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Bills of Interest 2018:
The following are sponsored and co-sponsored bills for the 2018 Legislative Session. I appreciate your input on Legislative issues as your Representative: If there are bills during the Legislative Sessions that are important to you, please let me know your thoughts and/or concerns. Contact me
Learn more about Mark’s Sponsored Bills and Committees here:
House District 30: Representative Mark Jennings
A few insights on some bills of interest:
HB-194 State Fund Capital Construction:
In, my opinion this bill made a number of fundamental changes which presented a question of constitutionality of one subject per bill with only two exceptions, the budget bill and repealer bills. As you read the catch title at the top of the bill you will se why I think it is an unconstitutional bill so full of pork it would make bacon look lean.
HB-168 Stand your Ground:
This bill takes the Castle Doctrine that is used in your own home to defend yourself and or your family and takes it a step further in protecting yourself and or others wherever you can legally carry a weapon.
HB-0141 Conceal Carry in places of worship:
This returns places of worship back to private property where it should have been all along so decisions could be made about conceal carry policy.
HB0083 – School superintendent salary.
Sponsored By: Stith – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to education; specifying that the salary of a school district superintendent shall not exceed the salary provided under the education resource funding model; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0086 – Medicaid birth cost recovery.
Sponsored By: Stith – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to welfare; requiring the department of family services to recover birth costs paid by medical assistance from specified persons; providing procedures for the calculation and collection of birth costs; creating accounts; providing rulemaking authority; requiring specified persons to cooperate with a paternity determination as a condition of eligibility for medical assistance; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates.
… Bill Status: – H Received for Concurrence – S 3rd Reading:Passed – S President Signed HEA No. 0059 – Governor Signed HEA No. 0059
HB0094 – State lands-net gain in acreage.
Sponsored By: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to state lands; providing that the acquisition of lands from the federal government may increase total trust land acreage; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Failed Introduction 33-27-0-0-0
HB0097 – Termination of alimony.
Sponsored By: Lone – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to domestic relations; providing grounds and procedures for terminating alimony or other allowance; adding conditions for modification; providing provisions related to notices of remarriage and the death of a party to an alimony decree; allowing petitions for continued alimony after remarriage; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Failed Introduction 31-27-2-0-0
HB0102 – Wyoming retirement plans-contributions.
Sponsored By: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to public employees; authorizing additional employee contributions in certain plans under the Wyoming Retirement Act, the Wyoming State Highway Patrol, Game and Fish Warden and Criminal Investigator Retirement Act, the Wyoming Judicial Retirement Act and the Firemen’s Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 as specified; requiring additional employee contributions to be paid through a reduction in cash salary of the employee; repealing archaic provisions; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0105 – Prohibition on sanctuary cities and counties.
Sponsored By: Gray – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to cities, towns and counties; prohibiting the implementation of immigration sanctuary policies by cities, towns and counties; providing penalties; requiring certification of compliance; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Failed Introduction 33-26-1-0-0
HB0116 – State government manager/employee ratios-report.
Sponsored By: Edwards – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring state agencies to prepare a report relating to managerial and nonmanagerial employee ratios as specified; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0117 – Domestic abuse-adverse landlord actions and phone numbers.
Sponsored By: Biteman – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to domestic abuse and sexual violence; prohibiting adverse actions by a landlord for reasons related to domestic abuse or sexual violence; providing exceptions; allowing a court to transfer to a petitioner the sole right to use and sole financial responsibility for a telephone number as part of an order of protection; providing conditions on transfers of telephone numbers; providing immunity; providing notice and compliance requirements regarding telecommunications providers; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H 3rd Reading:Passed – S President Signed HEA No. 0035 – Governor Signed HEA No. 0035
HB0121 – Wild bison hunting licenses-preference point system.
Sponsored By: Edwards – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to game and fish; establishing a preference point system for the issuance of wild bison hunting licenses; prohibiting the issuance of complimentary wild bison licenses; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H Failed Introduction 24-36-0-0-0
HB0127 – Online obscenity prevention.
Sponsored By: Lone – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; requiring internet enabled devices manufactured, sold or distributed in Wyoming to contain software that blocks obscene internet websites; providing exceptions; providing for judicial relief; requiring the attorney general to develop a written document as specified; amending the crime of promoting obscenity as specified; and providing for effective dates.
… Bill Status: – H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0133 – Display of national motto.
Sponsored By: Steinmetz – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to flags and symbols; requiring the display of the national motto and United States and Wyoming flags in state buildings, schools and the state capitol; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H 3rd Reading:Passed – S Did Not Consider in CoW
HB0145 – Pharmaceutical manufacturers-promotion of off label use.
Sponsored By: Clem – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to food and drugs; allowing pharmaceutical manufacturers to engage in truthful promotion of an off label use of a drug, biological product or device; specifying that truthful promotion of an off label use is not misbranding; disallowing action by a licensing board against a licensee solely for engaging in truthful promotion or prescribing of an off label use of a drug, biological product or device; specifying that this act does not require a health care insurer to cover the cost of off label use; specifying that the off label promotion or prescribing of a drug does not create a cause of action; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – H postponed indefinitely
HB0161 – Public reports-state spending and revenues.
Sponsored By: – Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to administration of government; requiring public reports on state spending and revenues as specified; requiring the posting of state entity requests and contracts for supplies and services as specified; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0168 – Stand your ground-2.
Sponsored By: – Salazar – Co-Sponsored: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to crimes and civil liability; revising provisions relating to the use of defensive force in response to injury or loss; providing immunity from criminal and civil liability for specified uses of defensive force; specifying that no duty to retreat generally exists; providing for an award of costs and fees in response to a civil lawsuit relating to the use of defensive force; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: H 3rd Reading:Passed 47-11-2-0-0 – S 3rd Reading:Passed – S President Signed HEA No. 0063 – HEA No. 0063 Became law without signature – Assigned Chapter Number 135
HB0178 – Public records.
Sponsored By: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to public records; requiring the release of public records within a specified time; requiring the designation of a public records custodian of each agency, institution and political subdivision of the state; requiring notice to public records applicants; providing remedies for violations of the public records act; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0180 – School finance amendments-5.
Sponsored By: – Clem – Co-Sponsored: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to school finance; amending the education resource block grant model; amending the average daily membership calculation; conforming provisions; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
HB0187 – Management council membership.
Sponsored By: – Steinmetz – Co-Sponsored: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to management council membership; amending a provision relating to the selection of a member at large; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: H Failed Introduction 36-23-1-0-0
HJ0001 – Pornography as a public health crisis.
Sponsored By: Lone – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
A JOINT RESOLUTION recognizing pornography is a public health crisis leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.
… Bill Status: – H Did Not Consider for Introduction Vote
SF0071 – Stand your ground.
Sponsored By: Bouchard – • Co-Sponsor: Jennings
…Introduced:
…Digest:
AN ACT relating to crimes and civil liability; establishing and modifying when defensive force can be used; establishing when the opportunity to retreat may be considered; providing immunity from criminal or civil liability for reasonable use of defensive force; providing for an award of costs if a civil lawsuit is filed as specified; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.
… Bill Status: – S 3rd Reading:Passed 23-7-0-0-0 – H 3rd Reading:Passed – S postponed indefinitely