Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to guardianship; requiring a guardian to make monthly in‑person monitoring of the guardian's ward; providing for reasonable fees and expenses of a guardian; requiring reporting to the court of the in‑person monitoring; requiring a guardian or conservator to notify specified entities of the guardian or conservator's appointment; and providing for an effective date.

Clarence StyvarRepublican

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; 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; and providing for effective dates.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; creating the Wyoming First Amendment Protection Act; providing immunity from lawsuits based on the constitutional rights of freedom of petition, freedom of assembly, religious freedom and expression of speech; specifying procedures and limitations for lawsuits based on public participation; providing legislative findings; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for a child tax credit; specifying application requirements; specifying payment of refunds for taxes paid; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Mike YinDemocrat

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from purchasing hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Bill AllemandRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; clarifying application procedures for the homeowner tax exemption; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Laurie BrattenRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; amending qualifications for a nonresident trapping license; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

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 motor vehicles; increasing penalties for failing to stop where an accident involves serious bodily injury or death; adding a knowledge requirement for specified failing to stop offenses; providing clarifying amendments; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; exempting insurance damage settlement payments from sales and use taxation; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; prohibiting the release of atmospheric contaminants into the airspace above Wyoming as specified; providing legislative findings; providing definitions; authorizing the director of the department of environmental quality to monitor compliance with this act and issue cease and desist orders as specified; prohibiting retaliation against persons who report violations of this act; providing criminal penalties; providing positions; providing appropriations; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to list prices for medical items and services as specified; requiring the department of health to monitor and enforce the provisions of this act; providing penalties; prohibiting collection actions as specified; requiring recommendations for proposed legislation; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Daniel SinghRepublican

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 alcoholic beverages; repealing the excise tax on malt beverages; amending limitations on importing alcoholic beverages for personal use; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

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 sales and use taxes; repealing the sales and use tax on services performed for the repair, alteration or improvement of tangible personal property; making conforming changes; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Lee FilerRepublican

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; establishing a homeowner property tax exemption; providing a sunset date; requiring rulemaking; repealing prior appropriations and reverting funds to the general fund; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

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 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 public health and safety; authorizing the use of autologous or direct blood donations as specified; authorizing reasonable fees for blood donations; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joel GuggenmosRepublican

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 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 crimes and offenses; clarifying the use of self-defense to prevent injury or loss to other persons and property; requiring the expungement of records for cases dismissed for use of self-defense; authorizing reimbursement of costs incurred in defending a criminal prosecution after successfully asserting self-defense; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Gary BrownRepublican

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 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 the University of Wyoming board of trustees; increasing the members of the board of trustees; providing for election of trustees as specified; specifying election requirements; making conforming amendments; specifying requirements for the initial election and initial terms of elected trustees; specifying expiration of existing appointed trustee terms; specifying requirements for appointment and terms of appointed trustees after the 2026 general election; repealing duplicative provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Rachel Rodriguez-WilliamsRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the permanent registration of specified vehicles; providing a fee exemption for permanently registered vehicles; specifying requirements upon transfer of ownership; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dalton BanksRepublican

AN ACT relating to abortions and environmental quality; specifying requirements for the provision of chemical abortions; specifying criminal and civil penalties and liability; specifying exceptions to criminal liability; specifying requirements for manufacturers of chemical abortion drugs; specifying environmental and disposal requirements for abortion drugs; specifying duties of the department of environmental quality; specifying applicability; providing for the conflict of laws; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

John BearRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a homeowner property tax exemption; specifying applicability; providing a sunset date; providing legislative findings; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Tony LockeRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; specifying when an employee is entitled to take time off of work to vote in an election; increasing the amount of time that an employee is entitled to take off of work to vote; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

Trey SherwoodDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to list prices for medical items and services as specified; requiring the department of health to monitor and enforce the provisions of this act; requiring transparency regarding prescription drug pricing as specified; providing penalties; prohibiting collection actions as specified; requiring recommendations for proposed legislation; requiring reports; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Daniel SinghRepublican

AN ACT relating to state parks and cultural resources; authorizing the department of state parks and cultural resources to establish and collect fees for the Wyoming state museum; providing for the disposition of collected fees; renaming and continuing a fund; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to electric utilities; amending the generation capacity for net metering systems; providing for the aggregation of net metering systems; authorizing customer-generators with specified net metering systems to charge a customer-generator fee or increase in a monthly fee; providing and amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring the game and fish commission to issue bear coupons as specified; making legislative findings; requiring the game and fish commission to provide evidence of grizzly bear population recovery as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Robert WharffRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; prohibiting adults from communicating with minors about sexual activity as specified; providing penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; creating a cause of action; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Jayme LienRepublican

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; clarifying how cities, towns and counties can impose exaction or mitigation fees for development projects; specifying limits for affordable or workforce housing exaction and mitigation fees; establishing a process for review and appeal of affordable or workforce housing exaction and mitigation fees; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Bob DavisRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to set application fees for hunting licenses as specified; removing minimum contribution requirements to property damage compensation fund; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to state parks and cultural resources; authorizing the department of state parks and cultural resources to establish nonmotorized recreational trail fees; providing for administration of the fees; creating an account; providing for continuous appropriation of the account; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; requiring local government entities to comply with deadlines for reviewing land use requests within the subject property's permitted zoning use; providing exceptions; requiring local government entities to provide notice as specified; providing definitions; providing penalties; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Lee FilerRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing immunity from lawsuits based on the constitutional rights of freedom of petition, expression or speech; specifying procedures and limitations for lawsuits based on public participation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Pepper OttmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to property; restricting foreign adversary ownership of land and other interests in Wyoming as specified; providing definitions; authorizing enforcement of ownership restrictions as specified; providing a civil penalty; requiring the inclusion of notices of foreign ownership in assessment schedules and tax statements; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for a contingent effective date.

Dalton BanksRepublican

AN ACT relating to state lands; declaring the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum as a state historic site; requiring the department of state parks and cultural resources to manage the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum state historic site; requiring the development of a strategic master plan for preservation and operation of the High Plains Research Station and Arboretum state historic site; authorizing fees as specified; authorizing expenditure of appropriated funds; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Bob NicholasRepublican

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; revising dates of the primary election and the county and state canvass to allow time for hand counting as specified; clarifying when a counting board is required to be appointed; requiring rulemaking; creating an account; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring license plates to be issued by the department of transportation; clarifying the number of license plates to be provided; removing the requirement that license plates be replaced after a specified time; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Cody WylieRepublican

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 the taxation method for alternative fuel tax; amending and providing definitions; imposing an annual decal fee for plug-in hybrid vehicles; requiring signage for per kilowatt hour taxes; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a runoff election after a primary election for specified offices when no candidate receives a majority of the vote; providing the format of the runoff ballot; changing the date for primary elections; amending related dates; clarifying maintenance of voter registration lists; making conforming changes; amending election contribution laws; creating an account; providing an appropriation; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Chip NeimanRepublican