Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing resort hotel liquor licenses; specifying requirements for the resort hotel liquor license and licensees; making conforming amendments; providing and amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Mike GierauDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring students at the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges to compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions based on their biological sex; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a business property tax exemption as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; requiring tangible personal property to be valued using valuation indexes and depreciation schedules as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; specifying that school district vehicles that are not school buses and are used for transporting students may display flashing lights as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT relating to the insurance holding company system regulatory act; specifying requirements regarding group capital calculations, group capital ratios, liquidity stress tests, liquidity stress test results, and related information; amending confidentiality provisions; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to the Wyoming telecommunications act; extending the sunset date of the act; amending definitions; specifying the application of the act; specifying requirements for providing price schedules to the public service commission; providing a limitation on local governments entering an exclusive agreement for provision of broadband internet access service; amending the price benchmark and credit requirements for the universal service fund; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the insurance code; amending the definition of insurance transaction; making requirements applicable to original certificates of authority apply to all certificates of authority; requiring insurers to update their contact information as specified; amending service of process requirements; clarifying requirements regarding reporting of actions; clarifying the applicability of statutes governing property and casualty insurance; repealing the requirement for insurers to deliver certificates of authority to the insurance commissioner upon expiration, suspension or termination of the certificates; repealing disclosure requirements regarding the extent to which disability, group disability and blanket disability insurance policies include comprehensive adult wellness benefits; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; authorizing the secretary of state to administratively cancel trademarks, service marks and trade names as specified; providing the right to appeal administrative cancellations; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to civil procedure; authorizing property owners to request law enforcement assistance for the removal of unauthorized occupants as specified; specifying requirements for the law enforcement assistance; specifying liability; providing civil remedies; prohibiting unlawful use of false property documents; amending the offense of property destruction and defacement by creating an additional felony offense; providing definitions; specifying penalties; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a definition associated with a sales tax exemption for power and fuel sales related to pipeline transportation as specified; clarifying ownership requirements for the exemption; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; creating the select committee on school finance recalibration; providing for a study to recalibrate the education resource block grant model; authorizing the use of consultants; providing funding for an external cost adjustment to the education resource block grant model; providing funding for school district entitlement payments and special education payments; requiring a report; appropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

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A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to introduce a bill and enact law to amend Wyoming's act of admission to authorize the expenditure of earnings for the support of the common schools in Wyoming.

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AN ACT relating to school building and facility projects; providing for appropriations for the remainder of the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; specifying conditions for expenditures; reappropriating funds; requiring a study and reporting; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to property taxation; specifying that if multiple property tax exemptions apply to the same property the exemptions shall be applied in the manner determined by the department of revenue; specifying requirements for the order of application of exemptions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

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.

Rob GeringerRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring applicants for motor vehicle dealer licenses who sell trailers to submit a sales authorization agreement; exempting motor vehicle dealers and manufacturers who sell trailers from specified provisions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing prescribers to prescribe medications for off-label indication as specified; authorizing pharmacists to dispense medications for off-label indication as specified; providing prescribers and pharmacists immunity from disciplinary action as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; repealing gun free zones; providing for the carrying of concealed weapons as specified; creating a criminal offense for prohibiting entry to a person carrying a concealed weapon as specified; clarifying that only the state legislature may regulate firearms, weapons and ammunition; providing for exceptions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to insurance; amending investment authorization for prepaid or prearranged funeral contract proceeds; amending related surety bond provisions; specifying application of purchase monies and investment earnings; requiring notice to contract purchasers; and providing for effective dates.

Lloyd LarsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to child care facilities; exempting child care facilities with certain specifications from child care facility certification requirements; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring public utilities to prepare and submit wildfire mitigation plans; specifying procedures for the submission and review of wildfire mitigation plans; specifying how costs associated with wildfire mitigation plans may be recovered; specifying limits for liability and damages for public utilities related to wildfires; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

J.T. LarsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the education savings accounts program; changing the name of the program to the steamboat legacy scholarship act; creating the steamboat legacy scholarship program account; modifying definitions; increasing the maximum scholarship award; modifying eligibility requirements; repealing provisions; providing appropriations; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to cemeteries and burials; amending provisions related to the structural integrity and esthetics of columbariums; and providing for an effective date.

Trey SherwoodDemocrat

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing construction of designated water projects; describing projects; specifying terms and conditions of funding for projects; providing grants; providing loans; providing appropriations; amending the sponsor's contingency fund; amending amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring projects; repealing a project; authorizing one full‑time position; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to counties; amending the length of time for approval of a mill levy proposition for senior citizen service districts; and providing for an effective date.

Marilyn ConnollyRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; removing an additional annual distribution of the county school fund; and providing for an effective date.

J.T. LarsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing annual permits for hauling prefabricated buildings, panels and trusses; authorizing annual permits for hauling forest products, baled hay and combine headers; specifying permit fees; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; excluding the Affordable Care Act from government sponsored health care programs that would disqualify a volunteer first responder from participating in the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan; authorizing first responder departments to contribute to first responder group insurance premiums; requiring voluntary first responders to provide proof of their volunteer status on an annual basis; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes and other legislative enactments; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; amending obsolete references; and providing for an effective date.

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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 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 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 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 Wyoming livestock board; requiring the board to initiate memorandums of understanding regarding the identification of livestock delivered to other states; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; removing a limitation on the number of charter schools that the Wyoming charter school authorizing board may authorize; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Ocean AndrewRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; extending the sunset date for the manufacturing sales tax and use tax exemptions; repealing provisions for the manufacturing use tax exemption to align with the manufacturing sales tax exemption; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the prioritization of cease and transfer projects for municipal solid waste facilities; authorizing expenditure of previously appropriated funds; establishing a prioritized list of projects; establishing a maximum amount to be expended on projects; granting the department of environmental quality limited discretionary authority to modify the prioritized list; specifying expenditures for a carcass management project; providing definitions; requiring reports; repealing a prior priority list of cease and transfer projects; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to career technical education equipment grants for K-12 public school districts; increasing the maximum grant award; reducing the years required to expend funds for grant eligibility; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to school finance; modifying the career and technical education equipment and supplies component within the education resource block grant model; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; repealing an obsolete provision; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to K-12 school facility leasing; modifying payment for lease agreements for K-12 school facilities; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending grounds for disqualification from driving a commercial motor vehicle for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age; authorizing expunged records to be considered for purposes of disqualification from driving a commercial motor vehicle as specified; adding violations that qualify as serious traffic violations; authorizing the department to waive examinations for a commercial driver's license applicant as specified; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; amending the distribution of sales and use taxes on motor vehicles and trailers to the highway fund as specified; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the Hathaway scholarship program; modifying definitions; modifying the standards for satisfactory academic progress; amending minimum enrollment hours for Hathaway scholarship eligibility; modifying scholarship awards; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; amending how penalties collected for failure to file specified tax statements are paid and credited; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to property tax; clarifying the total maximum household income limit for purposes of the property tax refund program; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing annual registration fees for resident snowmobiles; increasing nonresident annual snowmobile user fees; creating a permanent registration for antique snowmobiles; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; revising use tax provisions to conform to the corresponding sales tax provisions; clarifying a definition; clarifying the use tax exemption for machinery used in manufacturing; clarifying licensing and compliance provisions; revising refund provisions; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to environmental quality; clarifying the financial institutions from which operators may obtain irrevocable letters of credit to deposit with the department of environmental quality in lieu of a bond; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the licensure of surgical abortion facilities as specified; providing criminal penalties for violations; specifying civil liability for damages resulting from abortions; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Martha LawleyRepublican