Bills & Legislation

A JOINT RESOLUTION amending the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for valuation of residential property for purposes of taxation and to make conforming changes to related constitutional provisions.

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AN ACT relating to guardianship; requiring a guardian to make monthly in‑person monitoring of the guardian's ward; providing for reasonable fees and expenses of a guardian; requiring reporting to the court of the in‑person monitoring; requiring a guardian or conservator to notify specified entities of the guardian or conservator's appointment; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; creating the Wyoming First Amendment Protection Act; providing immunity from lawsuits based on the constitutional rights of freedom of petition, freedom of assembly, religious freedom and expression of speech; specifying procedures and limitations for lawsuits based on public participation; providing legislative findings; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

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; requiring school districts to participate in the state employees' and officials' group insurance program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; continuing the mental health services grant program; repealing provisions; providing appropriations; authorizing positions; providing borrowing authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring trains to be not more than a specified length; providing operational requirements; requiring the implementation of wayside detection systems; requiring visual inspections; providing civil penalties; requiring a report; providing definitions; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation and providing for an effective date.

Ken ChestekDemocrat

AN ACT relating to water; specifying that destruction of water is not beneficial use; providing for the rejection of specified applications for water use; providing an exception; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the common law, statutes and rules of construction; limiting the application and use of foreign law under Wyoming law; specifying exceptions to a change of venue in civil actions; providing legislative findings; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

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

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing education savings accounts; creating the Wyoming education savings account expenditure account; providing for a transfer of funds to the Wyoming education savings accounts expenditure account; providing for the use and administration of education savings accounts for education; specifying duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; providing rulemaking authority; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; authorizing full-time positions; repealing provisions; providing a contingent effective date pending certification by the governor of actions of the Wyoming supreme court; and providing for an effective date.

Ken CloustonRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; amending a property tax exemption for single family residential structures based on the prior year assessed value; amending a property tax exemption for land associated with a single family residential structure based on the prior year assessed value; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; providing for administrative dissolution of or revocation of certificate of authority for corporations, limited liability companies and statutory foundations as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; amending the Second Amendment Protection Act as specified; creating exceptions to the Second Amendment Protection Act; creating civil penalties; creating criminal penalties; creating an exception to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Robert WharffRepublican

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; prohibiting the payment of association and organization membership fees from public funds; prohibiting the payment of expenses for association and organization activities as specified; specifying association-related documents and other materials as public records; requiring government entities to report participation in activities with associations and organizations as specified; repealing the ability to pay for memberships for Wyoming board of professional engineers and professional land surveyors; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Marlene BradyRepublican

AN ACT relating to nicotine products; requiring manufacturers of nicotine products to obtain a license; requiring manufacturers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material to file certifications as specified; placing restrictions on the sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; requiring the department of revenue to publish a directory of electronic cigarettes and vapor material offered for sale in Wyoming by licensed nicotine product manufacturers; prohibiting the sale of nicotine products not included in the directory; requiring biannual inspections of retailers, distributors and wholesalers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; providing penalties; providing definitions; providing rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring the legislative service office to direct email correspondence to a legislators email inbox if requested after verification that the correspondence does not pose a security threat; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; prohibiting public officials from entering into nondisclosure agreements as specified; providing definitions; specifying penalties; specifying remedies for violations; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; requiring the disposition of pari-mutuel funds paid to the state to be deposited to the state highway fund; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; specifying that the retail sale of electricity by specified persons to specified customers is exempt from regulation by the public service commission; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; prohibiting cities, towns and counties from imposing fees or conditions related to housing on residential or commercial development as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to literacy screening assessment and intervention; providing requirements for screening assessments, evidence based interventions and evidence based core literacy instruction for specified grade levels; requiring schools and school districts to submit improvement plans; requiring specific skills for literacy proficiency used in data collection; requiring school districts to maintain records; requiring professional development; requiring school districts to employ or consult with persons with literacy endorsements as specified; specifying additional duties for the Wyoming professional teaching standards board; repealing the reading assessment and intervention program; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Julie JarvisRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; providing for the regulation and use of small plug-in solar generation devices; exempting small plug-in solar generation devices from specified utility regulations; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; exempting an electric utility from liability caused by a customer's use of a plug‑in solar generation device; and providing for an effective date.

Liz StorerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing a process for county commissioners to request a hearing for certain state land leases; specifying requirements for leases for specified industrial purposes; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to nonprofit corporations; authorizing members of nonprofit corporations to participate in membership meetings remotely; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Liz StorerDemocrat

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

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AN ACT relating to elections; amending the appointment and authority of poll watchers to observe polling locations; making conforming amendments; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; requiring independent candidates to swear that they are unaffiliated or not registered with a major or minor political party; revising the number of signatures required for independent candidates to appear on the general election ballot; revising the deadline to file a petition as an independent candidate; and providing for an effective date.

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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 the use of Hathaway scholarships at private post secondary institutions; defining terms; creating a scholarship; establishing eligibility requirements; establishing payment of scholarship funds to private post secondary institutions; specifying success curriculum requirements; modifying the duties of the department of education; providing a sunset date; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; amending requirements for the bond question; creating a civil cause of action; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing for the election of the attorney general; designating the attorney general as a state elected official; setting the attorney general's term of office; setting the attorney general's salary; providing for filling a vacancy in the position; repealing and modifying provisions for interim appointment; providing for the application of the Ethics and Disclosure Act and other laws to the office of the attorney general and attorney general as a state elected official; amending certain provisions regarding actions the attorney general takes requiring approval of or pursuant to the direction of the governor; prescribing additional duties of the attorney general; making conforming amendments; repealing an obsolete provision; and providing for effective dates.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; providing for increased reimbursement for skilled nursing homes under the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act as specified; providing appropriations; specifying applicability; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ken CloustonRepublican

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; authorizing the department of health to apply for enhanced Medicaid reimbursement for eligible providers of maternal services; providing definitions; providing purposes for enhanced reimbursement rates; requiring reports; providing appropriations; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ken CloustonRepublican

AN ACT relating to K-12 public school discipline; requiring school district board of trustees to adopt rules or policies; establishing requirements for student discipline; requiring notice to parents and guardians; requiring reporting; making conforming amendments; repealing immunity for the use of corporal discipline; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing an ad valorem tax exemption for bona fide Wyoming residents who are honorably discharged veterans who served in the United States armed forces or the Wyoming national guard for a specified time period; providing an ad valorem tax exemption for bona fide Wyoming residents who are active or reserve members of the Wyoming national guard or the United States armed forces; providing an ad valorem tax exemption for bona fide Wyoming residents who are surviving spouses or surviving parents of specified veterans and military members; amending the bona fide Wyoming residency requirement as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Marilyn ConnollyRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing the value of residential real property for purposes of taxation; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to school districts; requiring school districts to provide feminine hygiene products in restrooms as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to annexation; repealing a provision that prevents landowners from filing objections to a proposed annexation when a portion of the annexed area's perimeter is contiguous with the corporate limits of an annexing city or town; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

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

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to property; authorizing attorney fees and expert witness fees for actions related to prescriptive easements as specified; clarifying the time period for a prescriptive easement; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; repealing the requirement to display a license plate on the front of a vehicle; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Rob GeringerRepublican

AN ACT relating to highways; creating the interstate highways traffic study task force; specifying members and duties of the task force; providing a termination date for the task force; requiring reports; providing for the planning, design and construction of highways as specified; authorizing investment of state funds in transportation construction loans; providing a funding guarantee by modifying the distribution of revenues; providing appropriations; providing for the transfer of funds; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the legislature; revising the penalty for failure to comply with a legislative subpoena; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; requiring minutes to be taken for the post-election ballot audit; requiring observation of the post-election ballot audit procedures and results; specifying requirements for observation by representatives of political parties and independent candidates; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to county officers; specifying that the secretary of state may submit a complaint to the governor against a county clerk for violations of the election code; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to lobbying; prohibiting the use of state funds and resources for lobbying; requiring certifications; providing for enforcement; and providing for an effective date.

Paul HoeftRepublican

AN ACT relating to courts; requiring court records and audio recordings to be publicly available online at no cost; specifying exceptions; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; authorizing and requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Ann LucasRepublican

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.

Scott SmithRepublican