Justin Fornstrom

Voted to let Wyoming pharmacists assess patients and prescribe under board rules. The act writes a definition of the practice of pharmacy into Wyoming law. It covers reading, judging, mixing, handing out and giving medicines, and counseling patients. It also covers checking a patient in order to prescribe drugs and devices, and starting pharmacist care services, both under rules the board of pharmacy writes. Working with a doctor under a shared care agreement is part of the practice too. No pharmacist has to enter such an agreement, and an employer may not treat a pharmacist worse for refusing. The board of pharmacy must write the rules that make all of this work. The House passed the bill 41-20 and it became law as chapter 103 of the 2026 session laws.

March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 10, 2026

Voted to raise what Wyoming Medicaid pays ambulance services. For the two years from July 1, 2026, Medicaid pays ground ambulance crews the full Medicare rate for emergency calls. The payment is capped at what the crew actually billed. The health department must build higher fee tables for rural and very rural areas. The act sets aside one million three hundred thousand dollars in state money and the same amount in federal money. That money may not be spent on anything else, and what is left over goes back on June 30, 2028. The department must report the added cost to two legislative committees by October 31, 2027. The report must say whether the rates should change. Lawmakers stated their intent that the higher payment carry into the next budget. The House passed the bill 34-23 and it became law as chapter 69 of the 2026 session laws.

March 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to let struggling county hospitals file for bankruptcy instead of closing. A county hospital or hospital district in money trouble had one path in state law: dissolve and close. The act adds a second. Trustees may now vote to file for city and county bankruptcy under chapter 9 of the federal code, and work out a plan to pay down the debt. For a county hospital, the county commissioners must first approve the filing and the first debt plan. For a hospital district, no public vote is needed. Instead the filing and plan must go up on the district's website at least seven days before the trustees meet on it. The House passed the bill 38-21 and it became law as chapter 13 of the 2026 session laws.

February 25, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 10, 2026

Voted to let private providers handle Wyoming driver's license tests and motor vehicle services. The act lets the transportation department hire outside firms to do driver's license and vehicle work. They may give the written, driving and skills tests and handle other vehicle services. The department may set up a partner program and decide which services those firms may offer. It must write rules on who qualifies, training, background checks, bonding, fees, monitoring, audits, and how a firm loses the work. The rules must keep the firms in line with federal standards for testing truck drivers. A firm doing this work is not a government body. The House passed the bill 39-21 and it became law as chapter 71 of the 2026 session laws.

March 4, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to bar registered sex offenders from living within a thousand feet of a child care facility. An adult who must register as a sex offender may no longer live within one thousand feet of a child care center. The distance runs from the nearest outside wall of their home to the center's property line. The rule does not apply if they already lived there before July 1, 2026. It also does not apply if they lived there before the center opened at that spot. A child care center means one licensed by the Department of Family Services, or one a government body runs for pay. Grade schools, middle schools and high schools do not count. The Division of Criminal Investigation must check each registered address against the rule. It must also tell an offender who asks whether a given address is within one thousand feet. The division must notify every child care center within one thousand feet of a registered offender's home. The House adopted the conference committee report 41-19 and the bill became law as chapter 59 of the 2026 session laws.

March 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to make every Wyoming school district adopt a policy on student cell phones in school. The act adds a duty for every school district board of trustees. Each board must adopt a policy on whether and how students may carry and use cell phones and smart devices at school. The act does not say what the policy must contain, so each district decides that for itself. A wearable device that can only tell the time, track health or show location does not count as a smart device. Each district must send its policy to the state superintendent of public instruction soon after adopting it, and again whenever it makes a substantial change. Districts had until July 1, 2026 to put a policy in place. The House passed the bill 40-20 and it became law as chapter 56 of the 2026 session laws.

March 4, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to create a statewide reading and language program covering every grade from kindergarten through twelfth. The act replaces Wyoming's old reading program, which stopped at third grade, with one that runs through twelfth grade. Every school district must adopt a written literacy plan. Districts must give a dyslexia screening each fall to children in kindergarten through second grade, and a general reading screening three times a year through third grade. Older students who are not reading at grade level are screened once a year. Results go to the parent, and a student who is behind gets a written reading plan within thirty days, built with the parent, with progress reported each quarter. Districts must teach with materials grounded in the science of reading, and may no longer use the three-cueing method as the only way to teach word recognition. A district where sixty percent or more of students read below grade level must offer summer camps or after-school help for first through third graders on a reading plan. Districts must train staff in literacy and report results to the state each August. The House passed the bill 46-14 and it became law as chapter 66 of the 2026 session laws.

March 3, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to let adult students keep the Wyoming's Tomorrow scholarship after a break in enrollment. Wyoming's Tomorrow scholarship helps adult students pay for community college. To keep it, a student had to stay continuously enrolled. The act repeals that requirement. A student who steps away for a term and comes back no longer loses the scholarship for that reason alone. Nothing else about the program changes. The House passed the bill 36-25 and it became law as chapter 31 of the 2026 session laws.

February 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to stop state and local government offices from selling or trading personal data without consent. A state or local government office may no longer buy, sell, trade or hand over personal data unless the person it describes agrees in writing. Courts and law enforcement agencies are left out of the act. Transfers that another law already allows, including public records requests, stay legal. Four more exceptions apply. Data may go to another covered office. It may go to a contractor, which must protect it and then give it back or destroy it. An elected governing body may approve a written exception in public for up to two years. Data may also move where federal health and student privacy laws already allow it. Any current or former Wyoming resident may ask an office for a copy of their own data. They may also object to how it is held or used. The office then has sixty days to check the objection, fix the record if it is right, and answer in writing. Offices must adopt a data policy, must not gather more than they need, and must not keep personal data past three years without a written reason. Those collection and retention rules reach state agencies in 2027, counties, cities, towns and public universities in 2028, and other local bodies in 2029. The limit on sharing data and the rights to see and object to it took effect as soon as the act became law. The House passed the bill 34-25 and it became law as chapter 48 of the 2026 session laws.

February 27, 2026Supports Data Privacy

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to make the Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act permanent instead of letting it expire. The Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act sets the rules state courts follow in child custody cases involving Native American children. The act was written to expire on July 1, 2026. This law repeals that expiry date. The Wyoming Indian Child Welfare Act now stays in force with no end date, and the legislature does not have to renew it. The House passed the bill 40-20 and it became law as chapter 57 of the 2026 session laws.

March 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 10, 2026

Voted to give electric utilities legal easements for old power lines that were never put in writing. When rural Wyoming got electricity, landowners often let power lines cross their land on a handshake. Many of those permissions were never written down. The act now gives the power company a legal easement for such a line. The line must have been put up on or before January 1, 2006, be plainly visible, and be in steady use. There must be no written agreement already covering it. The easement lets the company rebuild, keep up and repair the line and clear trees that threaten it. Its width follows past use and can never go beyond thirty feet on either side. The easement ends if the company stops using the line for more than three years. It cannot be stretched to carry industrial or factory power loads. The company must first publish notice in a local paper or a customer newsletter. The House passed the bill 47-14 and it became law as chapter 102 of the 2026 session laws.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted aye on the Wyoming House third reading of Senate File 44, which was later signed by the governor as Senate Enrolled Act No. 0038 and assigned Chapter 51 of the 2026 Session Laws.

March 3, 2026

Source: wyoleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026

Voted nay on House Joint Resolution 4, the residential property tax value constitutional amendment, when the Wyoming House failed to introduce the resolution.

February 9, 2026

Source: wyoleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026