Wendy Davis Schuler

Voted to let volunteer firefighters and medics join the state health plan and get help with the premium. Volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and search and rescue members may join the state employees' group health plan. Before the change, being eligible for any government health program disqualified them. The act carves out the Affordable Care Act marketplace, so being able to buy there no longer bars a volunteer from the state plan. Volunteers also used to have to pay the whole premium themselves, with no help from anyone. Their fire department, ambulance service or search and rescue unit may now pay part of it. Volunteers still send their own monthly premium to the state, and now prove their volunteer status once a year instead of every month. The Senate passed the bill 23-8 and it became law as chapter 133 of the 2025 session laws.

March 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to let the state regulate oil and gas waste pits wherever they sit, not just on a lease. Oil and gas drilling leaves pits that hold drilling fluid, produced water and emergency overflow waste. The Oil and Gas Conservation Commission regulates those pits so they do not foul state waters. Until this act, that power reached only pits sitting on a lease, unit or shared drilling area. The act strikes those words. The commission may now set rules for where such a pit goes, how it is built, how it is run and how it is cleaned up, wherever it sits. Discharges already covered by the federal clean water permit stay outside its reach. The Senate passed the bill 23-7 and it became law as chapter 17 of the 2025 session laws.

January 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to make out-of-state driver's licenses held by people without lawful immigration status invalid in Wyoming. A driver's license is now void in Wyoming if another state or country gave it to a person who is not a citizen and is not lawfully in the country. The same goes for any card marked to show the holder did not prove lawful presence. A visitor may still drive here on an out-of-state license if that license is not void under the new rule. A visitor may also drive here if they can show they are in the country lawfully. Driving on a license the state treats as void falls under Wyoming's existing crime for driving on a suspended license. That crime carries a fine of up to seven hundred fifty dollars, up to six months in jail, or both. The transportation department must write rules to carry the law out. The Senate passed the bill 22-8 and it became law as chapter 83 of the 2025 session laws.

February 24, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to override the governor's veto of a bill banning drone flights over critical infrastructure. The act makes it a crime to fly a drone over or near critical infrastructure to photograph it, to hover there, or to help commit another crime. Carrying an explosive by drone over such a site is banned outright. Critical infrastructure is defined broadly. The list covers refineries, chemical plants, water and sewage plants, dams, power plants and high-voltage lines. It also covers phone towers, gas sites, railroads, courthouses, jails, military bases, mines, and hospitals that take air ambulances. The governor may add anything else to the list. A first offense is a crime carrying up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $2,500, or both. A second is a felony carrying up to two years, a fine of up to $5,000, or both. Police may disable, damage or remove a drone breaking the rule, and the governor may send the National Guard to help. The attorney general must defend officers and Guard members who are sued for doing so. The rule does not reach drones flown with federal approval, government drones, the site owner, emergency crews, or a landowner over their own land. The Senate voted 23-8 to override, above the two thirds it needed, and the bill became law as chapter 112 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to widen Wyoming's prostitution law to cover sexual touching, not just sexual intrusion. Wyoming's prostitution law covered only sexual intrusion. The act adds sexual contact. That means touching another person's intimate parts, or having them touch yours, for sexual arousal, gratification or abuse. The same words are added to the crime of soliciting an act of prostitution. The penalties do not change. Each stays a misdemeanor carrying up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $750, or both. Every county sheriff must report to a legislative committee each year on convictions under the two crimes. The report must also name any massage business that closed because of charges or convictions under the act. The Senate passed the bill 17-14 and it became law as chapter 163 of the 2025 session laws.

March 3, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to widen which state park staff are peace officers and when they may act outside a park. The act widens who counts as a peace officer among Wyoming state park staff. Superintendents, assistant superintendents, district managers, park rangers and reserve rangers all qualify. Each must have finished state peace officer training. The old law reached only superintendents and full-time rangers. Inside a state park, recreation area, historic site or dig site, their powers do not change. Outside those lines they could act before only when another agency asked for help in its own area. They may now enforce felony law when they saw or found the felony while doing their job. The Senate passed the bill 21-8 and it became law as chapter 54 of the 2025 session laws.

January 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to accept the House version of a bill counting more school building space when the state pays districts for maintenance. The act raises how much school building space the state counts when it pays districts to maintain their buildings. For the 2025-2026 school year only, space up to 135% of the standard size counts, instead of the usual 115%. The act also lifts the rate used to work out major maintenance payments from 2% to 2.5%, for 2025-2026 and every year after. It sets aside $38.1 million for the larger payments that follow. A further $20 million goes toward a new high school in Campbell County School District 1, cut dollar for dollar by whatever a separate 2025 bill gives the same project. The Senate had refused the House changes, then voted 20-7 to accept them, and the bill became law as chapter 145 of the 2025 session laws.

March 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to spend about $207 million on school buildings, most of it on a new high school in Campbell County. The act pays for school building work for the rest of the two-year budget period ending June 30, 2026. It puts $29.8 million into seventeen major maintenance projects at named schools around the state. Campbell County School District 1 gets $14.5 million for a transportation building. The same district gets $150.9 million for a new high school, $20 million of it at once and the rest from March 15, 2026. Another $11.7 million covers costs nobody planned for. Up to $13.4 million left over from earlier construction money is held back to cover inflation on projects already approved, without changing what those projects build. The state construction department must report every month on how the money is going out. The Senate passed the bill 23-8 and it became law as chapter 118 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to require Wyoming clinics that perform surgical abortions to hold a surgical center license. A clinic that performs a surgical abortion must now hold a state license as an outpatient surgery center. Hospitals are not covered. Each clinic needs its own license. A doctor who performs one must report it to the health department. The doctor must also show that a hospital within ten miles has granted them admitting privileges. Doing a surgical abortion without a Wyoming medical license is a felony. It carries one to fourteen years in prison. Running a clinic without the license is a misdemeanor with a fine of up to one thousand dollars. Each day counts as its own offense. The health department must inspect these clinics every three years. Its rules for them can be no looser than the rules for other outpatient surgery centers. The Senate passed the bill 24-7 and it became law as chapter 46 of the 2025 session laws.

February 21, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to require students at the University of Wyoming and the state's community colleges to play college sports based on their biological sex. The act defines male and female by reproductive system. A birth certificate counts as correct only if the sex was entered at or near birth or changed to fix a clerical error. A male student may not play on a women's team or in a women's position on a mixed team. A women's team may not play a team the school knows has a male student on it. In individual sports, a woman may not face a known male student if the school finds that unsafe or unfair. A female student may play on a men's team when no women's team is offered. Anyone may sue a school over a violation, with damages capped at $50,000, and a court may order the school to comply and award legal fees. Schools may not punish people for reporting a violation. The Senate agreed to the House changes 23-8 and the bill became law as chapter 144 of the 2025 session laws.

March 5, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to require the state to notify Wyoming's tribal governments about nearby industrial projects. Anyone who wants to build a large industrial plant in Wyoming needs a state siting permit. Local governments have long been told when such an application arrives. The act gives tribal governments the same standing. It names the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribal governments and the joint tribal governing body of the Wind River Indian Reservation. When a proposed plant is in their county or the next one over, the state must give them notice of the application, or of a request to skip it. The state must also send them a copy of the application and tell them about the meetings and hearings that follow. The rule covers applications filed on or after July 1, 2025. The Senate passed the bill 17-13 and it became law as chapter 18 of the 2025 session laws.

January 17, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Wyoming Secretary of State's legislative history lists Wendy Davis Schuler as a Senate District 15 senator elected in 2018 and 2022.

November 1, 2024

Source: sos.wyo.gov · researched August 8, 2026

Re-elected Wyoming State Senator for Senate District 15 in 2022; the Wyoming Secretary of State's winners roster lists Wendy Davis Schuler for the office.

November 8, 2022

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Elected Wyoming State Senator for Senate District 15 in 2018; the Wyoming Secretary of State's winners roster lists Wendy Davis Schuler for the office.

November 6, 2018

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Voted against funding Wyoming's 2026 water projects and setting a deadline on the Alkali Creek Reservoir. The act is Wyoming's 2026 water construction bill. It authorizes 24 water projects and puts $27.9 million behind them. The work runs from town wells, tanks and transmission pipelines to irrigation pipelines, diversions, siphons and small stock-water systems. The state usually pays half a project's cost and the sponsor raises the rest, though a few projects get all their materials paid for. Seven projects also carry a state loan at 4% interest, over terms of ten to forty years. Newcastle's grant is held back until the state agrees the town has allowed water sales outside city limits. The act moves $16.2 million between two water development accounts and hands a test well to the city of Douglas for at least $610,838. It also sets a hard stop on the Alkali Creek Reservoir project. No further time extensions are intended, and from January 1, 2027 its money may not be spent or used to take land by eminent domain. Two studies are funded: $155,000 to measure how forest management affects water yield, and a review of how small water project applications are handled. The Senate agreed to the House changes 21-10 and the bill became law as chapter 73 of the 2026 session laws.

March 4, 2026

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Voted against making it a separate crime to cross county or state lines to evade police or continue a crime. The act creates a new crime called absconding for criminal purposes. A person commits it by traveling from one Wyoming county to another, or out of the state, in any of three situations. The first is having committed a crime under Wyoming's criminal code or its controlled substances law, and traveling to evade or elude police. The second is traveling with intent to commit another such crime after already committing one in the first county. The third is traveling to get rid of or hide the proceeds or property from such a crime. The penalty is not fixed. It matches the penalty for the most serious crime that was committed, meant to be committed, or furthered by the travel. The Senate passed the bill 17-13 and it became law as chapter 12 of the 2026 session laws.

February 16, 2026

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Voted against overriding the governor's veto of a bill extending the Hathaway scholarship to short job-training programs. The act opens the Hathaway scholarship to short community college programs. These are programs that mix classroom credit with training on the job. Before the change, a certificate had to be a two-year applied science degree or a full school year of study. A certificate now means any community college program that leads to a license, a permit, or a trade qualification the industry accepts. Students in these programs who take fewer than six credit hours a term get a share of the full award. The share is their hours divided by twelve. They meet the progress rule by finishing every hour they sign up for, plus their training hours. The change reaches all four Hathaway award levels. The Senate voted 23-8 to override, above the two thirds it needed, and the bill became law as chapter 125 of the 2025 session laws.

March 5, 2025

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Voted against overriding the governor's veto of a bill requiring an ultrasound before a medication abortion. The act requires a woman to have an ultrasound before she can get medication to end a pregnancy. It must come at least forty-eight hours before she picks up the drug, or before a provider hands it over, whichever is first. She must be offered the chance to view the scan and to see or hear the fetal heartbeat if it can be heard. The scan must meet the standard of care where she lives. Whoever performs it must give her a paper with the date, time and place, the name of the provider who ordered it, and the name of the one who did it. The paper must also confirm the pregnancy is in the womb and how far along it is. The provider who hands over the drug must first check that the scan happened. Breaking the rule is a crime carrying up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $9,000, or both. The pregnant woman can never be charged. The Senate voted 22-9 to override, above the two thirds it needed, and the bill became law as chapter 126 of the 2025 session laws.

March 5, 2025

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