Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring an annual mountain lion hunting season; prohibiting hunt areas, hunt area mortality limits, statewide mortality limits, bag limits and hours for taking mountain lions for mountain lion hunting seasons; specifying that a mountain lion may be taken during any hour of the day; requiring the game and fish commission to establish possession tags for mountain lions as specified; authorizing mountain lions to be trapped or snared; authorizing persons with other specified licenses to take mountain lions; repealing mountain lion pursuit seasons; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Mike SchmidRepublican

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; authorizing the secretary of state to prepare and maintain a list of financial institutions engaged in discrimination against energy companies; authorizing the secretary of state to publish the list upon vote of the board of deposits; specifying requirements for the list; requiring notice to a financial institution before being included on the list; providing opportunity for a financial institution to be removed from the list; requiring the state treasurer and state auditor to refuse to enter into a banking contract with a financial institution on the list once published; providing definitions; amending a definition related to firearms discrimination; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; repealing the school foundation program reserve account; modifying the distribution of revenues from the account; making conforming amendments; specifying the disposition of funds credited to and from the account; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to state funds; amending the distribution of specified federal mineral royalties received by the state; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing Wyoming tribes to conduct online sports wagering as specified; amending geolocation system requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Ivan PoseyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; imposing an excise tax on the production of electricity; providing credits for other taxes paid; providing for administration and rulemaking authority; providing penalties; providing for distribution of the tax; creating an account; providing an exemption for sales tax on electricity sales; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Cody WylieRepublican

AN ACT relating to public funds; authorizing the investment of state funds and permanent funds in Bitcoin; specifying requirements for the investment in Bitcoin; requiring rulemaking; requiring reports; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Jacob WasserburgerRepublican

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; requiring local government entities to comply with deadlines for reviewing land use requests within the subject property's permitted zoning use; providing exceptions; requiring local government entities to provide notice as specified; providing definitions; providing penalties; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the Wyoming state fair department from the state fair division within the department of agriculture; providing for the appointment of a director; removing the state fair functions and division from the department of agriculture for transfer to the Wyoming state fair department; authorizing the transfer of positions and funds; providing for subsequent budgeting for the Wyoming state fair department; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Tomi StrockRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; providing legislative findings; prohibiting atmospheric geoengineering as specified; requiring testing; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; repealing low-carbon energy standard requirements; repealing conflicting provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

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 elections; requiring a hand count audit of ballots as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring stays of proceedings of the public service commission pending the resolution of lawsuits as specified; providing exemptions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to wildlife and livestock; amending the delayed effective date for a prior act related to bighorn and domestic sheep relocation and making the prior act effective by contingency; repealing a duplicative effective date; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; allowing health care professionals, health care institutions and health care payers the right not to participate in or pay for health care services as specified; authorizing religious-based health care organizations to make decisions consistent with religious beliefs; prohibiting discrimination for making health care decisions based on conscience; prohibiting adverse licensing actions based on protected expressive activity; specifying liability and damages for notice requirements; providing immunity; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing immunity from lawsuits based on the constitutional rights of freedom of petition, expression or speech; specifying procedures and limitations for lawsuits based on public participation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing an expiration date for executive orders as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Abby AngelosRepublican

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; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

AN ACT relating to the University of Wyoming; providing an appropriation; authorizing expansion of the course of training and education offered in the field of medicine as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; prohibiting the disclosure or use of information relating to firearms and ammunition sales as specified; providing requirements for disclosure; requiring investigations as specified; authorizing civil actions as specified; authorizing criminal penalties; providing and amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to public school finance; modifying resources provided through the education resource block grant model for career technical education equipment and supplies; requiring resources generated for career technical education supplies, materials and equipment be expended as specified; creating a categorical grant for career technical education supplies, materials and equipment; making conforming amendments; making technical corrections; repealing provisions; appropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for the nonpartisan nomination and election of candidates for specified county elected offices; modifying the procedure to fill vacancies for nonpartisan county elected offices; providing for the order of offices on nonpartisan election ballots; specifying the form of election ballots; making conforming amendments; repealing a conflicting provision; and providing for an effective date.

Ken ChestekDemocrat

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; amending licensing statutes for dentists and dental hygienists to include denturists; authorizing a denturist to be added to the board of dental examiners as specified; specifying that this act does not apply to denturitry students performing denturitry as part of their curriculum; specifying that denturists shall only perform dental laboratory work at the direction of a dentist; requiring denturists and dental laboratory technicians to complete work for a dentist pursuant to a written prescription as specified; requiring dentists and denturists to engage the services of persons outside their office with a written work authorization; specifying that denturists in certain occupations are exempt from the act; specifying that denturists may perform services for patients if trained to do so in an accredited denturitry school and under the supervision of a dentist; amending requirements relating to permissible supervised work by specified persons; requiring dental hygienists to be graduates of a board approved program in order to practice; amending definitions; providing definitions; amending other laws relating to dentists and dental hygienists to include denturists as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

John WinterRepublican

AN ACT relating to eminent domain; prohibiting persons from using the power of eminent domain to place pipelines conveying carbon dioxide for the purposes of carbon capture, utilization or storage; specifying applicability; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

John WinterRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a runoff election after a primary election for specified offices when no candidate receives a majority of the vote; providing the format of the runoff ballot; changing the date for primary elections; amending related dates; clarifying maintenance of voter registration lists; making conforming changes; amending election contribution laws; creating an account; providing an appropriation; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to predator management districts; amending predator management advisory board director term periods; requiring sportsman and hunter directors to have held a valid fishing or hunting license within the previous twenty-four months; removing staggered term limits for sportsmen and hunter directors; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; repealing school identification cards as acceptable forms of identification for in person voter identification purposes; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to mine product taxes; providing for the taxation of certain hydrogen production; specifying tax rates for different types of hydrogen production; providing for the administration of the tax; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing interactive gaming; providing for regulation by the Wyoming gaming commission; imposing fees; providing for the collection and distribution of revenues from interactive gaming; providing for the distribution of interactive gaming revenues; requiring rulemaking; creating criminal offenses and providing criminal penalties; and providing for effective dates.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of cultivated meat for human consumption; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for effective dates.

Representative Eklund

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a homeowner property tax exemption; specifying applicability; providing a sunset date; providing legislative findings; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to weapons; amending the age requirement for a qualified person to be issued a permit to carry a concealed weapon; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; amending the process by which vacancies in elected offices are filled; providing for the filling of vacancies when vacancies are not filled; establishing a presumption concerning qualifications to hold office; making conforming amendments; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Laurie BrattenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the legislature; creating the joint and standing committee on federal review; establishing powers and duties of the joint and standing committee on federal review; specifying the date for appointment of members to the joint and standing committee on federal review; providing a contingent sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Robert WharffRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating a program relating to K-12 mental health as specified; providing appropriations; providing positions; requiring reports; repealing a provision; and providing for an effective date.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying that residence does not include a secondary address or commercial address that is not used for habitation; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to electric utilities; amending the generation capacity for net metering systems; providing for the aggregation of net metering systems; authorizing customer-generators with specified net metering systems to charge a customer-generator fee or increase in a monthly fee; providing and amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring customer allocation agreements for utility service to a customer in the certificated territory of another utility; authorizing a civil action and recovery for violations; and providing for an effective date.

JD WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring the game and fish commission to issue bear coupons as specified; making legislative findings; requiring the game and fish commission to provide evidence of grizzly bear population recovery as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Robert WharffRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; prohibiting adults from communicating with minors about sexual activity as specified; providing penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; creating a cause of action; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to property; requiring notice of the severance of the pore space in conveyances of real property and disclosure statements; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the crime of promoting obscenity to minors; amending the crime of promoting obscenity as specified; providing and amending definitions; repealing an exemption from the crime of promoting obscenity for activities conducted in the course of employment at a school, college, university, museum or public library; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to consumer protection; prohibiting the reporting of medical debt to credit reporting agencies; creating a civil penalty; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Karlee ProvenzaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; clarifying how cities, towns and counties can impose exaction or mitigation fees for development projects; specifying limits for affordable or workforce housing exaction and mitigation fees; establishing a process for review and appeal of affordable or workforce housing exaction and mitigation fees; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; clarifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents notice of information regarding students; prohibiting school districts from requiring school district personnel and students to use a student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; requiring parental or guardian permission before instruction relating to diversity, equity or inclusion; authorizing school district personnel to opt out of mandatory trainings as specified; providing definitions; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Joe WebbRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for a child tax credit; specifying application requirements; specifying payment of refunds for taxes paid; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; creating the monument to America development and oversight task force; providing duties of the task force; requiring a report; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; prohibiting the categorization of firearms and ammunition merchants separately from general merchandise or sporting goods retailers as specified; creating a penalty; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from purchasing hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Bill AllemandRepublican