The Wyoming Legislature will have a new tool at their disposal to address rising property tax rates across the state for the 2025 session.
Constitutional Amendment A was approved by 146,300 voters on Tuesday night.
The amendment will create a separate class of taxation for residential properties in Wyoming, which will theoretically give legislators more flexibility to reduce property taxes in the state.
In total, 124,743 people either voted in opposition to the amendment or didn’t vote at all on it, which also counts as a no vote.
Opponents of the amendment expressed concern that it would actually lead to lawmakers raising tax rates in the future or raising taxes on other sectors like commercial properties to make up for lost revenues.
The amendment takes no direct action on lowering taxes and it will be up to legislators to decide how they want to proceed forward on the issue.
“Now it’s in the hands of the Legislature,” said Laurie Urbigkit, the government affairs director for Wyoming Realtors and treasurer of the 4Wyoming political action committee that supported the amendment. “It will be up to them to see what they want to do with this. That’ll be the fun.”
The 4Wyoming political action committee spent $544,047 through the end of October trying to pass the amendment.
“We did everything we could to win this,” Urbigkit said. “We didn’t leave a stone unturned, we absolutely gave it our all.”
Urbigkit said although she was proud of their efforts, she has no plans to ever run a political campaign again.
Amendment A was the only amendment proposal on this year’s ballot.
