Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; requiring jurisdiction over pending building permit or land use applications to remain with the county until the applications are issued or denied; requiring jurisdiction to transfer to an annexing city or town as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting health mandates and requirements for COVID-19 and any variant thereof by specified federal and nongovernmental health organizations; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to school building and facility projects; providing for supplemental appropriations for the period commencing July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026; specifying conditions for expenditures; reappropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to water development projects; increasing the grant provided to the Laprele dam rehabilitation project; transferring funds from the legislative stabilization reserve account to water development account II; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

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 elections; requiring absentee ballots to contain an official envelope inside the inner ballot envelope; requiring absentee voters to provide identification information as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; imposing a minimum fine and increasing the maximum fine for the penalty for taking up estray animals; providing increased penalties for second and subsequent offenses; making a conforming amendment; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting governmental entities from engaging in any diversity, equity or inclusion program, activity or policy; prohibiting governmental entities engaging in institutional discrimination; prohibiting required attendance for certain programs or trainings; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to the University of Wyoming board of trustees; increasing the members of the board of trustees; providing for election of trustees as specified; specifying election requirements; making conforming amendments; specifying requirements for the initial election and initial terms of elected trustees; specifying expiration of existing appointed trustee terms; specifying requirements for appointment and terms of appointed trustees after the 2026 general election; repealing duplicative provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

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 courts; authorizing the assignment of cases and proceedings from circuit courts and district courts to chancery court judges; specifying requirements for transfers; authorizing retired chancery court judges to provide judicial service as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the court automation fee as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to cities and towns; requiring cities and towns to provide notice to landowners within a certain distance of proposed zoning changes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting counties and municipalities from prohibiting or regulating the use or possession of fireworks on July 4; allowing the use and possession of fireworks on July 4 in state parks, campgrounds and similar areas; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring the board of land commissioners to provide notice before issuing or extending a mineral lease on state lands and state school lands as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; specifying that the department of environmental quality may conduct water quality testing before the commencement of limited mining operations; amending notice requirements for limited mining operations; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

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 state land leasing; authorizing a person who is not currently in violation of the terms of their state land lease to have a preferred right to renew their lease; and providing for an effective date.

Dalton BanksRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the crimes of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution to include acts of sexual contact; providing definitions; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties, cities and towns; prohibiting counties, cities and towns from enacting and enforcing policies on the use of animals as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to abortions; requiring ultrasounds before the procurement of chemical abortions; providing verification requirements; providing definitions; providing penalties; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

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 cities and towns; providing a tax credit for expenditures to incentivize the improvement of abandoned and nuisance properties; authorizing cities and towns to designate abandoned and nuisance properties for purposes of the tax credit; authorizing cities and towns to assess a fee for costs to abate a nuisance or to repair, remove or destroy dangerous property; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to investment of public funds; requiring the state treasurer to invest in Wyoming community development authority bonds as specified; providing a sunset date; 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 corporations, partnerships and associations; amending the grounds for administrative dissolution, revocation and forfeiture to include foreign adversary ownership or control as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to irrigation districts; increasing the cost requirements for irrigation district purchases or projects that are required to be submitted for bids; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the insurance code; requiring the reporting of insurance fraud; requiring cooperation in investigations of insurance fraud; providing immunity from civil liability for reporting and cooperating in investigations of insurance fraud; providing a definition; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to county clerks; authorizing county clerks to seek to have frivolous filings rejected or notated as frivolous; specifying requirements and procedures for rejecting or notating frivolous filings; and providing for an effective date.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

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 safety for a newborn child; authorizing a grant program for safe haven providers to purchase newborn safety devices as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a minimum threshold of ballots cast in a bond election held on any day other than a general election as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements for the hiring and retention of investment managers, trustees and fiduciaries who invest state funds as specified; specifying proxy voting requirements for investment managers, trustees and fiduciaries who invest state funds; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

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 the insurance code; requiring health insurance carriers to follow specified guidelines regarding health care provider credentialing; specifying that health carriers shall not be required to violate or fail to meet requirements of a nationally recognized accrediting entity; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to domestic relations; specifying a rebuttable presumption that no sex offender shall have unsupervised visitation with a child; requiring consideration of sex-related convictions when considering the best interests of a child in custody determinations upon divorce; and providing for an effective date.

Ken PendergraftRepublican

AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering; requiring distribution of historic pari-mutuel event breakage amounts as specified; creating a definition; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering; specifying requirements for permitting simulcasting and historic horse racing machines; requiring approval, review and objection 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 public property and buildings; amending and creating provisions related to budgeting, planning and reporting for capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance for public buildings, facilities and sites; conforming and repealing definitions; amending requirements for contracting for public works; specifying duties related to capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance for the state construction department, the state building commission, the school districts, the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming and the community college commission; repealing major maintenance funding requirements; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to the administration of government; recreating, renumbering and amending statutes to consolidate gaming regulation statutes; repealing obsolete provisions; conforming provisions and references; providing for application as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring counties, cities and towns to allow single exits in specified multi-family dwellings; providing exceptions; and providing for an effective date.

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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 agriculture, livestock and other animals; requiring the livestock board to develop a protocol for positive anthrax tests; requiring rulemaking; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Bob DavisRepublican

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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