Wyoming Republican Upper chamber District 12

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503 Cheyenne Drive, Rock Springs, WY 82901

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6

Bills sponsored

this session · 22 all-time

21

Bills co-sponsored

this session · 147 all-time

0

Enacted into law

this session · 2 all-time

2673

Recorded votes

99%

Vote participation

voted in 99% of 2673 recorded votes

Voting scorecard

2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes

Party unity

89.1%

based on 403 votes

Votes with own party's majority

Independence

10.9%

based on 403 votes

Votes against own party's majority

Participation

99.3%

based on 403 votes

Roll calls where a yes/no was cast

Sponsored (introduced)

22 bills
Current session 6 bills
Historical 16 bills

Co-sponsored

147 bills
Current session 21 bills
Historical 126 bills

Voting record

Historical 50 votes
Bill Vote Result Date
HB0064 AN ACT relating to public funds; amending or eliminating unnecessary or obsolete borrowing authority or guarantees from the legislative stabilization reserve account as specified; repealing interfund loan authority for the unemployment compensation fund; repealing borrowing authority for the department of administration and information for purposes of school districts joining the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan; amending the source and amount of loans for the department of transportation as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

HB0064JC001: S Adopted HB0064JC001: 25-0-6-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
HB0076 AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; removing a requirement that examinations for cosmetology and related licensure be conducted by the state board of cosmetology; reducing the number of practice years required for a license to practice veterinary medicine without an examination; and providing for an effective date.

HB0076JC001: S Adopted HB0076JC001: 26-1-4-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
HB0093 AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing construction of designated water projects; describing projects; specifying terms and conditions of funding for projects; providing grants; providing appropriations; amending the sponsor's contingency fund; amending amounts and terms of appropriations for specified prior projects; transferring funds from water development account I to water development account II; transferring funds from the general fund to water development account III; clarifying fund limits to the emergency water projects account; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

HB0093JC001: S Adopted HB0093JC001: 27-0-4-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
SF0048 AN ACT relating to education; requiring the state superintendent to develop model rules and policies for student discipline, including suspension and expulsion of students; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

SF0048JC001: S Adopted SF0048JC001: 26-1-4-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
SF0096 AN ACT relating to water development projects; authorizing specified level I and level II studies; providing appropriations; requiring reports; providing for the reversion of unexpended funds; authorizing unobligated funds to be used to complete other designated projects as specified; extending reversion and study dates; authorizing a position; and providing an effective date.

SF0096JC001: S Adopted SF0096JC001: 27-1-3-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
SF0042 AN ACT relating to tobacco taxes; providing that the tax on a cigar, snuff and other tobacco products are due following the sale of the cigar; and providing for an effective date.

SF0042JC001: S Adopted SF0042JC001: 25-3-3-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
HB0195 AN ACT relating to the emergency expenses of government; providing definitions; providing appropriations; amending and repealing prior appropriations of COVID-19 relief funds; specifying conditions on the appropriation and expenditure of COVID-19 relief funds; amending prior conditions on the reduction and prioritization of COVID-19 relief funds; providing for the reversion of unexpended funds; authorizing emergency government programs; authorizing rulemaking; requiring reporting; specifying applicability; providing for priority of appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

HB0195JC001: S Adopted HB0195JC001: 19-9-3-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
HB0033 AN ACT relating to school finance; establishing competitive grants for public schools to purchase career and technical education supplies, materials and equipment; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; making conforming amendments; appropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.

HB0033JC001: S Adopted HB0033JC001: 24-4-3-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
SF0066 AN ACT relating to school finance accounts; eliminating the school major maintenance subaccount within the strategic investments and projects account, the school lands mineral royalties account and the school capital construction account; modifying the distribution of revenues; clarifying the timing of transfers from the strategic investments and projects account as specified; transferring funds; making conforming amendments; repealing provisions; and providing for effective dates.

S Recede from Non-Concurrence pursuant to JR 2-4 Passed by Roll Call:Passed 27-1-3-0-0

Yea pass March 03, 2023
SF0076 AN ACT relating to digital assets; providing for the registration of digital assets with the secretary of state as specified; providing a definition; amending jurisdictional requirements; requiring rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

SF0076JC001: S Adopted SF0076JC001: 28-1-2-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
SF0120 AN ACT relating to crimes and criminal procedure; providing for the loss and restoration of rights as specified; creating a new misdemeanor offense; providing for the filing of certificates for restoration of rights as specified; amending a definition; and providing for an effective date.

SF0120JC001: S Adopted SF0120JC001: 28-1-2-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
HB0014 AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the original filing fee required for commencing or filing civil matters in district court; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

HB0014JC002: S Adopted HB0014JC002: 20-9-2-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
HB0144 AN ACT relating to senior citizen service districts; specifying how senior citizen service revenues may be expended; specifying requirements for the provision of services and programs; and providing for an effective date.

HB0144JC001: S Adopted HB0144JC001: 19-11-1-0-0

Nay pass March 02, 2023
SF0120 AN ACT relating to crimes and criminal procedure; providing for the loss and restoration of rights as specified; creating a new misdemeanor offense; providing for the filing of certificates for restoration of rights as specified; amending a definition; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Failed 5-25-1-0-0

Nay fail March 02, 2023
SF0137 AN ACT relating to planning and zoning; requiring subdividers to construct and pay costs for perimeter fences as specified; specifying requirements for perimeter fences for subdivisions; specifying financial responsibility for maintaining perimeter fences; requiring the inclusion of perimeter fence information in subdivision permit applications; repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 28-2-1-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
SF0151 AN ACT relating to the insurance code; prohibiting specified actions by pharmacy benefit managers; allowing individuals to choose in network retail pharmacies as specified; providing definitions; excluding certain claims as specified; amending a definition; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to provide contact information as specified; amending the process for when a maximum allowable cost appeal is denied; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to allow pharmacies to file appeals in electronic batch formats; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse pharmacies as specified; authorizing pharmacies to decline to provide pharmacy services as specified; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

S Concur:Passed 19-11-1-0-0

Nay pass March 02, 2023
SF0109 AN ACT relating to abortions; prohibiting chemical abortions as specified; providing criminal penalties; providing definitions; specifying exceptions; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 26-4-1-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
SF0133 AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting students of the male sex from competing on a team designated for students of the female sex as specified; prohibiting retaliation; providing for an administrative hearing as specified; alternatively providing for a commission to determine student eligibility as specified; providing definitions; providing immunity as specified; providing an appropriation; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 27-3-1-0-0

Yea pass March 02, 2023
SJ0003 A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend the Wyoming Constitution by providing for the assessment of residential real property as a separate property class for the purpose of taxation.

S Concur:Passed 22-8-1-0-0

Nay pass March 02, 2023
SF0076 AN ACT relating to digital assets; providing for the registration of digital assets with the secretary of state as specified; providing a definition; amending jurisdictional requirements; requiring rulemaking; providing appropriations; and providing for effective dates.

S Concur:Failed 1-29-1-0-0

Nay fail March 02, 2023
HB0152 AN ACT relating to abortion; creating the Life is a Human Right Act; providing findings and purposes; prohibiting abortion; specifying criminal and regulatory penalties and civil remedies; providing exceptions; specifying applicability and severability; making conforming amendments; renumbering current provisions on abortion; repealing and removing obsolete or conflicting provisions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 25-5-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0052 AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes and other legislative enactments; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; amending obsolete references; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0222 AN ACT relating to water; creating a Wyoming Colorado River advisory committee; establishing the purpose and duties of the committee; providing duties of the state engineer; authorizing a position; providing an appropriation; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 29-1-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0208 AN ACT relating to school finance; authorizing the investment of the school foundation program reserve account in equities; amending the deposit of investment earnings into the account; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 26-4-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0171 AN ACT relating to state lands; providing that thirty (30) days notice shall be given before the lease of state lands; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 28-1-1-0-1

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0076 AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; removing a requirement that examinations for cosmetology and related licensure be conducted by the state board of cosmetology; reducing the number of practice years required for a license to practice veterinary medicine without an examination; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 29-1-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0004 AN ACT relating to medical assistance and services; temporarily extending Medicaid medical assistance to qualifying pregnant women for twelve (12) months postpartum; making a conforming amendment; providing an appropriation; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 16-14-1-0-0

Nay pass March 01, 2023
SF0147 AN ACT relating to public works and contracts; prohibiting governmental entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants; providing exemptions; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 28-2-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0164 AN ACT relating to cities and towns; amending requirements for contracts for public improvements for municipalities; amending requirements for the purchase or trade of property by cities and towns; amending the guarantees required for public improvement contracts; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 29-0-2-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0153 AN ACT relating to elections; requiring post-election ballot audits; changing the time absentee ballots may be distributed to applicants before the election; requiring that electronic voting systems have an air gap; providing that election records and returns be transported in a sealed and locked container as specified; providing definitions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 26-3-2-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0094 AN ACT relating to domestic relations; codifying the federal Indian Child Welfare Act as state law; specifying requirements and procedures for the placement of Indian children in shelter care or for adoption; providing a sunset date; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 22-7-2-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0127 AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; creating the Wyoming Stable Token Act; creating the Wyoming stable token commission; authorizing the Wyoming stable token commission to issue Wyoming stable tokens as specified; providing for employees; specifying limitations; providing immunity; providing definitions; requiring reports; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 20-9-2-0-0

Nay pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT006: Line Item Veto Override 23-7-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT005: Line Item Veto Override 27-3-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT004: Line Item Veto Override 29-1-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT003: Line Item Veto Override 27-3-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT002: Line Item Veto Override 29-1-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
HB0001 AN ACT relating to supplemental appropriations for the operation of state government for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2022 and ending June 30, 2024; providing definitions; providing for additional appropriations and transfers of funds for the period of the budget; increasing or decreasing specified amounts; adjusting the number of positions; modifying prior appropriations; providing for duties, terms and conditions and other requirements relating to appropriations for the period of the budget as specified; providing for position and other budgetary limitations; amending existing law by redirecting revenues and making transfers for the period of the budget; providing for carryover of funds beyond the fiscal biennium; and providing for an effective date.

HB0001VT001: Line Item Veto Override 27-3-1-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0174 AN ACT relating to charter schools; creating the Wyoming charter school authorizing board; modifying the duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; defining terms; revising the process for approval and renewal of charter schools; modifying the requirements for the operation of converted charter schools; modifying funding of charter schools; making conforming amendments; repealing provisions; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 20-11-0-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0146 AN ACT relating to state funded capital construction; creating accounts; authorizing the inclusion of construction contract provisions related to inflation; providing definitions; providing appropriations for purposes related to state funded capital construction; providing for capital construction grants for purposes of economic development; making appropriations subject to terms and conditions as specified; providing matching funds for specified projects; authorizing the expenditure of prior appropriations as specified; providing for the reversion of funds; creating a task force; authorizing the purchase of land for future construction; providing for interfund borrowing; providing for reports; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 18-13-0-0-0

Yea pass March 01, 2023
SF0080 AN ACT relating to public health and safety; establishing visitation rights and limitations for specified health care facilities; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 29-1-1-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
SF0131 AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting a person from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot request forms to any qualified elector; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 20-10-1-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
SF0083 AN ACT relating to K-12 school facility leasing; modifying leasing agreements; modifying the duties of the state construction department as specified; modifying use of school district facilities by charter schools as specified; requiring approval for major maintenance expenditures on leased facilities; requiring separate accounting; requiring reporting; and providing for an effective date.

S Concur:Passed 31-0-0-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0022 AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for notification of noncompliance in a state land lease renewal; providing opportunities for compliance; conforming time frames for lessee compliance; and providing for an effective date.

HB0022JC001: S Adopted HB0022JC001: 25-4-0-0-2

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0209 AN ACT relating to education; amending the date of transfers from the Hathaway scholarship expenditure account to the Hathaway student scholarship reserve account; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 31-0-0-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0185 AN ACT relating to local government funding; increasing a prior appropriation; making conforming changes to the related formulas; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 18-13-0-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0089 AN ACT relating to the investment of state funds; authorizing specified state permanent fund reserve accounts to maintain larger balances for the benefit of state investment strategies; providing that balances in specified reserve accounts are intended to be inviolate; removing encumbrances on specified reserve accounts; defining legislative intent for future appropriations and budget requests; providing legislative findings; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 25-6-0-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0074 AN ACT relating to state lands; creating a Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund account; providing funding for the trust account; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 18-13-0-0-0

Nay pass February 28, 2023
HB0017 AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for lessees of state lands to graze livestock they do not own, but for which they retain management responsibility, on leased lands without obtaining permission from the director of the office of state lands and investments; and providing for an effective date.

S 3rd Reading:Passed 27-2-0-0-2

Yea pass February 28, 2023
HB0208 AN ACT relating to school finance; authorizing the investment of the school foundation program reserve account in equities; amending the deposit of investment earnings into the account; and providing for an effective date.

HB0208S2002: Amendment adopted 21-10-0-0-0

Yea pass February 28, 2023