Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; requiring government entities to adopt policies for the collection, access, security and use of personal data as specified; requiring specific personal data policies; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; authorizing gifts, donations and bequests to be deposited into the Wyoming stable token trust account; amending the Wyoming stable token commission's authorized investments; amending the trust account's reserve requirement; amending the distribution of funds within the Wyoming stable token administration account; creating a Wyoming stable token liquidity account; authorizing the Wyoming stable token commission to enter into agreements as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; authorizing decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations to automatically convert to unincorporated nonprofit associations as specified; conforming language in the Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act with the Wyoming Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act; requiring assets of decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations to be distributed as required by federal law when winding up a decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association; clarifying references to decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations; amending definitions; repealing obsolete provisions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; amending provisions related to the involuntary hospitalization of mentally ill persons; expanding the list of examiners qualified to perform involuntary hospitalization examinations; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming lottery; authorizing debit card payments for lottery ticket purchases; 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 landowner licenses available in a limited quota hunt area; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; exempting specified real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission from property taxation; amending a special tax on real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission that is used for other purposes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to game and fish; allowing a person to use a leashed blood-trailing dog to track and recover a killed or wounded black bear; and providing for an effective date.

Bill LandenRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the procedure for testing voting machines and electronic voting systems; specifying that tests shall be open to the public; specifying rulemaking authority; removing the presumption of proper preparation of voting machines; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; specifying acceptable identification for voter identification; repealing school identification cards, Medicaid and Medicare insurance cards as forms of acceptable identification; 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 elections; clarifying the definition of "qualified elector"; making conforming changes related to voter registration and voter qualifications; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to mortgages; implementing the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act; specifying the priority of mortgages; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to emergency telephone service; requiring a study on next generation 911 service; authorizing a grant program to fund shortfalls in current 911 service; requiring rulemaking; making a conforming amendment; requiring a report; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; specifying that duly elected party officials are members of the county central committees of political parties; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring traffic to yield to roadside service and tire repair vehicles as specified; authorizing roadside service and tire repair vehicles to display flashing lights; exempting roadside service and tire repair vehicles from horn and siren requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; requiring school districts to adopt policies governing students' possession and use of cell phones and smart devices in schools; requiring the adopted policies to be submitted to the state superintendent of public instruction; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

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 K-12 public school finance; increasing the allowable education square footage utilized to calculate routine and major maintenance for school districts; providing appropriations; and providing for effective date.

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AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; authorizing the assessment of a management fee for services provided to the Wyoming beef council as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

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

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; providing for increased reimbursement for emergency medical services under the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act as specified; providing appropriations; specifying applicability; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing a process by which the environmental quality council may designate lands as lands with significant community value; specifying required considerations for the board of land commissioners when considering lands with significant community value; specifying duties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Bill LandenRepublican

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; authorizing the creation and use of portable benefit accounts; specifying requirements and conditions for portable benefit accounts; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties; amending and clarifying the authority for counties to implement zoning regulations for specified purposes; amending the ability of counties to enact zoning resolutions associated to the extraction and production of specified minerals; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Mike GierauDemocrat

AN ACT relating to conservation districts; repealing a provision requiring conservation district supervisors to have funds immediately available to satisfy the entirety of a contract prior to entering into the contract; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending exceptions to the offense of gambling; amending and creating definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering; specifying requirements for simulcasting permits, including historic horse racing terminals; requiring approval 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 gaming; limiting the licensed liquor establishments where skill based amusement games may be located; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to increasing the Hathaway scholarship program awards; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing physicians to recommend and perform stem cell therapy on patients as specified; allowing health care insurers to cover stem cell therapy as specified; prohibiting the state board of medicine from taking action against a physician's license due to the use or promotion of stem cell therapy; prohibiting the state of Wyoming from denying patients access to stem cell therapy; providing that no cause of action is created against a person properly performing stem cell therapy; requiring compliance as specified; amending the powers of the Wyoming state board of medicine; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to public records; revising documents that constitute official public records; revising time periods for acknowledgement of public records requests and release of public records; providing for an extension of time to release public records; authorizing the ombudsman to refer a matter to the attorney general or district attorney; specifying fees for public records; increasing a penalty; authorizing attorney fees; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing county memorial hospitals and hospital districts to file for bankruptcy under chapter 9 of the United States bankruptcy code as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to water; requiring the state engineer to conduct a groundwater study in control areas as specified; requiring reports; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Taft LoveRepublican

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; codifying current state criteria for Medicaid eligibility; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the penalties for theft and related offenses as specified; amending the number of theft offenses needed for a felony theft offense; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the criminal offense of absconding for criminal purposes; specifying penalties; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to controlled substances; providing for an enhanced penalty for controlled substance offenses related to the distribution or delivery of fentanyl to minors; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public records; defining terms; amending the duties of the ombudsman; imposing limits on copy and production costs for responding to requests for inspection and production of public records; increasing penalties; authorizing attorneys' fees; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Marlene BradyRepublican

AN ACT relating to limited liability companies; providing attorneys’ fees and costs for bad faith applications for dissolution; and providing for an effective date.

Tomi StrockRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting persons from intentionally harassing, injuring or killing predatory animals with vehicles that travel over the ground on public lands; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Mike SchmidRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for a decal designating Wyoming veterans to attach to a license plate; providing for a decal fee; and providing for an effective date.

Tomi StrockRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; specifying reporting requirements for taxpayers who claim sales tax and use tax exemptions; authorizing the imposition of fees as specified; requiring reporting; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Landon BrownRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; establishing a local water system funding program; specifying requirements and project eligibility for local water system funding; specifying duties; authorizing the borrowing of funds; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Steve HarshmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to parental rights; providing a civil cause of action for infringement of parental rights; creating an exception to governmental immunity; waiving governmental claims notice requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Darin McCannRepublican

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; requiring direct current fast charging stations to display labels identifying the primary energy resource categories used to supply electricity to the station; providing criminal penalties; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; specifying protections for speech and expression by students at public schools; specifying activities in which students may engage at schools; specifying remedies; authorizing a cause of action; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican