Legislative Watch
WYWF Key Issues
The Wyoming Women’s Foundation selects bills based upon key issues determined in their Advocacy Plan set forth by the board and staff of the organization.
Education
Healthcare
Representation
Childcare & Workplace Policies
Income & Asset Development
Wyoming Legislative Bills Impacting Self-Sufficiency of Women and Opportunities for Girls
Education
Representation
Childcare & Workplace Policies
Watchlist
The Wyoming Women’s Foundation monitors bills affecting women and girls, on which we do not have a particular stance.
HOUSE BILLS
Signed into law:
HB 7- Underage marriage- amendments.
HB 18- Missing person alert systems.
HB 19- State Indian Child Welfare Act task force.
HB 35- Daycare certification requirement amendments.
HB 65- 988 suicide prevention.
HB 140- Mental Health care Access- Collaborative Care Model.
Pending:
HB 152- Life is a Human Right Act.
SENATE FILES
Signed into law:
SF 9- Medicaid coverage- licensed pharmacists.
SF 18- Benefits for spouses of law enforcement members.
SF 78 – Apprenticeship and job training promotion in schools.
SF 79- Plan of safe care- newborns.
SF 94- Federal Indian Child Welfare Act codification.
SF 167 – Domestic violence protection hearings-remote appearance.
Pending:
FAILED BILLS
These are bills that have not received the necessary votes or have not met deadlines for the 2023 Session.
SUPPORTED BILLS
HB 30 – Wyoming’s tomorrow scholarship program amendments.
HB 34 – School finance- mental health services.
HB 49 – Municipal nonpartisan rank choice elections
HB 51 – Legislator constituent service allowance.
HB 71 – Sales tax holiday – back to school.
HB 109 – Wyoming works for tomorrow.
HB 149 – Protection of health care workers.
HB 150 – Early childhood development special districts.
HB 151 – Property tax exemption- child care facilities.
HB 169 – K-12 post secondary education options.
HB 179 – Medical care for Wyoming communities.
HB 206 – State employee child care.
HB 223 – Wyoming preschool provider grants.
SF 62 – Legislator health care-2.
SF 70 – Back to school tax holiday.
SF 158 – Public employee retirement plan-contributions.
SF 165 – Mental health telehealth pilot program.
SJ 09 – Right of individual privacy-constitutional amendment.
SJ 10 – Right of health care access- constitutional amendment.
WATCHED BILLS
HB 78- Protection of parental rights.
HB 110- Juneteenth-state holiday.
HB 153 – Worker’s compensation competitive coverage.
HB 167 – Wyoming teacher shortage loan repayment program.
HB 170 – Public funds-reserves and spending policy.
HB 187 – Student eligibility in interscholastic activities-2.
HB 194 – Wyoming freedom scholarship act.
HB 280 – Discrimination prohibition-amendments.
HB 283 – Promoting obscenity-educational exception amendment.
SF 47- Education- repeal of immunity for corporal discipline.
SF 48- Education- suspension and expulsion model policies.
SF 49 – Safe school and climate act amendments.
SF 143 – Wyoming freedom scholarship act-2.
SF 144 – Chloe’s law-children gender change prohibition.
SF 163 – Election integrity-primary elections.