Thursday was a busy Day 3 of the 37-day 2025 Wyoming legislative session, with some spirited floor debates and committees churning through proposed bills at a quick pace.
• A bill restricting bathroom usage in public spaces to biological sex at birth, aka the “What is a Woman Act,” advanced, but not before some very lively debate about how it could be enforced.
• A state senator issued a public apology for calling out a fellow senator Tuesday for his voting record on abortion.
• The Senate Appropriations Committee gave a unanimous thumbs up to a bill that would ban foreign adversaries from setting up near critical infrastructure in Wyoming.
• Two bills that would make it easier to kick squatters out, and sometimes arrest them, sailed through a Wyoming legislative committee.
• Wyoming legislators passed a controversial eminent domain bill that would revive a ban on anyone except public utilities using eminent domain to take land for electrical systems.
• Wyoming lawmakers may pause a state Supreme Court ruling that allows counties to charge state government property taxes.
• A Wyoming Senate committee unanimously advanced a bill that will make an individual’s non-citizen status stand out more on Wyoming IDs.
Bits And Pieces: Former House Speaker Albert Sommers was at the state Capitol on Thursday, his first time there since the start of the 2025 legislative session. Sommers told Cowboy State Daily he was in town for a livestock conference and interview and thought he’d stop by the Capitol with his wife. … Certain freshman House members are keeping rocks on their desks as part of a surprise present for new House Speaker Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett.
Leo Wolfson can be reached at leo@cowboystatedaily.com.
