SF 85 Wyoming House · 2025 Regular Session

Constitutional enforcement of localities.

Wyoming's SF 85 requires the state Attorney General to investigate local government actions (counties, cities, towns) that allegedly violate state law or the Wyoming Constitution, following a legislator's written request. If violations are confirmed, the Attorney General must give local governments 30 days to fix the issue before the state treasurer withholds their share of state funds distributed under existing revenue laws. The bill creates a specific process: legislators notify local officials first, the Attorney General investigates within 30 days, and funds are withheld until violations are resolved. This directly affects local governments that fail to comply with state law, using withheld state revenue as an enforcement tool.
Bill status died 2 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Failed
Feb 2025
Governor
Introduced Jan 22, 2025 Last action Feb 4, 2025
Floor votes · Senate Feb 4, 2025

How they voted

623
Failed · 2 other
Total votes 31
Feb 4, 2025
D Democratic2
2 Nay
100% Nay
R Republican29
6 Yea 21 Nay 2
72% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Feb 4, 2025
Vote failed
Senate Vote: fail (6-23-2)
senate
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
S COW:Failed 6-23-2-0-0
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
S03 - Revenue:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 3-2-0-0-0
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Introduced
S Introduced and Referred to S03 - Revenue
upper
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors

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