Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing penalties for failing to stop where an accident involves serious bodily injury or death; adding a knowledge requirement for specified failing to stop offenses; providing clarifying amendments; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

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; prohibiting collection actions as specified; requiring recommendations for proposed legislation; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Daniel SinghRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; specifying that the time period for a cause of action for adverse possession does not run during periods when the property owner has paid all property taxes; specifying the process for the payment of legal fees in a claim for adverse possession; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; repealing the excise tax on malt beverages; amending limitations on importing alcoholic beverages for personal use; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes; repealing the sales and use tax on services performed for the repair, alteration or improvement of tangible personal property; making conforming changes; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the governor to convene the legislature after declaring that a public health emergency exists as specified; authorizing the legislature to satisfy quorum requirements and vote in person or remotely by an electronic method; amending the definition of public health emergency as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the use of autologous or direct blood donations as specified; authorizing reasonable fees for blood donations; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joel GuggenmosRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; specifying the membership of the county canvassing board; making conforming changes; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to children; providing legislative findings; specifying protections for specified adoption and foster care providers and parents; prohibiting discriminatory actions associated with adoption and foster care; specifying remedies and causes of action; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; authorizing federal and state-licensed meat processors to sell composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; allowing school districts and charter schools to adopt policies to employ persons without holding a certificate or permit issued by the Wyoming professional teaching standards board; specifying requirements for the adoption of policies; authorizing school districts and charter schools to obtain criminal histories and request fingerprinting; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the maximum fines and terms of imprisonment that municipal courts may impose; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; establishing a right of appeal for the state in criminal cases as specified; providing requirements and limitations for the state to appeal in criminal cases; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to governmental claims; specifying that governmental entities are not liable for damages to criminal suspects for the negligent investigations of peace officers acting within the scope of their official duties; providing legislative intent; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; amending student eligibility requirements in interscholastic or intercollegiate activities; specifying requirements for the University of Wyoming and community colleges for student eligibility; prohibiting participation in athletic activities as specified; providing definitions; repealing alternate procedures for determining student eligibility; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; providing a process for publishing and maintaining executive orders; providing a definition; requiring previously issued executive orders be published and maintained on the secretary of state website; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Urban Renewal Code; expanding the application of the code to include the provision of affordable housing; providing findings and definitions; making conforming changes; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to the insurance code; requiring prior authorization adverse determinations to be determined by Wyoming-licensed health care providers; requiring prior authorization appeals to be reviewed by Wyoming-licensed health care providers; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to transportation; requiring transportation network company drivers to have proof of Wyoming motor vehicle registration; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; providing exemptions from mortgage loan licensing requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to industrial development and siting; requiring decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers to be disposed of on the site of the wind turbines; prohibiting the disposal of wind turbine blades and towers in municipal solid waste facilities; specifying exceptions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

J.R. RigginsRepublican

AN ACT relating to eminent domain; repealing the ability of entities who are not public utilities to use the right of condemnation for electric generation collector systems; providing requirements for existing easements; requiring condemnors to give notice to local governing bodies before commencement of a condemnation action; specifying requirements for condemnation actions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; prohibiting natural asset companies from selling credits through national securities exchanges as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state funds; creating an inviolate school generational account within the permanent land fund; creating the school generational income account; providing for the long-term investment of the school generational account as specified; providing for expenditure of the account's earnings for the benefit of schools; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting discrimination and publishing or advertising based on a person's vaccination, face covering or medical testing status as specified; providing a civil cause of action; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Darin McCannRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; repealing the sunset date of the property tax exemption for long-term homeowners; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; amending requirements for the commencement of limited mining operations; amending bonding, notice and reporting requirements for limited mining operations; limiting overburden surface mining operations as specified; amending requirements for extending limited mining operations; amending bond release provisions for limited mining operations; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing an ad valorem tax deferral for the storage of industrial production equipment in the state; specifying conditions and requirements for the deferral; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to environmental quality; amending bonding amounts and bond release requirements for limited mining operations; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing requirements and standards for the storage of used nuclear fuel; amending siting requirements for used nuclear fuel storage facilities; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to K-12 school finance; eliminating operating expenditures as a factor in the computation of maintenance workers in the routine maintenance and operations component of the education resource block grant model; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; changing the distribution of severance tax to the highway fund; repealing a provision allowing for the distribution of severance tax in the general appropriations bill; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing for a new criminal offense of cruelty to animals; increasing the maximum fine for a misdemeanor first offense cruelty to animals conviction; providing for the suspension of hunting privileges for a cruelty to animals conviction as specified; authorizing game and fish law enforcement to enforce the criminal provisions of cruelty to animals as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to administration of government; requiring an efficiency study by an independent third party to evaluate the department of transportation; requiring reporting and recommendations; providing an appropriation; specifying contingencies; and providing for effective dates.

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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.

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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.

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AN ACT relating to administration of the government; authorizing the office of homeland security to access criminal identification and intelligence information as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to courts; amending requirements for the assignment of retired judges and justices to active cases; specifying limitations on the assignment of retired justices and judges to service; specifying duties of the Wyoming supreme court; requiring the use of three (3) judge panels for district courts to resolve the constitutionality of statutes and session laws as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Brian BonerRepublican

AN ACT relating to higher education; providing funding for specified research projects at the University of Wyoming; allocating revenue generated by research as specified; specifying conditions and permitted uses for appropriated funds; authorizing fundraising to support research projects; requiring nonstate matching funds as specified; creating an account; requiring reports; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for the hand counting of ballots; establishing statewide standards related to the handling and counting of ballots; providing for the reconciling of ballot numbers; prohibiting the use of voting machines for casting or tabulating ballots; providing duties for county clerks and the secretary of state; revising requirements for the post-election ballot audit; requiring rulemaking; revising offenses related to elections; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; repealing conflicting provisions; making legislative findings; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Dan LaursenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the cowboy state agricultural trust fund; specifying requirements and authorized expenditures for the fund; creating the cowboy state agricultural trust fund committee; specifying duties and oversight responsibilities of the committee; requiring reporting; requiring the transfer of funds; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Brian BonerRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing for administration of the property tax; specifying property tax assessment rates for residential real property; limiting the applicability of specified mills to residential real property used as a primary residence by the owner of the property; repealing a related property tax exemption; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to the legislature; creating the select committee on gaming; providing for the appointment of members; specifying duties; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; eliminating the requirement that license plates be reissued after a specified time; requiring replacement of license plates as specified; adding a fee for replacement license plates; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for the election of representatives to the Wyoming house of representatives; specifying requirements for nominations and elections; specifying apportionment and counting procedures for elections of representatives; making conforming amendments; providing for the apportionment of house legislative districts and the number of representatives for each district; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Troy McKeownRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; amending the zoning protest process as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to eminent domain; requiring the legislature to approve the use of eminent domain for the construction of water projects that utilize state funds as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bob IdeRepublican

AN ACT relating to K-12 school facilities major maintenance; appropriating funds for major maintenance for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026; appropriating funds for major maintenance for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; and providing for an effective date.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; amending the number of days a health insurer has to determine the medical necessity of a health care service; amending the number of days an independent review organization has to make an external review determination regarding medical necessity of a health care service; and providing for an effective date.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to tourism; providing an appropriation; specifying distribution and requirements for the appropriation; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican