Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to game and fish; clarifying reciprocal requirements for a nonresident trapping license; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Bob DavisRepublican

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 taxation and revenue; providing for administration of the property tax; specifying property tax assessment rates for residential real property; making conforming changes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

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

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending the elements and penalty for the failure to comply with the duty to stop vehicle where an accident involves death or personal injuries; making the penalty for failure to stop vehicle where an accident involves death or personal injuries a felony; increasing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; allowing the secretary of state to charge a fee to expedite filings of documents as specified; authorizing a position; providing an appropriation; specifying a contingency; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; specifying a requirement for persons to assist others at risk of serious bodily injury or death; creating a criminal offense for failure to assist; specifying penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

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 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; clarifying when a counting board is required to be appointed; amending dates related to elections; amending provisions related to election recount judges; requiring the completion of a hand count by the county clerk of each county in the 2026 primary and general elections; specifying requirements for the hand count; requiring rulemaking; creating an account; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

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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 labor and employment; reducing the maximum amount of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing and amending definitions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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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 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 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 property taxation; expanding the veteran's property tax exemption for veterans who are certified as having permanent or total service connected disability; making conforming changes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

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.

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AN ACT relating to civil procedure; creating the Wyoming Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion (GRANITE) Act; creating a cause of action against foreign states and international organizations regarding foreign censorship laws that violate specific constitutional provisions; providing for standing, jurisdiction, venue, alternative service of process and a statute of limitations; providing remedies; imposing joint and several liability; prohibiting the state from recognizing, enforcing or cooperating with certain foreign judgments; creating a cause of action against the state for the recognition, enforcement or cooperation with certain foreign judgments; providing civil penalties; providing definitions; providing legislative findings; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Daniel SinghRepublican

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 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 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

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

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; providing for loans and loan repayments; 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 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 net metering; revising how net metering compensation applies to new small customer‑generators; authorizing the public service commission to authorize a different system of compensation for excess energy production if service is being subsidized by other customers; clarifying how net metering compensation applies to existing small customer-generators; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

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 crimes and offenses; creating the offenses of money laundering and illegal investments; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Tara NethercottRepublican

AN ACT relating to immigration; establishing offenses related to the transportation, concealment or hiring of illegal or unauthorized aliens; providing penalties; requiring the verification of citizenship status for public benefits as specified; requiring the attorney general and each county sheriff to negotiate with federal agencies concerning immigration as specified; specifying requirements for communicating information related to immigration status; specifying requirements for the determination of immigration status for inmates; requiring documentation concerning citizenship for the issuance of driver's licenses and identification cards; providing and amending definitions; requiring reports; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

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 game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to establish limits on the number of landowner hunting licenses issued in any limited quota hunt area as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing for administration of the property tax; specifying property tax assessment rates for residential real property; making conforming changes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; repealing a state excise tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes; removing a mandate on disposal of confiscated cigarettes; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; reducing the maximum length of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to state budgeting and expenditures; creating the residential property tax reduction account; designating specified funds to the account; providing for residential property tax refunds from the account; specifying requirements for the property tax refunds; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; modifying the reading assessment and invention program; defining terms; exempting high performing school districts as specified; providing remedies to address inadequacies in students' reading abilities in kindergarten through grade four; providing for retention of students due to reading inadequacies as specified; requiring parental notification as specified; providing for participation of parents in determining educational interventions as specified; creating causes of action; providing for the award of amounts as specified; specifying burdens of proof; requiring reporting; authorizing license revocation of teachers as specified; prohibiting modification of proficiency scores on the English language arts portion of the statewide summative assessment as specified; providing for rulemaking; specifying duties of the department of education staff; creating an operations research staff within the department of education; exempting the operations research staff within the department of education from the state personnel system and requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to public employee retirement; increasing the employer and employee contributions for the public employee retirement plan; specifying how increased employee contributions shall be paid; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring paper ballots as specified; providing for the automatic tabulation of paper ballots; providing a process for the certain recounts to be conducted by hand counting the votes; requiring proof of United States citizenship to register to vote as specified; revising the time that absentee polling places may be open; revising dates of the primary election and the county and state canvass to allow time for hand counting as specified; creating an account; making conforming amendments; repealing conflicting provisions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

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 motor vehicle registration; clarifying that specified types of license plates are available for multipurpose vehicles; clarifying the types of vehicles eligible for prisoner of war license plates; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to establish limits on landowner licenses available in a limited quota hunt area; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; expanding eligibility for the Wyoming national guard member referral incentive program; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

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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 crimes and offenses; providing an affirmative defense for the use of defensive force for the protection or defense of nuclear facilities; providing definitions; establishing an offense of trespass on commercial nuclear facilities; specifying penalties; providing armed nuclear facility security guards the authority to detain persons as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the Hathaway scholarship program; amending award timing for the Hathaway scholarship program; amending eligibility requirements as specified; eliminating satisfactory academic progress requirements; eliminating continuous enrollment requirements; eliminating minimum credit hour requirements; amending the calculation of scholarship amounts; deleting obsolete language; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; repealing provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation; repealing the sunset date of the property tax exemption for long-term homeowners; revising the deadline to apply for the property tax exemption for long-term homeowners; providing a method to claim the property tax exemption in subsequent years; amending the amount of the long‑term homeowner property tax exemption; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican