Bills & Legislation

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; requiring school districts to participate in the state employees' and officials' group insurance program; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; continuing the mental health services grant program; repealing provisions; providing appropriations; authorizing positions; providing borrowing authority; and providing for effective dates.

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

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AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; terminating a task force; depositing unexpended funds as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; clarifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents notice of information regarding students; prohibiting school districts from requiring school district personnel and students to use a student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; requiring parental or guardian permission before instruction relating to diversity, equity or inclusion; authorizing school district personnel to opt out of mandatory trainings as specified; providing definitions; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Joe WebbRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring trains to be not more than a specified length; providing operational requirements; requiring the implementation of wayside detection systems; requiring visual inspections; providing civil penalties; requiring a report; providing definitions; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation and providing for an effective date.

Ken ChestekDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring school districts to develop cardiac emergency response plans as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to water; specifying that destruction of water is not beneficial use; providing for the rejection of specified applications for water use; providing an exception; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; requiring informed consent be provided before the procurement or provision of an abortion; specifying requirements for the provision of informed consent; specifying exceptions; authorizing civil actions; specifying remedies; authorizing a right of intervention as specified; specifying applicability; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Martha LawleyRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing for the valuation of residential property; providing a sales and use tax to provide funding to local governments due to the decrease in revenue from the valuation of residential property; providing an exemption to the additional sales and use tax as specified; creating an account; providing for distribution of the sales and use tax; making conforming amendments; making the act contingent on passage of a constitutional amendment; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to the common law, statutes and rules of construction; limiting the application and use of foreign law under Wyoming law; specifying exceptions to a change of venue in civil actions; providing legislative findings; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; providing duties for the Wyoming energy authority; providing for the establishment of industrial sovereign zones to encourage the production of value-added manufactured products using natural gas; authorizing a board of county commissioners to nominate an area as an industrial sovereign zone; providing for certification of value-added manufactured processes; providing for an expedited licensing and permit process; providing tax exemptions; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to mine product taxes; providing for the taxation of hydrogen production as specified; specifying tax rates for different types of hydrogen production; providing for the administration of the tax; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to the federal rural health transformation program funds; establishing the Wyoming rural health transformation program; creating an advisory committee; creating a perpetuity fund; authorizing investments as specified; creating an expenditure account; continuously appropriating an annually required distribution; providing for governance, fiscal controls, accountability and reporting requirements; authorizing expenditures, initiatives, grants and awards; providing for deposits and appropriations; requiring rulemaking; directing studies; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to education; authorizing education savings accounts; creating the Wyoming education savings account expenditure account; providing for a transfer of funds to the Wyoming education savings accounts expenditure account; providing for the use and administration of education savings accounts for education; specifying duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; providing rulemaking authority; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; authorizing full-time positions; repealing provisions; providing a contingent effective date pending certification by the governor of actions of the Wyoming supreme court; and providing for an effective date.

Ken CloustonRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; amending a property tax exemption for single family residential structures based on the prior year assessed value; amending a property tax exemption for land associated with a single family residential structure based on the prior year assessed value; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; providing for administrative dissolution of or revocation of certificate of authority for corporations, limited liability companies and statutory foundations as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Ann LucasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing legislative findings; specifying requirements associated with the termination of pregnancies; prohibiting procedures that terminate the life of a child with a detectable heartbeat; specifying exceptions to the prohibition; specifying penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring elections for the imposition of mill levies for recreational purposes; specifying dates of the elections; specifying applicability; providing for the expiration of existing mill levies; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a severance tax exemption for tertiary oil production as specified; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Reuben TarverRepublican

AN ACT relating to physicians and surgeons; authorizing the board of medicine to provide provisional medical licenses to internationally trained physicians as specified; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Jacob WasserburgerRepublican

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; amending the Second Amendment Protection Act as specified; creating exceptions to the Second Amendment Protection Act; creating civil penalties; creating criminal penalties; creating an exception to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Robert WharffRepublican

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; prohibiting the payment of association and organization membership fees from public funds; prohibiting the payment of expenses for association and organization activities as specified; specifying association-related documents and other materials as public records; requiring government entities to report participation in activities with associations and organizations as specified; repealing the ability to pay for memberships for Wyoming board of professional engineers and professional land surveyors; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Marlene BradyRepublican

AN ACT relating to nicotine products; requiring manufacturers of nicotine products to obtain a license; requiring manufacturers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material to file certifications as specified; placing restrictions on the sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; requiring the department of revenue to publish a directory of electronic cigarettes and vapor material offered for sale in Wyoming by licensed nicotine product manufacturers; prohibiting the sale of nicotine products not included in the directory; requiring biannual inspections of retailers, distributors and wholesalers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; providing penalties; providing definitions; providing rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to conservation districts; amending provisions relating to the election of conservation district supervisors; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring the legislative service office to direct email correspondence to a legislators email inbox if requested after verification that the correspondence does not pose a security threat; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; prohibiting public officials from entering into nondisclosure agreements as specified; providing definitions; specifying penalties; specifying remedies for violations; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; requiring the disposition of pari-mutuel funds paid to the state to be deposited to the state highway fund; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; increasing the taxation rate on net proceeds from skill based amusement games; amending the distribution of tax revenues; providing for distribution to the state highway fund; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

AN ACT relating to abortion; creating the Reproductive Freedom Act; specifying the public policy of the state concerning reproductive rights; prohibiting the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to have an abortion before viability of the fetus or to protect the person's life or health; prohibiting unauthorized abortions; specifying a penalty; providing definitions; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public utilities; specifying that the retail sale of electricity by specified persons to specified customers is exempt from regulation by the public service commission; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; authorizing third parties to provide building permit inspections as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; prohibiting cities, towns and counties from imposing fees or conditions related to housing on residential or commercial development as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to literacy screening assessment and intervention; providing requirements for screening assessments, evidence based interventions and evidence based core literacy instruction for specified grade levels; requiring schools and school districts to submit improvement plans; requiring specific skills for literacy proficiency used in data collection; requiring school districts to maintain records; requiring professional development; requiring school districts to employ or consult with persons with literacy endorsements as specified; specifying additional duties for the Wyoming professional teaching standards board; repealing the reading assessment and intervention program; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Julie JarvisRepublican

AN ACT relating to health care providers; prohibiting state agencies and boards from discriminating against health care providers based on the providers' speech and expressions; prohibiting state agencies and boards from contracting with or requiring health care providers to be licensed by specified boards and agencies; requiring health care providers to be notified of specified complaints; authorizing causes of action as specified; providing definitions; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to fire protection districts; increasing authorized mill levies for fire protection districts; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; amending the collection of and process for alternative fuel taxes; providing a per kilowatt hour license tax on electricity used to propel an electric vehicle; amending and providing definitions; reducing the annual decal fee for plug-in hybrid vehicles; requiring display of per kilowatt hour taxes; amending sales of alternative fuels from sales taxation; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public utilities; providing for the regulation and use of small plug-in solar generation devices; exempting small plug-in solar generation devices from specified utility regulations; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; exempting an electric utility from liability caused by a customer's use of a plug‑in solar generation device; and providing for an effective date.

Liz StorerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to property taxation; repealing the homeowner tax exemption if the people's initiative to limit property tax in Wyoming through a homeowner's property exemption is enacted into law; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing a process for county commissioners to request a hearing for certain state land leases; specifying requirements for leases for specified industrial purposes; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Elissa CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; providing that a person convicted of certain offenses shall not administer a home-based educational program; establishing limitations on home-based educational programs for persons under investigation for child neglect or abuse; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Karlee ProvenzaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating a task force; specifying duties of the task force in evaluating the Wyoming business council; specifying additional ex officio members of the Wyoming business council board; specifying duties of the Wyoming business council; requiring reports; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Rob GeringerRepublican

AN ACT relating to nonprofit corporations; authorizing members of nonprofit corporations to participate in membership meetings remotely; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Liz StorerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a hand count audit of ballots as specified; requiring rulemaking; 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 elections; amending the appointment and authority of poll watchers to observe polling locations; making conforming amendments; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to elections; requiring independent candidates to swear that they are unaffiliated or not registered with a major or minor political party; revising the number of signatures required for independent candidates to appear on the general election ballot; revising the deadline to file a petition as an independent candidate; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to state lands; establishing the Wyoming Homestead Opportunity Program; making legislative findings; providing for the establishment and disposal of lots to eligible purchasers as specified; prohibiting ownership of lots by business entities; requiring the use of lots for single-family residential purposes; providing for reversion of lots; requiring rulemaking; requiring reports; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Jacob WasserburgerRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; repealing low-carbon energy standard requirements; repealing conflicting provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Christopher KnappRepublican

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 taxation; requiring elections for the imposition of specified mill levies for recreational purposes, boards of cooperative educational services and special school taxes; specifying dates of the elections; specifying applicability; providing for the expiration of existing specified mill levies; and providing for an effective date.

Chip NeimanRepublican