Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the duties of the state board of education in approval of alternative scheduling for a school year; reducing the minimum number of class days required for public schools; reducing the number of professional development days for public schools as specified; requiring the school year to begin after Labor Day and recess prior to Memorial Day except as specified; specifying legislative intent; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the large energy project funding program; providing requirements for large energy projects; requiring legislative approval for large energy projects; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring specified funds to be withheld from counties, cities and towns violating state law or the Wyoming constitution; requiring the attorney general to investigate and take action on violations of law by counties, cities and towns; requiring notice; requiring requests by a legislator; and providing for an effective date.

Bob IdeRepublican

AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; establishing prescriptive easements for electricity delivery; providing requirements for the prescriptive easements; specifying uses of the prescriptive easements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the department of health to approve alterations or additions to health care facilities for purposes of health care and life safety compliance determinations only; repealing bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals as specified; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Gary CrumRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; requiring school districts to allow participation of youth patriotic organizations in schools as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Gary CrumRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; providing legislative findings; specifying that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and is a beneficial substance; providing policy statements of the state associated with carbon dioxide; repealing low-carbon energy standard requirements; repealing conflicting provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring reimbursement to utility customers as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

AN ACT relating to ballots; requiring candidates for school board trustee to have their political party affiliation printed on general election ballots; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; exempting real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission from property taxation except for property that is used for wildlife management purposes or employee residences and subject to special taxation; amending a special tax on real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission that is used for any other purpose; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; providing for permanent protection orders for victims of sexual assault, stalking and domestic violence; specifying requirements, procedures and conditions for permanent protection orders; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; establishing the Wyoming imagination library program; providing funding for the free distribution of books to young children as specified; providing definitions; creating an account; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to mine product taxes; providing an exemption for the production of crude oil and natural gas produced through enhanced oil recovery techniques and using Wyoming carbon dioxide; specifying conditions for the exemption; requiring reports; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to industrial development and siting; specifying that the industrial siting council may increase the impact assistance payments of specified projects beyond the maximum allowable percentages; requiring approval of increases; specifying that approvals are not subject to judicial review; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; requiring school districts to adopt policies prohibiting students from using cell phones and smart watches in schools as specified; providing exceptions; providing a definition; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating the University of Wyoming reserve officers' training corps endowment; creating accounts for the endowment; providing for distributions and transfers from the accounts to the University of Wyoming's reserve officers' training corps programs; providing for the investment of the endowment fund in equities; specifying authorized expenditures; requiring reporting; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing liability for a person that returns a firearm to the firearm owner pursuant to a firearm hold agreement; providing an exception; providing a definition; providing an exception; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to boards and commissions; adding ex officio nonvoting members who represent veterans and veteran services to the University of Wyoming board of trustees and the Wyoming community college commission as specified; amending the duties of the Wyoming veterans' commission; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing title protection for board certified music therapists; providing exceptions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to weapons; authorizing the issuance of enhanced concealed carry permits; specifying requirements and conditions for the enhanced permits; specifying places where enhanced concealed carry permittees may carry concealed weapons; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ed CooperRepublican

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

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AN ACT relating to the legislature; authorizing the legislature to prosecute actions involving the proper administration and interpretation of federal acts; making conforming amendments; authorizing the management council to initiate litigation upon a majority vote; providing legislative findings; providing for the use of funds for litigation purposes; and providing for an effective date.

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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; specifying the source of payment for service in the state guard; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Dan LaursenRepublican

AN ACT relating to public recreation and playgrounds; authorizing the governing body of a city, town, county or school district to act as a board of trustees for a system of public recreation as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Bill LandenRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; clarifying that cities and towns are authorized to construct electricity production facilities; clarifying when revenue bonds can be issued for electricity production facilities; specifying that cities and towns operating electricity production facilities pursuant to an agreement are not public utilities; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state lands; prohibiting trespass for the purpose of hunting or fishing on state-leased cultivated cropland; and providing for an effective date.

Representative Eklund

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing a county to impose a tax on the production of electricity from solar resources; providing for administration and imposition of the tax; providing exemptions; providing for distribution of the tax; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending eligibility requirements for permanent registrations of a trailer; providing for the permanent registration of trailers that qualify as commercial vehicles as specified; providing a fee exemption for permanently registered trailers as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to speed limits; changing the process for counties to decrease maximum speed limits on highways as specified; providing an exception for the department of transportation's approval of alterations on state highways as specified; authorizing the transportation commission to override a board of county commissioners' resolution to decrease maximum speed limits as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Mike SchmidRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; creating the Taxation and Revenue Task Force 2028; assigning duties to the task force related to taxation and revenue for local governments and education; specifying members, duties and duration of the task force; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Liz StorerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to elections; specifying the secretary of state's authority to promulgate election related rules applicable to counties; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

AN ACT relating to welfare; requiring the director of the department of family services to request a waiver under the supplemental nutrition assistance program as specified; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Jacob WasserburgerRepublican

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; providing for the appointment of the attorney general by the state loan and investment board; providing for filling a vacancy in the position; amending provisions regarding actions the attorney general takes requiring approval of or pursuant to the direction of the governor; expanding the authority of the attorney general to file lawsuits against federal agencies; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting persons from harassing, injuring or killing predatory animals with vehicles on public lands; authorizing persons to harass, pursue, hunt, shoot or kill predatory animals with or by use of vehicles on private lands as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Mike SchmidRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties; prohibiting the payment of association fees from public funds; prohibiting the payment of expenses for association activities as specified; specifying association-related documents and other materials as public records; requiring the reporting of activities with associations; and providing for an effective date.

Marlene BradyRepublican

AN ACT relating to public assistance and social services; directing participation in the federal summer electronic benefit transfer program for children; specifying duties of the department of family services and the department of education; authorizing rulemaking; authorizing positions; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION prohibiting foreign adversaries and specified foreign entities from owning property in Wyoming.

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A JOINT RESOLUTION specifying an exemption from property tax for property of fully disabled veterans.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; establishing a weighted bonus points program for ram bighorn sheep and antlered moose hunting license random draws; removing the preference point drawing for ram bighorn sheep and antlered moose; providing for the calculation of weighted bonus points; making conforming amendments; repealing a provision; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring separate hunting licenses and seasons for mule deer and whitetail deer; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; providing definitions; providing appropriations for purposes and positions related to state funded capital construction; making appropriations subject to terms and conditions as specified; providing for transfers; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to administration of the government; establishing a program to provide grants to cities and towns to offset the costs of specified criminal activity; requiring rulemaking; requiring reports; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Art WashutRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties; establishing a limit on the amount of reserves that counties may maintain; providing for the calculation of reserve amounts; requiring the refund of reserves in excess of the limitation amount as specified; providing definitions; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Steve JohnsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; amending the Wyoming acupuncture practice act to include naturopathic medicine; amending the powers of the Wyoming board of acupuncture; regulating the practice of naturopathic medicine; providing penalties; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Darin McCannRepublican

AN ACT relating to public funds; amending spending policy amounts for earnings from the investment of permanent funds; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to the investment of state funds; decreasing the spending policy amount for the common school account within the permanent land fund; specifying the disposition of investment earnings and federal mineral royalties; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to county sheriffs; requiring each county sheriff to enter into an agreement with the United States attorney general for the performance of immigration officer functions as specified; specifying penalties for noncompliance; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date.

John WinterRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a rebuttable presumption in favor of acquisition value for specified real property; clarifying the use, disclosure and confidentiality of sworn statements for specified real property; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals licensed by the department of health to provide specified services; authorizing hospitals to apply to the department of health to waive obstetrics, labor and delivery services as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Karlee ProvenzaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing standards for a pesticide manufacturer's or seller's duty to warn consumers or the public about pesticide risks as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Tomi StrockRepublican