Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming livestock board; requiring the board to initiate memorandums of understanding regarding the identification of livestock delivered to other states; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; removing a limitation on the number of charter schools that the Wyoming charter school authorizing board may authorize; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to homeland security; amending duties of county clerks, the division of criminal investigation and the director of the office of homeland security for identification of conveyances near critical infrastructure; repealing requirements to provide a list of designated critical infrastructure zones to the county clerks; amending and creating definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; extending the sunset date for the manufacturing sales tax and use tax exemptions; repealing provisions for the manufacturing use tax exemption to align with the manufacturing sales tax exemption; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the prioritization of cease and transfer projects for municipal solid waste facilities; authorizing expenditure of previously appropriated funds; establishing a prioritized list of projects; establishing a maximum amount to be expended on projects; granting the department of environmental quality limited discretionary authority to modify the prioritized list; specifying expenditures for a carcass management project; providing definitions; requiring reports; repealing a prior priority list of cease and transfer projects; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to career technical education equipment grants for K-12 public school districts; increasing the maximum grant award; reducing the years required to expend funds for grant eligibility; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to school finance; modifying the career and technical education equipment and supplies component within the education resource block grant model; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; repealing an obsolete provision; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to K-12 school facility leasing; modifying payment for lease agreements for K-12 school facilities; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to homeland security; amending a definition to include certified water and wastewater operators for purposes of emergency response; requiring local homeland security plans to coordinate with certified water and wastewater operators as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; repealing requirements to physically surrender a driver's license; repealing temporary licenses; requiring peace officers to submit signed statements to the department of transportation after alcohol concentration tests for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age as specified; clarifying the timeline for contested case hearings as specified; repealing obsolete provisions; making conforming amendments; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending when notification and reporting is required for motor vehicle accidents; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending disabled windshield placard contents as specified; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending grounds for disqualification from driving a commercial motor vehicle for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age; authorizing expunged records to be considered for purposes of disqualification from driving a commercial motor vehicle as specified; adding violations that qualify as serious traffic violations; authorizing the department to waive examinations for a commercial driver's license applicant as specified; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending expiration and renewal of licenses for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age; amending identification card contents; clarifying the timeline for contested case hearings regarding licenses; amending requirements for replacement licenses; adding a fee for replacement licenses; repealing obsolete provisions; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to common law, statutes and rules of construction; specifying definitions and standards for the application of a person's biological sex in law, rules or regulations; providing for the law to distinguish between accommodations for males and females; requiring the collection of vital statistics and other data to identify persons as male or female at birth; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; amending the distribution of sales and use taxes on motor vehicles and trailers to the highway fund as specified; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the Hathaway scholarship program; modifying definitions; modifying the standards for satisfactory academic progress; amending minimum enrollment hours for Hathaway scholarship eligibility; modifying scholarship awards; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; amending how penalties collected for failure to file specified tax statements are paid and credited; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to property tax; clarifying the total maximum household income limit for purposes of the property tax refund program; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing annual registration fees for resident snowmobiles; increasing nonresident annual snowmobile user fees; creating a permanent registration for antique snowmobiles; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; revising use tax provisions to conform to the corresponding sales tax provisions; clarifying a definition; clarifying the use tax exemption for machinery used in manufacturing; clarifying licensing and compliance provisions; revising refund provisions; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to environmental quality; clarifying the financial institutions from which operators may obtain irrevocable letters of credit to deposit with the department of environmental quality in lieu of a bond; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the licensure of surgical abortion facilities as specified; providing criminal penalties for violations; specifying civil liability for damages resulting from abortions; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Martha LawleyRepublican

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 game and fish; removing otters from the definition of protected animals for purposes of hunting regulations; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

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 motor vehicles; creating a motor vehicle registration and license plate issuance system; requiring the department of transportation to implement and administer the system; requiring county treasurers to use the system; providing definitions; specifying that development of the system is part of the replacement of the revenue information system; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Tara NethercottRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the completion of a hand count by the county clerk of each county in the 2026 primary and general elections; specifying requirements of the hand count; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

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

A JOINT RESOLUTION designating April 26 of each year to be shared parenting day in the state of Wyoming.

Laura PearsonRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress recognize the protection of Wyoming's freedom of access to public lands, to allow responsible development of resources, recreation, agriculture, hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation under multiple‑use frameworks, to protect local participation in land management decisions, and to keep public lands available to the people of Wyoming.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Funding Act; providing for the funding of large projects under that act; specifying large projects approved for funding in 2026; authorizing distributions from the Wyoming wildlife and natural resource trust income account for approved large projects; providing for the reversion of funds; and providing for an effective date.

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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 Indian child welfare; repealing the Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

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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 game and fish; authorizing persons with life threatening illnesses and persons who are vision-impaired to receive donated hunting licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tim FrenchRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming state guard; removing activation of the national guard of Wyoming into service of the United States as a prerequisite for the organization of the Wyoming state guard; removing federal involvement in the Wyoming state guard; allowing the governor to organize and maintain the Wyoming state guard; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Dan LaursenRepublican

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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