Taft Love

Taft Love sponsored Wyoming Senate File 50, requiring periodic State Engineer groundwater studies in designated control areas and public reporting; the bill became enrolled act chapter 70 effective July 1, 2026.

March 6, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: wyoleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026

Taft Love co-sponsored Wyoming House Bill 98, which enacted penalties for violations of the Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act; the measure received an assigned chapter number in the 2026 session.

March 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to make 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, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 10, 2026

Taft Love co-sponsored Wyoming House Bill 2, the Fast Track Permits Act establishing deadlines for local review of residential building permits; the bill was signed into law in 2026.

March 5, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Taft Love voted for Wyoming House Bill 126, the Human Heartbeat Act, which passed the 2026 legislature and received assigned chapter number 81.

March 9, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 9, 2026

Voted to fund Wyoming's 2026 water projects and set 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, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: legiscan.com · researched September 10, 2026

The Wyoming Legislative Service Office reported that Taft Love was appointed to the Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee after Senator Tim French's departure, giving Love an ongoing committee role in water and land policy.

October 28, 2025

Source: wyoleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026

Taft Love was appointed by Laramie and Platte County commissioners to fill Wyoming Senate District 6 and was sworn in on September 9, 2025; the Wyoming Legislative Service Office reported the appointment, oath, and committee changes.

September 9, 2025

Source: wyoleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026