Legislative Update From the Speaker’s Desk

With one short week remaining in this year’s legislative session, I write this letter to update you as to the goings on in the People’s House, including our interactions with the upper chamber.

I am proud of the work sent across the Capitol building to the Senate.

The House sent a good many quality, common sense bills down the hall. Some of the best bills have even made it into law.

House Bill 46, the Homeschool Freedom Act, was signed into law last week, and repeals the requirement for homeschool families to submit to government oversight of curriculum. I was a proud co-sponsor of this bill, which marks Wyoming as the 12th “free state” by the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.

House Bill 172, a bill to repeal deadly gun free zones, was allowed to take effect without the signature of the Governor, and has been over a decade in the making. In Wyoming, public spaces will no longer be soft targets for evildoers seeking to inflict mass harm.

Still awaiting action from the Governor include a historic universal school choice bill, which also came from the House of Representatives. This bill was passed with veto-proof majorities in both chambers, and will unleash real education choice in our great state.

Bills to protect our female athletes at the University of Wyoming are working their way to the Governor’s desk, along with common sense election reforms requiring folks to prove their Wyoming residency and U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.

The Senate Files under consideration in the House span a variety of topics as well. We’ve worked good bills to clear up fencing disputes our agricultural producers have faced with the State, bills to protect the rights of irrigators, a bill to expand food freedom protections to Wyoming’s cattlemen and women, and a bill to declare it to be the policy of the state to oppose federal electronic cattletag mandates.

Thus far, the Wyoming House has spent over two hundred hours on the floor working on bills and representing our people back home. Thanks to the hard work of our good staff, we’ve stayed past 8 PM, some House Committees working until midnight, because after all, we’re only in Cheyenne for 40 days. The House has done everything in its power to get the people’s priorities across the finish line.

I look forward to returning home at the conclusion of this legislative session, back to God’s Country.