SF 101 Wyoming House · 2023 Regular Session

Wyoming legal tender act amendments.

This bill requires Wyoming's state treasurer to accept gold or silver coins (called "specie") as legal payment for state and local taxes, subject to authentication. It mandates the treasurer to set and publish real-time exchange rates between precious metal coins and regular currency, and to exchange these coins for other legal tender. The treasurer must also hold and potentially invest in precious metals, with rulemaking authority to implement these changes. This directly affects taxpayers who pay with coins and the treasurer's office, which gains new duties under the Wyoming Legal Tender Act.
Bill status failed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Feb 2023
Senate Passage
Feb 2023
House Failed
Mar 2023
Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2023 Last action Mar 1, 2023
Floor votes · House Mar 1, 2023

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
16
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Mar 1, 2023
Vote failed
House Vote: fail (5-52-1)
house
Feb 28, 2023
Lower · Passed
H COW:Passed
lower
Feb 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
H03 - Revenue:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
lower
Feb 10, 2023
Introduced
H Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue
lower
Feb 2, 2023
Upper · Passed
S 3rd Reading:Passed 16-15-0-0-0
upper
Feb 1, 2023
Upper · Passed
S COW:Passed
upper
Jan 27, 2023
Upper · Passed
S03 - Revenue:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
upper
Jan 13, 2023
Introduced
S Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue
upper
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors

Sponsors