February 7, 2024 |
Photo – Wyoming House Chamber – Bigfoot99 file photo
The 2024 session of the Wyoming Legislature is now less than a week away.
Lawmakers are scheduled to convene in a budget session in Cheyenne on Monday, February 12.
As of Tuesday morning, a total of 190 bills plus four joint resolutions had been filed for the session. Since the deadline for filing bills with the Legislative Service Office is Feb. 14, one week from today, the list is likely to grow.
Since this is a budget session, non-budget items will need a 2/3 majority vote for introduction. Even so, there has been a trend over the last several years of non-budget items being filed for budget sessions.
There are already a large number of non-budget bills that have been put forward for the upcoming session, including separate restrooms for men and women that uses biological definitions not leftist, radical gender ideas about self-identity. In another sign of the times, another bill would prohibit sex-change procedures for minors, with some medical exemptions.
The budget session convenes on Monday.
