial service as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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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.

Dalton BanksRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the crimes of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution to include acts of sexual contact; providing definitions; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

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.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; amending the grounds for administrative dissolution, revocation and forfeiture to include foreign adversary ownership or control as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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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.

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AN ACT relating to domestic relations; specifying a rebuttable presumption that no sex offender shall have unsupervised visitation with a child; requiring consideration of sex-related convictions when considering the best interests of a child in custody determinations upon divorce; and providing for an effective date.

Ken PendergraftRepublican

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.

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AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; requiring the livestock board to develop a protocol for positive anthrax tests; requiring rulemaking; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Bob DavisRepublican