The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session. Week 5. Starting with some fresh air.

February 10, 2015

Senate Joint Resolution 2 failed

That's really good news.

Here's how the votes went:

Ayes: Boner, Dockstader, French, Hicks, Hutchings, Ide, Kolb, Laursen, McKeown, Olsen, Pearson, Salazar, Smith, Steinmetz, Biteman

Nays: Anderson, Barlow, Brennan, Case, Cooper, Crago, Crum, Driskill, Gierau, Jones, Landen, Nethercott, Rothfuss, Schuler, Scott

Excused: Pappas

Absent:

Conflict:

Total: Ayes: 15 Nays: 15 Excused: 1 Absent: 0 Conflict: 0

An effort to reconsider was made, here's how it went: 

Vote recorded: 2/10/2025 1:52PM

Ayes: Anderson, Boner, French, Hutchings, Hicks, Ide, Kolb, Laursen, McKeown, Pearson, Salazar, Smith, Steinmetz, Biteman

Nays: Barlow, Brennan, Case, Cooper, Crago, Crum, Dockstader, Driskill, Gierau, Jones, Landen, Nethercott, Olsen, Rothfuss, Schuler, Scott

Excused: Pappas

Absent:

Conflict:

Total: Ayes: 14 Nays: 16 Excused: 1 Absent: 0 Conflict: 0

Driskill, who had originally voted no, returned to no.  He deserves to stay in the legislature. What the crap was Anderson thinking?  Good for Olsen's position on that one, and Dockstader's.

February 11, 2025

The Trib, which has been experiencing difficulties, reported Thursday's passage of a reading on the land bill today, making them days late on the story. 

Wyo File was up to date:

Senate kills resolution demanding takeover of federal land in Wyoming

Tie vote defeats measure despite efforts to dilute demand by excluding Grand Teton National Park, national forests, monuments and historic sites.

cont:

And another bad bill bites the dust:

Wyoming Senate sinks immigrant crackdown bill amid questions over legality, impact

Senators quickly dispatched a controversial bill that drew outcry from religious leaders, immigrant families and activists.

February 15, 2025

Running a summary is too confusing right now, so I'm going to forego it this week.

All three of Wyoming's Congressional folks praised Elon Musk and Trump this past week. That's predictable.  What isn't is the impact the sloppy firings are going to have.

SF 124 went down in flames this week.  It would have required local sheriff's offices to cooperate with ICE, which turned out to have an estimated cost of $1M.  At least one sheriff's office stated it didn't care what the legislature passed, it wasn't going to to it. 

HB 276 went down for the same reason.

Last edition:

The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session. Week 4. Land grabbers, we don't need no education, and political myopia.

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