Below are Committee and Chamber Floor Alerts (Senate floor schedule updates have been added.)
Use these Legislative Emailing Lists for communicating opposition or support on bills.
SENATE COMMITTEE
| HB0062 Senior health care special districts. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition. … creates separate, special health care districts for any person “who is at least sixty (60) years of age, a disabled adult who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, or a person with medical or behavioral health care needs“. Unless they have experienced it firsthand, most people are unaware that the WY Dept of Health, via this brochure (https://health.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/POLST-Brochure-December-2017.pdf), has been pushing for the elderly to fill out POLST forms which suggest Do Not Resuscitate and/or “Comfort-Focused Therapy”. This bill also provides for NGOs – of which there is no accountability to citizens. The care of our elderly and disabled should be sacrosanct, completely transparent & accountable, and not placed within another level of hidden bureaucracy! |
2/26 – Senate Labor Committee at 8am in State Capitol, Room W110 |
SENATE FLOOR
| SF0097 Born alive infant-means of care. | GOOD Bill that requires citizen support. This bill fights INFANTICIDE. …requiring the commonly accepted means of care to be employed in the treatment of any infant born alive; imposing duties on physicians performing abortions… |
2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading. This bill has an amendment: |
| SF0132 Wind energy facilities-military approval. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. | 2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading. This bill has an amendment |
| SJ0001 Firearm and hunter education. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. | 2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading. This bill has an amendment |
| SF0070 Government abuse, fraud and waste reporting. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. …establishing a reporting system for governmental abuse, fraud and waste; authorizing enforcement actions; amending provisions governing employee protections related to reporting of government abuse, fraud and waste… | 2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading. This bill has an amendment |
| SF0138 Investment of state funds-2. | BAD bill: Citizens need to communicate their opposition. This is the LAND GRAB being planned by the sponsors of this bill and Governor Gordon. This bill FAILS TO GIVE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF WHAT IS BEING APPROPRIATED FOR THIS LAND PURCHASE. No matter how they amend this bill, DETAILS OF THIS BILL ARE BEING PURPOSELY KEPT SECRET FROM THE PUBLIC. | 2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading This bill has amendments. |
| SF0104 Management council membership | GOOD Bill that requires citizen support. Promotes democratic process versus leadership power grab. |
2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading |
| SF0126 Game and fish law enforcement definition amendments. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition. …applies to Game and Fish law enforcement – deletes “statutory duties” and replaces with “official duties” … while enforcing felony statutes. This bill most likely intends to make policy decisions ‘law’, without going through the proper law-making procedures. Game and Fish do not need this level of police powers! |
2/26 – Senate 2nd Reading |
HOUSE FLOOR
| HB0002 General government reports. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. …requires accountability from Executive Branch – requiring studies and reports for the general operations of government… |
2/26 – House 3rd Reading. This bill has several amendments |
| HB0129 Reclamation of surface coal mines-turbine blades. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition. …calls for “decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers to backfill surface coal mining sites as part of an approved reclamation plan“. Wyoming is not the nation’s landfill to bury the unsolved problems of wind energy in our coal mines. |
2/26 – House 3rd Reading Consent List. This bill has an amendment |
| HB0249 Investment of state funds. | BAD bill that NEEDS TO BE FIRMLY OPPOSED. This is A NEW SUBSTITUTION APPROPRIATIONS BILL that STILL fails to state the dollar amount of money for the land grab being planned by Governor Gordon and certain legislators. | 2/26 – House 2nd Reading. NOTE: NEW SUBSTITUTION BILL was written Monday evening by Appropriations Committee (not the original sponsors)… |
| HB0232 Organ donations-state employee leave. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition.… providing annual leave time for state employees making organ donations… WTC Comments: This idea is better suited as a Go-Fund-Me effort. Donations, no matter how admirable, should never be made with public funds. |
2/26 – House 2nd Reading. This bill has one COW amendment and another being offered at 2nd Reading. |
| HB0151 Economic development large project loans-amendments. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition. …This bill perpetuates the loan program of the Wyoming Business Council of which we strongly oppose. |
2/26 – House 2nd Reading. This bill has three amendments. |
| HB0127 Prohibition of female genital mutilation. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. …specifying that aggravated assault and battery includes female genital mutilation; specifying that human trafficking includes transporting a person for the purpose of female genital mutilation… |
2/26 – House 2nd Reading. This bill has an amendment |
| HJ0004 Legislative sessions. | BAD bill that requires citizen opposition. … attempts to repeal the 2/3 introductory vote requirement for bills in a legislative budget session via a state constitutional amendment. Legislative management is already out of hand – this would give them far more power to ram bills through during a budget session. |
2/26 – House 2nd Reading. This bill has a 2nd Reading amendment (Yin) offered to increase # of days for legislative sessions |
| HB0197 Abortion-48 hour waiting period. | GOOD bill that needs citizen communication of support. … requiring physicians to wait a specified period of time before performing certain nonemergency abortion procedures… |
2/26 – House 2nd Reading, This bill has an amendment |
| HB0118 Second Amendment Preservation Act. | GOOD bill that requires citizen support. …describing certain actions as infringing on the right to keep and bear arms; invalidating, not recognizing and rejecting certain actions by the federal government; providing for the protection of specified rights; specifying liability… | 2/26 – House 2nd Reading NOTE – this bill has been replaced with a SUBSTITUTE BILL |
