Session Update
In the third and fourth weeks of the 2025 legislative session, the Freedom Caucus kept pounding away at its highest priorities in the House, including abortion restrictions, voter restrictions, and multiple bills to tear down public education.
Both chambers advanced even more property tax cut proposals, and in the Senate a resolution advanced in support of Wyoming seizing and selling federal public lands.
The House and Senate each worked on their own versions of the supplemental budget, but debates were still raging at our deadline. We will focus on the budget in Report 3.
Topic deepdive
Healthcare
The House advanced a bill to require abortion clinics to maintain hospital-level equipment and resources, another to force women taking abortion pills to receive a transvaginal ultrasound, and another to ban some common medications used for abortions.
A House committee approved a bill to require women who use abortion pills to collect their miscarriage, but it voted down a bill to protect patients with medical debt from having their credit ruined. Another House committee killed a bill to support K-12 mental health.
The Senate advanced a bill to incentivize military veterans to become mental health professionals.
Education
The House advanced a bill to create a universal private school voucher program under which any child’s family could receive $7,000. It also advanced a bill to remove the current cap on the number of K-12 charter schools that companies can open in the state.
One Senate committee advanced a bill that would increase parents’ ability to sue school districts when they feel their rights have been violated, while another advanced a proposed constitutional amendment to alter how Wyoming school construction is funded in a manner that would privilege wealthy communities.
Other
The House advanced two bills that limit which forms of identification are acceptable for voting—one removed student IDs and another Medicare cards. Another House bill banned the use of ballot drop boxes.
The Senate defeated a bill that would have given property tax breaks to people who live in Wyoming six months out of the year. The House passed a property tax cut that would cost county and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars.
A Senate resolution in support of seizing and selling all federal public lands within Wyoming (except Yellowstone) died, was resurrected, and ultimately failed.
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