Wyoming

2026 Budget Session·264 bills·Adjourned March 6, 2026

Track legislation moving through Wyoming. Browse 264 bills and resolutions during the 2026 Budget Session, each with a plain-language summary, current status from introduction to enactment, sponsors, and voting history.

Bills

Wyoming False Claims Act.

AN ACT relating to civil procedure; providing civil penalties for false claims made against state employees and officials as specified; providing definitions; providing exceptions; providing remedies for retaliation regarding persons who report violations of this act; providing a statute of limitations; providing procedures for lawsuits as specified; authorizing civil actions; creating an account; and providing for an effective date.

Select committee on gaming.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; creating the select committee on gaming; providing for the appointment of members; specifying duties; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Voter approval for recreation mill levy.

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

Unincorporated nonprofit associations-amendments.

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; authorizing decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations to automatically convert to unincorporated nonprofit associations as specified; conforming language in the Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act with the Wyoming Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act; requiring assets of decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations to be distributed as required by federal law when winding up a decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association; clarifying references to decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations; amending definitions; repealing obsolete provisions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Safeguarding personal expression at K-12 schools.

AN ACT relating to education; specifying protections for speech and expression by students at public schools; specifying activities in which students may engage at schools; specifying remedies; authorizing a cause of action; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act; and providing for an effective date.

Hydrogen severance taxation.

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

Wyoming national guard member referral-amendments.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; increasing the referral bonus amount for the Wyoming national guard member referral incentive program; expanding eligibility of the program; extending the sunset date for the program; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Property tax exemptions-effect of people's initiative.

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

Affordable electricity act of 2026.

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

Stop harm-empower women with informed notices.

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

Cowboy state agricultural trust fund.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; creating the cowboy state agricultural trust fund; specifying requirements and authorized expenditures for the fund; creating the cowboy state agricultural trust fund committee; specifying duties and oversight responsibilities of the committee; requiring reporting; requiring the transfer of funds; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Economic development-rodeo museum.

AN ACT relating to tourism; providing an appropriation; specifying distribution and requirements for the appropriation; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

Wyoming national guard reenlistment bonus program.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; creating the Wyoming national guard member reenlistment and extension program as specified; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Higher education-research funding.

AN ACT relating to higher education; providing funding for specified research projects at the University of Wyoming; allocating revenue generated by research as specified; specifying conditions and permitted uses for appropriated funds; authorizing fundraising to support research projects; requiring nonstate matching funds as specified; creating an account; requiring reports; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Zoning protest petition-amendments.

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; amending the zoning protest process as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Landowner license limits in limited quota hunt areas.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to establish limits on landowner licenses available in a limited quota hunt area; and providing for an effective date.

General government appropriations-2.

AN ACT to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; providing definitions; providing for appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget and for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 as specified; providing for carryover of certain funds beyond the biennium as specified; providing for employee positions as specified; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026 and the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues for the period of the budget; continuing an account; authorizing loans; discharging interfund loans; increasing higher education scholarship amounts for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028; making conforming amendments; amending and repealing prior appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

Subleasing of state lands-exemptions.

AN ACT relating to state lands; amending provisions and creating exemptions regarding the subleasing of state grazing lands; providing definitions; establishing a non-owned livestock fee; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

Federal mineral royalties-state share.

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to introduce a bill and enact law to increase the state of Wyoming's share of federal mineral royalties from fifty percent (50%) to eighty-seven and one-half percent (87.5%).

Felony interference with a police officer-amendments.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the offense of interference with a peace officer by creating an additional felony offense; and providing for an effective date.

Corner crossing clarification.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing a clarifying exception to the offenses of trespass and game-and-fish trespass regarding incidental contact associated with crossing two (2) adjacent parcels as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Burials of indigent veterans-amendments.

AN ACT relating to defense forces and affairs; amending eligibility requirements for indigent veterans in order for counties to request reimbursement for preparing and transporting indigent veterans for burial; specifying indigent veterans who qualify for burial expenses paid by the department of family services also qualify for payment of burial expenses by counties; increasing the amount paid for burial expenses by the department of family services; clarifying priority of payment for burial expenses of indigent veterans; making a conforming amendment; and providing for an effective date.

Fentanyl to minors-enhanced penalty.

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; providing for an enhanced penalty for controlled substance offenses related to the distribution or delivery of fentanyl to minors; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Firefighters-retirement plans.

AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; authorizing firefighters to participate in retirement system plans as specified; providing appropriations; requiring rulemaking; specifying implementation; and providing for effective dates.

2026 large project funding.

AN ACT relating to the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Funding Act; providing for the funding of large projects under that act; specifying large projects approved for funding in 2026; 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.

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