Legislative Action Committee Report – 2025 Session

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The Republican Women of Sheridan County (RWSC) is the largest Republican Women’s group in the State of Wyoming. Women and men can be members and associate members, respectively.  The Legislative Action Committee (LAC) is a committee that is made up of Republican women, authorized as an action arm of the RWSC to follow legislation and promote the Republican Party Platform. 

Legislative Analysis Project

The LAC began following Wyoming state legislation in 2020 with the goal of communicating to legislators our input on the legislation that they consider during the session. Other counties in Wyoming have begun to do the same thing. Voters want their voices to be heard and this has become an effective way for Republicans to do that. In the 5 years that we have been involved in this process we have gained experience in reviewing and following bills as they wind their way through the legislative process. We follow legislation throughout the process – we read the bills, we research the issues, we watch committee testimony in person and on video, we watch how bills are amended, and we talk to legislators. Our committee meets regularly during the session and interim to discuss the bills that we are following. We publish our position on legislation (support/oppose) when we have an understanding of the bill and a consensus on how we believe that the principles of the Republican Party apply to that bill.

Legislator Voting Data Analysis

This year, for the 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session, the LAC (and the RWSC) took positions on 121 bills (breakdown below**). In order to help us understand how our legislators are representing our views as constituents, we have compiled voting data for 80 of these bills where we sent out an action alert and a vote was taken at some point. The most concrete way to quantify a legislator’s representation for us at the Capitol is to measure their actions (not their words). Their actions are clearly defined when they vote on a piece of legislation. Whenever a vote was taken to support/oppose a bill we’ve taken a position on, we recorded that vote (in committee, on the floor and if there was a veto override). We have tabulated the number of times a legislator’s vote supports our position and the number of times a legislator’s vote opposes our position. By utilizing a large number of votes, we can identify trends and voting patterns. It is important to note that the LAC took positions on bills prior to and throughout the legislative process. Many of the bills that we took positions on were fiscal in nature, and they provided a clear opportunity to directly apply principles found in the Wyoming Republican Party Platform. There will always be differences of opinion on policy and we welcome the debate of those differences. Informed debate is critical to formulating the best policies for the state of Wyoming. There are no legislators (R or D) who matched our positions 100% of the time. There are no legislators (R or D) who opposed our positions 100% of the time. They all fell on a continuum. We are not assigning a “grade.” We are simply reporting the data for your consideration.

**Democrat Legislators were not sent action alerts and were not elected under the Republican Platform that the RWSC LAC operate under; therefore they are included in this voting analysis for reference only.

**LAC took up 154 bills and took a position on 121 of those bills.  We monitored the remaining 33 and did not send AA’s on those bills.       

Bills That Passed

         - LAC Supported 89 bills and 28 passed = 31.4% of the time the legislature followed our position.

         - LAC Opposed 31 bills and 4 passed = 87% of the time the legislature followed our position.

 Bills That Failed

                - LAC Supported 60 bills that failed:

                                Failed in the House: 23

                                Failed in the Senate: 13

                                Passed House, then failed in Senate: 22

                                Passed Senate, then failed in House: 2

Of the 60 bills we supported that failed, 41.7% failed in the House and 58.3% failed in the Senate.          

                        -LAC Opposed 27 bills that failed:

                                Failed in House: 18

                                Failed in Senate: 5

                                Passed House, then failed in Senate: 0

                                Passed Senate, then failed in House: 4

Of the 27 bills that we opposed that failed, 77.7% failed in the House and 18.5% failed in the Senate.

To Learn More

The names and our position of 80 bills that we have compiled voting information on are attached, along with a link to look up legislation, watch the recorded committee debates that occurred in session, and count up the votes for yourself (www.wyoleg.gov).  A representative republic can only be successful when voters are informed and active. We welcome your participation in the process. Sign up for our emails at legislativeactioncommittee@gmail.com.

Tabulation of Voting Records

The LAC sent out alerts on 80 bills. For each of those bills, we tracked the recorded vote on those bills by every legislator. That includes committee votes as well as floor votes and veto override votes when available. Every time a recorded committee vote and floor vote by a legislator matched our position, they were awarded 1 point. Every time a recorded vote by a legislator did not match our position, they were awarded 0 points. The total number of points awarded to a legislator was divided by the total number of recorded votes cast by that legislator to arrive at a percentage.

For example: if a legislator’s vote matched our position 35 times (35 points awarded) and opposed our position 15 times (0 points awarded), then that legislator would receive 35 points out of 50 maximum points possible. The resulting percentage is 35 / 50 = 70%.

If a legislator did not vote, or was excused from voting (due to absence, etc.) then no vote was recorded and no potential point was included in the total points available. No one’s score was impacted by an excused absence or the lack of an opportunity to vote on a bill.

The attached tables illustrate the data we collected. The number of votes recorded for each legislator are different because they are in different chambers (House/Senate) and on different committees; however, the final percentages indicate the percentage of times that a legislator’s votes matched our position.

Bill Information

Bill #:	Bill Name:	RWSC LAC Position:
HB0012	Industrial Production Inventory-Exemption	OPPOSE
HB0021	School Finance-Routine Maintenance Worker Calculation	OPPOSE
HB0032	What is a Woman Act	SUPPORT
HB0042	Regulation of Surgical Abortions	SUPPORT
HB0046	Homeschool Freedom Act	SUPPORT
HB0060	Student Eligibility in Sports	SUPPORT
HB0072	Protecting Privacy in Public Spaces Act	SUPPORT
HB0079	Bond Elections-Voter Threshold Requirement	SUPPORT
HB0080	Stop ESG - State Funds Fiduciary Duty Act	SUPPORT
HB0083	Child custody - Sex Offense Conviction Presumption	SUPPORT
HB0091	Eminent Domain Energy Collector Systems Amendments	SUPPORT
HB0093	Protect Wyoming Lands Act	SUPPORT
HB0094	Charter School Authorization Amendments	SUPPORT
HB0096	Prohibiting Mask, Vaccine and Testing Discrimination	SUPPORT
HB0102	Attorney General-Elected	SUPPORT
HB0107	Wyoming Generational Investment Account	OPPOSE
HB0116	Driver's Licenses-Unauthorized Alien Restrictions	SUPPORT
HB0131	Ballot Drop Boxes-Prohibition	SUPPORT
HB0133	Sanctuary Cities, Counties and State-Prohibition	SUPPORT
HB0134	Taxpayer Funds-Sexually Explicit Events-Prohibited	SUPPORT
HB0135	Autologous or Direct Blood Donations	SUPPORT
HB0147	Prohibition of Institutional Discrimination	SUPPORT
HB0148	University of Wyoming Governance-Elected Trustees	SUPPORT
HB0159	Protecting Water from Chemical Abortion Waste	SUPPORT
HB0160	Voter Identification-Revisions	SUPPORT
HB0164	Medical Prescriptions-Off-Label Purposes	SUPPORT
HB0165	Ranked Choice Voting-Prohibition	SUPPORT
HB0172	Repeal Gun Free Zones and Preemption Amendments	SUPPORT
HB0176	Vacancies in Public Office-Amendments	SUPPORT
HB0177	Statutory Standing Committee-Federal Review	SUPPORT
HB0180	K-12 Mental Health Program-3	OPPOSE
HB0199	Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act	SUPPORT
HB0200	Parent Rights-Amendments	SUPPORT
HB0209	Carbon Capture Mandate-Repeal	SUPPORT
HB0227	Executive Order-Time Limitations	SUPPORT
HB0238	Ballot Harvesting Prohibition	SUPPORT
HB0245	Pen and Paper Ballots	SUPPORT
HB0249	Runoff Elections	SUPPORT
HB0250	Defining Life and the Rights of Natural Persons	SUPPORT
HB0271	Common School Account-Spending Policy Amount	SUPPORT
HB0273	Wyoming Pregnancy Centers-Autonomy and Rights	SUPPORT
HB0274	Biological Males in Women's Sports	SUPPORT
HB0278	Elections-Voting Machine and Voting System Tests	SUPPORT
HB0282	Property Tax-Acquisition Value	SUPPORT
HB0307	Poll Watchers-Polling Station Observation	SUPPORT
HB0321	Election Judge Selection	SUPPORT
HB0339	Homeowners Associations-Display of Political Campaign Signs	SUPPORT
SF0017	Carbon Dioxide-Enhanced Oil Recovery Stimulus	OPPOSE
SF0018	Enhanced Oil Recovery-Severance Tax Exemption	OPPOSE
SF0022	Ground for Termination of Parental Rights-Guardianship	OPPOSE
SF0033	Noncitizen Driver's License and ID Card-Revisions	SUPPORT
SF0034	K-12 School Facilities Maintenance and Appropriations	OPPOSE
SF0044	Fairness in Sports-Intercollegiate Athletics	SUPPORT
SF0046	Water, Irrigation and Sewer Districts-Bid Requirements	OPPOSE
SF0061	Pollution Control Property Tax Exemption-Applicability	SUPPORT
SF0062	Sex-Designated Facilities and Public Schools	SUPPORT
SF0063	State Lands-Fencing-2	SUPPORT
SF0064	WY Opposes Mandatory Electronic ID Devices-Livestock	SUPPORT
SF0065	Data Privacy-Government Entities	OPPOSE
SF0067	Long-Term Homeowner Tax Exemption-Revisions	OPPOSE
SF0073	Charter School Funding-Amendments	SUPPORT
SF0076	Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Foreign Adversaries	SUPPORT
SF0077	Compelled Speech Is Not Free Speech	SUPPORT
SF0078	Distribution of Unsolicited Absentee Ballot Request Forms	SUPPORT
SF0085	Constitutional Enforcement of Localities	SUPPORT
SF0096	Wyoming Gold Act	SUPPORT
SF0098	School Board Trustees-Party Affiliation	SUPPORT
SF0103	Terminating and Defunding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	SUPPORT
SF0111	Net Metering Revisions	OPPOSE
SF0120	Wyoming PRIME Act	SUPPORT
SF0124	Illegal Immigration-Identify, Report, Detain and Deport	SUPPORT
SF0125	Defining Healthcare and Protecting the People's Welfare	SUPPORT
SF0127	Administrative Rules-Legislative Review	SUPPORT
SF0133	Protection of Parental Rights-Amendments	SUPPORT
SF0137	School Finance-Cash Reserves	OPPOSE
SF0180	Supplemental Budgets-Limitations	SUPPORT
SF0186	Advanced Nuclear Reactor Manufacturers-Fuel Storage	OPPOSE
SF0190	Election Transparency	SUPPORT
SF0196	Second Amendment Protection Act Amendments	SUPPORT
SF0197	Wyoming Generational Investment Account-2	OPPOSE

Legislator Results (Yellow-Representative; Green-Senator):

	Legislator:	Total Points Received:	Total Points Possible:	Percentage:
1	Tony Locke	72	73	98.6%
2	Scott Smith	67	68	98.5%
3	Jayme Lien	64	65	98.5%
4	Paul Hoeft	82	84	97.6%
5	Tomi Strock	76	78	97.4%
6	Clarence Styvar	55	57	96.5%
7	Steve Johnson	73	76	96.1%
8	Darin McCann	70	73	95.9%
9	Ann Lucas	65	68	95.6%
10	Christopher Knapp	74	78	94.9%
11	Nina Webber	71	75	94.7%
12	Ken Pendergraft	70	74	94.6%
13	John Bear	69	73	94.5%
14	Gary Brown	69	73	94.5%
15	Rachel Rodriguez-Williams	68	72	94.4%
16	Laurie Bratten	72	77	93.5%
17	Pepper Ottman	72	77	93.5%
18	Laura Pearson	54	58	93.1%
19	Joel Guggenmos	80	86	93.0%
20	Ocean Andrew	65	70	92.9%
21	Bill Allemand	62	67	92.5%
22	Daniel Singh	71	77	92.2%
23	Troy McKeown	59	64	92.2%
24	Marlene Brady	58	63	92.1%
25	Joe Webb	69	75	92.0%
26	John Winter	55	60	91.7%
27	Robert Wharff	54	59	91.5%
28	Tim French	53	58	91.4%
29	Scott Heiner	60	66	90.9%
30	Bob Ide	58	64	90.6%
31	Jeremy Haroldson	66	73	90.4%
32	Lynn Hutchings	47	52	90.4%
33	Jacob Wasserburger	65	72	90.3%
34	Mike Schmid	64	71	90.1%
35	Cheri Steinmetz	53	59	89.8%
36	Chip Neiman	53	59	89.8%
37	Tom Kelly	69	77	89.6%
38	Dalton Banks	57	64	89.1%
39	J.R. Riggins	7	8	87.5%
40	Kevin Campbell	59	68	86.8%
41	John Kolb	47	55	85.5%
42	Darin Smith	47	55	85.5%
43	Abby Angelos	63	74	85.1%
44	Reuben Tarver	57	67	85.1%
45	Rob Geringer	49	60	81.7%
46	Bo Biteman	39	48	81.3%
47	Brian Boner	46	57	80.7%
48	Dan Laursen	42	53	79.2%
49	Tim Salazar	44	56	78.6%
50	Larry Hicks	43	55	78.2%
51	JD Williams	57	73	78.1%
52	McKay Erickson	55	72	76.4%
53	Lee Filer	44	59	74.6%
54	Art Washut	45	62	72.6%
55	John Eklund	42	58	72.4%
56	Jared Olsen	45	63	71.4%
57	Evie Brennan	42	59	71.2%
58	Marilyn Connelly	42	59	71.2%
59	Martha Lawley	56	79	70.9%
60	Ken Clouston	50	71	70.4%
61	J.T. Larson	44	63	69.8%
62	Barry Crago	42	61	68.9%
63	Stacy Jones	36	53	67.9%
64	Dan Dockstader	37	55	67.3%
65	Tara Nethercott	34	51	66.7%
66	Cody Wylie	40	60	66.7%
67	Wendy Schuler	37	58	63.8%
68	Gary Crum	34	54	63.0%
69	Steve Harshman	37	59	62.7%
70	Bob Davis	40	64	62.5%
71	Charles Scott	38	61	62.3%
72	Landon Brown	32	52	61.5%
73	Eric Barlow	30	51	58.8%
74	Ogden Driskill	31	53	58.5%
75	Andrew Byron	34	59	57.6%
76	Pam Thayer	31	55	56.4%
77	Stephan Pappas	26	48	54.2%
78	Ed Cooper	28	53	52.8%
79	Bill Landen	30	57	52.6%
80	Jim Anderson	26	52	50.0%
81	Julie Jarvis	28	58	48.3%
82	Lloyd Larsen	28	60	46.7%
83	Elissa Campbell	23	55	41.8%
84	Ivan Posey (Democrat)	20	57	35.1%
85	Mike Gierau (Democrat)	16	56	28.6%
86	Cale Case	16	61	26.2%
87	Bob Nicholas	15	58	25.9%
88	Chris Rothfuss (Democrat)	14	60	23.3%
89	Mike Yin (Democrat)	15	83	18.1%
90	Ken Chestek (Democrat)	11	63	17.5%
91	Trey Sherwood (Democrat)	12	74	16.2%
92	Liz Storer (Democrat)	9	59	15.3%
93	Karlee Provenza (Democrat)	8	64	12.5%