JD Williams

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

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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

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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

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Voted to fund Wyoming's response to the 2024 wildfires and expand the state forester's fire duties. The act writes wildland fire control into the state forester's duties. The forester must move crews and gear into place before a high fire risk. The forester must pay for fire work on state land, back local fire training, and set standards for private fire crews that insurers hire. The act puts about twenty-two million dollars back into the accounts the state drew down fighting the 2024 fires. It lets the governor borrow up to thirty million dollars more if the forestry division runs out. It sets up a loan fund of up to one hundred million dollars at two percent interest. Landowners and local governments can borrow from it to bring back grass and habitat, replace fences and irrigation, and rebuild what fire destroyed. Another forty-nine million dollars goes out as grants, but only to conservation districts, weed and pest districts and the game and fish commission, and only to bring back grass and habitat and keep invasive plants from taking hold. The House passed the bill 46-14 and it became law as chapter 129 of the 2025 session laws.

February 26, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to void most agreements that stop a worker from taking a job with a competitor. The act makes a covenant not to compete void when it blocks a person from earning pay for skilled or unskilled work. Four things are carved out of that rule. It does not reach a covenant that comes with the sale of a business, a covenant that protects trade secrets, or executives, managers and the professional staff who serve them. It also does not reach a contract that recovers what an employer spent moving, educating or training a worker. That recovery is capped at all of the cost for a worker of under two years, two thirds between two and three years, and one third between three and four years. Noncompete clauses between physicians are void on their own terms, and the rest of the agreement still stands. A physician who leaves may tell patients with a rare disorder where they now practice. The act applies only to contracts signed on or after July 1, 2025 and does not disturb earlier ones. The House passed the bill 39-21 and it became law as chapter 170 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to void most agreements that stop a worker from taking a job with a competitor. The act makes a covenant not to compete void when it blocks a person from earning pay for skilled or unskilled work. Four things are carved out of that rule. It does not reach a covenant that comes with the sale of a business, a covenant that protects trade secrets, or executives, managers and the professional staff who serve them. It also does not reach a contract that recovers what an employer spent moving, educating or training a worker. That recovery is capped at all of the cost for a worker of under two years, two thirds between two and three years, and one third between three and four years. Noncompete clauses between physicians are void on their own terms, and the rest of the agreement still stands. A physician who leaves may tell patients with a rare disorder where they now practice. The act applies only to contracts signed on or after July 1, 2025 and does not disturb earlier ones. The House passed the bill 39-21 and it became law as chapter 170 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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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

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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 House voted 47-13 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 open Wyoming's court-run treatment programs to people with mental illness. Wyoming's court-run treatment programs handled drug and alcohol cases. The act opens them to mental health cases as well. A person with schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder or post-traumatic stress may now take part. So may someone who has both a mental illness and a drug or alcohol problem. That includes people the police dealt with over an offense but never arrested. The programs gain a stated goal of keeping people with mental illness out of jail, out of court and out of the state hospital. A program may now take cases from anywhere in the state, not just its own area. The public defender may sit on a program team and speak for those in it, including when someone faces sanctions or removal. The act renames substance abuse as substance use disorder through the statutes, and says treatment may include medication. The House passed the bill 38-22 and it became law as chapter 160 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 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 House passed the bill 40-20 and it became law as chapter 54 of the 2025 session laws.

February 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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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

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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 count 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 House passed the bill 38-23 and it became law as chapter 145 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to override 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 House voted 45-16 to override, above the two thirds it needed, and the bill became law as chapter 126 of the 2025 session laws.

March 4, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to widen the checks Wyoming uses to confirm that people on its voter rolls are eligible. The state already matched voter records against driver's license records. That match must now also look for signs that a voter is not a US citizen, and for voters who later got a license in another state, including through a national state-to-state service. The secretary of state may also check voters' citizenship with the federal SAVE program. The transportation department must send the secretary of state a monthly list of people who gave a noncitizen status when getting a license or ID card. The list may go to county clerks and stays confidential. When there is evidence a voter moved to another state, officials may look into it and the county clerk may mail a notice of intent to cancel. The protection before removal does not change: the voter still gets that notice and 20 days to ask to stay on the list. The House passed the bill 47-13 and it became law as chapter 152 of the 2025 session laws.

February 12, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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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

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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

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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

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Voted to fund Wyoming's 2025 water projects and add $80 million to two large dam and canal rebuilds. The act is Wyoming's 2025 water construction bill. It authorizes 18 new water projects and puts $21.5 million behind them. The work ranges from town water tanks and transmission pipelines to irrigation canals, spillways and small stock-water systems. The state usually pays half a project's cost, and the sponsor must raise the rest. Five of the projects also carry a state loan at 4% interest, over terms of twenty to thirty years. The act then adds $80 million to two large projects already under way. The state's share of the Goshen Irrigation District tunnels rises from $21.8 million to $41.8 million, and its share of the LaPrele dam rebuild rises from $30 million to $90 million. Both increases are drawn from the legislative stabilization reserve account. The act also moves $4.2 million between two water development accounts, pays for one new state engineer position, and puts $148,000 into updating how the state measures the North Platte River's flow. The House agreed to the Senate changes 34-26 and the bill became law as chapter 111 of the 2025 session laws.

February 28, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted aye on House concurrence for Wyoming House Bill 156, Proof of voter citizenship, on 2025-02-28; the House concurrence passed 54-3.

February 28, 2025

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Sponsored Wyoming House Bill 301, Redistricting of the legislature, introduced on 2025-01-27.

January 27, 2025

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Voted against creating 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, 2026

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