Bills & Legislation

A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend the Wyoming Constitution to specify that the power and control of taxation and spending belongs to the legislative department and the executive department as specified.

Dan LaursenRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the state and the Wyoming attorney general to utilize all legal tools available to protect the investment of Wyoming's funds and Wyoming's industries and policies.

Bo BitemanRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to provide for a right of individual privacy.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the department of family services; creating a new duty for the director of the department of family services to review the effectiveness and impact of the department's programs; authorizing the sharing of data; creating exceptions for the sharing of confidential information; requiring rulemaking; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; providing dental insurance requirements for billing and coding as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a rebuttable presumption in favor of acquisition value for specified real property; establishing fair market value of residential real property based on the date the property was last acquired; clarifying the use, disclosure and confidentiality of sworn statements for specified real property; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Troy McKeownRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; restricting and amending the expenditure of teacher resources and other funds generated by the education resource block grant model as specified; requiring data collection; requiring reporting; requiring a study; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; limiting the actions the game and fish department and commission may take in the management of grizzly bears; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating the educational bankruptcy act; establishing a cause of action for educational bankruptcy; specifying requirements to petition for educational bankruptcy; specifying duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; authorizing parents and guardians to petition for educational bankruptcy; specifying duties of the district court; providing for the appointment of educational bankruptcy trustees; specifying conditions for dismissal or release of jurisdiction in educational bankruptcy; modifying teacher certification; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; reducing the maximum length of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; specifying the maximum contribution that may be charged to an employer for the unemployment compensation fund; and providing for an effective date.

John KolbRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the reading assessment and invention program; defining terms; exempting high performing school districts as specified; providing remedies to address inadequacies in students' reading abilities in kindergarten through grade four; providing for retention of students due to reading inadequacies as specified; requiring parental notification as specified; providing for participation of parents in determining educational interventions as specified; creating causes of action; providing for the award of amounts as specified; specifying burdens of proof; requiring reporting; authorizing license revocation of teachers as specified; prohibiting modification of proficiency scores on the English language arts portion of the statewide summative assessment as specified; providing for rulemaking; specifying duties of the department of education staff; creating an operations research staff within the department of education; exempting the operations research staff within the department of education from the state personnel system and requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements and limitations for supplemental budget requests; repealing a provision regarding the preparation of alternative budgets; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to property taxation; revising the definition of fair market value to include replacement cost new less depreciation for specified property; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting the initiation or expansion of solar and wind energy facilities as specified; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the use of paper ballots for elections; requiring hand counting of paper ballots; specifying procedures for hand counting of paper ballots; repealing provisions related to electronic voting machines and electronic pollbooks; revising procedures for the post-election ballot audit; providing for testing of hand counting, tabulating and reporting systems; providing for election observers; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; providing for rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to the taxation of governmental property; providing a definition of "governmental purpose"; providing related definitions; making conforming changes; repealing conflicting provisions; requiring certain property not held for a government purpose to be offered for sale unless good cause is shown; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing requirements and standards for the storage of nuclear fuel by advanced nuclear reactor manufacturers; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Ed CooperRepublican

AN ACT relating to public employee retirement; increasing the employer and employee contributions for the public employee retirement plan; specifying how increased employee contributions shall be paid; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; removing continuing contract status from the Wyoming teacher employment law as specified; modifying hearing requirements for teacher suspension, dismissal and termination; providing definitions; repealing provisions accordingly; specifying applicability; specifying legislative intent; and providing for an effective date.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to the uniform commercial code; clarifying rules for the applicability of the code for investment securities; amending priority rules for securities intermediaries; making conforming amendments; repealing priority rules and applicability rules related to securities intermediaries; and providing for an effective date.

Bo BitemanRepublican

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; providing an appropriation; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring electric utilities to enter into a service agreement with certain customers as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to electronic cigarettes and vapor materials; requiring manufacturers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material to obtain a license; requiring the department of revenue to publish a list of licensed electronic cigarette and vapor material manufacturers; prohibiting the sale of electronic cigarettes and vapor material made by manufactures not included in the list of licensees; prohibiting the sale of nicotine products as specified; requiring biannual inspections of retailers, distributors and wholesalers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Gary CrumRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the United States Constitution as specified.

Eric BarlowRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION demanding that the United States Congress, in consultation with the legislature of the state of Wyoming, extinguish the federal title in those public lands and subsurface resources in this state that derive from former federal territory, and do so in recognition of the sovereign rights of this state, as set forth in its congressional act of admission into the union, and in recognition of the solemn duties resting upon Congress under the admissions, property, claims, and guarantee clauses of Article IV of the United States constitution so that the state of Wyoming shall, in due course, obtain full admission into the Union of States upon an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatsoever.

Bob IdeRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to call a convention of the several states for proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution as specified.

Dan LaursenRepublican

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to transfer responsibility to construct public school facilities to school districts by providing mandatory and optional state funding mechanisms.

Charles ScottRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; allowing children to enroll in any public school within their resident school district as specified; providing exceptions; providing priority for specified students; requiring reporting by school districts; amending the duties of the school district board of trustees; requiring the state superintendent of public instruction to publish reported information; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to net metering; revising how net metering compensation applies to new small customer‑generators; authorizing the public service commission to authorize a different system of compensation for excess energy production if service is being subsidized by other customers; clarifying how net metering compensation applies to existing small customer-generators; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Cale CaseRepublican

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; providing for the licensing of anesthesiologist assistants and specifying scope of practice; creating and amending definitions; providing for temporary licenses as specified; providing for the imposition of fees; providing for the suspension, restriction, revocation or nonrenewal of licenses as specified; providing for license reinstatement and reactivation; creating a criminal penalty; providing for a hearing; amending the composition of the board of medicine; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Wendy SchulerRepublican

AN ACT relating to child custody; providing a presumption for issuance of an order of shared child custody as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing landowners to sell their landowner hunting licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Laura PearsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to school finance; creating a competitive grant program for crossing guards for K-12 public schools; providing an appropriation; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Evie BrennanRepublican

AN ACT relating to immigration; establishing offenses related to the transportation, concealment or hiring of illegal or unauthorized aliens; providing penalties; requiring the verification of citizenship status for public benefits as specified; requiring the attorney general and each county sheriff to negotiate with federal agencies concerning immigration as specified; specifying requirements for communicating information related to immigration status; specifying requirements for the determination of immigration status for inmates; requiring documentation concerning citizenship for the issuance of driver's licenses and identification cards; providing and amending definitions; requiring reports; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Cheri SteinmetzRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; providing definitions; requiring a kindergarten through grade eight (8) public lab school; specifying the purpose of the public lab school; creating a governing board; specifying membership of the governing board; specifying duties of the governing board; specifying enrollment requirements and preferences; specifying funding; requiring reporting; specifying the first year of enrollment; and providing for an effective date.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring a drug and alcohol testing program for all hospital employees and potential employees holding or seeking positions requiring safety sensitive duties; providing drug and alcohol counseling as specified; clarifying that the use of marijuana by hospital employees remains unlawful; amending and providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan LaursenRepublican

AN ACT relating to industrial development and siting; requiring the payment of wildlife mitigation impact costs for industrial siting projects as specified; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Larry HicksRepublican

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; allowing the attorney general to take action to defend the state's interest in the dual banking system; providing legislative findings; and providing for an effective date.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a homeowner property tax exemption; providing a sunset date; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring any person born on or after January 1, 2000 to obtain a certificate of trapping education to be qualified to trap wildlife; providing for a person to receive special authorization to trap or snare wildlife when accompanied by a qualified mentor as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Dan DockstaderRepublican

AN ACT relating to veterans; providing an appropriation for the construction of the state veterans' home of Wyoming as specified; directing the transfer of funds as specified; specifying a project maximum; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing a property tax exemption for the real and tangible personal property of for-profit trade schools; specifying eligibility and requirements for the exemption; making conforming amendments; specifying legislative purposes; and providing for effective dates.

Troy McKeownRepublican

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

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; providing an exemption from sales and use tax for firearms, ammunition and archery equipment; providing applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Jared OlsenRepublican

AN ACT relating to registered offices and agents; authorizing the secretary of state to release confidential information maintained by registered agents as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; revising the distribution rates for sales and use taxes; removing obsolete statutory language; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Tim FrenchRepublican

AN ACT relating to the office of the secretary of state; requiring the University of Wyoming center for blockchain and digital innovation in collaboration with the secretary of state to develop a blockchain or other distributed ledger filing system; providing recommendations for the filing system; providing definitions; authorizing the promulgation of rules; creating an account; providing a funding source for the account; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation; amending qualifications for the tax exemption for long-term homeowners; repealing the sunset date for the exemption; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to taxation; clarifying the taxability of state owned lands; providing a sunset date; creating a task force to study and provide recommendations related to the taxability of government owned property; requiring a report; specifying applicability; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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