Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to child protection; requiring age verification for visiting websites with material harmful to minors; specifying requirements and exceptions for age verification; specifying remedies, liability and damages; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; removing the requirement that a home-based educational program submit curriculum to the local school board; removing a provision relating to the failure to submit curriculum; and providing for an effective date.

Tomi StrockRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the Wyoming game and fish commission to regulate commercially guided fishing boats; providing for registration of commercially guided fishing boats, vehicles and trailers operated by outfitters and professional fishing guides; providing an exception; creating an advisory board; specifying duties of the advisory board; requiring a report; providing definitions; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the Wyoming energy authority; requiring the completion of a transmission study; specifying requirements of the study; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Brian BonerRepublican

AN ACT relating to real estate brokers and salespersons; amending the definition of "customer" for purposes of real estate transactions and licensing provisions; amending the disclosures that are required when establishing a broker relationship; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to welfare; amending the intervals at which the department of health and department of family services shall determine specified information of an applicant for or recipient of public welfare and assistance; making conforming amendments; amending the requirements for public welfare and assistance qualification and participation; establishing citizen, noncitizen and qualified alien eligibility for public welfare and assistance; requiring the reporting of illegal alien status; requiring specified hospitals to collect citizenship status information; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Pharmacy Act; amending provisions related to the practice of pharmacy; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the Wyoming energy dominance fund; specifying authorized uses and requirements of the fund; authorizing grants and loans from funds within the Wyoming energy dominance fund as specified; requiring reports; providing findings; modifying distribution of severance tax revenues; providing for the deposit of funds into the Wyoming energy dominance fund; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; requiring amateur status for participation in high school athletic activities; specifying requirements for amateur status; providing exceptions; and providing for an effective date.

Gary CrumRepublican

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; providing for the conversion of special purpose depository institutions into state banks; providing for the conversion of state banks into special purpose depository institutions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; amending special purpose depository institution initial capital stock requirements; amending requirements for special purpose depository institutions to commence business as specified; amending requirements for the application to charter special purpose depository institutions as specified; amending the timeline special purpose depository institutions must commence business; authorizing appeals of decisions of the commissioner; amending the appealable court for decisions relating to special purpose depository institutions; creating a special purpose depository institution resolution fund account; specifying authorized expenditures and the investment of funds in the account; requiring a portion of supervisory fees to be paid to the account; repealing the requirement that special purpose depository institutions maintain a contingency account; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to food and drugs; regulating the sale, testing and use of kratom products as specified; authorizing the department of health and local law enforcement to enforce compliance with kratom product regulation as specified; providing definitions; providing criminal penalties; providing appropriations; authorizing full-time positions; and providing for effective dates.

Bill LandenRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to list prices for medical items and services as specified; requiring the department of health to monitor and enforce the provisions of this act; providing penalties; providing definitions; requiring recommendations for future legislation; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; providing a sunset date; and providing for effective dates.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to language and literacy competency; providing definitions; specifying screeners, assessments, diagnostics and screening requirements; requiring professional development; establishing school district duties; requiring parental notice; requiring individual reading plans for students with reading difficulties or at risk for poor reading outcomes; requiring reports; establishing additional duties for the department of education; authorizing the state superintendent of public instruction to create a language and literacy division; requiring rulemaking; repealing provisions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a sales tax and use tax exemption to the purchase or transfer of a motor vehicle to family members as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to irrigation projects; authorizing irrigation districts, watershed improvement districts and water conservancy districts to direct a portion of annual district funding for major maintenance projects; authorizing investments of major maintenance accounts; authorizing water conservancy districts to assess mills for major maintenance projects as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to water; requiring a study of waste water and storm water infrastructure in the state as specified; requiring reports; specifying ownership of data collected pursuant to the study; providing requirements for production, disclosure and dissemination of data collected; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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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 amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring a project; requiring studies; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; reconstituting the office of homeland security as the Wyoming department of homeland security; specifying duties and budget requirements for the department; specifying the transfer of assets, obligations and duties of the office of homeland security to the department of homeland security; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; revising the sales tax chapter to include the administration of the use tax; repealing duplicative provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes; removing the requirement for specified notices related to sales and use taxes to be sent by mail; authorizing electronic notices; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to K-12 public school finance; implementing the 2025 cost of education study as modified by the legislature; modifying the education resource block grant model; modifying cash reserves; restricting expenditure of funds distributed through the school foundation program account; creating a new grant program for the post secondary education enrollment options program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; repealing provisions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to education; imposing requirements for rental fees charged by school districts for use of school district property as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing third party providers to provide driver's license and motor vehicle services as specified; creating the motor vehicle division partner program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; providing definitions; providing for appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget and for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 as specified; providing for carryover of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; providing for employee positions as specified; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 and the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; continuing an account; authorizing grants and loans; discharging interfund loans; funding a higher education program; requiring an audit of funds; making conforming amendments; amending and repealing prior appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing the department of health to enter into contracts with detention centers for holding and treating mentally ill detainees before a competency evaluation or restoration; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing immunity for persons providing competency evaluations or restoration services as specified; amending definitions; providing an appropriation; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; amending eligibility requirements for indigent veterans in order for counties to request reimbursement for preparing and transporting indigent veterans for burial; specifying indigent veterans who qualify for burial expenses paid by the department of family services also qualify for payment of burial expenses by counties; increasing the amount paid for burial expenses by the department of family services; clarifying priority of payment for burial expenses of indigent veterans; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; creating the Wyoming national guard member reenlistment and extension program as specified; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; increasing the referral bonus amount for the Wyoming national guard member referral incentive program; expanding eligibility of the program; extending the sunset date for the program; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state lands; amending provisions and creating exemptions regarding the subleasing of state grazing lands; providing definitions; establishing a non-owned livestock fee; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to enrollment of students in K-12 public schools; specifying the public schools of the state as being equally free and accessible to children attending school on a part‑time basis; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the administration of epinephrine through the use of auto-injectors, nasal sprays and any other federally approved device or method; amending definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; requiring government entities to adopt policies for the collection, access, security and use of personal data as specified; requiring specific personal data policies; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; authorizing gifts, donations and bequests to be deposited into the Wyoming stable token trust account; amending the Wyoming stable token commission's authorized investments; amending the trust account's reserve requirement; amending the distribution of funds within the Wyoming stable token administration account; creating a Wyoming stable token liquidity account; authorizing the Wyoming stable token commission to enter into agreements as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; amending provisions related to the involuntary hospitalization of mentally ill persons; expanding the list of examiners qualified to perform involuntary hospitalization examinations; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming lottery; authorizing debit card payments for lottery ticket purchases; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; exempting specified real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission from property taxation; amending a special tax on real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission that is used for other purposes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to mortgages; implementing the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act; specifying the priority of mortgages; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to emergency telephone service; requiring a study on next generation 911 service; authorizing a grant program to fund shortfalls in current 911 service; requiring rulemaking; making a conforming amendment; requiring a report; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; requiring school districts to adopt policies governing students' possession and use of cell phones and smart devices in schools; requiring the adopted policies to be submitted to the state superintendent of public instruction; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; providing for increased reimbursement for emergency medical services under the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act as specified; providing appropriations; specifying applicability; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to labor and employment; authorizing the creation and use of portable benefit accounts; specifying requirements and conditions for portable benefit accounts; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering; specifying requirements for simulcasting permits, including historic horse racing terminals; requiring approval by a city, town or county for the issuance of a simulcasting permit as specified; authorizing conditions and revocation of approval; authorizing appeals; amending enforcement requirements; conforming provisions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to gaming; limiting the licensed liquor establishments where skill based amusement games may be located; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to increasing the Hathaway scholarship program awards; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing physicians to recommend and perform stem cell therapy on patients as specified; allowing health care insurers to cover stem cell therapy as specified; prohibiting the state board of medicine from taking action against a physician's license due to the use or promotion of stem cell therapy; prohibiting the state of Wyoming from denying patients access to stem cell therapy; providing that no cause of action is created against a person properly performing stem cell therapy; requiring compliance as specified; amending the powers of the Wyoming state board of medicine; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing county memorial hospitals and hospital districts to file for bankruptcy under chapter 9 of the United States bankruptcy code as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to water; requiring the state engineer to conduct a groundwater study in control areas as specified; requiring reports; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Taft LoveRepublican

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; codifying current state criteria for Medicaid eligibility; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; specifying that using artificial intelligence to commit a criminal offense shall not be a defense to the offense; establishing criminal offenses concerning the use of synthetic sexual material or artificial intelligence against children; establishing criminal offenses concerning the use of artificial intelligence to promote self-harm or to censor political speech; providing immunity for developers of artificial intelligence systems as specified; specifying penalties; providing and amending definitions; providing causes of action; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican