Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a sales tax and use tax exemption to the purchase or transfer of a motor vehicle to family members as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring a plan to reorganize the public funds division of the department of audit under the legislature; specifying elements of the plan; requiring reports; requiring legislative approval; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to administrative procedure; requiring agencies to provide notice of major rules as specified; clarifying the definition of major rule; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to community development; creating the Wyoming housing revolving loan program; providing legislative findings; providing for loans for housing projects; specifying terms and conditions for loans; creating an account; providing for the appropriation of funds; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; repealing and terminating the Wyoming business council; repealing the Wyoming Economic Development Act and renumbering portions of the act; specifying requirements and conditions for the repeal and termination; transferring specified functions of the Wyoming business council to other state entities; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; requiring reports; specifying applicability; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing persons with life threatening illnesses and persons who are vision-impaired to receive donated hunting licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tim FrenchRepublican

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; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Dan LaursenRepublican

AN ACT relating to irrigation projects; authorizing irrigation districts, watershed improvement districts and water conservancy districts to direct a portion of annual district funding for major maintenance projects; authorizing investments of major maintenance accounts; authorizing water conservancy districts to assess mills for major maintenance projects as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to water; requiring a study of waste water and storm water infrastructure in the state as specified; requiring reports; specifying ownership of data collected pursuant to the study; providing requirements for production, disclosure and dissemination of data collected; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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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 amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring a project; requiring studies; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; reconstituting the office of homeland security as the Wyoming department of homeland security; specifying duties and budget requirements for the department; specifying the transfer of assets, obligations and duties of the office of homeland security to the department of homeland security; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; entering into a compact with other states to allow teachers licensed in one (1) compact state to teach in other compact states; approving and specifying terms of the compact; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to highways; granting tolling authority for highways as specified; creating a highway tolling program; defining duties of the department of transportation; requiring reporting; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

Ogden DriskillRepublican

AN ACT relating to pesticides; providing for uniform pesticide labeling and warning requirements; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Taft LoveRepublican

AN ACT relating to courts; amending court automation fees; establishing a process by which the supreme court may change the amount of required court automation fees; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to sales tax; specifying the distribution of taxes on sales of very large electrical loads; providing a definition; providing reporting requirements; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the definition of "single family residential structure" for purposes of the homeowner property tax exemption; repealing the eight months of the year residency requirement to receive the homeowner property tax exemption; and providing for an effective date.

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

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AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; revising the sales tax chapter to include the administration of the use tax; repealing duplicative provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes; removing the requirement for specified notices related to sales and use taxes to be sent by mail; authorizing electronic notices; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to K-12 public school finance; implementing the 2025 cost of education study as modified by the legislature; modifying the education resource block grant model; modifying cash reserves; restricting expenditure of funds distributed through the school foundation program account; creating a new grant program for the post secondary education enrollment options program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; repealing provisions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; modifying the duties of registered agents; requiring registered agents to maintain the names of all owners of each entity; providing exceptions; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

AN ACT relating to political parties; clarifying voting requirements for members of the state central committee of major political parties; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to water within Wyoming's portion of the Colorado River basin; establishing a voluntary water conservation program; providing an application and approval process for the program; providing an appeal process; authorizing the storage and release of water conserved under the program; establishing a sunset date; providing legislative findings; requiring a report; requiring rulemaking; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the division of criminal investigation; creating the internet crimes against children task force program account; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; providing for the administration of the account; providing an appropriation; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Tara NethercottRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the Wyoming property tax relief authority; specifying duties and powers of the authority; creating a property tax loan program; authorizing the issuance of bonds under specified conditions; requiring notice of the property tax loan program in assessment schedules; providing an appropriation; authorizing positions; and providing for effective dates.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the offense of interference with a peace officer by creating an additional felony offense; and providing for an effective date.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; prohibiting sex offenders from residing near child care facilities as specified; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Tim SalazarRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; amending a tax exemption for locally owned property used for housing projects; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; imposing requirements for rental fees charged by school districts for use of school district property as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; providing requirements for energy projects; requiring legislative approval for specified energy projects; providing definitions; providing for exceptions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing civil penalties for false claims made against state employees and officials as specified; providing definitions; providing exceptions; providing remedies for retaliation regarding persons who report violations of this act; providing a statute of limitations; providing procedures for lawsuits as specified; authorizing civil actions; creating an account; and providing for an effective date.

Tara NethercottRepublican

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; amending considerations for determining the child's best interests for custody matters; specifying requirements for shared custody considerations for child custody dispositions; providing definitions; requiring court findings for specified child custody dispositions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; amending exclusions from the waiver of immunity related to roadway maintenance and reconstruction for purposes of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; specifying waivers of immunity related to roadway maintenance and reconstruction for governmental entities; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing third party providers to provide driver's license and motor vehicle services as specified; creating the motor vehicle division partner program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to tobacco; clarifying that wholesalers are prohibited from making sales or delivery of nicotine products to minors; clarifying the imposition of the tobacco tax on sales of cigars and pipe tobacco; establishing a maximum tax amount for cigars; providing for the imposition of tobacco taxes on remote retail sales of cigars and pipe tobacco; requiring remote retail sellers to obtain a license; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; requiring government entities to accept cash as payment; prohibiting government entities from charging fees for cash payments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bob IdeRepublican

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.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; providing an easement for electric transmission lines and distributions systems as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; providing definitions; providing for appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget and for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 as specified; providing for carryover of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; providing for employee positions as specified; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 and the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; continuing an account; authorizing grants and loans; discharging interfund loans; funding a higher education program; requiring an audit of funds; making conforming amendments; amending and repealing prior appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing the department of health to enter into contracts with detention centers for holding and treating mentally ill detainees before a competency evaluation or restoration; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing immunity for persons providing competency evaluations or restoration services as specified; amending definitions; providing an appropriation; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; amending eligibility requirements for indigent veterans in order for counties to request reimbursement for preparing and transporting indigent veterans for burial; specifying indigent veterans who qualify for burial expenses paid by the department of family services also qualify for payment of burial expenses by counties; increasing the amount paid for burial expenses by the department of family services; clarifying priority of payment for burial expenses of indigent veterans; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; creating the Wyoming national guard member reenlistment and extension program as specified; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; increasing the referral bonus amount for the Wyoming national guard member referral incentive program; expanding eligibility of the program; extending the sunset date for the program; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to authorization of a full-time literacy position for the department of education; 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 state lands; amending provisions and creating exemptions regarding the subleasing of state grazing lands; providing definitions; establishing a non-owned livestock fee; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state lands; removing the restriction on the number of authorized good neighbor authority employee positions; requiring employee positions to be funded only using funds from the Wyoming state forestry good neighbor authority revolving account; authorizing gifts, donations and bequests to be deposited into the account; prohibiting the acceptance of real property for purposes of the good neighbor authority; and providing for an effective date.

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