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Monday, February 24, 2025

Women and combat

Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu Ting, have competed for years, including at the Tokyo Olympics and several world championships. But after Italy’s Angela Carini quit less than a minute into her Thursday fight against Khelif, both Khelif and Lin became the subject of heated rhetoric focusing on their debated disqualifications from last year’s world championships, which the agency running the competition called a failure to meet eligibility rules.
Washington Post, August 2, 2024.

This particular draft post is really old.  Years old in fact.  I've nearly brought it up several times, and then set it aside, in part because it didn't read right.

Now Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense, and I'm in the awkward position of posting something on a topic he brought up, which would seem to at least semi align with a view of his, even though I"m not keen on the man (or anything Trumpish).

That's led me to question if I should just dump this post.  I've decided not to.  In at least one way, as I think I can see what's coming, I want to be a bit ahead of it.  That's why it's coming up today.  This week is going to see, apparently, a Stalinesque like gutting of the US military.  The question is why.  It's either, as the heavily tatted up Hegseth, whose dresses like a high school wrestling coach who refuses to dress professionally and whose sports coat doesn't fit, thinks this will make the military a lean, mean, fighting machine, or it's because King Donny the Demented can't stand anyone being around him who doesn't display dog like loyalty, or it's, worst of all, part of a Trump Coup which will see him exhibit absolute dominance over the country and a declaration of a third term in office.

So, my opinion.

I don't think women should be combat soldiers.

Now, what about Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting?

Both women, and that is what they are, didn't pass the noted genetic testing, and then did, that are administered by international athletic bodies as the tests revealed that they both probably have a genetic abnormality called differences of sexual development (DSD), sometimes called Disorders of Sex Development or Variations in Sex Characteristics (VSC) or Diverse Sex Development, or intersex.  People with this rare condition have female sex organs but produce more testosterone than females generally do.  The condition only becomes apparent, if at all, in puberty, when secondary sex characteristics, such as facial hair, breast tissue or distinct body shapes start to develop.

While Imane Kehlif hasn't acknowledged it, and I don't know if Lin Yu Ting has, looking at them makes it pretty apparent.  It's now become a big deal as amongst the secondary characteristics they have is heighted strength, which is typical for men.  It's caused a big controversy as they have an advantage over other women and some female boxers have pulled out of the competition rather than fight her, citing such concerns.

Note, whatever else a person things of this, Khelif and Lin Yu Ting are not complicit in any advantage they have, and really can't be faulted for taking advantage of it.  They were, truly, born that way.

What's interesting, however, as how so many clearly acknowledge the truth that these individuals have an advantage over conventional females, as men have a physical advantage over women, and it's okay to acknowledge this, as its obvious in sports.  And not just in boxing.

Duckworth Chant Ft Slocum 1945 VDisc SSgt Woodard WACs

It's obvious in war, too.

Eons ago, when I first started this post I had just posted this item:
Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week At Work: Realities of the marketplace. ...: I had one item here I was going to cautiously blog about, and then a second came up by surprise.  I'll start with the second and take it...
I did touched on a couple of items there which might normally be regarded as somewhat controversial, noting as I did that they were in the fools rush in category.  The topics specifically were employment discrimination by the Federal Government against veterans if they were reservists and that men's relationship to careers is inevitably different in terms of options towards men, or at least married men, as opposed to women.

One of the items I had in that thread was this:
Men have fewer options on employment than women, in existential terms.  Sure, by nature men can be roughnecks and by biology and temperament they're suited to be soldiers, which women are not, in my view
That's right, it is my view that women are not suited to be soldiers, at least combat soldiers.

But that's not where we have been headed as a society.

I'm frankly not sure where we are now.

Major Wars of Comparative Combatants, the Savage Wars of Peace, and the Small Wars of post Cold War Pax Americana.  They're not the same.

The reason we've been headed in the direction we have been, society wise, is a simple one.  We have not really expected to fight a real war and we have tended view all institutions as liberalized social opportunity institutions, not anything else.  Now we seem to be viewing them as a way to oppress what's been liberalized, which ironically enough still treats them as social institutions.  We have whole agencies that had "DEI" requirements, which have now been flipped into being almost "anti DEI".  It's bizarre.

Anyhow, while we look back with fawning admiration on the armed forces of World War Two, we do not anything of that type today.  Rather, what we have today is more akin to a large urban police force/fire department we have not really expected to fight anyone with.  And we've been pretty much correct on that since April 30, 1975, although we kept a large-scale fighting force until the end of the Cold War.

Put yet another way, we haven't had a kill people and break things force dedicated principally to killing people and breaking things for quite some time.  Perhaps, it its traditional form, the end of the Vietnam War.  That is beginning to change, however, and has significantly since I first started this thread around 2018.  The Russo Ukrainian War has changed that, but that has not reflected itself in difficult policy changes, yet.  The realities of that war, which no doubt are coming home to the military, haven't to society at large to the degree that it raises existential questions.

Ironically, that's not true in something that tends to be a substituting for combat. . . sports.  It's fully hit home there.

Now, okay, I know that I'm going to be immediately corrected on that, as it isn't really true. Since that date, the date upon which Saigon fell, we've fought two wars in Iraq, or three if you consider the insurgency a separate war (which I would regard it as), our longest running war save for the Indian Wars in Afghanistan by some measures, and a host of smaller wars, conflicts and engagements.  But if we approach this honestly, which most will not, we'd have to admit that all of the wars since April 1975 have been comparatively small in comparison.

Now, as Bill Mauldin noted in Up Front, the foxhole you are in is the most important one in the world, to you, so I do not diminish the nature of the later combat, but the numbers themselves say all that is probably needed to be said.  At the height of the Vietnam War there were 500,000 men serving in the country, which doesn't count those stationed in neighboring Thailand, on ships in the South China Sea, and in Air National Guard units that flew in and out of the country.  I don't know how many men that added to the total, but it'd likely add up to a total of 600,000, or maybe 700,000, a huge commitment.

In terms of numbers, moreover, 58,209 servicemen were killed.

If we look back from the Vietnam War, just in total of deaths, 36,516 servicemen were killed in the much shorter Korean War, 116,516 in World War One, and 405,399 in World War Two.

In comparison, there were 294 deaths in the Gulf War, 4,497 deaths in the Iraq War, and there's been 2,216 deaths in Afghanistan.

Again, taking it for scale, that means that fewer men, albeit just slightly fewer, servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan than have were killed at the Battle of Pearl Harbor, and it was a battle.  2,403 servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor.

If its not clear what I'm saying, I'll make it blunter.  The combat conditions of Vietnam, Korea, World War One and World War Two were worse. . . much worse, than anything we've been in since.  By leagues.  That doesn't mean that subsequent wars were walks in the park, but not all wars are the same.  And part of the way they're not the same is this.

When looking at wars, you have to accord that servicemen who served in the Civil War, World War One, World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, served in much worse combat conditions than servicemen who served in the Indian Wars, the Banana Wars, or the post Cold War wars.  It's a simple fact.  

You can take anyone post Cold War battle, to be sure, and say "wasn't that horrific", and it may have been, but it'd be horrific in the fashion that the Battle of the Little Big Horn was horrific.  A concentrated horror.  It wouldn't be horrific in the way that Iwo Jim was horrific, a streaming horror.  If you were a Marine at Iwo Jima, you probably fought on some prior crap hole island before that and you were going on, if you weren't killed, to Okinawa.  


And if it isn't clear what that means, 7,000 US servicemen died at Iwo Jima.  12,450 US servicemen died at Okinawa.


There's no comparison whatsoever.

To expand that out just a bit, a friend of my father's landed in North Africa in Operation Torch (520 US dead, quite light in context),  went on to fight in Sicily (2,811 dead), went on to Italy (no estimate here as it'd be out of context), landed on D-Day (2,501 dead), and fought all the way across France and into Germany before being shot in the homeland of his enemy, but managing thereby to not become one of the 104,812 US servicemen killed in Europe.

And that from a country with half the population of the US today.

We've seen nothing like that since, but we've also seen nothing like Korea or Vietnam since 1975.

But we might be heading towards something like that, maybe.

Not caring if you live or die.

The reason there's been nothing like that has a lot to do with everything we've just mentioned.  The Western Allies during World War Two were causality adverse to start with, which is fine. That's why American casualties aren't comparable to Soviet casualties, or German casualties. The Soviets didn't really care if their men lived or died, they only cared that the Soviet Union live.  The Nazis didn't care if their men lived or died, they only cared about their image of Germany and if it survived and didn't value life at all.  Indeed, the Nazi had a worship of death itself.  The fascist Italians probably didn't care if their men lived or died, but the Italians themselves very much cared, making the Italians by far the most patriotic and smartest fascist population in the war, as they gave a "non" to Mussolini's call on their lives and souls.

And the thing is, much combat in history has been like that.

We don't like that, as a population, and truth be known most people everywhere are pretty horrified by war even if fascinated by it, or rather even if men, and its mostly men, are fascinated by it.  For that reason, as a technological people, we've worked, since World War One (but not before that) to outpace our enemies technologically, making the reasonable assumption that it was better to spend a lot of cash than a lot of lives.  We did that during World War Two which ultimately meant that we had better weapons, no matter what Wehraboos may think, than the Axis powers, with the ultimate best weapon being, no matter what you think of it, being the Atomic Bomb.

The Atom Bomb is indeed nearly the symbol of this approach to war, and the one that has identified us ever since.  Yes, its use was horrific, but . . . that kind of war is something a woman can do.

Well, not in 1945 and not for societal reasons either.  Flying a B-29, the bomber used to drop the Atomic Bombs over Japan, required a great deal of physical strength, particular to put the plant into and keep it in the hard banked turn the planes executed shortly after dropping the bomb.  But you get the point; remote technological killing is hardly like killing at all.

Killing Is A Male Thing

Killing people is almost exclusively a male thing.  And to be clearer yet, men killing other men, is mostly a male thing.  Men will kill women, but they're instinctively reluctant to for the most part.  They aren't so much with other men.

Now, I'm well aware that modern sociologist will maintain that it's hard to get people to kill each other, and that's why, some will claim, the service developed (which they didn't) video games. The goal was to desensitize soldiers to killing.

Bullshit.

In reality, the entire "people are reluctant to kill" and how that translates to soldiers is based, at least in part, the work of S. L. A. "Slam" Marshall and his fraudulent text Men Under Fire.  Marshall was a liar who bullied his subordinates into supporting a text that they knew the data didn't support.  More on that in a moment, but the point is that men kill pretty darned easily, and for that matter, men commit other acts of violence, including acts of violence against women, extremely readily.

While sociologist wring their hands a thesis that the facts don't support, and modern social engineers try to construct a world that violates reality, the fact of the matter is that men are programmed in their DNA towards violence. Women are not.  Men and women have a similar set of biological impulses here, but they work distinctly differently  Men are programed to spike to stress and react.  Women climb slowly into stress, ponder it, peak over prolonged time, and then decline in stress over a long time.  Indeed, prolonged stress, as its contrary to how male biology works, kills men.  When we hear "stress kills", it kills men mostly.

The reason for this has everything to do with our sexual dimorphism and how we were evolved.

What we aren't evolved to do is sit around in glass and steel buildings working in cubicles all day.  Nothing but spiders, perhaps, are evolved to do that.  Rather, we're built for a type of aboriginal existence of one sort of another. And in that existence, which predates our own species and reaches back to the couple of species that preceded us, there were distinct male and female roles that had nothing whatsoever to do with "the patriarchy" or even "culture", but everything to do with DNA.

In that world, men hunt and fish.  Women will do a little of both, but much less.  Men also defend the band, tribe, or whatever you may have, i.e., their extended families, against external threats, most of which arrive suddenly and quite a few of which present physical danger. The classic example, but not the only one, are other humans who are not part of your band.  But dangerous animals also presented a fairly constant threat.

In that environment, the threat arrived suddenly and men, the bigger, stronger, and less tied to children and hence long-term survivability of the band, reacted suddenly and violently when called for.  When another tribe arrived, it was instantly adjudged on the level of threat it presented, and if it presented one, or appeared to, close combat ensued.

And let's not be squeamish in any sense about it, or dishonest.  In primitive societies, combat could become without quarter, in regards to males.

Now, it normally didn't.  It's well known that in aboriginal societies an individual death is more imperiling than in a "civilized" one.  The death of just a couple of men could impair the bands ability to survive, although was we'll see there's an important caveat to that.  Generally, therefore, most combat involving aboriginal peoples is low casualty.  The goal is to inflict injury on your opponent and drive them away, not to get yourself killed.  As that's also the goal of the aboriginal contestant, most aboriginal combat involved sharp contact and withdrawal.  Indeed, raids are a favorite tactic of aboriginal bands as they involve low risk, usually involve taking critical assets of an opponent, and withdrawal.

In other words, if you hit your opponent, take his horses, kill a couple of them, that's a really big success, and they might move off, which is what you wanted in the first place.

That can be taken too far however.  If the threat, or opportunity, is so great, the combat can be totally without quarter.  In other words, if you are presented with the 7th Cavalry making a tactical error, and you have them, you aren't taking prisoners.  Everyone of your opponents that can be killed will be, and without remorse or regret, which will also get to.

But let's note here again that this is mostly an all male thing.  Contrary to what some movie makers would have it, even aboriginal combatants almost never kill women.

Instead, they take them.

Which gets back again to DNA.   And we'll get back to that in a moment.

But first, lets discuss women in this scenario.  No matter what Ancestry may like to advertise, while there may be matriarchal societies, there are almost no examples of female aboriginal combatants whatsoever and that's no accident.

In aboriginal societies, i.e., the societies of our origin and the ones our DNA live in today, women's biological dimorphism made them, rather obviously, the bearer of children and also tied, for much of their lives to their children.  To start with, the very feeding of their children was tied to their own bodies, and it still is in spite of all the intrusion on it.  Women nursed their infants when young, fed them when still young, and nurtured them following that until their own genders began to determine their roles.  For girls, that nature typically meant an ongoing close association with their own mother through her life, nearly always.  Men were of course attached to their parents deeply as well, but he societal phenomenon of men becoming part of their wives' households is likely more of an aboriginal norm than the opposite.

Being village centric, therefore, their role in food gathering and processing was distinctly different.  There are examples of aboriginal hunters and fishermen, but they're somewhat rare and probably contextualized.  Women will kill animals readily for food, but hunting with an infant is difficult so it just likely happened less often.  It did happen, of course.  Gathering plants, or tending gardens, on the other hand, while difficult, more readily suited their biology.  This is evident across cultures and societies.  

And because of these roles, women's roles in the life of the band are different.  Any married man will see the results of this fairly easily today.  Women worry about the coming crisis, not temporary ones.  When temporary ones arise, they usually defer or demand their male "partner" take care of it. 1  Any man is familiar with a short term crisis, with that term used lightly, arising and a female demand of "you should say" which is a summons into some allegorical combat.  The Huns are here. . . shouldn't you be getting on your sword?

In contrast, women agonize over events in the future,and day after day. This harkens back to the aboriginal state.  Winter is coming, there isn't enough food, what will we do?  That is the sort of question and the sort of scenario that confronted women more than men, and often women with babies at their breasts.  It's not patronizing to imagine what this must be like, with women looking out at one child, holding another, and then looking at the baskets of maize and realizing there isn't going to be enough.

That sort of psychological engineer is completely different from thinking "the Pawnees are nearby again. . . we'll steal their horses".  

All of which gets us to the next thing. Women will kill another human being, but not very readily.  It wasn't their role, and it still isn't.

I've known men who have killed other men.  More than one, and not all in wars.  I've known, vaguely, one woman who killed a man.  The examples are instructive.

Of the men I've known who killed other humans, in every example it was male on male violence.  In one instance it was a self defense against armed theft.  In several it was in combat.  In another, it was drug fueled murder.  In the latter example, which was an example of "cold blood", there was more than one person killed, but they were all men.  There were women present, and one other man, who weren't touched.  Frankly, it was probably a shooting over one of the girls.

In the one female instance, the killer who was a young woman who had been raped for years by her father.  The father had raped her sisters too, and was moving on to the next younger one while still assaulting the killer. She'd had enough, but she was also protecting not only herself, but a sibling.  And it took years to get her to that point.

Note, I said this thread wasn't going to be squeamish.

What this tells us, I think, is that men get to killing pretty quickly.  My friend who shot a guy trying to rob him had no remorse for it whatsoever, and frankly I think the movie image of men having perpetual regret in the case of justified killing, or in combat, is largely bunk 2  Women, on the other hand, have a really difficult time getting to killing, even to defend themselves.  The exception is to defend their children. They'll kill readily to do that.

As noted above, starting down this road, men will kill other men pretty readily, but they tend not to kill women very easily.  We can look at this a number of ways.  One is that women instinctively kill to defend, and they instinctively kill, or act in violence, to defend women.  It's often noted that January 1945 is the month during World War Two, for example, when combat deaths between the German Army and the Red Army went through the roof.  It was late in the war, and from the outside that doesn't make sense.  The reason, however, is that German soldiers were well aware that the Red Army as committing mass rape wherever it went, and at that point the driver in combat became primitive and personal.

Which takes us right to our next point.  The women of your enemies present DNA opportunities.

It's an odd point of human nature that we're attracted to our own kind and culture and fascinated by others at the same time.  Sociologist have, in recent years, repeatedly been stunned to learn that Homo Sapiens have bred with other Homo genus people as far back as contact first occurred.  This tends to illustrate this.  They aren't that different, and the attraction obviously existed.

It exists in this context as well which goes to the point above.  Men are reluctant to kill women in combat, but they'll take them for sex, sometimes permanently and sometimes temporarily.  The biological imperative is likely that these alien women mix up the DNA a little bit.  We tend not to think of it that way, but deep seated in the DNA the attraction to the "other" explains it.

The examples are so numerous they hardly need to be cited.  Rome was reputed to have been establish by its own legend by the mass rape and capture of the Sabine women.  The practice was so widespread that its mentioned, and governed by both the Old Testament and the Koran, which approach the topic completely differently, the Old Testament restricting what a Jewish combatant could do with the captured wife of an enemy, and the Koran informing Muslim combatants that they could simply use females captives for sex.

In ancient combat the raping of foreign captive women was routine.  Occasionally women fought back, but it was relatively rare.  Muslim seafaring North Africans engaged in combative raiding simply for the acquisition of sex slaves.  Native bands that hand an opportunity to wipe out a competing band usually just killed the men and carted the women off.  Even the 7th Cavalry under Custer appears to have done this in at least one singular example, that of Custer, reputedly, following Washita.  Modern armies have generally acted vigorously to restrain this conduct in their soldiers, but where allowed, as with the Red Army in World War Two, it will resurface.  Even the U.S. Army, notoriously, had several horrific examples of rapes by combat soldiers of Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War, 3   ISIL has returned the practice to Middle Eastern combat in dramatic and horrific fashion.

And of course, in civil life all this plays out as we'd expect.  Individual acts of violence are usually committed by men.  Urban tribal combat, or gang wars, are almost all male deals as well.  Occasionally we see women in these roles, but its extremely rare.  Rapes are almost exclusively a male crime.  Women occasionally kill attackers, but a man attempting to rob another man is a lot more likely to get shot and killed than a man attempting to commit a rape.

All of which takes us to this.  Men are violence inclined by nature.  Women are not.

Perversion.

Which doesn't mean, we'd note, that as with all things human, it can't be perverted.

We'd note first that the strong instinct of men not to kill women, which obviously doesn't carry over into not committing acts of sexual violence against them, doesn't mean that they'll never do it.  But what we also should note is that once these boundaries are broken, real perversion is usually present or unleashed.

The Germans, for example, managed to get their men over this so that they could and would kill Jewish women in vast numbers.  Be that as it may, we should note, the Germans nonetheless retained a perpetual problem with German men engaging in sexual acts with Jewish women if the opportunity availed itself, something that was a crime, and even the same men who would kill Jewish women would also do that.  Having noted that, however, what we'd also note ist hat once the killing of women started, the floodgates of real mass bloodletting were completely unleashed.

To given another example, the Frontier U.S. Army, in spite of the reputation to the contrary, would nearly never target women and children.  Women did become casualties of Army v. Native combat, but rarely intentionally.  When it occurred inside of villages, which it sometimes did, this was because it was inside of villages.  An Indian women with children in a camp would fight back, for the reasons noted above, and soldiers would accordingly too.  But the "kill everyone in a village" type thing was rare, and when it did occur, was usually an example of outright perversion of some kind.  

I can think of one of this, which is the Battle of Sand Creek.  This battle by the 2nd Colorado Cavalry during the Civil War is notorious for being unjustified and genocidal, and very much featured the killing of women.  This is also why it provoked a societal horror and caused the Army to want to court martial Col. Chivington who lead it.  Even the notorious more or less contemporaneous Bear River Massacre saw almost only male Native combatant deaths, with the women and children taken prisoner.

This will get to the below, but there's a warning here.  Placing women into the position of combatants goes a long ways towards overcoming a biological norm, and when that norm is overcome, the results tend to be horrific

But what about women warriors of the past?

The female samurai Tomoe Gozen, a Japanese literary legend for whom there's no proof of existence.

What about them, they barely exist.

Usually when you bring this topic up, you'll be confronted with examples from the past cited as if as much is known about them as may be known about combat units from the Second World War.  Far from it.  Indeed, the examples that are brought up are uniformly murky and subject to question.

Next to none, or may none at all, of the examples are in fact well established from the ancient world and quite often, when the very few examples that are capable of being proven in any fashion bear the classic stamp of being exceptions to the rule that they effectively are the exceptions that prove the rule.  This doesn't mean that examples are wholly absent from history, but it does mean that the tendency to leap to the conclusion that in some ancient societies female warriors were common is a big mistake.  Indeed, this is completely counter to the cutting edge woke articles that you'll find that "Contrary to what Gamers Believe, the Ancient World Was Full of Women Warriors".

No, it was not.

In all aboriginal societies, as already noted, it's the men who did the fighting, normally. Women will fight, but only under defined and fairly desperate circumstances.  Here, however, is the accounts from early civilized societies that we're dealing with.

Greek and Roman accounts of armed female warriors are the most commonly cited examples.  Both societies had such accounts and given that, they tend to be accepted at face value by those who want to accept them at face value for modern conclusions.  They have to be taken, however, in the context of their times.

To more than a little extent, such stories are simply myths, and fit in with tales about cyclops and sirens and the like.  There may be a grain of truth in them, but just a grain.  Beyond that, however, some tales of that type, taken in context, are likely misinterpretations by the cultures telling them, as they're almost uniformly about other cultures, or even tales that were meant as cultural slights.

That desperate cultures will arm women, as a matter of desperation, for combat is clearly the case.  It doesn't provide a good example for those who cite to women warriors, but it undoubtedly happened in the past just has it has happened in more recent times.  When the Greeks or Romans noted their presence, often in shock, they may have simply failed to appreciate that the culture they were fighting was in desperate straights.

Sometimes, however, they were likely simply insulting them, something that those who repeat Greek and Roman accounts in the modern world sometimes fail to grasp.  A Roman account, for example, exists regarding what the teller regarded as the horribly libertine conduct of females of one of the pre literate Iberian bands that the Romans defeated.  That story is repeated at face value often failing to note that the Romans were fairly slack in moral conduct in their early days as well.  That a Roman would note this of one such band may mean that he was generally disgusted and shocked, or it may mean that he was simply relating it to build up his own group over a neighboring pre literate one that the Romans were overrunning.  I.e., "look how disgusting these primitives are".  Such rationalization is pretty common in all societies in all eras.

If that sounds extreme and unlikely take into account that even in modern times the gross mischaracterization of enemies is common.  Perhaps the best example actually comes from the United States in regard to the Japanese during World War Two, in part because it comes from a quarter that we wouldn't really expect.

Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka "Dr. Seuss", depiction of Japanese individuals, the distinction between foreign born and American born isn't made, in the US during World War Two.  This cartoon is from 1942.

American depictions of the Japanese were frequently astoundingly bizarre and racist.  Thsi was even the case in regard to the depiction of the average civilians.  Japanese soldiers were commonly depicted as wearing thick glasses and hardly being human, a stereotype that was sufficiently strong that it was still replicated, in comedic fashion, in the form of Andy Rooney's depiction of a Japanese landlord in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's.  It is, of course, completely false.


The false nature of it, however is the point.  If an archeologist were to discover American propaganda from the 1940s regarding the war with Japan, and if that archeologist were to accept it at face value, they'd have to conclude that the Japanese enemy was uniformly buck toothed and had horrific vision.  In reality nothing of the case was anywhere near true.  Indeed, the origin of this stereotype is hard to determine as it predates the Second World War by a significant degree.  At best, the smalls stature of Japanese people in general combined with a preference for very simple glass frames in the era, for the minority who wore glasses, seems to have bizarrely lent itself to the horrific racist portrayals that endured all the way into the 1970s.

By extension, therefore, when we read of accounts by one people about the conduct of an enemy, we need to take it with a grain of salt.  Almost every Plains Native American tribe was tagged with dismissive monikers by their enemies, many of which stuck.  The US portrayed the Japanese as oddly nearsighted and of endemic bad dentistry, a depiction that endured for years.  Americans dismissed Asian populations they were fighting in later years as "gooks".  The Germans depicted the Red Army soldier as animalistic beasts dating all the way back to the 1920s.  Ancients maintaining that an opponent had female warriors may not have been so much of an observation, as an insult.  Their enemies were women, in other word, or needed the assistance of their women, or perhaps needed the civilizing influence of Rome to think right.

Women of one of the three Russian "battalions" (actually much smaller units) that enlisted in the service of Imperial Russia.  Their history in the Great War saw only one actually combat engagement.

Coming forward in time, to eras we can really establish a real record for, we see next to no use of women as combatants except in time of extreme desperation.  Japanese female combatants are known of, for example, but only in times when deploying every last person seemed to be called for.  Some women were enlisted for military's service by Imperial Russia at the end of World War One and some women fought in the Red Army during the Civil War, but in both instances Russia was down to absolutely nothing in terms of resources.   Indeed of the Russian women who enlisted for Imperial service during World War One, only one combat engagement seems to have taken place using them, although that did occur.  Of those in the Red Army, very little is known.

The Red Army and Imperial Army examples do significantly differ, however, in that the Imperial Army example was designed with embarrassing men in mind.  It didn't work, but the thought was that Russian men, who were giving up on the Imperial cause, would be shamed by women rising to fight for it.  The Red Army example was more genuine, and harder to track, as the female volunteers were volunteers on an individual basis and therefore not part of any singular unit. The number of individuals who served as combat soldiers was quite small, however, with the 80,000 women who served in the Red Army overwhelmingly volunteering in medical and clerical roles.  This is significant in that, at the time, the Communist advocated a social revolution as well as a political and economic one that disregarded all male/female traditions and distinctions in general, with women who were high in the Communist Party particularly exemplifying that by their rejection of the roles of mother and spouse quite notably.  In spite of that, most women who volunteered for the Red Army did so in roles that were more traditional for their gender.

Which takes us forward to World War Two, as we usually started to get the "what about. . ?" example in regard to an army that seems to have enlisted women and deployed them as combat soldiers.  It proves to almost uniformly to be highly mythicized.

The classic example is women in, again, the Soviet armed forces, and indeed women did have a notable presence in the USSR's military during the war.

Red Army snipers Natalya Kovshova and Mariya Polivanova.  Both were killed in action in 1942.

800,000 Soviet women served in the Soviet armed forces during the Second World War, the overwhelming majority of whom served in medical units.  However, over 2,000 served as snipers, some served as fighter pilots and Aleksandra Samusenko served as a tank commander and liaison officer.  So what about this example?

Well, it's actually not much of one.  Over 34,000,000 Soviet citizens served in the Red Army alone during World War Two, so the overall number of women who served in the Soviet armed forces is actually quite small.  In contrast to the USSR, 350,000 American women served in the US military during World War Two, a little less than have the number who served in Soviet service but then a little over 16,000,000 Americans served in the armed forces during the war.  Given that, the level of female participation was about equal in both countries.  The roles were largely similar as well, with the exception of snipers and combat pilots, although the US did have ferrying pilots who only recently were recognized as having provided military service.

Additionally, not only is the nature and extent of female participation in the Soviet military during the Second World War grossly exaggerated as to scale, it's exaggerated in nature.  Women were ground combatants except in the case of snipers and the singular not well understood case of Samusenko who seems to have somewhat wondered into that service and about whom a lot of myths have attached.  The largest role of females as combatants, in the Soviet armed forces, was as pilots, although frankly that was not a particularly largescale role either.

Which takes us next to this. While a very small number of women did serve in the Soviet military in combat roles, they served in roles that were physically, and perhaps also psychologically, suitable for their gender.  Snipers carry hardly anything, in comparison to infantryman, for example.  Aircraft, or at least some aircraft, had advanced to the point where physical strength was not a premium and small size not a detriment.  In both instances, the killing involved was not up close and personal, although it was still very real.



Indeed, while we're at it we should note this.  500,000 German women served in uniformed military auxiliary services during World War Two and the same number served in antiaircraft units in one form or another.  400,000 German women served as nurses during the war, but like all of the armies of World War One, much of the German nursing services were provided by civilian, and not military, personnel, a least in Germany itself.  None the less, that places German female participation directly in the armed forces at 1,000,000, higher than Soviet numbers and completely contrary to the general assumption that the Germans never deployed their female population.  In fact, in spite of a strong Nazi ideology against doing so, they did.  This means that, taking into account that somewhere over 14,000,000 Germans served in the German armed forces during World War Two, German female participation in the armed forces was the highest of any of the combatant nations.



The German example is interesting, however for a variety of reasons.  For one thing, the Germans were compelled to it out of desperation, which demonstrates the points we've made above.  The Nazis were philosophically bound to a barefoot and pregnant ideology and actively campaigned to boost the German birthrate to the point where the League of German Girls, a compulsory service organization that was the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth, began to take on an increasing element of scandal as the war went on and yet at the same time the Germans were forced to resort to the recruitment of women for their armed forces.  They never served in a ground combat role but they did ultimately become part of the Luftwaffe's anti aircraft system which was definitely a combat role, although they did not man the guns themselves, that being a role that required a fair degree of strength.  All in all, most German military women served in support and clerical roles.

On this we need to keep in mind  how desperate the German manpower situation became as the war went on. The Germans did man antiaircraft crews with teenage boys who where under military age and in the final stages of the war they deployed Hitler Youth members as combatants.  The German conscription age range ultimately ran from 16 years of age to 60, and antiaircraft crewmen were assigned down to age 12.  Women in the German armed forces, which bore a real societal stigma, wasn't a sign of equality of any sort but of desperation.

Okay, well what about partisans?

Partisans tend to be a bit ignored in this category, which is odd as it isn't too hard to find examples of female partisans during the war.  Here too, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, most female partisans occupied support roles, rather than combat roles. This is the case in the Eastern countries occupied by the Germans in particular where the partisan movements were quite large but were also Communist dominated.  There are exceptions to be sure but by and large, those are once again exceptions to the rule.

Women in Western European resistance forces is a surprisingly difficult topic to really address. There were women in these organizations but its' important to note that by and large, they didn't do very much fighting.



Women did have some participation as combatants in the Spanish Civil Wars, and its often tempting to compare resistance units to the Spanish ones.  The problem here is that finding out good information that topic isn't easy either.  Contrary to the common portrayal in the US, Spanish Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War were Communist or near Communist, or Anarchist, and they still retained the really radical pre Russian Revolution culture regarding men and women.  Therefore its not too surprising that some women did fight in the Spanish Civil War, but while they are a celebrated cause, its really hard to figure out how many it actually was.

Communist dominated a lot of the resistance forces all over Western Europe as well, although certainly other ideologies, even monarchist, were represented in those groups.  As noted, they did very little, indeed next to no, actual combat and they would have been extremely poorly suited to have done so.  Most of what they did was in the nature of sabotage and espionage, and therefore they aren't very illustrative on this topic.  They did do some fighting in some towns as they were liberated or near liberation, but the problem there is that those examples, such as that which occurred in Paris, were basically uprisings and featured a lot of civilians who had not previously fought at all.  Indeed, most of those on the streets in those uprisings had likely not participated in any prior combat at all.

What all that leaves us with is this. The pre 1945 examples we have basically aren't very good and actually tend to support the evolutionary biological point raised above.

So, what about from 1945 to the present day.

Well, the same is largely true.

One thing we'd have to start off with noting is that those few established armies that had female soldiers during the war who were near the front, or on rare occasion actually front line soldiers

Which should lead us to the contemporary examples.

The problem is, there aren't really very many, and likely for a reason.

The one that's most frequently given is the Israeli Defense Force.  The IDF does have some female combat soldiers, but their use has been very limited.  During the recent war they did fight, however.  There are some female combatants in the Ukrainian forces, and in the contemporary Russian ones, but we don't really hear much about them.  At least the Russian ones have reported terrible abuse by their own army, which isn't really surprising given the armed mob nature of Russian forces as a rule.

Which leads us to a final topic.

Women in armed forces, any nations farmed forces, are constantly abused.  It's horribly wrong, but its a fact.  It's probably an irresolvable problem.  In the conditions in which they live and work, there's virtually no way to eliminate sexual contact, and some of that is going to be rape.

That contact that isn't rape, on the other hand, will forge bonds that really shouldn't exist between combat soldiers.  Men will die for women as its in their DNA.  Men are more likely to die for women that they've slept with.  You can't really somebody you've slept with behind at a cross roads to die.

But combat soldiers have to do just that.



Saturday, January 25, 2025

The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session. Week 2.

Well that thread got massive quickly.


The imported Southern politics of the 1970s was pretty thickly in evidence this past week. Actions were taken against dangerous foreign aliens by passing out of committee a bill that makes the mark of alienage even more prominent on driver's licenses, where its already noted.  Secretary Gray stated he "wouldn't accept" anything other than "not a US Citizen" on drivers licenses, but that took up too much room so its just going to be Non US or something like that.

The bill caused the Facebook crowed to come out in mass, with a fair number of people believing that all aliens are illegal aliens, which isn't even close to being true, and others believing that aliens can bring drivers licenses from their own darned countries, dagnabbit.

Really?

I'd take this one step further, if we're going to have it.  As a native, and therefore a provincialist, I'd have our state of birth on your license plate, such as "I'm a Californian".  That way we can really tell who is alien.

Rep Mike Yin of Teton County, one of the few Democrats in the legislature, caused a tiff when he proposed amending a bill that requires new voter registrants to provide all kinds of proof of citizenship to be extended to all current registered voters.

It makes perfect sense.

If vast hordes of aliens have registered to vote, as some would have it, well, they're already registered.  We can root them out by requiring everyone to provide proof of citizenship.

Yep, Leopards won't eat my face.

Well, this upcoming week promises to be even more eventful.

January 20, 2025

Cowboy State Daily columnist and former speaker of the house Tom Lubnau really went after the Freedom Caucus with both barrels in his recent article.


This provoked outrage on Facebook with one commentor noting that Lubnau, who is a 'Wyoming native, and the son of a Wyoming native, must be from out of state.

The basic gist of their counter argument was "nuh-uh!"

A taste of what Lubnau stated:
Before the legislature passes something that sounds good with a bunch of blowhards at the bar, bellowing their bellicose bullshit, it should carefully analyze the consequences to future taxpayers and those dependent on state retirement. 

January 23, 2025

HB48, which would have dedicated efforts to understanding why Wyoming has the highest juvenile incarceration rate in the US, and which would have authorized sharing information with the Federal Government, was killed by the Freedom Caucus. 

I guess learning that sort of thing may be "woke".

House Bill 80,  the “Stop ESG State funds fiduciary duty act", brought a blizzard of criticism from money managers leading to attempts to amend it, although it did pass out of committee and has passed two readings in the House.

January 25, 2025

So here's the results after the second week.  If you view the chart below, and it says "received for introduction", it's passed one house and is on to the other.

The WFC did move its 5&10 agenda through the House, and its on to the Senate, in spite of, or perhaps because of, it being a combination of unneeded and illegal.  It'll likely scrape by in the Senate. Whether the Governor is willing to sign the bills is another matter.  Hopefully not.  That sets the next race for the Governor's office to be a screaming match featuring those who are going to claim that we must have a Governor who worships the Orange Idol Donald Trump, assuming that Trumpism hasn't completely flamed out by then, which there are already some signs that it is.

The right wing bill that would remove a requirement for Home Schooling parents to check in with their local school districts and approve their curriculum passed, not surprisingly.  A lot of the people in the WFC have a fear of education and don't trust it, reflecting a rejection of science and a selective approval of Evangelical Protestantism over science in various things.  A current problem the nation faces is that the population is increasingly ignorant, and views like this are why.

Removing protections for otters passed, which is odd as all the science there shows their numbers are decreasing.

A very poor bill that restricts state investments if the investment boards don't believe the same thing the WFC does, passed. That's going to be difficult to comply with and dump state returns in the flusher, the latter of which I don't think is really a concern for the WFC which hates government, basically, anyway, and is pretty hateful fo government employees as well.

A proposed tax on services failed, again, as people who provide services, like lawyers, doctors and accountants, don't like it.

The bill that will ultimately cause their to be a state income tax, the bill dropping property taxes in half, passed.  What could go wrong?

The bill to repeal gun free zones which will guarantee a future tragedy passed.

BillCatch TitleSponsorLast ActionLast Action Date
 
HB0002Hunting license application fees increase.TravelH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/16/2025
HB0003Animal abuse-predatory animals.TravelH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/16/2025
HB0004Snowmobile registration and user fees.TravelH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/16/2025
HB0005Fishing outfitters and guides-registration of fishing boats.TravelH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0006Advance health care directives-dementia.Larsen, LH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0007K-12 post secondary education options.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0008School finance-average daily membership.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0009Young entrepreneurs-limiting license requirements.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0010Limited mining operations-amendments.MineralsH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HB0011Manufacturing sales and use tax exemption-amendments.MineralsS Received for Introduction01/22/2025
HB0012Industrial production equipment-deferral.MineralsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0013Integrated test center-governance.MineralsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0014Solid waste municipal cease and transfer funding.MineralsS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0015Limited mining operations-bonding amendments.MineralsH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/17/2025
HB0016Used nuclear fuel storage-amendments.MineralsH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0017Career technical education equipment grants amendments.EducationS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0018Career technical education funding.EducationS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0019Social media-parental consent for minors required.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0020K-12 school facility leasing.Sel Sch FacH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0021School finance-routine maintenance worker calculation.Sel Sch FacH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0022Water and wastewater operator-emergency response.Campbell, EH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0023Surrender driver's license-repeal.TransportationH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0024Alternative fuel tax-electricity amendments.TransportationH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0025Vehicle accident reporting-amendments.TransportationH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0026Highway safety-child restraints.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0027Disabled parking windshield placards-revisions.TransportationH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0028Commercial driver's licenses-revisions.TransportationH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0029Severance tax distribution-highway fund.TransportationH08 - Transportation:Do Pass Failed 2-7-0-0-001/16/2025
HB0030Driver's licenses and IDs-revisions.TransportationH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0031School safety and security.PendergraftH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/22/2025
HB0032What is a Woman Act.LienS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0033Vehicle sales and use tax distribution-highway fund.TransportationH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0034Department of transportation-efficiency study.TransportationH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/15/2025
HB0035Vacancies in elected office.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0036Hathaway scholarship-amendments.HarshmanH Placed on General File01/20/2025
HB0037Expulsion for possession of a deadly weapon.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0038Ad valorem taxation-payment and credit of penalties.RevenueH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0039Property tax refund program-revisions.RevenueH COW:Passed01/24/2025
HB0040Sales and use tax revisions.RevenueH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0041Environmental quality-irrevocable letters of credit.LawleyH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0042Regulation of surgical abortions.LawleyH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0043Age verification for websites with harmful material.LawleyH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HB0044Loren "Teense" Willford Memorial Highway.DavisH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0045Removing otters as protected animals.ByronS Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0046Homeschool freedom act.StrockS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0047Secretary of state-expedited filings.BlockChain/TechnologyS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0048Department of family services-confidentiality amendments.JudiciaryH01 - Judiciary:Do Pass Failed 4-5-0-0-001/15/2025
HB0049Treatment courts-amendments.JudiciaryH01 - Judiciary:Do Pass Failed 4-5-0-0-001/15/2025
HB0050Disclosure of sensitive information-law enforcement.JudiciaryH COW:Failed 21-36-5-0-001/21/2025
HB0051Municipal courts-maximum penalties.JudiciaryH COW:Failed 21-38-3-0-001/22/2025
HB0052State's right of appeal in criminal cases.JudiciaryH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/17/2025
HB0053Governmental claims-negligent investigations.JudiciaryH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/17/2025
HB0054Chancery court judges-district and circuit court assistance.JudiciaryH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/17/2025
HB0055Court automation fee-amendments.JudiciaryH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0056Cities and towns notice for zoning changes-amendments.FilerH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0057Fireworks on the 4th of July.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0058State lands-notice for mineral leases.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0059Limited mining operations-water quality testing.HarshmanH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/17/2025
HB0060Student eligibility in sports-amendments.LawleyH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0061State land lease preference amendments.BanksH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0062Prostitution amendments.HeinerH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0063Working animal protection act.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0064Chemical abortions-ultrasound requirement.NeimanH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HB0065Executive orders repository.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0066Cities and towns-abandoned and nuisance properties.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0067Wyoming Community Development Authority-bond investment.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0068Tax increment financing.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0069Foreign adversary ownership or control of business entities.CorporationsH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0070Irrigation districts-bid requirements.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0071Insurance fraud reporting.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0072Protecting women's privacy in public spaces act.LawleyH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0073Recreation safety-rock climbing.Larsen, LS Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0074County clerks-frivolous filings procedure.Larsen, LH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0075Coal severance tax rate.CloustonH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0076Prior authorization-amendments.Brown, LH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/15/2025
HB0077Ride-share drivers-Wyoming registration required.StyvarH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0078Newborn safety device funding for safe haven providers.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0079Bond elections-voter threshold requirement.StyvarH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0080Stop ESG-State funds fiduciary duty act.KnappS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0081Regulatory reduction-mortgage loan originator licensing.YinH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/20/2025
HB0082Provider enrollment-standards.LaborS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0083Child custody-sex offense conviction presumption.PendergraftH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0084Pari-mutuel wagering-breakage.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0085Local approval for simulcasting.AppropriationsH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/23/2025
HB0086Public property and buildings-amendments.AppropriationsH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0087Consolidation of gaming.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0088Multi-family dwelling single stairwell exits.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0089Wind turbine blades-onsite disposal required.RigginsH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/14/2025
HB0090Anthrax outbreak protocol.DavisH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0091Eminent domain energy collector systems amendments.AgricultureH 3rd Reading:Failed 27-33-2-0-001/21/2025
HB0092Wyoming livestock board-memorandums of understanding.AgricultureH COW:Passed01/24/2025
HB0093Protect Wyoming's Lands Act.AgricultureH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0094Charter school authorizations-amendments.AndrewS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0095School generational account.Cap Fin & InvH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0096Prohibiting mask, vaccine and testing discrimination.McCannH 3rd Reading:Passed 45-16-1-0-001/24/2025
HB0097Property conveyances near critical infrastructure.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0098Property tax exemption for long-term homeowners-extension.ByronH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0099Access to public lands-corner crossing.ProvenzaH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HB0100K-12 uncertified personnel.AndrewH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/24/2025
HB0101Forest health grant program-3.WaterH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0102Attorney general-elected.HeinerH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0103Columbarium regulation.SherwoodH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0104Child tax credit.YinH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0105Breach orders due process.WaterH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0106Monument to America.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0107Wyoming generational investment account.HarshmanH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
HB0108Firearm purchase protections.AllemandH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/16/2025
HB0109Trespassing-suspend hunting license.AllemandH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/20/2025
HB0110Trapping licenses-nonresident reciprocal licenses.DavisH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0111Hit and run-responsibility and penalties.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0112Industrial siting projects-county commissioner approval.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0113Insurance payments-not taxable.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0114Protecting religious assembly in states of emergency act.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0115Medical Ethics Defense Act.OttmanH Received for Introduction01/06/2025
HB0116Driver's licenses-unauthorized alien restrictions.OttmanS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0117Omnibus water bill-construction.WaterH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
HB0118Limitations on net land gains for the federal government.BanksS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0119Minimum easement standards.BanksH Received for Introduction01/07/2025
HB0120Administrative procedure-jury trial for penalties.StrockH Received for Introduction01/07/2025
HB0121Hospital pricing transparency.SinghH 3rd Reading:Laid Back01/24/2025
HB0122Senior citizen service districts-authorization and renewal.ConnollyH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0123Adverse possession-property tax payment defense.NeimanH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
HB0124Reduction in taxation act.FilerH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0125Repeal-unauthorized use of vehicle crime.WashutH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
HB0126Sales tax on services-repeal.FilerH03 - Revenue:Do Pass Failed 2-6-1-0-001/23/2025
HB0127Domestic violence protection orders-affirmative defense.StyvarH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0128Public health emergency-definition amendments.LucasH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0129School finance-dates for fund transfers.Larson, JTH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HB0130Homeowner tax exemption-amendments.HeinerH Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue01/22/2025
HB0131Ballot drop boxes-prohibition.KnappH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HB0132Annual permits for specified commercial loads.Smith, SH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/20/2025
HB0133Sanctuary cities, counties and state-prohibition.GuggenmosH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/16/2025
HB0134Taxpayer funds-sexually explicit events prohibited-2.GuggenmosH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0135Autologous or direct blood donations.GuggenmosH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HB0136Volunteer first responder health insurance-revisions.ByronH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0137Revisor's bill.Mgt CouncilH Received for Introduction01/09/2025
HB0138Wyoming gaming commission amendments.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0139Interstate export of Wyoming horseracing.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0140Continuity of Permitting Act.FilerH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0141Health mandates-CDC and WHO jurisdiction in Wyoming.LucasH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0142Supplemental K-12 school facilities appropriations.Sel Sch FacH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0143LaPrele dam rebuilding.YinH Received for Introduction01/10/2025
HB0144County canvassing board.NeimanH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0145Absentee ballot return-required information.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0146Animal estray penalty-amendments.NeimanH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0147Prohibition of institutional discrimination.Rodriguez-WilliamsS Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0148University of Wyoming governance-elected trustees.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0149Adoption discrimination-keep kids first act.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0150Meat processors-composted materials.AndrewH Received for Introduction01/13/2025
HB0151Predator management district appointments and terms.LienH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0152Donated blood-mRNA disclosure.McCannH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0153Permanent vehicle registration.BanksH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/21/2025
HB0154False voting-amendments.BradyH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/21/2025
HB0155Workplace violence in health care.Brown, LH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0156Proof of voter residency-registration qualifications.BearS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0157Proof of voter citizenship.BearS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0158Legislature-electronic voting system.BearH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0159Protecting water from chemical abortion waste.BearH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0160Voter identification-revisions.TarverH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0161Hydrogen severance tax.TarverH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0162Interactive gaming.DavisH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/20/2025
HB0163Prohibiting employment of unauthorized aliens.Brown, GH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0164Medical prescriptions-off-label purposes.Brown, GH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/21/2025
HB0165Ranked choice voting-prohibition.WebbH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0166State auditor payment transparency.BrattenH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/20/2025
HB0167Local government reporting.BrattenH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0168Cultivated meat-prohibition.EklundH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/20/2025
HB0169Homeowner tax exemption-2025 and 2026.LockeS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0170Nonprofit and trust entities-effective time for documents.LawleyH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0171Sexual exploitation of children-amendments.StrockH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0172Repeal gun free zones and preemption amendments.HaroldsonS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0173Independent candidate requirements.HaroldsonH Placed on General File01/24/2025
HB0174Carrying of concealed weapons-age requirement.HaroldsonH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/23/2025
HB0175Wyoming veterans museum capital construction.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0176Vacancies in public office-amendments.BrattenH Received for Introduction01/14/2025
HB0177Statutory standing committee-federal review.WharffH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/21/2025
HB0178Work allowance for voting.SherwoodH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/22/2025
HB0179Department of transportation-land transfer.Larsen, LH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/23/2025
HB0180K-12 mental health program-3.Larsen, LH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0181Funeral contracts-investment and bonding requirements.Larsen, LH Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue01/24/2025
HB0182Elections-prohibiting use of secondary address.Brown, GH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0183Net metering amendments.HeinerH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0184Utilities-point of consumption and allocation agreements.WilliamsH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0185Video recording of legislative meetings.LucasH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0186Bear coupons-game and fish.WharffH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0187Theft amendments.WasserburgerH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0188Two families-one nanny.YinH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/21/2025
HB0189Harmful communication-minors.LienH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
HB0190Bond election language process.LienH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0191Civil penalties for cannabis.ProvenzaH Received for Introduction01/15/2025
HB0192Public utilities-wildfire mitigation and liability limits.Larson, JTH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/21/2025
HB0193Real property-severance of pore space-notice.Brown, LH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0194Obscenity amendments.LucasH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/21/2025
HB0195Credit reporting-medical debt.ProvenzaH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/21/2025
HB0196Ballot initiatives-duplicate laws passed.LienH Received for Introduction01/16/2025
HB0197Limits on property development exaction and mitigation fees.DavisH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/21/2025
HB0198Education savings accounts-income qualifications.CloustonH Received for Introduction01/16/2025
HB0199Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act.AndrewH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0200Parent rights-amendments.WebbH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/21/2025
HB0201State funds-investment in Bitcoin.WasserburgerH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/22/2025
HB0202Fast Track Permits Act.FilerH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/24/2025
HB0203By the people act.SinghH Received for Introduction01/16/2025
HB0204Nonresident fishing license fee increase.ByronH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0205Wyoming state fair department.StrockH Received for Introduction01/16/2025
HB0206Elections-acceptable identification revisions-2.WebberH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/17/2025
HB0207Religious Freedom Restoration Act.WashutH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/17/2025
HB0208Atmospheric geoengineering prohibition.TarverH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/21/2025
HB0209Reliable and dispatchable low-carbon standards-repeal.KnappH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals01/20/2025
HB0210Prohibition on unauthorized fees-veterans benefits.KnappBill Number Assigned01/15/2025
HB0211Hunting wildlife from vehicles.AllemandH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/17/2025
HB0212Local sales and use tax amendments.AllemandH Received for Introduction01/16/2025
HB0213Owners and owners' agents duties to tenants-amendments.ChestekH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0214Local government payments-electronic payments.ThayerH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0215Prohibition on electronic voting equipment.Smith, SH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/20/2025
HB0216Prohibition on gas chamber euthanasia of animals.SinghH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0217Random hand count audits of election results.LucasH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0218Public utilities-stays during resolution of lawsuits.LockeH Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue01/24/2025
HB0219County and municipal roads on state lands-easements granted.LockeH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
HB0220Conservation easements-amendments.OttmanH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0221Bighorn and domestic sheep relocation-effective date repeal.OttmanH05 - Agriculture:Do Pass Failed 3-6-0-0-001/23/2025
HB0222Medical Ethics Defense Act-2.OttmanH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0223Preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation.OttmanH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/20/2025
HB0224Prohibiting foreign adversary property ownership.BanksH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0225Parking during legislative meetings.Brown, LH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/24/2025
HB0226License plate-search and rescue council.Campbell, KH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/24/2025
HB0227Executive order-time limitations.AngelosH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/21/2025
HB0228Prohibition on private funds for conducting elections.KnappH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0229High Plains Research Station and Arboretum-historic site.NicholasH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
HB0230Wyoming interstate study and safe highways investment act.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0231Medical education funding.Larsen, LH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/21/2025
HB0232Elections-hand counting for recounts.HaroldsonH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
HB0233Natural resource litigation funding.Larsen, LH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
HB0234Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act amendments.AllemandH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary01/20/2025
HB0235Career technical education equipment and supplies.AndrewH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0236County officials-nonpartisan elections.ChestekH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0237License plate issuance.WylieH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/22/2025
HB0238Ballot harvesting prohibition.JohnsonH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0239Reproductive Freedom Act.YinH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0240Appointment of acting secretary of state-repeal.JohnsonH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0241Telehealth Freedom Act.Smith, SH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0242Manufacturers and dealers of new trailers-changes.TarverH Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation01/22/2025
HB0243Denturist practice act.WinterH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0244Carbon dioxide pipelines-eminent domain prohibition.WinterH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/22/2025
HB0245Pen and paper ballots.KnappH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0246Wyoming Wednesday.StyvarH Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue01/24/2025
HB0247Annexation requirements.StyvarH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0248School foundation program interim budget authority.BearH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0249Runoff elections.NeimanH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0250Defining life and the rights of natural persons.NeimanH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0251Trespass by drone.NeimanH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0252Wind tax exemption-repeal.JohnsonH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0253Construction lien revisions.WylieH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
HB0254Microphones in the house of representatives.Larson, JTH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0255Mobile home certificate-information disclosure requirement.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0256Select Committee on Blockchain and Emerging Technologies-1.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0257Barber apprenticeships.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0258State funded capital construction.HAppropriationsH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HB0259Supplemental K-12 school facilities appropriations-2.HAppropriationsH COW:Passed01/24/2025
HB0260Criminal accountability grant program.WashutH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0261Accessory after the fact-amendments.WashutH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0262Counties-limitations on holding reserves.JohnsonH Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations01/22/2025
HB0263Local water system funding.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0264Central bank digital currencies-prohibitions.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0265Defend the guard act.SinghH Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education01/24/2025
HB0266Food truck licensing-statewide application.Larson, JTH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0267Regulation of hemp.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0268People's parking act.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
HB0269Naturopathic medicine licensure.McCannH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/23/2025
HB0270Permanent mineral trust fund-spending policy.BearH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
HB0271Common school account-spending policy amount.BearH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
HB0272Investment in Wyoming housing.SherwoodH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
HB0273Wyoming pregnancy centers-autonomy and rights.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/23/2025
HB0274Biological males in women's sports.Rodriguez-WilliamsH Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor01/23/2025
HB0275Treatment of animals.ByronH Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel01/23/2025
HB0276State agreements to perform immigration functions.LawleyH02 - Appropriations:Do Pass Failed 3-4-0-0-001/24/2025
HB0277Capitol complex-hotel and conference center.HarshmanH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0278Elections-voting machine and voting system tests.LockeH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0279Property tax exemptions-order of application.NicholasH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0280Sex offender registration.KnappH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0281Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.WinterH Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
HB0282Property tax-acquisition value.LockeH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
HB0283Second Amendment Protection Act amendments-2.WharffH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HB0284Required hospital services.ProvenzaH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
HJ0001Amending Wyoming's act of admission for earnings.Cap Fin & InvH Received for Introduction01/02/2025
HJ0002Foreign adversaries-prohibited property ownership.AgricultureH 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
HJ0003Support for rural schools.SherwoodH Placed on General File01/22/2025
HJ0004Constitutional amendment-veterans property tax exemption.StyvarH Placed on General File01/23/2025
HJ0005China-misuse of United Nations resolution.SinghH Received for Introduction01/21/2025
SF0002Hunting licenses-weighted bonus points system.TravelS 2nd Reading:Passed01/23/2025
SF0003Mule and whitetail deer-separate hunting seasons.TravelS 2nd Reading:Passed01/23/2025
SF0004State park peace officers-definition and scope of authority.TravelH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0005School district vehicles-flashing lights authorized.CooperS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/22/2025
SF0006Residential property-removal of unlawful occupant.JudiciaryH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0007Protection order amendments.JudiciaryH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0008Protection orders-effective during appeal or review.JudiciaryH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0009Restoration of rights amendments.JudiciaryS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0010Settlement agreements for minors-parental authorization.JudiciaryS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0011Use of fraudulent documents to wrongfully possess property.JudiciaryH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0012Permanent protection orders.JudiciaryS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/15/2025
SF0013Reading assessment and intervention amendments.EducationH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
SF0014Wyoming imagination library program.EducationS COW:Failed 6-23-2-0-001/21/2025
SF0015Oil and gas conservation commission-regulation of pits.MineralsH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
SF0016Industrial siting-tribal notification.MineralsH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
SF0017Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery stimulus.MineralsS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0018Enhanced oil recovery-severance tax exemption.MineralsS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0019Impact assistance payments-maximum percentages and review.MineralsH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0020Oil and gas bonding-options and bonding pools.MineralsS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0021Ban on cell phone use in schools.SchulerS COW:Failed 7-21-3-0-001/21/2025
SF0022Ground for termination of parental rights-guardianship.SchulerS Received for Introduction12/19/2024
SF0023Handicap placards-health care providers' approval.LaborH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0024Special license plates for multipurpose vehicles.BarlowS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0025Electronic lien and title system.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0026Protection of military equipment.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0027Wyoming national guard member referral-amendments.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0028ROTC endowment program.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0029Firearm hold agreement-limited liability.TransportationS COW:Failed 2-26-3-0-001/21/2025
SF0030Wyoming's investment in veteran's mental health.Transportation:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
SF0031Boards and commissions veteran ex officio members.TransportationS COW:Failed 11-17-3-0-001/21/2025
SF0032Unpaved roads speed limits-amendments.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0033Noncitizen driver's license and ID card-revisions.TransportationH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0034School finance-routine and major maintenance calculations.Sel Sch FacS 3rd Reading:Passed 21-9-1-0-001/24/2025
SF0035Governmental claims-maximum liability amounts.JudiciaryS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/15/2025
SF0036Music therapy-use of title.LaborH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0037Enhanced concealed carry in school zones.CooperS Received for Introduction12/19/2024
SF0038Performance compensation-investment performance amendment.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0039Automatic transfer of automobile title upon death.OlsenS Placed on General File01/21/2025
SF0040Zoning protest petition-amendments.AppropriationsH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0041Federal acts-legal actions authorized.AgricultureS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0042Resort hotel liquor licenses.GierauS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0043Temporary water use agreements amendments.AgricultureH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
SF0044Fairness in sports-intercollegiate athletics.SchulerH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0045Wyoming state guard-amendments.Laursen, DS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0046Water and sewer districts-bid requirements.LandenS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0047Board of trustees-systems of public recreation amendment.LandenS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/22/2025
SF0048Business property exemption.RevenueH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0049Tangible personal property-index and depreciation.RevenueH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0050Insurance holding company regulations-amendments.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/20/2025
SF0051Wyoming telecommunications act revisions.CorporationsS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0052Insurance amendments.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/17/2025
SF0053Trademarks and trade names-administrative cancellation.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0054Electricity production facilities on municipal property.CorporationsS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/14/2025
SF0055Third party filers.CorporationsS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0056Providing false information to registered agents.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0057911 service reporting.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0058Elimination of sales tax on firearms.OlsenS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0059Registered agents-release of records.CorporationsH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0060Sales tax distribution rates.FrenchS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0061Pollution control property tax exemption-applicability.CaseS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/21/2025
SF0062Restrooms in publicly funded schools-2.Laursen, DS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0063State lands-fencing 2.CragoS 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-1-0-001/24/2025
SF0064Wyoming Opposes Mandatory Electronic ID Devices-Livestock.SteinmetzS Placed on General File01/23/2025
SF0065Data privacy-government entities.BlockChain/TechnologyS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0066Digital ledger filing system development.BlockChain/TechnologyS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/14/2025
SF0067Long-term homeowner tax exemption-revisions.RevenueS Placed on General File01/15/2025
SF0068Government owned lands.RevenueS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/14/2025
SF0069Homeowner property tax exemption.RevenueS Placed on General File01/20/2025
SF0070Investment modernization-state nonpermanent funds.Cap Fin & InvH Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0071Ignition interlock restricted license-aggravated homicide.BrennanS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0072Summer vacation preservation act.BrennanH Received for Introduction01/22/2025
SF0073Charter school funding-amendments.BrennanS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0074Immunity for drug overdose reporting.LaborS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0075Coroner investigations-disposition of decedent's property.CaseS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0076Protecting critical infrastructure from foreign adversaries.AppropriationsS Placed on General File01/17/2025
SF0077Compelled speech is not free speech.HutchingsS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/16/2025
SF0078Prohibition on distribution of unsolicited ballot forms.HutchingsS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0079District courts-change of venue.CragoS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0080Abandonment of water rights-limitations.WaterS 3rd Reading:Passed 29-1-1-0-001/24/2025
SF0081Tax exemption-property owned by the state.AgricultureS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0082Omnibus water bill-planning.WaterS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0083Large energy project funding-legislative approval.SteinmetzS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/22/2025
SF0084Country of origin label-USA beef.SteinmetzS Placed on General File01/23/2025
SF0085Constitutional enforcement of localities.IdeS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/22/2025
SF0086Alternative teaching certificate.Laursen, DS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/16/2025
SF0087Prescriptive easement for electricity delivery.CooperS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/17/2025
SF00882025 large project funding.Nat Res FundS06 - Travel:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
SF0089Certificate of need repeal-2.CrumS10 - Labor:Do Pass Failed 2-3-0-0-001/22/2025
SF0090Youth organizations in schools.CrumH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0091Petroglyph, pictograph and historic inscription protection.Tribal Relations:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations01/23/2025
SF0092Make carbon dioxide great again-no net zero.SteinmetzS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/24/2025
SF0093Tribal trust land sales and use tax exemption.Tribal RelationsS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/14/2025
SF0094Wind River Reservation remote sales and use tax.Tribal RelationsS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/14/2025
SF0095Special purpose depository institution-amendments.RothfussS 2nd Reading:Passed01/24/2025
SF0096Wyoming Gold Act.IdeS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0097Trust code revisions.CaseS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/22/2025
SF0098School board trustees-party affiliation.OlsenS Placed on General File01/22/2025
SF0099Game and fish property tax exemption.TravelH Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0100Child witnesses-courtroom procedures.SchulerS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
SF0101Post-conviction DNA testing-procedure amendments.LandenS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
SF0102Surviving parents of gold star veterans-exemptions.LandenS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SF0103Terminating and defunding diversity, equity and inclusion.SteinmetzS Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
SF0104Probate code revisions.CragoS Placed on General File01/23/2025
SF0105An Act to Preserve State Territorial Sovereignty.IdeS Received for Introduction01/13/2025
SF0106Motor vehicle dealer and manufacturer warranty rates.BarlowS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0107Freedom to work and build business.NethercottS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0108Recreation safety-agritourism.BarlowS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/21/2025
SF0109Open enrollment within Wyoming school districts.BrennanS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/21/2025
SF0110Inclusion of crossing guards for governmental claims act.BrennanS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0111Net metering revisions.CaseS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/21/2025
SF0112Anesthesiologist assistants licensing.SchulerS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor01/21/2025
SF0113Braider opportunity act.HutchingsS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor01/21/2025
SF0114Missing persons-reporting requirement.LandenS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/21/2025
SF0115Judicial review of agency actions-limitations.NethercottS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0116Anti-money laundering.NethercottS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/21/2025
SF0117Shared parenting.PearsonS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
SF0118Landowner hunting tags-amendments.Pearson:Refer to S05 - Agriculture01/23/2025
SF0119Expedited professional licensure for military members.BonerS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0120Wyoming PRIME act.SalazarS Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture01/21/2025
SF0121Rodeo license plate.BonerS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0122Voyeurism-sex offender registration amendment.CooperS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/22/2025
SF0123School finance-competitive grants for crossing guards.BrennanS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/24/2025
SF0124Illegal immigration-identify, report, detain and deport.SteinmetzS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/21/2025
SF0125Defining health care and protecting the people's welfare.SteinmetzS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor01/21/2025
SF0126Establishment of a K-8 public lab school.RothfussS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/22/2025
SF0127Administrative rules-legislative review and objection.Boner:Refer to S05 - Agriculture01/24/2025
SF0128Repeal of sales tax on electricity.McKeownS Placed on General File01/24/2025
SF0129Hospital employees-drug and alcohol testing.Laursen, DS10 - Labor:Do Pass Failed 1-3-1-0-001/24/2025
SF0130Emergency assistance immunity-mental health services.RothfussS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor01/24/2025
SF0131Charter school leasing.DriskillS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/23/2025
SF0132Protecting critical infrastructure and systems from drones.JonesS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0133Protection of parental rights-amendments.BrennanS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/23/2025
SF0134Industrial siting-wildlife mitigation.HicksS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/22/2025
SF0135Defense of state banking-1.RothfussS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/24/2025
SF0136Homeowner tax exemption.DockstaderS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/23/2025
SF0137School finance-cash reserves.DockstaderS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/23/2025
SF0138Energy impact on Wyoming economy-study.DockstaderS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/23/2025
SF0139Trapping requirements-licenses, seasons and setbacks.DockstaderS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0140Trapping education requirements.DockstaderS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0141USMC CPL Seth Rasmuson Memorial Highway.CragoS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/21/2025
SF0142Veterans' home of Wyoming capital construction.CragoS Received for Introduction01/20/2025
SF0143Public monies-deposits in credit unions.NethercottS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/24/2025
SF0144Wyoming-Ireland Trade Commission.DriskillS Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals01/23/2025
SF0145Local governments-investments in equities.NethercottS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/24/2025
SF0146Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act-amendments.BonerS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/24/2025
SF0147Service dogs-training and crimes.HutchingsS Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor01/24/2025
SF0148Fire suppression and restoration funding.CragoS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0149Wildlife conservation license plates-amendments.PappasS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0150For-profit trade schools-property tax exemption.McKeownS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/23/2025
SF0151Monthly ad valorem tax distribution-amendments.JonesS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/23/2025
SF0152Wildfire management-task force and state forester.BarlowS Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel01/23/2025
SF0153Residential real property-taxable value.BarlowS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/23/2025
SF0154Industrial, wind and solar projects-hearing deadline.BonerS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0155International physician licensing.DriskillS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0156Expenditure of state funds on K-12 public schools.DriskillS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0157Department of family services-confidentiality amendments-2.OlsenS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0158Virtual credit cards and network leasing-dental services.JonesS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0159Dental insurance.JonesS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0160Treatment courts-amendments-2.OlsenS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0161Residential property-acquisition value.McKeownS Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue01/24/2025
SF0162Education-block grant model amendments.ScottS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/24/2025
SF0163Partial tobacco products tax repeal.PappasS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0164Pari-mutual rodeo definitions.DriskillS Received for Introduction01/23/2025
SF0165Cancellation of registration notice-amendments.PearsonS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0166Political party formation-amendments.PearsonS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0167Board of chiropractic examiners-criminal history records.DockstaderS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0168Budget reserve account-repeal.HicksS Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations01/24/2025
SF0169Strategic investments and projects account-repeal.HicksS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0170Grizzly bear management prohibition.HicksS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0171City and Town Regulatory Reduction.NethercottS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0172Physical therapy licensure compact.BonerS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SF0173Educational bankruptcy act.ScottS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
SJ0001Convention of states.BarlowS COW:Passed01/24/2025
SJ0002Resolution demanding equal footing.IdeS Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture01/23/2025
SJ0003Commemorating Nellie Tayloe Ross.NethercottS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/23/2025
SJ0004Resolution on commercial base load power generation.PearsonS Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations01/23/2025
SJ0005Congressional term limits.Laursen, DS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary01/23/2025
SJ0006School capital construction-constitutional amendment.ScottS Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education01/23/2025
SJ0007NCSL 50th Anniversary.PappasS Introduced and Referred to S08 - Transportation01/24/2025
SJ0008Political expenditures.CooperS Received for Introduction01/24/2025
Some goofy ones:


HOUSE BILL NO. HB0152

 

 

Donated blood-mRNA disclosure.

 

Sponsored by: Representative(s) McCann, Allemand, Angelos, Heiner, Locke, Ottman, Pendergraft, Rodriguez-Williams, Smith, S, Styvar and Wasserburger and Senator(s) Hutchings, Pearson and Steinmetz

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring blood donors to disclose vaccination status as specified; requiring blood packaging to be marked as specified; allowing a person who receives a blood transfusion to request the use of certain blood; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.  W.S. 3541101 is created to read:

 

ARTICLE 11

BLOOD DONATIONS AND VACCINATIONS

 

3541101.  Disclosure of mRNA vaccinations for blood donations; labeling; right to request certain blood; definitions.

 

(a)  As used in this chapter:

 

(i)  "COVID19" means as defined in W.S. 11141(a)(ii);

 

(ii)  "Messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine" means a type of vaccine that uses called messenger ribonucleic acid to produce an immune response against a disease.

 

(b)  Any person who collects human blood donations for the purpose of providing blood for human blood transfusion shall require blood donors to disclose whether the blood donor has received a COVID19 vaccine or a messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine at any time.

 

(c)  Blood originating from a donor who has received a COVID19 vaccine or a messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine shall be conspicuously marked on the packaging of the blood and any paperwork related to the blood.

 

(d)  In a nonemergency situation, as determined by the health care provider providing medical services, a person receiving a blood transfusion shall have the right to request blood based on whether or not the blood originated from a person who has received a COVID19 vaccine or a messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine, if the requested blood is available at the facility.

 

Section 2.  The department of health shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

 

Section 3.  This act is effective July 1, 2025.


2025

STATE OF WYOMING

25LSO-0247

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0208

 

 

Atmospheric geoengineering prohibition.

 

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Tarver, Brady, Campbell, K, Heiner and Rodriguez-Williams and Senator(s) Ide, McKeown and Pearson

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; providing legislative findings; prohibiting atmospheric geoengineering as specified; requiring testing; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.

 

(a)  The legislature finds that:

 

(i)  The federal government, its agencies and other entities acting on behalf of the federal government have conducted or will conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally disbursing chemicals and other substances into the atmosphere. These geoengineering experiments may be occurring within the state of Wyoming;

 

(ii)  The risks to human health and environmental safety from broadscale geoengineering are currently not well understood;

 

(iii)  The Wyoming department of environmental quality is responsible for monitoring air, land and water quality, including regulating emissions into the air, land and water within Wyoming to ensure the safety of the public while planning the development, use, reclamation, preservation and enhancement of the air, land and water resources of the state;

 

(iv)  It is the intent of the legislature to protect the public health and welfare of Wyoming residents while allowing all authorized activities permitted under state law.

 

Section 2.  W.S. 35112201 is created to read:

 

ARTICLE 22

GEOENGINEERING

 

35112201.  Atmospheric engineering prohibited; testing required; retaliation prohibited.

 

(a)  No person shall intentionally inject, release or disperse by any means any chemicals, chemical compounds, apparatus or other substances within Wyoming into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting or changing temperature, weather or the intensity of the sunlight.

 

(b)  The department shall test the air quality at sites subject to geoengineering or upon receiving a report of a potential violation of subsection (a) of this section. Testing under this subsection shall, if possible, utilize transmission electron microscopy and shall determine total metals concentration in precipitation.

 

(c)  No person or governmental entity shall retaliate or otherwise harass, discipline or discriminate against any person because the person reported, in good faith, a suspected violation of subsection (a) of this section or provided information related to an investigation of a suspected violation of subsection (a) of this section.

 

Section 3.  W.S. 3511103(a)(xiii) is amended to read:

 

3511103.  Definitions.

 

(a)  For the purpose of this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(xiii)  "This act" means W.S. 3511101 through 3511403, 3511405, 3511406, 3511408 through 35111106, 35111414 through 35111432, 35111601 through 35111613, 35111701, 35111801 through 35111803, 35112001 through 35112004, and 35112101 and 35112201.

 

Section 4.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or alter any contract or agreement that is publicly disclosed or subject to public disclosure and that is entered into with the state of Wyoming before the effective date of this act.

 

Section 5.  This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

 

(END)


2025

STATE OF WYOMING

25LSO-0504

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0245

 

 

Pen and paper ballots.

 

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Knapp, Brown, G, Haroldson and Locke and Senator(s) McKeown

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring counties to use pen and paper as the default method to mark ballots for elections in Wyoming; providing an exception; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.  W.S. 2213119 is created to read:

 

2213119.  Paper ballots required; exceptions.

 

(a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each county shall provide paper ballots and pens as the default method to mark ballots for all inperson voting in all elections in Wyoming. The county clerk shall provide all voters with a paper ballot and a pen to mark the ballot secretly as provided in this Election Code.

 

(b)  Subsection (a) of this section shall not prohibit any county clerk from providing electronic ballot marking devices for use by persons with disabilities. Electronic ballot marking devices shall comply with all federal accessibility requirements and shall conform with the requirements of this Election Code for voting machines and electronic voting systems. Nothing in this subsection shall authorize any county to use electronic ballot marking devices as the default method of marking ballots in the county.

 

(c)  As used in this section:

 

(i)  "Disability" has the meaning stated in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008;

 

(ii)  "Electronic ballot marking device" means any electronic device that assists voters in marking ballots, including, without limitation, any voting machine that uses a touch screen to produce a marked paper ballot or ballot card.

 

Section 2.  W.S. 2210102, 2211102, 2221109 and 2222203(b) are amended to read:

 

2210102.  Selection by county commissioners.

 

Subject to the limitations of W.S. 2213119, the board of county commissioners may adopt for use in any precinct in the county a type of voting machine meeting the standards specified in W.S. 2210101.

 

2211102.  Use authorized; purchase or lease.

 

Subject to the limitations of W.S. 2213119, the board of county commissioners of each county may adopt for use, either experimentally or permanently, in any election in any or all polling places within the county, any electronic voting system authorized by law.

 

2221109.  Supplies; regulations; costs.

 

Subject to the limitations of W.S. 2213119, the county clerk may utilize voting machines or electronic voting systems at any bond election and may prescribe the form of the ballot, the duties of election officials, and other reasonable regulations pertaining thereto. The political subdivision holding the bond election shall pay the actual costs of the election or an equitably proportioned share of a concurrent election, as determined by the county clerk.

 

2222203.  Determining validity of application; placement on ballot; procedure for multicounty districts.

 

(b)  Subject to the limitations of W.S. 2213119, each county clerk in each election involving a school or community college district which crosses county boundaries shall determine whether voting machines, electronic voting system, paper ballots, or a combination thereof, shall be used to insure ensure that each qualified elector votes only for the candidate or candidates from the school district and trustee residence area, if any, and from the community college district and subdistrict, if any, for which he is entitled to vote.

 

Section 3.  This act is effective July 1, 2025.

 


Lex Anteinternet: The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session. A Resolution to Violate Wyoming's Act of Admission.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session, Part 4. The ...

A proposal to violate Wyoming's act of admission:

2025

State of Wyoming

25LSO-0331

 

 

 

 

Senate JOINT RESOLUTION NO. SJ0002

 

 

Resolution demanding equal footing.

 

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Ide, Biteman, French, Hutchings, Laursen, D, McKeown, Smith, D and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Allemand, Banks, Bear, Neiman, Smith, S and Winter

 

 

 

A JOINT RESOLUTION

 

for

 

A JOINT RESOLUTION demanding that the United States Congress, in consultation with the legislature of the state of Wyoming, extinguish the federal title in those public lands and subsurface resources in this state that derive from former federal territory, and do so in recognition of the sovereign rights of this state, as set forth in its congressional act of admission into the union, and in recognition of the solemn duties resting upon Congress under the admissions, property, claims, and guarantee clauses of Article IV of the United States constitution so that the state of Wyoming shall, in due course, obtain full admission into the Union of States upon an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatsoever.

 

WHEREAS, an indispensable element of state sovereignty is the capacity to exercise sovereignty and jurisdiction over the soil within state borders; and

 

WHEREAS, a constitutional state does not exist in those places where a state's independent sovereignty and legislative jurisdiction do not apply; and

 

WHEREAS, the original states jealously retained complete sovereignty and jurisdiction over all of the territory within their external boundaries, including unappropriated former British crown lands claimed by the states under both the articles of confederation and the United States constitution; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Admissions Clause, article IV, section 3, clause 1 of the United States constitution, new states admitted into the Union of States are admitted upon an equal footing with the original states as to political rights and as to sovereignty, including territorial sovereignty; and

 

WHEREAS, section 2 of the Wyoming act of admission provides that "The said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Commencing at the intersection of the twenty-seventh meridian of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude and running thence west to the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude; thence south to the forty-first degree of north latitude; thence east to the twenty-seventh meridian of west longitude, and thence north to the place of beginning." This section excepts only the lands dedicated to Yellowstone National Park within this border and any lands as may be subsequently added to that park by Congress; and

 

WHEREAS, under the equal footing doctrine, the new state of Wyoming became entitled to exercise sovereignty and jurisdiction over all of the territory dedicated to its purposes by virtue of Wyoming's act of admission, excepting only Yellowstone National Park and additional lands as Congress may subsequently choose to add to the park; and

 

WHEREAS, more than forty-six percent (46%) of the surface and more than sixty-nine percent (69%) of the subsurface resources of the state of Wyoming, as described by Wyoming's act of admission, remains under federal "title"; and

 

WHEREAS, lands and subsurface resources under federal title in the state of Wyoming are subject to a supreme and complete federal political jurisdiction without limitation, analogous to the municipal powers of the state itself, including police power, and also special maritime and territorial jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 7(3); and

 

WHEREAS, as a consequence of supreme and complete federal political jurisdiction without limitation over the aforementioned forty-six percent (46%) of the territorial extent of the state of Wyoming and over sixty-nine percent (69%) of its subsurface resources, the state can exercise no jurisdiction in those places in a sovereign and independent capacity and, for this reason, this land and these resources cannot be, and have never been, part of the sovereign and jurisdictional state of Wyoming despite the fact that this land and these resources were included, under Wyoming's act of admission, as being lands committed to the purpose of the new state; and

 

WHEREAS, in order that the sovereign and jurisdictional state of Wyoming may obtain equal footing as to political rights and sovereignty with the original states, to which it is entitled under the Admissions, Claims and Guarantee Clauses of the United States constitution, the federal title in the aforementioned land and resources must be extinguished by Congress in compliance with its constitutional mandate to dispose property under the Property Clause; and  

 

WHEREAS, continued failure on the part of Congress to fulfill its duty to dispose of the aforementioned land and resources has resulted in two constitutional violations including: 1. Congress has admitted into the Union of States an entity that is less than and different in dignity or power, from those political entities which constitute the Union, and 2. Congress is exercising over the aforementioned land and resources of the state of Wyoming a form of government that the United States Supreme Court has termed "repugnant to the constitution" and that is notoriously denied to the United States under the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING:

 

Section 1.  That the members of the Wyoming legislature commit to upholding article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States constitution and Wyoming's act of admission.

 

Section 2.  That the members of the Wyoming legislature demand that Congress confirm to the Wyoming Legislature, on or before October 1, 2025, its intent to dispose of the federal title in the aforementioned land and resources and its intent to do so in a manner as to subserve the long withheld sovereign interests of the people of the state of Wyoming.

 

Section 3.  That the members of the Wyoming legislature recognize this state's firmly established and popularly supported public land culture and economy that are integral to the state of Wyoming and therefore propose that the lands above mentioned be disposed of to the state of Wyoming and, thereby, be maintained as state public lands.

 

Section 4.  That the members of the Wyoming legislature recognize that the state of Wyoming has authority to absolve Congress of its constitutional duty to dispose of any portion or all of the former territorial lands remaining within this state's borders.  Accordingly, this legislature expresses its willingness to negotiate cession to Congress of the state's sovereign jurisdiction over any lands that may be mutually recognized as of national interest.

 

Section 5.  That the secretary of state of Wyoming transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress and to each member of the Wyoming Congressional Delegation.

 


Thursday, January 16, 2025

Lex Anteinternet: The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session, Part 4. The Feudal Masters Bill.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session, Part 4. The ...

One craptacular one to watch:

2025

STATE OF WYOMING

25LSO-0361

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0109

 

 

Trespassing-suspend hunting license.

 

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Allemand and Campbell, K and Senator(s) French and Ide

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from purchasing hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.  W.S. 233305(b) is amended to read:

 

233305.  Hunting from highway; entering or traveling through private property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited.

 

(b)  No person shall enter upon, travel through or return across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 236202(a)(v) shall result in the person losing hunting, fishing and trapping license privileges for two (2) years from the date of the violation in addition to the penalties. For purposes of this subsection, "travel through and or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.

 

Section 2.  The game and fish commission shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

 

Section 3.  

 

(a)  Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2025.

 

(b)  Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

 

(END)

 

1

HB0109


This bill is bullshit.  It's notable that of the two persons whose names I recognize, both are from ranching families, at least kind of.  One ran on "less government, more freedom" (Ide). This bill is for more government and less freedom.

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