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SF 20 Wyoming House · 2025 Regular Session

Oil and gas bonding-options and bonding pools.

Wyoming's SF 20 establishes new bonding options for oil and gas operators to ensure financial responsibility for plugging abandoned wells and reclamation. It creates a voluntary bonding pool where operators in good standing can participate, funded by a future assessment (starting at 0 mills in 2025-2030, then up to $0.0005 per dollar of oil/gas value after 2030). Funds collected will be used exclusively for well plugging, reclamation, and bond forfeiture costs, separate from other conservation funds. The bill directly affects all Wyoming oil and gas operators required to maintain bonds under state law.
Issues: ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill creates a new assessment (tax) on oil/gas value to fund well plugging/reclamation, promoting fiscal responsibility by ensuring dedicated funding for environmental cleanup.85% confidence ✓ EnvironmentSupports EnvironmentBill funds well plugging/reclamation via bonding pools, directly advancing environmental protection for abandoned oil/gas sites.95% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Jan 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Feb 2025
Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Signed Feb 25, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced → Enrolled · 4 edits · Feb 25, 2025
MODERATE
This bill was finalized as an enrolled act (Act No. 3) after passing the Wyoming legislature. The text was reformatted from a draft Senate file to an official enrolled version, with minor substantive additions to the bonding pool provisions. The core policy remains establishing a bonding pool system for oil and gas operators to cover well plugging and reclamation costs.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains focused on oil and gas bonding requirements in Wyoming, but the enrolled version added specific provisions about transferring financial assurance between operators and reducing bonding requirements through risk analysis.
TECHNICAL

The document was converted from a draft Senate file (SF0020) to an official enrolled act, changing the header and page numbering format.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new provision allowing the commission to transfer an operator's financial assurance to another operator when necessary for participation in bonding options, subject to a bonding review.

Added a new provision allowing the commission to reduce bonding requirements for operators in good standing after completing a risk analysis, without relieving the operator from paying assessments.

FISCAL

Added language clarifying that the bonding pool can use unexpended funds from the account established under W.S. 30-5-116(b).

Floor votes · Senate Jan 27, 2025 · House Feb 18, 2025

How they voted

30–1
Passed
Total votes 31
Jan 27, 2025
D Democratic2
2 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican29
28 Yea 1 Nay
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
20
Key actions
7
Committee
4
Feb 25, 2025
Signed into law
Governor Signed SEA No. 0003
legislature
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
H 3rd Reading:Passed 61-0-1-0-0
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
H COW:Passed
lower
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
H09 - Minerals:Recommend Do Pass 8-0-1-0-0
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Introduced
H Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals
lower
Jan 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
S 3rd Reading:Passed 30-1-0-0-0
upper
Jan 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
S COW:Passed
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
S09 - Minerals:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
upper
Jan 14, 2025
Introduced
S Introduced and Referred to S09 - Minerals
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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