Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing annual permits for hauling prefabricated buildings, panels and trusses; authorizing annual permits for hauling forest products, baled hay and combine headers; specifying permit fees; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Scott SmithRepublican

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; allowing the secretary of state to charge a fee to expedite filings of documents as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing specially designed license plates to be issued to benefit search and rescue efforts; specifying requirements; authorizing fees; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Kevin CampbellRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; repealing requirements to physically surrender a driver's license; repealing temporary licenses; requiring peace officers to submit signed statements to the department of transportation after alcohol concentration tests for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age as specified; clarifying the timeline for contested case hearings as specified; repealing obsolete provisions; making conforming amendments; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing a misdemeanor offense and amending the offense of felony animal cruelty to address actions where wildlife is reduced to possession; prohibiting the torture of wildlife as specified; specifying the required treatment of certain wildlife; specifying penalties; providing for license revocation and suspension and forfeiture of devices and equipment for specified convictions; clarifying trapping requirements; removing a reporting requirement; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Andrew ByronRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; amending expiration and renewal of licenses for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age; amending identification card contents; clarifying the timeline for contested case hearings regarding licenses; amending requirements for replacement licenses; adding a fee for replacement licenses; repealing obsolete provisions; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring operators of commercial motor vehicles to demonstrate proficiency in the English language; prohibiting operators of commercial motor vehicles who cannot demonstrate English language proficiency from operating commercial motor vehicles as specified; providing criminal penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the offenses of money laundering and illegal investments; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to courts; authorizing the assignment of cases and proceedings from circuit courts and district courts to chancery court judges; specifying requirements for transfers; authorizing retired chancery court judges to provide judicial service as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the crimes of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution to include acts of sexual contact; providing definitions; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

Scott HeinerRepublican

AN ACT relating to identification cards; authorizing the renewal of identification cards by residents of nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities without appearing in person as specified; specifying limitations on the renewal of identification cards; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Julie JarvisRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; establishing the criminal offense of grooming of a minor for a sexual offense; specifying penalties; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to weapons; amending the age requirement for a qualified person to be issued a permit to carry a concealed weapon; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Jeremy HaroldsonRepublican

AN ACT relating to children; authorizing parents and guardians to enter into binding settlements on behalf of their minor children as specified; specifying limits on parental or guardian settlement authority; amending the value of property that may be delivered on a child's behalf; authorizing the entry of binding settlements on a minor child's behalf as specified; making conforming amendments; providing a cause of action; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to the probate code; amending maximum values for certain proceedings relating to the probate of estates; clarifying the effect of certain disclaimers of property; and providing for an effective date.

Barry CragoRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; creating a motor vehicle registration and license plate issuance system; requiring the department of transportation to implement and administer the system; requiring county treasurers to use the system; providing definitions; specifying that development of the system is part of the replacement of the revenue information system; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Tara NethercottRepublican

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 civil procedure; amending the exemption from civil liability for providing emergency services to include mental health crises; and providing for an effective date.

Chris RothfussDemocrat

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; prohibiting the use and operation of unmanned aircraft systems over critical infrastructure and critical systems; specifying exceptions; providing and amending penalties; authorizing the use of the Wyoming national guard; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; providing duties for the attorney general; and providing for an effective date.

Stacy JonesRepublican

AN ACT relating to the protection and rights of blind and disabled persons; specifying that the rights and obligations applicable to service and assistance animals apply to service animals that are being trained; increasing penalties related to injuring or killing a service or assistance animal; and providing for an effective date.

Lynn HutchingsRepublican

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing county treasurers to accept applications and payment for wildlife conservation license plates; amending application requirements; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Stephan PappasRepublican

AN ACT

Eric BarlowRepublican

AN ACT relating to appropriations for the legislature; providing appropriations for the operation of the legislative branch of state government; providing for 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 carryover of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; and providing for effective dates.

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; expanding the types of health care providers who have the authority to submit a letter on behalf of a patient applying for a handicap placard; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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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 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 controlled substances; providing immunity from prosecution of specified offenses under the Wyoming Controlled Substances Act of 1971 to persons who report or experience an emergency drug overdose event as specified; providing applicability; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses and state lands; creating a misdemeanor offense for injury to petroglyphs, pictographs and historic inscriptions; providing penalties; providing for the surveying of petroglyphs and pictographs on state lands; and providing for an effective date.

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AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; providing for loans and loan repayments; and providing for an effective date.

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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; amending existing law by redirecting revenues for the period of the budget; continuing an account; authorizing loans; discharging interfund loans; increasing higher education scholarship amounts for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; making conforming amendments; amending and repealing prior appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

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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