A bill that would require all convicted voyeurs to register as sex offenders heads to the Wyoming Senate after a committee approved it 4-0 on Monday.
On Cowboy State Daily’s Morning Show with Jake on Monday, State Treasurer Curt Meier and Secretary of State Chuck Gray sparred over a bill Monday that would influence Wyoming’s approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.
By a 6 -1 margin, the Wyoming House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill on Monday that would allow for recounting elections by hand. Currently, recounts can only be performed by election machines.
A bill that would block Wyoming hospitals and clinics from firing doctors who prescribe drugs for off-label uses, such as Ivermectin for COVID-19, passed a state House committee on Monday.
A bill died in a Wyoming legislative committee that would have restricted criminal suspects from suing police officers for conducting negligent investigations. It was supposed to reverse a state court ruling that created the rare lawsuit mechanism.
The House passed on first reading Monday by a 32-28 vote a bill that would create universal school choice in Wyoming, no matter a family’s income level, as well as put no state control over the program.
Numerous amendments were brought to the bill on Monday such as attempting to put some state supervision of educational performance and adding pre-kindergarten, all of which failed on relatively close votes.
The Senate passed on first reading Monday a bill that would separate the use of public bathrooms, showers and locker rooms by biological sex. A previous measure removing state accreditation for school districts that violate the proposed law has been removed.
A House committee rejected a bill that would have clarified that the state treasurer's office can invest in Bitcoin by a near unanimous vote, despite State Treasurer Curt Meier lobbying in support of it. The practice is already technically allowed but the bill would have codified it.
A House committee passed a bill 8-1 that protects an individual's religious freedoms in governmental situations.
