One committee might hear updates on investigations into missing and murdered Indigenous people. Another might consider subjects on voting machines and paper ballots.
Politics & Policy
Judge orders thousands of fired federal workers be rehired
With details of rehiring unclear, Jackson business leaders and electeds are looking to nonprofits to step up.
Sweeping property tax bill inked by Gov. Gordon
Single-family homeowners will see a 25% cut applied to the first $1 million of their home’s fair market value. Funding for local governments that will lose property tax revenue because of it was removed from the bill’s final version.
Trans people in Wyoming are now banned from certain spaces
One new law prohibits public school students from going to restrooms and locker rooms that don’t correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Another bans trans people from sex-desginated public spaces associated with the state.
One year later, Sublette County’s wolf ‘torture’ incident still a ‘black eye’ for Wyoming
It’s been a year since a rural ranching community in Sublette County was cast into the international spotlight because of outrage over what many deemed “torture” of a wolf. The legalities and culture around the incident are still hot button issues.
Wyoming Supreme Court: Anti-abortion lawmakers can’t be involved in court case
Chief Justice Katie Fox denied the lawmaker’s proposal in a brief order filed March 4.
Ultrasounds are now required before Wyoming women receive abortion meds
Some lawmakers said the bill isn’t intended to protect women, as its supporters have suggested, but is meant to make abortion inaccessible while it’s legal in Wyoming.
New forest chief prioritizes timber, recreation and wildfire prevention amid mass firings
Schultz’s appointment comes after abrupt firings of thousands of USFS workers across the country, including Wyoming.
Gordon uses first vetoes on ultrasound requirement and unlimited charter schools
Gov. Mark Gordon nixed four bills, including requiring a transvaginal ultrasound before prescribing abortion pills, and a bill prohibiting drones flying over critical infrastructure. He also signed 16 bills into law.
