SF 127 Wyoming House · 2025 Regular Session

Administrative rules-legislative review.

SF 127 requires the Wyoming legislature to approve "major agency rules" before they take effect. This affects state agencies creating significant regulations (like environmental or business rules) and the legislature, which must vote to approve or reject these rules within the next regular or special session after receiving them. The bill establishes a timeline for review, specifies that rules not approved become void, and allows the governor to temporarily bypass this for emergency rules (limited to 120 days). Key provisions include requiring agencies to provide impact analyses and ensuring rules cannot take effect without legislative approval, except for short-term emergencies.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Signed Mar 6, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Enrolled · 5 edits · Feb 28, 2025
MODERATE
The bill was converted from a draft Senate File to an enrolled act, indicating it passed both legislative chambers and is ready for the governor's signature. The substantive policy changes include replacing the original legislative review process with a new requirement for detailed economic analyses of major rules, establishing specific cost thresholds for rule review, and modifying how legislative notice is provided to lawmakers.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded to require comprehensive economic analyses for major rules, including specific cost-benefit evaluations, and modified the legislative review timeline from a general ratification process to a more structured analysis-based review system.
REQUIREMENT

Replaced the original ratification process with a requirement that the legislative service office complete detailed regulatory impact analyses including cost-benefit evaluations, compliance costs, and economic effects.

Added specific thresholds for major rules, including annual economic impacts of at least one million dollars and significant adverse effects on competition, employment, or innovation.

TIMELINE

Changed the review timeline from a general ratification schedule to a 50-day deadline for completing regulatory impact analyses after rule submission.

ENFORCEMENT

Modified the process for prohibiting rule implementation, allowing legislative orders to be introduced after analysis completion rather than during the ratification process.

TECHNICAL

Updated legislative notice requirements from a request-based system to mandatory notification to all legislators upon receipt of agency rule adoption notices.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2025 · House Feb 25, 2025

How they voted

256
Passed
Total votes 31
Feb 7, 2025
D Democratic2
1 Yea 1 Nay
50% Nay
R Republican29
24 Yea 5 Nay
82% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
30
Key actions
8
Committee
8
Mar 5, 2025
Vetoed
Governor Vetoed SEA No. 0059
legislature
Feb 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
H 3rd Reading:Passed 56-5-1-0-0
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
H COW:Passed
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Committee
:Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
H07 - Corporations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Introduced
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
S 3rd Reading:Passed 25-6-0-0-0
upper
Feb 3, 2025
Upper · Passed
S COW:Passed
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
S02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
upper
Jan 28, 2025
Committee
:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations
upper
Jan 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Introduced
S Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations
upper
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors

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