General government appropriations.

AN ACT to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 5 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing for appropriations 6 and transfers of funds for the period of the budget and for the remainder of 7 the current biennium ending June 30, 2024 as specified; providing for carryover 8 of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; providing for employee 9 positions as specified; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other 10 requirements relating to appropriations for the remainder of the current 11 biennium ending June 30, 2024 and the period of the budget as specified; 12 providing for position and other budgetary limitations; authorizing rulemaking; 13 authorizing a charter school; providing appropriations for purposes related to 14 state funded capital construction; creating accounts; amending existing law by 15 redirecting revenues for the period of the budget; making conforming amendments; 16 amending and repealing prior appropriations; providing for reports related to 17 appropriations; continuing an account; amending and repealing prior 18 appropriations of COVID-19 relief funds; specifying conditions on the 19 appropriation and expenditure of COVID-19 relief funds; and providing for 20 effective dates. 21 22

Joint Appropriations Committee 3 4

Nonresident fishing license fee increase.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; increasing nonresident fishing license fees; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Property tax exemption for long-term homeowners.

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a tax exemption for long-term homeowners; providing a penalty for false claims; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Property tax refund program.

AN ACT relating to property tax; amending qualifications for the property tax refund program; amending qualifications for the county optional property tax refund program; amending the maximum refund under the property tax refund program; requiring audits; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Behavioral health redesign amendments.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the department of health to pay behavioral health services claims as specified; requiring the department of health to collect information regarding payment of behavioral health services claims; requiring a report; amending definitions; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Light and high profile vehicle closures.

AN ACT relating to highways; creating a penalty for violating signs and markers for closures to light and high profile vehicles; requiring fines imposed to be paid by the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation; specifying that a violation of a closure to light and high profile vehicles disqualifies a person from driving a commercial vehicle as specified; providing that a violation of a closure to light and high profile vehicles may result in a mandatory revocation or suspension of a license or nonresident operating privilege as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Alternative fuel tax-electricity amendments.

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; making conforming amendments; repealing obsolete provisions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Commercial driver license-hazardous materials endorsement.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; specifying that a driver who has attained eighteen (18) years of age may receive a hazardous materials endorsement for a commercial driver's license; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Fuel tax-licensee information deadline.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; amending the deadline for providing fuel tax return and license information when requested by the department of transportation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Grace period-state land lease renewals.

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the director of the office of state lands and investments to grant state land lessees additional time to renew their leases; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State land lease amendments.

AN ACT relating to state lands; removing specific types of payments for land lease payments; amending the process for how state land lease payments are made; providing that state land lease renewals and rental payments are considered filed on the date the renewal or rental is postmarked; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Wyoming dairy marketing act-repeal.

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; repealing the Wyoming Dairy Marketing Act of 1971; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Flow-through pools-exemption.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; exempting flow-through pools from the public pool and spa health and safety act; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Prior authorization regulations.

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; requiring health insurers and contracted utilization review entities to follow prior authorization regulations as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Health insurance-reimbursement of overpayments.

AN ACT relating to health insurance; specifying a time limit to seek reimbursement for health insurance overpayments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Sutton state archaeological site-legal description.

AN ACT relating to state lands; removing an inconsistent legal description of the Sutton state archaeological site; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Fishing outfitters and guides-registration of fishing boats.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the Wyoming game and fish commission to regulate commercially guided fishing boats; providing for registration of commercially guided fishing boats, vehicles and trailers operated by outfitters and professional fishing guides; providing definitions; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Property tax-inflation cap.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; limiting the maximum annual taxable value increase for residential property; striking obsolete language; and providing for a contingent effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Education savings accounts.

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing education savings accounts; creating the Wyoming education savings accounts 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; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Education Interim Committee

School finance-regional cost adjustment study.

AN ACT relating to school finance; requiring reporting and data collection to study the regional cost adjustments utilized in the education resource block grant model during recalibration; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Charter school leasing.

AN ACT relating to K-12 school facilities; repealing the requirement that charter schools operate successfully for three (3) years to receive reimbursement for leasing expenses; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on School Facilities

Sales tax revisions.

AN ACT relating to sales tax; revising provisions related to administration of the sales tax; clarifying a definition; clarifying the imposition of the tax; amending exemptions; revising reporting requirements; clarifying licensing and compliance provisions; repealing obsolete and other provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Vehicle registration e-certificate and grace period.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; confirming the ability of county treasurers to provide vehicle certificates of registration in electronic form as specified; amending requirements for the display of vehicle registrations, license plates, validation stickers and permits as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Certificate of need repeal.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the department of health to approve alterations or additions to health care facilities as specified; repealing bed expansion limitations for nursing care facilities and hospitals as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Medicaid-third party payor conditions.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Medical Assistance and Services Act; requiring health insurers to respond to state inquiries within sixty (60) days; prohibiting health insurers from denying Medicaid payments as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Emergency protective services-effective period.

AN ACT relating to adult protective services; extending the effective period of emergency protective services; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

DFS and law enforcement-cross reporting.

AN ACT relating to adult protective services; requiring law enforcement to notify the department of family services upon receiving a report of a vulnerable adult in need of potential protective services; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Interference with parent-child contact.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; establishing the offense of interference with parent-child contact; specifying affirmative defenses; specifying penalties; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Cold case database and investigations.

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; requiring the division of criminal investigation to develop and maintain a cold case database; requiring law enforcement agencies in the state to provide cold case information to the division as specified; requiring rulemaking; requiring a report; authorizing funds for cold case investigations; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Controlled Substances Act-possession amendments.

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; eliminating the form of a controlled substance as an element of the misdemeanor offense of unlawful possession of a controlled substance; amending prohibitions on the possession of controlled substances as specified; specifying and amending penalties based on the amount of controlled substances; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Peace officers-records and reporting.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring personnel files of peace officers, detention officers, corrections officers and dispatchers to be available to the peace officer standards and training commission as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Geologic sequestration-unitization amendments.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; specifying that pore space utilization is a purpose of geologic sequestration unitization; providing definitions; amending permit types related to geologic sequestration; amending application requirements for the unitization of interests in pore space in a unit area; amending the findings required by the oil and gas conservation commission before entry of a unitization order; amending notice requirements for unitization applications; clarifying that a unitization order may provide for the use of directional wells; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Mining operations-blasting requirements.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; specifying requirements for the use of explosives in noncoal surface mining operations; requiring a blasting plan for specified mining operations; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Solid waste municipal cease and transfer funding.

AN ACT relating to the prioritization of municipal solid waste facilities cease and transfer projects; authorizing expenditure of previously appropriated funds; establishing a prioritized list of projects; establishing a maximum amount to be expended on projects; granting the department of environmental quality limited discretionary authority to modify the prioritized list; specifying expenditures for a carcass management project; providing definitions; requiring reports; repealing a prior list of priority cease and transfer projects; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Limitation on environmental rulemaking.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; requiring the environmental quality council to promulgate rules no more stringent than federal law, rules or regulations; providing exceptions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Natural Resource Protection Act.

AN ACT relating to protection of constitutional rights; providing a declaration of authority and policy; prohibiting the enforcement of federal rules or regulations regarding federal land management as specified; providing an exception; and providing for an effective date.

Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee

Election offenses-intimidation.

AN ACT relating to elections; creating the misdemeanor offense of election intimidation; creating the felony offense of aggravated election intimidation; providing for penalties; repealing an inconsistent provision; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Voter qualifications-durational residency requirement.

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a qualified elector to be a bona fide resident of the state of Wyoming for not less than thirty (30) days before the date of the election in which they offer to vote; providing an exception for electors otherwise qualified to vote for president and vice president of the United States; making conforming changes; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Campaign reporting.

AN ACT relating to campaign practices; clarifying when groups are required to file as an organization for purposes of campaign reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

School district trustee oath of office.

AN ACT relating to school district trustees; clarifying when school district trustees are required to take the oath of office; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Candidates for state legislature-residency requirement.

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the residency requirement for candidates for the state legislature; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Prohibition on private funds for conducting elections.

AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting government officials and election officials from soliciting, taking or otherwise accepting private funds to conduct elections as specified; providing for an exception for special districts; creating a new misdemeanor offense; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

State forestry good neighbor-positions.

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing additional employees funded through the Wyoming state forestry good neighbor authority revolving account; and providing for an effective date.

Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee

Parental rights in minor childs health care.

AN ACT relating to children; repealing a provision authorizing specified minors to consent to tobacco cessation treatment; repealing a provision authorizing vaccination or medical treatment of a minor child without parental consent as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Property tax exemption-residential structures and land.

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a property tax exemption for single family residential structures based on the prior year assessed value; establishing a property tax exemption for land associated with a single family residential structure based on the prior year assessed value; providing definitions; requiring information related to the tax exemption to be included on the tax assessment schedule and tax notice; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Chancery court-timeline for resolution of disputes.

AN ACT relating to courts; amending the timeline for the effective and expeditious resolution of disputes filed in the chancery court; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Solid waste-illegal dumping remediation grants.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing an illegal dumping remediation grant program; specifying requirements for the program; requiring the department of environmental quality to manage the program; creating an account; requiring reports; providing for the transfer of funds; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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Renaming the deaf, dumb and blind account.

AN ACT relating to public funds; renaming the deaf, dumb and blind account; and providing for an effective date.

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What is a Woman Act.

an Act. Sponsored By: Representative(s) Ward, Allemand, Angelos, Bear, Haroldson, Hornok, Jennings, Locke, Neiman, Ottman, Pendergraft, Penn, Rodriguez-Williams, Slagle, Smith and Strock and Senator(s) French, Ide and Steinmetz AN ACT relating to common law, statutes and rules of construction; specifying definitions and standards for the application of a person's biological sex in law, rules or regulations; providing for the law to distinguish between accommodations for males and females; requiring the collection of vital statistics and other data to identify persons as male or female at birth; and providing for an effective date.

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Public indecency-intimidation.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; prohibiting a person from exposing his intimate parts with the intent to intimidate or harass; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax-homestead exemption.

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a homestead exemption for primary residences; providing a penalty for false claims; providing a sunset date; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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Public health emergency-definition amendments.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the governor to convene the legislature after declaring a public health emergency exists as specified; authorizing the legislature to satisfy quorum requirements and vote in-person or remotely by an electronic method; amending the definition of public health emergency as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming Reads Day.

AN ACT relating to legal time and holidays; designating Wyoming Reads Day as a state recognized commemorative day to be observed as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Forensic genetic genealogy pilot program.

AN ACT relating to law enforcement; establishing a pilot program for forensic genetic genealogical DNA analyses and searches as specified; providing grants; providing a sunset date; providing an appropriation; requiring rulemaking; and providing an effective date.

Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Excess wildlife population damage amendments.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish department to compensate landowners, lessees and agents for extraordinary damage to rangeland as specified; providing a definition; requiring rulemaking; requiring Wyoming game and fish to develop an elk management plan as specified; requiring a report; providing a sunset date; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Local impact assistance payments-percentage discretion.

AN ACT relating to impact assistance payments; providing that the industrial siting council may increase the maximum allowable percentage of impact assistance payments regardless of project cost as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Sex and gender changes for children- prohibited.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing exceptions; providing definitions; specifying applicability; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Fire prevention and electrical safety- amendments.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; modifying the distribution of fees collected for electrical inspections, licenses, work permits, examinations and apprentice registrations; clarifying local enforcement certification requirements for electrical inspectors; and providing for an effective date.

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Firefighter-cancer screening benefits.

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; authorizing firefighters to receive annual cancer screenings under the Wyoming worker's compensation act; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Trust Fund Administration-2.

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for the administration of the Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund; creating the Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund income account; establishing new duties for the select natural resource funding committee; providing for the distribution of funds; requiring audits and reports; providing for rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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Mine permit and reclamation plan changes- landowner approval.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; requiring landowner approval before the department of environmental quality or the environmental quality council approves any mine permit or reclamation plan revisions as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Local government distributions.

AN ACT relating to local government funding; providing funding to cities and towns; providing funding to counties; providing local government funding formulas and distributions; providing legislative intent; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Broadband development subaccount-amendments.

AN ACT relating to economic development; authorizing the use of broadband development subaccount funds as matching grant funds and for administrative expenses as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Worker's compensation-provision for adverse deviation.

AN ACT relating to worker's compensation; authorizing consideration of specified investment earnings for determining rates under the worker's compensation program; conforming provisions for the actuarially reasonable provision for adverse deviation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Abandoned mine reclamation accounts.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; creating the long-term abandoned mine reclamation account; specifying permissible uses of the account; authorizing investment of funds in the account; specifying the limits of liability for funds in the account; repealing the abandoned mine lands fund balancing account; specifying transfers of funds from repealed accounts; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Public health nursing-budget requests.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; providing a process for public health nursing employee compensation increases as specified to be included in the department of health's budget request; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Public property-amendments.

AN ACT relating to public property and buildings; amending and creating provisions related to budgeting, expenditure of funds and reporting for capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance; conforming and repealing definitions; amending requirements for contracting for public works; specifying duties related to capital construction projects, major maintenance and routine maintenance for the state construction department, the state building commission, school districts, the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming and the community college commission; repealing major maintenance funding requirements; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Simple assault-menacing.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending simple assault to include menacing or threatening behavior; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Secretary of state-expedited filings.

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.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Public officer training-amendments.

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; removing minimum fiscal training requirements for public officers; limiting the duration of training for public officers; authorizing public officers to complete training on personal time; and providing for an effective date.

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Cities and towns-abandoned and nuisance buildings.

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; providing a tax credit for expenditures to incentivize the improvement of abandoned and nuisance buildings; authorizing cities and towns to designate abandoned and nuisance buildings for purposes of the tax credit; authorizing cities and towns to assess a fee for costs to abate a nuisance or to repair, remove or destroy a dangerous building; and providing for an effective date.

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Public retirement-actuarially determined contributions.

AN ACT relating to public employee retirement; requiring the calculation and collection of employee and employer contributions for the public employee retirement plan to be based on an actuarially determined contribution rate; specifying procedures for the calculation of rates; requiring reports; removing obsolete language; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Appropriations Committee

High Plains Research Station and Arboretum- historic site.

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

Joint Appropriations Committee

Social media-parental consent for minors required.

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; requiring parental consent for minors under age eighteen (18) to use a social media platform; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Vehicle lien-amendments.

AN ACT relating to personal property liens; requiring any towing and recovery service to request title searches as specified; requiring the department of transportation to make reasonable efforts to identify vehicle owners and lienholders; requiring notice to lienholders; and providing for an effective date.

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Brucellosis testing amendments.

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; amending the requirements for the Wyoming livestock board to provide brucellosis testing information as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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County clerks-frivolous filings procedure.

AN ACT relating to county clerks; authorizing county clerks to seek to have frivolous filings rejected or notated as frivolous; specifying requirements and procedures for rejecting or notating frivolous filings; and providing for an effective date.

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Newborn child safe havens-age of child.

AN ACT relating to children; amending the age of newborn children who may be relinquished to a safe haven provider; and providing for an effective date.

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Protection of parental rights.

AN ACT relating to parental rights; specifying applicability of parental rights protections; specifying duties for school district boards of trustees; and providing for an effective date.

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Animal reimbursement program account amendments-2.

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; increasing the amount the Wyoming livestock board may reimburse for any single quarantine of livestock; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Net metering.

AN ACT relating to electric utilities; increasing the maximum generation capacity for net metering systems; and providing for an effective date.

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Abandoned mine land program.

AN ACT relating to the abandoned mine reclamation program; establishing the abandoned mine land grant program for local governments; providing priority for grants approved under the grant program; requiring reports; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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School safety and security amendments.

AN ACT relating to education; requiring board of trustees to submit a written statement explaining the reasons the board did not adopt rules to allow possession of firearms by school district employees as specified; authorizing funds to be expended for a statewide marketing campaign to promote the school districts' authority to allow possession of firearms by school district employees as provided by law; providing an appropriation; providing for severability; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax-assessment ratio for residential property.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; specifying the property tax assessment ratio for the residential property for owner occupied primary residences class; providing an appropriation; and providing for a delayed and contingent effective date.

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Omnibus water bill-planning.

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing specified level I and level II studies; providing appropriations; requiring reports; providing for the reversion of unexpended funds; authorizing unobligated funds to be used to complete other designated projects as specified; providing an appropriation for the office of water programs; transferring funds from the general fund to water development account I; clarifying authority of the Wyoming water development commission regarding Inflation Reduction Act funding for drought mitigation projects and regional conservation partnership program funding; and providing for an effective date.

Select Water Committee

Insurance payments-not taxable.

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

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Protection of health care providers.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the offenses of assault, threat of violence and battery against health care providers; specifying penalties; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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Wind tax exemption-repeal.

AN ACT relating to the tax on production of energy from wind resources; repealing the three year tax exemption on energy production; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Real estate transfer tax to offset property tax.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing for an excise tax on the sale of real property as specified; providing for distribution of the tax; requiring rulemaking; imposing criminal penalties; providing for a reduction in the property tax assessment ratio; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates.

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Hathaway scholarship program.

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

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Wyoming teacher shortage loan repayment program.

AN ACT relating to education; reauthorizing the Wyoming teacher shortage loan repayment program; modifying eligibility requirements; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; repealing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

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Sage grouse implementation-notice to landowners.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; specifying landowner notice and public comment requirements for the sage grouse implementation team; and providing for an effective date.

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American rescue plan act appropriations- amendments.

an act appropriations- amendments. Sponsored By: Joint Appropriations Committee AN ACT relating to the emergency expenses of government; providing definitions; providing appropriations; amending and repealing prior appropriations of COVID- 19 relief funds; specifying conditions on the appropriation and expenditure of COVID-19 relief funds; amending prior conditions on the reduction and prioritization of COVID-19 relief funds; providing for the reversion of unexpended and unobligated funds; authorizing emergency government programs; authorizing rulemaking; requiring reporting; specifying applicability; providing for priority of appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

School finance-mental health service grants.

AN ACT relating to school finance; creating a program for school districts to assist in providing additional school counselors, school nurses and other mental health service assistance as specified; providing an appropriation; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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Interactive gaming.

AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing interactive gaming; providing for regulation by the Wyoming gaming commission; imposing fees; providing for the collection and distribution of revenues from interactive gaming; providing for a continuous appropriation; requiring rulemaking; providing penalties; and providing for effective dates.

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Repeal gun free zones and preemption amendments.

AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; repealing gun free zones; providing for the carrying of concealed weapons as specified; creating a criminal offense for prohibiting entry to a person carrying a concealed weapon as specified; clarifying that only the state legislature may regulate firearms, weapons and ammunition; providing for exceptions; amending a definition; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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Child care is a residential use of property.

AN ACT relating to property; providing that day care is a residential use of property for the purposes of restrictive covenants; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax exemption-specified real property.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a property tax exemption for real property in the all other property class of property; requiring information related to the tax exemption to be included on the tax assessment schedule; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Statutory standing committees-federal review.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; establishing joint and standing committees for the senate and house of representatives; providing for the appointment of members to joint and standing committees, creating the joint and standing committee on federal review; establishing powers and duties of the joint and standing committee on federal review; specifying the date for appointment of members to the joint and standing committee on federal review; and providing for an effective date.

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Settlement agreements for minors-parental authorization.

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; making conforming amendments; providing a cause of action; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax-holiday.

AN ACT relating to property tax; providing a property tax reduction for tax year 2024; providing a sunset date; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax deferral program-amendments.

AN ACT relating to property taxes; providing that the property tax deferral program shall be administered by the department of revenue; revising the amount of taxes that can be deferred; revising the calculation of interest; making deferral of taxes contingent on the availability of funds; authorizing the department of revenue to defer lien priority; clarifying eligibility; modifying record keeping requirements; making conforming changes; requiring rulemaking; repealing a conflicting provision; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; requiring a report; and providing for effective dates.

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State funded capital construction.

AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; providing definitions; providing appropriations for purposes related to state funded capital construction; making appropriations subject to terms and conditions as specified; providing matching funds for specified projects; providing for the acquisition or acceptance of real property; authorizing the expenditure of prior appropriations as specified; reverting a prior appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

State funds-pool A participation and fund limits.

AN ACT relating to the investment of state funds; specifying a minimum size for new accounts added to the pool A investment account; removing specified accounts from participation in the pool A investment account; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Capital Financing & Investments

Denturist practice act.

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; amending dentists and dental hygienists licensing statutes to include denturists; authorizing a denturist to be added to the board of dental examiners as specified; specifying that this act does not apply to denturitry students performing denturitry as part of their curriculum; specifying that denturists shall only perform dental laboratory work at the direction of a dentist; requiring denturists and dental laboratory technicians to complete work for a dentist pursuant to a written prescription as specified; requiring dentists and denturists to engage the services of persons outside their office with a written work authorization; specifying that denturists in certain occupations are exempt from the act; specifying that denturists may perform services for patients if trained to do so in an accredited denturitry school and under the supervision of a dentist; amending requirements relating to permissible supervised work by specified persons; requiring dental hygienists to be graduates of a board approved program in order to practice; amending definitions; providing definitions; amending other laws relating to dentists and dental hygienists to include denturists as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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State land oil and gas leases-operator requirement.

AN ACT relating to state lands; specifying evaluation and review requirements before issuance of oil and gas leases on state lands; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Peace officer standards and training commission-funding.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating an account; providing for the funding of the peace officer standards and training commission; specifying uses of the account; increasing vehicle registration fees as specified; specifying distribution of fees; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Practice of behavior analyst and technician- family members.

AN ACT relating to psychology and behavior analysts; authorizing family members to deliver behavior analyst services to a recipient as specified; authorizing caregivers or family members to act as behavior technicians as specified; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Suicide awareness and prevention license plate.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates; authorizing specially designed license plates to be issued to increase suicide awareness and prevention; specifying requirements; authorizing fees; providing for the termination of the issuance of the special plates; requiring a report upon termination; authorizing rulemaking; making a conforming amendment; specifying availability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Open banking-amendments.

AN ACT relating to banking; defining who is a customer for purposes of open banking; limiting the release of customer data through open banking as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Property tax relief program-rental property applicants.

AN ACT relating to property tax; amending who may apply for the property tax relief program; making conforming changes; providing for rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Regulation of abortions.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the licensure of surgical abortion facilities as specified; requiring licensed physicians to perform chemical and surgical abortions after an ultrasound; providing criminal penalties for violations; specifying civil liability for damages resulting from abortions; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Hit and run-responsibility and penalties.

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.

Sponsors:

Firearms merchant category code-prohibition.

AN ACT relating to consumer protection; prohibiting records and discrimination based on a firearms code as specified; providing definitions; providing for enforcement; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Sex offenders-child care facilities.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; prohibiting sex offenders from accessing or residing near child care facilities as specified; providing exceptions; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act- amendments.

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; amending the Wyoming Consumer Rental- Purchase Agreement Act as specified; amending licensing requirements; providing for digital agreements; providing definitions; providing limitations; allowing for the inspection of records; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Use of full fair market value in taxation.

AN ACT relating to taxation; clarifying that rules related to establishing fair market value for property taxes shall be consistent with the statutory definition of fair market value; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Access points on state lands-study.

AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring a study on the feasibility of an access point permitting system for commercial fishing activities; requiring a report; requiring the joint travel, recreation, wildlife and cultural resources interim committee to review the report and sponsor legislation as necessary; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Education savings accounts-1.

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing education savings accounts; creating the Wyoming education savings accounts 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; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Foreign ownership of Wyoming agricultural lands.

AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; prohibiting ownership of agricultural land by nonresident aliens, foreign businesses and foreign governments as specified; providing exceptions; requiring registration of agricultural lands; requiring reports; providing a penalty; providing for the escheat of agricultural lands as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Mental health and vulnerable adult task force.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; continuing the mental health and vulnerable adult task force; specifying members and duties of the task force; requiring reports; providing a termination date for the task force; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Paid family and medical leave.

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; implementing voluntary paid family and medical leave insurance for Wyoming employees as specified; specifying qualifying events; providing a timeline for implementation; requiring the selection of an insurance carrier; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Criminal history for volunteers in K-12 public schools.

AN ACT relating to criminal history records for volunteers in K-12 public schools; authorizing school districts to request fingerprints to obtain criminal histories for volunteers as specified; authorizing school districts to receive criminal histories for volunteers as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

State park peace officers-definition and scope of authority.

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; amending the definition of peace officer to clarify and expand the scope of authority for park rangers, superintendents and assistant superintendents; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

988 hotline-appropriation.

AN ACT relating to public programs; making an appropriation to the 988 system trust fund account as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Sales tax administration revisions.

AN ACT relating to sales tax; revising provisions related to administration of the sales tax; clarifying a definition; clarifying the imposition of the tax; amending exemptions; revising reporting requirements; clarifying licensing and compliance provisions; repealing obsolete and other provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Property tax reduction and replacement act.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; establishing a property tax exemption for single family residential properties; providing a sales and use tax to provide funding to local governments due to the decrease in revenue from the property tax exemption; providing for the distribution of the sales and use tax; revising provisions related to local optional sales and use taxes; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Hydrogen severance tax.

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

Sponsors:

Possession of alcohol-amendments.

AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; amending the penalty for a person under the age of 21 possessing, consuming or having a measurable amount of alcohol in his body; providing for the expungement of a criminal record for a person under the age of 21 possessing, consuming or having a measurable amount of alcohol in his body; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Property tax-classes of property and residential value.

A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the assessment of residential real property, commercial property, agricultural property and personal property as separate property classes for the purpose of taxation; providing for valuation of residential real property; and revoking a prior constitutional joint resolution which has not been submitted to the voters.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Political expenditures.

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to propose a constitutional amendment identifying the source of political contributions as specified.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Support for local input in federal rulemaking.

A JOINT RESOLUTION in support of meaningful state and local government involvement in drafting proposed federal rules, resource management plans and environmental impact statements.

Sponsors:

Right of health care access-constitutional amendment.

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to eliminate the legislature's express authority to determine reasonable and necessary restrictions on a person's right to make health care decisions and to direct payment for health care.

Sponsors:

General government appropriations-2.

AN ACT to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2024 5 and ending June 30, 2026; providing definitions; providing for appropriations 6 and transfers of funds for the period of the budget and for the remainder of 7 the current biennium ending June 30, 2024 as specified; providing for carryover 8 of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; providing for employee 9 positions as specified; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other 10 requirements relating to appropriations for the remainder of the current 11 biennium ending June 30, 2024 and the period of the budget as specified; 12 providing for position and other budgetary limitations; creating accounts; 13 amending existing law by redefining terms related to school finance and 14 redirecting revenues for the period of the budget; making conforming amendments; 15 amending and repealing prior appropriations; increasing the state employer paid 16 contribution for state employee retirement; providing for reports related to 17 appropriations; continuing an account; and providing for effective dates. 18 19

Joint Appropriations Committee 3 4

Legislative budget.

AN ACT relating to appropriations for the legislature; providing appropriations for the operation of the legislative branch of state government; and providing for effective dates.

ManagementCouncil

State employee leave for volunteer emergency services.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing state employees leave to serve as volunteer emergency response personnel; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Rehiring retired firefighters-continued retirement benefits.

AN ACT relating to firemen pensions; allowing retired firefighters to be rehired while continuing to receive retirement benefits; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Organ transplant recipient protection.

AN ACT relating to insurance; prohibiting discrimination against organ transplant recipients by insurers as specified; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Nursing home administrators-temporary licenses.

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; authorizing the board of nursing home administrators to issue temporary licenses for nursing home administrators as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Behavioral health redesign-vulnerable adults.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; including vulnerable adults within the behavioral health redesign; clarifying advanced age or a physical or mental disability does not establish a presumption of severe mental illness; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Health insurance for volunteer emergency responders.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; authorizing volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical technicians and volunteer search and rescue persons to participate in the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Parental rights in education-1.

AN ACT relating to education; specifying procedures and requirements for school districts to provide parents and guardians notice of information regarding students and the rights of parents and guardians to make decisions regarding their children; specifying that school districts cannot prohibit parental or guardian notifications and involvement in critical decisions involving students; specifying procedures for resolving parent or guardian concerns and complaints; specifying duties for school districts; requiring adoption of necessary policies, rules and procedures; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Meat processing plants-hides and carcasses.

AN ACT relating to hides and carcasses; requiring hide buyers to keep records of hides or pelts purchased as specified; making a conforming amendment; repealing existing provisions relating to the inspection of hides; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Federal land use plans-legal actions authorized.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; authorizing the legislature to prosecute actions involving the proper administration and interpretation of federal acts; making conforming amendments; providing legislative findings; authorizing loans as specified; authorizing the legislature to provide funding to counties as specified; specifying a sunset date for authorization for the legislature to provide funding to counties; specifying repayment of loans; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State fair board-powers and responsibilities.

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; authorizing the state fair board to make disbursements from its budget; authorizing the state fair board to make and execute contracts; removing the requirement that the director of the department of agriculture be the chairman of any subcommittee created to execute the annual state fair; allowing the director of the department of agriculture to assign a designee to serve on the state fair board; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Acceptance of retrocession-federal military installations.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; authorizing the governor to accept retrocession over military reservations and lands as specified; correcting obsolete references; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Military department emergency fire suppression account.

AN ACT relating to the military department; creating an account for emergency fire suppression costs on all state lands managed by the military department; authorizing the adjutant general to expend monies for emergency fire suppression; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Plane coordinates system-amendments.

AN ACT relating to the plane coordinates system; updating the plane coordinates system for Wyoming; providing for the use of other datums, systems and networks for the system; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing provisions related to obsolete coordinate standards; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Indian child welfare act-safe haven amendments.

AN ACT relating to children; amending the safe haven statutes to require compliance with the Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Developmental preschool funding.

AN ACT relating to developmental preschool funding; modifying the per child amounts used to calculate payments to service providers; modifying requirements for the department of health's budget request for developmental preschool services as specified; modifying the date utilized to count the number of children that participate in the program; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Electricity rates for costs that do not benefit Wyoming.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; specifying that costs of interstate electric public utilities that do not benefit Wyoming ratepayers shall be excluded from costs apportioned to Wyoming; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Public utilities-net power cost sharing ratio.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; specifying the sharing of electric supply costs between a public utility and its customers in specified cost-tracking mechanisms; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Public service commission-electricity reliability.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring the public service commission to establish standards related to electricity reliability; specifying that failing to comply with standards is subject to penalties; providing that the public service commission shall not allow for rate recovery for new or modified facilities that are likely to result in failure to comply with reliability standards; specifying that public utilities may enter into individualized energy contracts and may utilize customer-specific energy portfolios; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Public utilities-energy resource procurement.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; establishing a solicitation process for specified electrical utilities acquiring or constructing significant energy resources; providing a waiver process; providing for the use of independent evaluators; providing rulemaking authority; authorizing a full time position; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Public service commission-integrated resource plans.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; providing for the review of integrated resource plan action plans by the public service commission; providing rulemaking authority; authorizing a position; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Reclamation and decommissioning costs.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring a study identify already incurred liabilities for the decommissioning and cleanup of coal fired electric generation facilities as specified; requiring a study and reports; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Special district vacancies.

AN ACT relating to special districts; clarifying the term of office for members of a special district governing body that filled a vacancy; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Special districts bond elections exception.

AN ACT relating to special districts; providing an exception to special district bond elections for improvement and service districts and water and sewer districts as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Federal natural resource management coordinator.

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; authorizing a position within the governor's office; specifying duties for the newly authorized position; repealing the existing coordinator of state-federal relations position; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee

Major political parties-state central party voting members.

AN ACT relating to political parties; clarifying voting requirements for members of the state central committee of major political parties; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Influencing jurors and witnesses-judges amendment.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; clarifying that judges are covered under the offense of influencing, intimidating or impeding jurors, witnesses and officers; amending the penalty for intimidating or impeding jurors, judges, witnesses and officers; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Sex offender registration-promoting obscenity.

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; specifying offenses of promoting obscenity as offenses for which convicted offenders shall register as a sex offender; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Hemp-limitations on psychoactive substances.

AN ACT relating to hemp production and controlled substances; prohibiting the addition of synthetic substances or other additives to hemp; prohibiting the sale of hemp with THC or psychoactive substances as specified; providing and amending definitions; including naturally occurring THC as a scheduled substance in the Controlled Substances Act; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Wyoming rural attorney recruitment program.

AN ACT relating to attorneys-at-law; establishing the rural attorney recruitment pilot program; specifying eligibility requirements for counties and attorneys to participate in the program; specifying administration, oversight and payment obligations for the program; requiring reports; providing a sunset date for the program; authorizing the adoption of rules, policies and procedures; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Sex offender registration-registerable offenses.

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; inserting and amending offenses for which convicted offenders must register as a sex offender; repealing a definition associated with sex offender registration; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Public records-DOC investigations.

AN ACT relating to public records; applying the investigatory records disclosure exception to department of corrections records as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act.

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; adopting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act; authorizing a district court to order child abduction prevention measures when the evidence establishes a credible risk of abduction; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Indian child welfare act-delinquency amendments.

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; providing that the Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act does not apply to delinquency petitions; repealing a provision; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Financial reporting amendments-2.

AN ACT relating to financial reporting to the department of audit; amending enforcement of financial reporting requirements through limiting disbursement of certain tax revenues; clarifying good cause for extending reporting deadline; and providing for an effective date.

ManagementAuditCommittee

Firefighters recruitment film.

AN ACT relating to volunteer firefighters; authorizing the state fire marshal and the department of workforce services to produce a film related to the recruitment of volunteer firefighters; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Trust Fund Administration.

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for the administration of the Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund; creating the Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund income account; establishing new duties for the select natural resource funding committee; providing for the distribution of funds; requiring audits and reports; providing for rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Banking division-classification and salary exemptions.

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; generally exempting employees of the division of banking from state personnel classification and compensation provisions; requiring the state banking commissioner with the approval of the governor to establish personnel classifications and salaries for positions within the division of banking as specified; requiring reports; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Low-carbon reliable energy standards- amendments.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; amending requirements and deadlines for low-carbon energy generation standards; amending reporting requirements for meeting the low-carbon energy standards; amending rate recovery mechanisms associated with low-carbon energy standards; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Pore space-severances and separate conveyances prohibited.

AN ACT relating to property; specifying that ownership interests in pore space shall not be severed and separately conveyed as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Limited mining operations-amendments.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; amending requirements for the commencement of limited mining operations; amending bonding, notice and reporting requirements for limited mining operations; limiting overburden surface mining operations as specified; amending requirements for extending limited mining operations; requiring approval of limited mining operations on state or school lands by the county and the state board of land commissioners as specified; authorizing rulemaking; amending bond release provisions for limited mining operations; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Vulnerable adults-civil cause of action-2.

AN ACT relating to adult protective services; providing a civil cause of action for the exploitation of vulnerable adults as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Compulsory school attendance-minimum age.

AN ACT relating to education; amending the minimum age when school attendance is required; repealing a related provision; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Law enforcement retirement-contributions.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; increasing employee and employer contributions for law enforcement officers under the Wyoming Retirement Act; providing a monthly death benefit for officers killed in the line of duty; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Patrol, warden and investigator retirement- contributions.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; increasing employee contributions under the Wyoming State Highway Patrol, Game and Fish Warden and Criminal Investigator Retirement Act; striking archaic provisions; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Judicial retirement program-contributions.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; increasing the employee contribution required for employees under the Wyoming Judicial Retirement Act; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Unincorporated nonprofit DAO's.

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; providing for the formation and management of decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Unlawful dissemination of misleading synthetic media.

AN ACT relating to consumer protection; prohibiting the dissemination of synthetic media as specified; providing definitions; providing remedies; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Wyoming Stable Token Act-amendments.

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; amending the Wyoming Stable Token Act to allow for investments in cash and government securities as specified; authorizing the Wyoming stable token commission to issue different types and amounts of stable tokens and to contract with financial service providers; requiring reporting only for fully reserved stable tokens as specified; providing for a competitive bidding and procurement process; making conforming amendments to criminal history records statutes; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Sixth judicial district-number of judges.

AN ACT relating to the judiciary; providing for an additional district judge for the sixth judicial district; specifying requirements for suitable facilities; providing an appropriation; authorizing positions; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Homeowner tax exemption.

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

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Board of equalization-questions before the board.

AN ACT relating to the state board of equalization; specifying the power of the board to decide questions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Special districts-limit on tax levy.

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the restriction of tax levies for special districts based upon accumulated reserves; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Wyoming adult hearing aid program.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; creating a hearing aid program for hearing impaired adults as specified; requiring rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Investment of state unemployment insurance trust fund.

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation funds; providing for the investment of the state unemployment insurance trust fund as specified; amending procedures related to the payment of benefits; amending the distribution of investment earnings; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Federal unemployment compensation trust fund- adjustment.

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; amending the distribution of contributions collected for noncharged and ineffectively charged unemployment benefits; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

2024 large project funding.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Funding Act; providing for funding of large projects under the act; specifying large projects approved for funding in 2024; specifying conditions for large project funding; authorizing distributions from the Wyoming wildlife and natural resource trust income account for approved large projects; providing for the reversion of funds; and providing for an effective date.

Select Natural Resource Funding Committee

Education-charter school amendments.

AN ACT relating to charter schools; authorizing charter schools as local education agencies to receive and apply for federal and state grants; modifying payment by school districts to charter schools as specified; repealing designation of charter school authorizers as the local education agency for charter schools; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

State Parks-recreation management authority.

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the department of state parks and cultural resources to lease state lands for recreational purposes as specified; authorizing the department to sell permits that allow for the recreational use of leased state lands; providing for the disposition of funds generated from permit sales allowing for the recreational use of leased state lands; authorizing the department to lease or rent concessions on leased state lands; making conforming amendments; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

ManagementAuditCommittee

Property tax exemption-residential structures- 2.

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a property tax exemption for single family residential structures based on the prior year assessed value; requiring information related to the tax exemption to be included on the tax assessment schedule; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Mineral royalties-proportional severance tax refunds.

AN ACT relating to severance taxes; establishing severance tax refunds for specified oil, gas and coal severance taxes based on increased federal mineral royalty rates; authorizing the transfer of government royalty revenue as specified; providing for distribution of the state's share of specified federal mineral royalties; providing for severance tax and ad valorem distributions from federal mineral royalties as specified; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee

Temporary water use agreements amendments.

AN ACT relating to water; amending temporary water rights as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Select Water Committee

Water exchange amendments.

AN ACT relating to water; clarifying that water rights are not lost in an exchange as specified; clarifying the applicable source of water in an exchange; and providing for an effective date.

Select Water Committee

Public employee retirement plan-contributions.

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; removing obsolete language; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Tangible personal property-tax exemption.

AN ACT relating to property taxes; providing a property tax exemption for tangible personal property; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

McKeown

Hospice care reimbursements.

AN ACT relating to welfare; increasing the Medicaid reimbursement rate for hospice care as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Investment modernization-state nonpermanent funds-2.

AN ACT relating to public funds; amending specified statutory funds to remove their inviolate status in order to enhance their investment potential; establishing spending policies for specified statutory funds; providing for the investment of specified statutory funds; redirecting the deposit of investment earnings into the corpuses of specified statutory funds; removing specified statutory funds from the pool A investment account; making conforming amendments; repealing inconsistent statutory provisions; repealing obsolete statutory provisions; providing for the treatment of prior deposits; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Capital Financing & Investments

Salaries and allowances for judges-amendments.

AN ACT relating to courts; amending the salaries of judges and justices to reflect salaries adopted in the 2023 general session; striking obsolete provisions; authorizing the award of cost-of-living assistance to judges and justices as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Utility donations.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring that the public service commission prohibit rate recovery of all costs resulting from voluntary donations by a utility; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Concealed firearms-permit eligibility.

AN ACT relating to weapons; amending the eligibility requirements for a person to receive a permit to carry a concealed firearm as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Special districts-reversal of dissolution for noncompliance.

AN ACT relating to special districts; providing a process by which special districts required to dissolve for audit report noncompliance may reinstate the special district or cease the dissolution; specifying requirements for reinstatement; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Omnibus water bill-construction.

AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing construction of designated water projects; describing projects; specifying terms and conditions of funding for projects; providing grants; providing appropriations; amending the sponsor's contingency fund; amending amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; repealing the sunset for the small water projects program; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring funds from the general fund to water development accounts I and II; and providing for an effective date.

Select Water Committee

Prostitution amendments.

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

Sponsors:

Homeland defense-infrastructure reporting and investigating.

AN ACT relating to homeland security; requiring county clerks to report conveyances and property transactions to the office of homeland security and the division of criminal investigation as specified; requiring the designation of critical infrastructure zones; authorizing the office of homeland security and the division of criminal investigation to investigate land transactions that threaten critical infrastructure; requiring the division of criminal investigation to investigate homeland security incidents; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery stimulus.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing an enhanced oil recovery stimulus for the use of carbon dioxide in enhanced oil recovery; specifying conditions and requirements for the stimulus; providing for the administration of the stimulus; creating an account; requiring reports; requiring transfers of funds; authorizing rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Malt beverage franchise agreements.

AN ACT relating to malt beverages; providing a process for specified malt beverage manufacturers to terminate franchise agreements with malt beverage distributors without cause; providing for compensation to the distributor; providing for arbitration; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Solid waste management-definition amendments.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; amending the definitions of solid waste and solid waste management facility; providing definitions of advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Sponsors:

Hospital or healthcare district created entities-immunity.

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing that entities formed by county memorial hospitals and other healthcare districts that are wholly owned by governmental entities are subject to the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Summer vacation preservation act.

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the duties of the state board of education in approval of alternative scheduling for a school year; reducing the minimum number of class days required for public schools; reducing the number of professional development days for public schools as specified; requiring the school year to begin after Labor Day and recess prior to Memorial Day except as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Revisor's bill.

AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes and other legislative enactments; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; amending obsolete references; repealing an obsolete provision; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

ManagementCouncil

School facilities-use fees.

AN ACT relating to education; imposing requirements for rental fees charged by school districts for use of school district property as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Repeal of sales tax on electricity.

AN ACT relating to sales tax; providing an exemption for sales of electricity that is contingent on the imposition of an alternative tax on the production of electricity; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

School safety and security-funding.

AN ACT relating to education; creating the firearms on school property account; providing for reimbursement to school districts for costs related to possession of firearms on school property; authorizing rulemaking; providing a continuous appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

Boutique hotel liquor licenses.

AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing boutique hotel liquor licenses; specifying requirements for the boutique hotel liquor license and licensees; making conforming amendments; providing and amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Sponsors:

State law violations by counties, cities and towns.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring specified funds to be withheld from counties, cities and towns violating state law or the Wyoming constitution; requiring the attorney general to investigate and take action on violations of law by counties, cities and towns; requiring notice; requiring requests by a legislator; and providing for an effective date.

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Veterans ad valorem exemption-amount.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; increasing the amount of exemption for veterans for ad valorem taxation; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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State-managed local government equity investment pool.

AN ACT relating to public funds; authorizing the establishment of a local government investment equities pool; authorizing the investment of local government funds in equities; specifying duties for the state treasurer and state treasurer's office; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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Registered sex offender-employment restrictions.

AN ACT relating to the regulation of sex offenders; prohibiting sex offenders from applying for and accepting employment and volunteer positions involving minors as specified; providing an exception; specifying penalties; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming dividend account.

AN ACT relating to public funds; creating the Wyoming dividend account within the legislative stabilization reserve account; specifying disposition of investment earnings for the dividend account; modifying distribution of investment earnings; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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An act regarding compelled speech and state employers.

An act regarding compelled speech and state employers. Sponsored By: Senator(s) Hutchings, French and Ide and Representative(s) Styvar and Ward AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions from compelling speech as specified; authorizing a civil remedy; providing an exception to the Wyoming governmental claims act; and providing for an effective date.

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Teacher tenure.

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.

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Trusts and bank assets in bankruptcy- clarification.

AN ACT relating to banks, banking and finance; specifying when certain accounts shall not be deemed assets or liabilities of financial institutions for purposes of receivership, conservatorship or bankruptcy; amending requirements for banks providing custodial or fiduciary services for digital assets; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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Prohibition on distribution of unsolicited ballot forms.

AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting a person from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot application forms to any qualified elector as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Statute of limitations-medical procedures on minors.

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; extending the statute of limitations for causes of action for gender transition services performed on minors; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Children gender change prohibition.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment; providing an exception; providing that gender transitioning and reassignment procedures are grounds for suspension or revocation of a physician's or health care provider's license; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Prompt payment of insurance claims.

AN ACT relating to the insurance code; providing regulations for payment of claims from insurers or the insurer's intermediary to pharmacies; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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Low-carbon energy standards-repeal.

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

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Foreign property ownership-critical infrastructure.

AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; prohibiting foreign ownership of real property near critical infrastructure and military installations as specified; authorizing actions for divestiture; requiring specified parties to register property ownership with the secretary of state; specifying penalties; amending the duties of the Wyoming office of homeland security; amending the duties of county clerks; requiring the inclusion of notices of foreign ownership prohibitions and reporting requirements in assessment schedules and tax statements; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; authorizing positions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

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Wyoming PRIME Act.

AN ACT relating to marketing homemade goods; providing for the sale of homemade meat products as specified; providing a delayed effective date pending certification by the governor based on federal action; providing a definition; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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Wind and solar facilities-state lands amendments.

AN ACT relating to permitting and industrial siting of solar and wind energy facilities; amending the definition of affected landowner to include leaseholders of state lands; authorizing affected grazing and agricultural leaseholders to consent before permitting by boards of county commissioners for facilities constructed on state lands; providing notice to leaseholders of state lands; authorizing leaseholders of state lands to be parties to an industrial siting council permit proceeding; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting disclosure or use of protected information relating to firearms and ammunition sales as specified; providing exceptions; providing requirements for disclosure; authorizing civil actions; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming state guard-amendments.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming state guard; removing federal involvement in the Wyoming state guard; allowing the governor to organize and maintain the Wyoming state guard; specifying the source of payment for service in the state guard; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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E-cigarette and vapor material directory.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; requiring manufacturers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material to file certifications as specified; creating a product directory; prohibiting the sale of electronic cigarettes and vapor material that are not included in the product directory; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; requiring reports; making an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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Protecting water from chemical abortion waste.

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.

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Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act.

AN ACT relating to the protection of constitutional rights; prohibiting the implementation or enforcement of a red flag gun seizure; preempting local law; providing definitions; providing for a civil action; providing a penalty; waiving sovereign immunity; authorizing attorney's fees; authorizing the attorney general to initiate a civil action; and providing for an effective date.

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School finance-cash reserves.

AN ACT relating to school finance; eliminating the sunset date for an increase in school district operating balances and cash reserves; and providing for an effective date.

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Mule and whitetail deer-separate hunting seasons.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring separate hunting licenses and seasons for mule deer and whitetail deer; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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Light and high profile vehicle closures-2.

AN ACT relating to highways; creating a penalty for violating signs and markers for closures to light and high profile vehicles and other weight based closures; requiring fines imposed to be paid by the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation; and providing for an effective date.

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Contractor licenses-reciprocal recognition requirements.

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; requiring local governments to recognize and grant reciprocity to contractor licenses issued by a Wyoming county, city or town; specifying conditions for reciprocity; and providing for an effective date.

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Behavioral health redesign amendments-2.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring the department of health to pay behavioral health services claims as specified; requiring the department of health to collect information regarding payment of behavioral health services claims; requiring a report; amending definitions; providing a sunset date; and providing for an effective date.

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Wind tax moratorium exemption-repeal.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; repealing the moratorium exemption on the tax upon the production of electricity from wind; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Education-retention for reading failure.

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the reading assessment and invention program; defining high performing school districts; exempting high performing school districts as specified; providing remedies to address inadequacies in students' reading abilities in primary grades; 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; providing for causes of action; providing for the award of amounts as specified; specifying burdens of proof; providing duties of the legislative service office; requiring reporting; authorizing license revocation as specified; prohibiting the modification of scores associated with performance on the statewide summative assessment as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Bighorn and domestic sheep relocation-federal action.

AN ACT relating to wildlife and livestock; providing legislative findings; requiring the game and fish department to relocate or remove bighorn sheep from the Sweetwater Rocks herd unit in response to specified federal action; providing for the reimbursement of costs for relocation or removal of bighorn sheep; requiring and authorizing attorney general action as specified; amending the duties of the wildlife/livestock research partnership board; providing appropriations; and providing for a delayed effective date.

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Property tax exemption-specified real property-2.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a property tax exemption for real property in the all other property class of property; requiring information related to the tax exemption to be included on the tax assessment schedule; providing rulemaking authority; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Driver's licenses-unauthorized alien restrictions.

AN ACT relating to driver's licenses; specifying that driver's licenses and driving operating privilege cards issued by other jurisdictions to unauthorized aliens are invalid; providing a definition; providing a penalty; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and provide for effective dates.

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Property tax-homeowner's exemption.

AN ACT relating to taxation; establishing a homeowner's property tax exemption for primary residences; providing a penalty for false claims; providing a conforming appropriation from the legislative stabilization account; providing for rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Disposition of water rights-amendments.

AN ACT relating to the subdivision of land and water rights; requiring evidence that the subdivider has submitted documentation to the state engineer on the disposition of water rights when subdividing land; making conforming amendments; repealing provisions; providing applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Minor name changes.

AN ACT relating to the code of civil procedure; authorizing natural or adoptive parents or legal guardians to change a minor child's name without giving public notice of the name change; and providing for an effective date.

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Teachers' labor organizations-strike prohibition.

AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting a teachers' labor organization from engaging in or inducing a strike; creating new duties for the department of workforce services; providing for a civil action; creating penalties; providing definitions; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Pari-mutuel wagering activities-amendments.

AN ACT relating to gaming; specifying persons involved in horse racing and pari- mutuel wagering activities who shall be subject to criminal background checks; specifying rulemaking requirements for the Wyoming gaming commission; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

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Property tax exemption-inflation cap 2.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; establishing a property tax exemption for single family residential properties; requiring information related to the tax exemption to be included on the tax assessment schedule; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for effective dates.

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Sales tax distribution rates.

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

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Approval of charter school.

AN ACT modifying the date for approval of charter schools by the Wyoming charter school authorizing board; increasing the number of charter schools to be approved by the Wyoming charter school authorizing board as specified; making conforming amendments; correcting a typographical error; and providing for an effective date.

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The equality state not equity state act.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; prohibiting governmental entities from engaging in any diversity, equity or inclusion program, activity or policy; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; providing applicability; and providing for effective dates.

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Regulatory reduction task force-2.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; continuing the regulatory reduction task force; specifying members and duties of the task force; requiring reports; providing a termination date for the task force; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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American rescue plan act appropriations- amendments-4.

an act appropriations- amendments-4. Sponsored By: Senator(s) Kolb and Nethercott and Representative(s) Bear AN ACT relating to the emergency expenses of government; providing definitions; providing appropriations; amending and repealing prior appropriations of COVID- 19 relief funds; specifying conditions on the appropriation and expenditure of COVID-19 relief funds; amending prior conditions on the reduction and prioritization of COVID-19 relief funds; providing for the reversion of unexpended and unobligated funds; authorizing emergency government programs; authorizing rulemaking; requiring reporting; specifying applicability; providing for priority of appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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Resolution demanding equal footing.

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 such 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.

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Foreign adversaries-prohibited property ownership.

A JOINT RESOLUTION prohibiting foreign adversaries and specified foreign entities from owning property.

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Constitutional amendment vote requirement.

A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend the Wyoming Constitution to add a requirement for constitutional amendments to be ratified by a majority of the electors in not less than three-fourths of the counties.

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Convention of states-2.

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

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School capital construction-constitutional amendment.

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

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General government appropriations.

AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for 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; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Appropriations Committee

Town officers-salary waiver.

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; providing that elected and appointed officers may elect not to receive a salary or compensation while serving as elected or appointed officers; providing legislative intent; and providing for an effective date.

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State assessment of independent power producers.

AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxation; clarifying that the state is responsible for the valuation and assessment of independent power producer property; requiring the release of information to the county assessor; providing for confidentiality of the valuation and assessment of independent power producer property; requiring an agreement for disclosure; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Medicaid twelve month postpartum coverage.

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; temporarily extending Medicaid medical assistance to qualifying pregnant women for twelve (12) months postpartum; making a conforming amendment; providing an appropriation; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Voter registry list-voter ID and absentee ballots.

AN ACT relating to elections; amending the definition of registry list to include voter identification numbers, absentee ballot status and registration dates; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Specified election records not subject to disclosure.

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying that specified election records are not subject to disclosure under the Wyoming Public Records Act; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Underage marriage-amendments.

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; amending the minimum marriageable age; specifying that marriages involving persons under age sixteen (16) are void; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Juvenile courts-concurrent jurisdiction clarification.

AN ACT relating to juveniles; clarifying that the juvenile court has concurrent jurisdiction over Juvenile Justice Act proceedings involving persons under the age of 21 who are alleged to have committed offenses or delinquent acts as minors; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

County officers-bond amounts and surety requirement.

AN ACT relating to county officers; increasing the amount of the bond that county officers are required to give as specified; eliminating a requirement for multiple sureties for county officers; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

State park rangers-retirement.

AN ACT relating to retirement; providing for full-time state park ranger participation in the law enforcement plan under the Wyoming Retirement Act; making conforming amendments; authorizing election by current full-time state park rangers; specifying implementation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Presumptive child support amounts-updated tables.

AN ACT relating to child support; amending the presumptive child support amounts; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Office of guardian ad litem-program references.

AN ACT relating to children; clarifying the duties, powers, and authority of the office of guardian ad litem by amending references from the guardian ad litem program to the office of guardian ad litem; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Civil case filing fees-amendments.

AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the original filing fee required for commencing or filing civil matters in district court; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

County authority to dissolve museum boards- clarification.

AN ACT relating to counties; clarifying that boards of county commissioners do not have authority to dissolve archaeological, geological and historical museums under their general authority to dissolve county-created boards and commissions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

State land leasing-improvements.

AN ACT relating to state lands; increasing the monetary threshold for improvements to leased state lands that do not require permission of the director of the office of state lands; replacing the standard to determine payment for the use and benefit of improvements; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State lands-grazing of non-owned livestock.

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for lessees of state lands to graze livestock they do not own, but for which they retain management responsibility, on leased lands without obtaining permission from the director of the office of state lands and investments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

Missing person alert systems.

AN ACT relating to missing person alert systems; amending duties for the office of homeland security and highway patrol for emergency alert communications networks; amending state cooperation with federal, tribal and local law enforcement for alert systems; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Tribal Relations

State Indian Child Welfare Act Task Force.

AN ACT relating to children; creating the state Indian Child Welfare Act task force; specifying members and duties of the task force; requiring a report; providing a termination date for the task force; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Land exchanges-notice.

AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring notice and opportunity to comment before completing an exchange; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State lands-use of land qualification requirements.

AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring an applicant to have actual and necessary use of state lands to be qualified to lease state lands; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State land lease deficiencies-cure process.

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for notification of noncompliance in a state land lease renewal; providing opportunities for compliance; conforming time frames for lessee compliance; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee

State investments-compensation and relocation amendments.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; amending performance compensation payment limits for senior analysts and analysts employed by the state treasurer and the Wyoming retirement system; authorizing relocation expenses for investment staff hired by the state treasurer and the Wyoming retirement system; establishing maximum compensation amounts for investment staff employed by the state treasurer and the Wyoming retirement system; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Capital Financing & Investments

School capital construction-transfers and distributions.

AN ACT relating to public funds; revising distribution of funds from the school major maintenance subaccount within the strategic investments and projects account and the school lands mineral royalties account to the school capital construction account as specified; clarifying the timing of transfers from the strategic investments and projects account; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on School Facilities

School facilities-appropriations.

AN ACT relating to appropriations for K-12 school facilities; modifying the required budget recommendation from the select committee on school facilities; clarifying the legislature's ability to appropriate one (1) sum for design and construction for each project; clarifying reporting requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on School Facilities

School facilities-consolidated remediation schedule.

AN ACT relating to the consolidated school facility remediation schedule for public schools; eliminating the consolidated remediation index and associated rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on School Facilities

Community college capital construction.

AN ACT relating to the duties of the Wyoming community college commission; increasing the minimum estimated cost of community college capital construction projects which require approval of the community college commission; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Community college funding-distance education credit hours.

AN ACT relating to community college funding; modifying the definition of distance education for community colleges; eliminating the full-time weighted equivalency for distance education class credit hours for calculations in the community college funding allocation model; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship program amendments.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship program; modifying the transfer of funds from the Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship expenditure account to the Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship endowment fund; modifying the calculation of the average market value of the Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship endowment fund as specified; transferring funds as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

BOCES as local education agencies.

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing a board of cooperative educational services to act as a local education agency for the purpose of applying for and receiving state and federal grants; authorizing rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Education mill levy amendments.

AN ACT relating to education; providing for a reauthorization of the adult education mill levy; clarifying the maximum mill levies school districts and community college districts may levy for board of cooperative services agreements; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

School finance-career technical education grants.

AN ACT relating to school finance; establishing competitive grants for public schools to purchase career and technical education supplies, materials and equipment; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; making conforming amendments; appropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

School finance-mental health services.

AN ACT relating to school finance; creating a program for school districts to apply for competitive grants to assist in providing mental health services to K-12 public education students for two (2) years; providing an appropriation; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Education Interim Committee

Day-care certification requirement amendments.

AN ACT relating to child care facilities; providing an exception to child care facility certification for specified part-time day-care facilities; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Space force amendments.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; modifying references to federal uniformed services to include the space force; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Wyoming national guard member referral.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; creating the Wyoming national guard member referral incentive program; authorizing monetary incentive bonus payments as specified; providing definitions; requiring an annual report; providing a sunset date for the program; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Verifying the veteran designation on a WY driver's license.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the department of transportation to accept specified documentation to verify honorable discharge of a veteran for the veteran designation on a Wyoming driver's license; amending the veteran designation on a Wyoming driver's license; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Lightweight trailers-permanent registration.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the permanent registration of specified trailers; providing a fee exemption for permanently registered trailers; specifying requirements upon transfer of ownership; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Off-road recreational vehicle operation.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; specifying requirements for operating an off-road recreational vehicle near an interstate; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Winter road closures.

AN ACT relating to highways; striking the requirement to willfully fail to observe a road closure notification necessary to be guilty of the criminal offense; increasing the fine amount for failing to observe road closure notifications; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Road and bridge construction-alternative contracting.

AN ACT relating to highways; providing for the transportation commission to use alternate contracting methods as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Peace officer retirement and rehiring.

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; allowing rehiring of persons who have retired under the Wyoming State Highway Patrol, Game and Fish Warden and Criminal Investigator Retirement Act; repealing the mandatory retirement age under the Wyoming State Highway Patrol, Game and Fish Warden and Criminal Investigator Retirement Act; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Election equipment-federal certification.

AN ACT relating to elections; codifying the secretary of state's rules for certification of electronic voting systems; providing a definition of vendor; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Active transportation and recreation grant program.

AN ACT relating to public health; authorizing grants for projects that increase trails, routes or pathways for bicycling, walking or horseback riding; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Municipal nonpartisan rank choice elections.

AN ACT relating to municipal elections; creating a pilot program authorizing municipalities to conduct nonpartisan ranked-choice elections as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Solid waste cease and transfer program funding.

AN ACT relating to the prioritization of municipal solid waste facilities cease and transfer projects; authorizing expenditure of previously appropriated funds; establishing a prioritized list of projects; establishing a maximum amount to be expended on projects; granting the department of environmental quality limited discretionary authority to modify the prioritized list; specifying expenditures for a carcass management project; providing definitions; requiring reports; repealing a prior list of priority cease and transfer projects; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Legislator constituent service allowance.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; increasing the quarterly legislator constituent service allowance; and providing for an effective date.

ManagementCouncil

Revisor's bill.

AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes and other legislative enactments; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; amending obsolete references; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

ManagementCouncil

Election ballot order and party affiliation.

AN ACT relating to elections; amending the process to determine the position of candidates on the general election ballot; allowing independent candidates to list a party affiliation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Purple star schools.

AN ACT relating to education; providing for the designation of purple star schools that take specific actions to assist military connected students; specifying requirements for purple star schools; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

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Armed forces-amendments.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; adopting uniform definitions of armed forces and uniformed services to align with federal law; expanding uniformed service members entitled to participate in programs under state law; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming national guard tuition benefits.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; extending existing educational assistance benefits for Wyoming national guard members in exchange for additional service commitments; allowing transfer of educational assistance benefits to spouses and dependents; correcting terminology; providing appropriations; authorizing a full-time position; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

Source material associated with mining- agreement.

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; authorizing the governor to begin negotiations with the nuclear regulatory commission to seek an agreement for the state to assume regulation of source material recovered from any mineral resources processed primarily for purposes other than obtaining the source material content; authorizing the governor to negotiate and enter into a final agreement with the nuclear regulatory commission; providing definitions; providing for the department of environmental quality to administer the agreement; providing rulemaking authority; requiring the department of environmental quality to adopt fees as specified; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; authorizing positions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Open banking.

AN ACT relating to banking; authorizing state chartered banks to participate in open banking as specified; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee

Vacancies in elected office.

AN ACT relating to elections; amending procedures for filling vacancies in specified federal and state offices; requiring special elections as specified if more than half of the term of the office remains at the time of the vacancy; making conforming amendments; repealing provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Legislative stabilization reserve account- obligations.

AN ACT relating to public funds; amending or eliminating unnecessary or obsolete borrowing authority or guarantees from the legislative stabilization reserve account as specified; repealing interfund loan authority for the unemployment compensation fund; repealing borrowing authority for the department of administration and information for purposes of school districts joining the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan; amending the source and amount of loans for the department of transportation as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Capital Financing & Investments

988 suicide prevention.

AN ACT relating to suicide prevention; establishing the 988 system for suicide prevention and mental health crises; providing requirements for the 988 system; establishing duties of the department of health; providing rulemaking authority; providing for an advisory board; establishing the 988 trust fund and a related reserve account; providing for allocation of funds within and between the accounts; specifying immunity for telecommunications providers; specifying confidentiality of information; providing for implementation of the act; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Prohibiting mask, vaccine and testing discrimination.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting discrimination and publishing or advertising based on a person's vaccination, face covering or medical testing status as specified; providing a criminal penalty; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; repealing immunization requirements; and providing for an effective date.

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Special license plate decals-women veterans.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for a decal designating a woman veteran to attach to a veteran's special license plate; making clarifying amendments; providing for a decal fee; and providing for an effective date.

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Coal-fired facility closures litigation funding-amendments.

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; continuing the coal-fired facility closures litigation funding account; amending permissible purposes and uses for the coal-fired facility closures litigation funding account for commencing and prosecuting lawsuits against states relating to coal exportation and coal-fired electric generation facilities; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

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Definition of home-based educational program.

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the definition of home-based educational program; and providing for an effective date.

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Sales tax holiday-back to school.

AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes; providing for a back to school sales and use tax holiday; specifying items that are and are not subject to the tax holiday exemption; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

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Annexation-vote requirement.

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; requiring written approval from a simple majority of all landowners owning a parcel of the land in an area before annexation into a municipality; modifying notice requirements to landowners; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund.

AN ACT relating to state lands; creating a Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund account; providing funding for the trust account; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

Painted fence posts-no trespassing.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; specifying how property may be designated to prevent trespass by use of fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink paint; requiring the game and fish commission and the department of state parks and cultural resources to inform permittees concerning trespassing and rights- of-way through private land; and providing for an effective date.

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Licensing boards amendments.

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; removing a requirement that examinations for cosmetology and related licensure be conducted by the state board of cosmetology; reducing the number of practice years required for a license to practice veterinary medicine without an examination; and providing for an effective date.

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School finance-average daily membership.

AN ACT relating to school finance; modifying the definition of average daily membership as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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Voter I.D. requirements.

AN ACT relating to elections; providing that a concealed carry permit is acceptable identification for purposes of in-person voter identification requirements; and providing for an effective date.

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Medical treatment opportunity act-Medicaid reform.

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; providing for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility; limiting the continued expansion of Medicaid eligibility as specified; repealing prior authorizations; and providing for an effective date.

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Hospital supplemental payments-statutory fix.

AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; amending the Wyoming private hospital assessment act to include healthcare providers affiliated with a hospital and psychiatric residential treatment facilities; increasing permissible administrative fee amounts; increasing assessment amounts; authorizing the department of health to modify payment or qualification provisions as specified; authorizing the department of health to negotiate with the United States department of health and human services as specified; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; authorizing an additional position; and providing for an effective date.

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Defendant mental illness examinations- amendments.

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; specifying that orders for examination of mentally ill criminal defendants charged with misdemeanors shall not occur at the state hospital on an inpatient basis; and providing for an effective date.

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Tribal agreements to hunt and fish.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the governor to negotiate and enter into agreements with tribes concerning hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering rights claims as specified; providing for a report; providing rulemaking authority; and providing for an effective date.

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For-profit public benefit corporations.

AN ACT relating to corporations; providing for for-profit public benefit corporations; providing definitions; specifying requirements and applicability; imposing duties on boards of directors; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Disclosure of private cryptographic keys.

AN ACT relating to digital assets; prohibiting the compelled production of a private key that relates to a digital asset, digital identity or other interest or right except as specified; providing a definition; repealing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology

Crimes of obscenity-revisions.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the definition of child pornography for the offense of sexual exploitation of children to include cartoons and other depictions; repealing an exemption from promoting obscenity for activities conducted in the course of employment at a school, college, university, museum or public library; and providing for an effective date.

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