Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; establishing a property tax exemption for single family residential properties; providing a sales and use tax to provide funding to local governments due to the decrease in revenue from property tax exemptions; providing an exemption to the additional sales and use tax as specified; providing for the distribution of the sales and use tax; making conforming amendments; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; authorizing reimbursement for other tax reductions; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

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 the administration of the government; amending the required recommendation amount of estimated general fund receipts to be appropriated as specified; making conforming amendments; 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 public funds; providing legislative findings; requiring the investment of state funds by investment managers located in Wyoming as specified; providing conditions and exemptions for the investment of funds by investment managers in Wyoming; specifying duties of the state treasurer; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to state legislative districts; providing legislative findings; requiring management council to assign legislative apportionment to a committee of the legislature for study during the 2025 legislative interim as provided by this act; providing that legislation to apportion the legislature based on the requirements of this act may be introduced during the 2026 legislative budget session; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to wildfires; providing appropriations; authorizing grants and expenditures; creating a steering committee; specifying duties of the executive director of the Wyoming wildlife and natural resource trust account board; providing for the transfer of funds; authorizing borrowing; repealing prior borrowing authorization; and providing for effective dates.

Marilyn ConnollyRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring the secretary of state to establish a centralized electronic notice system; requiring preservation of notices as specified; providing for governmental entities and other persons to publish public or legal notices on the centralized electronic notice system in lieu of publication in a newspaper as specified; authorizing fees; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Daniel SinghRepublican

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 public meetings; requiring audio or video access to public meetings to the extent practicable; providing for public comment at public meetings; specifying when minutes of a public meeting are required to be made available to the public; requiring an agency that makes an audio or video recording of a public meeting to make the recording available for the public; authorizing broadcasting or recording of public meetings; and providing for an effective date.

Daniel SinghRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; increasing nonresident fishing license fees; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

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 elections; requiring that acceptable identification include a photograph of the person; repealing Medicaid and Medicare insurance cards as forms of acceptable identification; and providing for an effective date.

Nina WebberRepublican

AN ACT relating to religious freedom; creating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; providing definitions; limiting specified governmental actions that burden religious freedom; authorizing claims and defenses against governmental action that burden religious freedom; providing exceptions; and providing for an effective date.

Art WashutRepublican

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 trade and commerce; prohibiting compensation for advising or assisting a person on veterans' benefits matters except as permitted under federal law; providing limitations; providing definitions; providing for enforcement and penalties; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing persons to hunt specified animals from aircraft, automotive vehicles, trailers, motor-propelled wheeled vehicles or snowmobiles; and providing for an effective date.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; increasing the number of local entities required to approve provisions related to specified local sales and use taxes; decreasing the amount of time between elections for specified local sales and use taxes; repealing provisions related to the optional municipal sales and use tax; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to residential rental property; removing the exception for parties to agree in writing that the rental unit is not required to have operational utilities; and providing for an effective date.

Ken ChestekDemocrat

AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; authorizing local governments to pay claims and demands through electronic payment means; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Pam ThayerRepublican

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 animals; amending provisions governing euthanasia of pets as specified; providing definitions; creating a misdemeanor for the destruction of animals as specified; providing a penalty; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

Daniel SinghRepublican

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 state lands; providing a perpetual easement over state and school lands for county and municipal roads; specifying requirements for easements; specifying duties for the board of land commissioners and the office of state lands and investments; making conforming amendments; providing legislative findings; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; limiting the duration of conservation easements to thirty (30) years; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

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 property; restricting foreign adversary ownership of land and other interests in Wyoming as specified; providing definitions; authorizing enforcement of ownership restrictions as specified; providing a civil penalty; requiring the inclusion of notices of foreign ownership in assessment schedules and tax statements; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for a contingent effective date.

Dalton BanksRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing persons attending legislative meetings in the community or at the Wyoming state capitol to park on the street for unlimited periods of time; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing specially designed license plates to be issued to benefit search and rescue efforts; specifying requirements; authorizing fees; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

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 elections; prohibiting government officials and election officials from accepting private funds to conduct elections as specified; prohibiting any person from providing or offering private funds for purposes of conducting an election; providing exceptions; creating new misdemeanor offenses; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

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 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 a report; 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 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 elections; providing a process for certain recounts to be conducted by hand counting the votes; authorizing the secretary of state and county clerks to require recounts as specified; providing for hand counts to be requested by candidates as specified; specifying the costs of recounts; revising dates of the primary election and the county and state canvass to allow time for hand counting as specified; clarifying when a counting board is required to be appointed; requiring rulemaking; creating an account; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; amending and renaming the coal-fired facility closures litigation funding account; providing an appropriation; requiring reports; 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 motor vehicles; requiring license plates to be issued by the department of transportation; clarifying the number of license plates to be provided; removing the requirement that license plates be replaced after a specified time; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Cody WylieRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting a person from delivering ballots of other electors to the county clerk; providing exceptions; specifying that ballots shall not be tabulated as specified; providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Steve JohnsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to abortion; creating the Reproductive Freedom Act; specifying the public policy of the state concerning reproductive rights; prohibiting the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to have an abortion prior to viability of the fetus or to protect the person's life or health; prohibiting unauthorized abortions; specifying a penalty; providing definitions; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat