Wyoming

2026 Budget Session·40 bills·Adjourned March 6, 2026

Track legislation moving through Wyoming. Browse 40 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

State funded capital construction.

AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; providing definitions; providing appropriations for purposes related to state funded capital construction and major maintenance; making appropriations subject to terms and conditions as specified; amending prior appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

Gambling amendments.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending exceptions to the offense of gambling; amending and creating definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Skill based amusement games-licensed liquor establishments.

AN ACT relating to gaming; limiting the licensed liquor establishments where skill based amusement games may be located; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Game and fish property tax exemption-amendments.

AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; exempting specified real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission from property taxation; amending a special tax on real property owned by the Wyoming game and fish commission that is used for other purposes; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Sexual exploitation of children-amendments.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the definition of explicit sexual conduct for the purposes of the crime of sexual exploitation of children; and providing for an effective date.

Leashed dogs for tracking-black bear.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; allowing a person to use a leashed blood-trailing dog to track and recover a killed or wounded black bear; and providing for an effective date.

Fast Track Permits Act.

AN ACT relating to city, county, state and local powers; requiring local government entities to comply with deadlines for reviewing specified residential building permits; allowing deadlines to be suspended and extended as specified; requiring local government entities to provide notice; providing definitions; providing penalties; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

K-12 school facilities appropriations-2.

AN ACT relating to school buildings and facilities; providing appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2028; providing for appropriations for the remainder of the current biennium ending June 30, 2026; providing an appropriation that shall not revert; specifying conditions for expenditures; requiring reports; establishing a grant program for school facility safety and security projects; specifying requirements for school districts to receive safety and security grant funds; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Vehicle registration fees-tribal governments.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; exempting motor vehicles owned by tribal governments from paying county and state registration fees; requiring the department of transportation to issue distinctive license plates for vehicles owned by tribal governments; and providing for an effective date.

Grooming of children-offenses and amendments.

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

English proficiency-commercial motor vehicle drivers.

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

Stalking of minors.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing for a felony penalty for stalking offenses committed against minors; and providing for an effective date.

Riverton state office task force-sunset.

AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; terminating a task force; depositing unexpended funds as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Wyoming department of homeland security.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; reconstituting the office of homeland security as the Wyoming department of homeland security; specifying duties and budget requirements for the department; specifying the transfer of assets, obligations and duties of the office of homeland security to the department of homeland security; making conforming amendments; requiring reports; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.

Epinephrine delivery methods.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the administration of epinephrine through the use of auto-injectors, nasal sprays and any other federally approved device or method; amending definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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.

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.

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.

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%).

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.

Oil and gas bonding pool-investment and earnings.

AN ACT relating to oil and gas; providing for the investment of bonding pool assessment proceeds; specifying the disposition of investment earnings; and providing for an effective date.

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