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Why it matters: The bill addressed when local bond elections would be validated based on turnout. Supporters argued the measure would force better public notice and engagement for bond issues; opponents and the governor said the provision risks disenfranchising voters and could be unconstitutional by effectively nullifying votes when turnout is low. The outcome preserves the governor’s veto and leaves the current local-election rules unchanged.

What happened on the floor
- Motion and threshold: The majority floor leader moved to override the governor’s veto of House Enrolled Act 55 (HB79). The motion was debatable and required a two-thirds majority of elected members to succeed. The chief clerk called a roll for the override vote.
- Final vote: 35 aye, 27 no. The presiding officer announced, \"By your vote, you have failed to override the governor's veto of House Enrolled Act number 55 being original House Bill number 79.\" Two-thirds of the chamber (42 of 62) were required to override.

Debate highlights (direct remarks from the transcript):
- Representative Larson said he would \"support the governor's position\" despite his earlier floor vote for the bill, arguing concerns about invalidating votes and citizens' responsibility to vote.
- Representative Williams said he supported the governor’s veto, noting rural counties may face new taxing challenges and that the bill could make financing local needs harder in the wake of other enacted measures.
- Representative Nicholas urged colleagues to read the governor’s veto letter and said the provision “in all probability [is] unconstitutional” and would lead to litigation.
- Representative Saivar, the bill’s floor sponsor, argued for the override: \"This is a bond election. The problem is the information is not getting out there... last bond election we had in this county was 4.84% — 374 people voted of 7,760 eligible. Nobody knew about it. This is gonna force the fire district or whatever special district out there to get the information out there so people can get out and vote.\" (transcript comments attributed to the bill sponsor on the floor.)
- Representative Wharf argued in favor of overriding the veto, saying he would \"prefer to assume that those that don't participate are casting a no vote\" and therefore the statute should require broader turnout before validating bond elections.

Why members opposed the override
Members who voted to sustain the veto raised several concerns: potential disenfranchisement when a small but active group could see their votes invalidated, legal vulnerability of the statute to constitutional challenge, and the loss of promised state-level backfill funding for hardship counties or special districts (members said earlier budget decisions removed some backfill that had been expected when the bill was first considered).

Outcome and next steps
The veto stands. Members on the floor suggested alternative approaches such as improving notification and outreach for bond elections and carefully reconsidering statutory design if the Legislature wishes to revisit turnout thresholds in future sessions.

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The day's agenda began with the formal signing of enrolled acts and moved quickly through a series of concurrence votes. The House approved signatures on both House and Senate enrolled acts and then considered motions to concur with Senate amendments to a number of bills that had drawn some floor discussion.

Why it matters: The package of enrolled acts and the concurrence votes update state law on issues ranging from online age verification and election procedures to corrections, court procedures, public funds investment policy and bank regulation. The supplemental K–12 appropriations vote has immediate implications for school construction timelines and local planning across Wyoming.

Votes at a glance (selected enrolled acts and concurrence votes announced on March 5):
- Enrolled/signing actions (House took up and the House indicated signing these enrolled acts):
- House Enrolled Act 70 (original House Bill 43) — Age verification for websites with material harmful to minors. House announced: “I have so signed.”
- House Enrolled Act 71 (original House Bill 165) — Clarifies election ballots should not be conducted by ranked-choice voting. “I have so signed.”
- House Enrolled Act 72 (original House Bill 280) — Changes to*** offender registration rules (original bill 280). “I have so signed.”
- Senate Enrolled Acts 81–93 (original Senate files 32, 196, 22, 70, 104, 167, 107, 101, 171, 160, 91, 125, 95) — including measures on local speed limits on unpaved roadways (SF32), amendments to the Second Amendment Protection Act (SF196), guardianship and termination of parental rights (SF22), public funds investment provisions (SF70), probate code revisions (SF104), criminal background checks for chiropractic board (SF167), noncompete covenants (SF107), post-conviction DNA testing (SF101), city/town boundary survey requirements (SF171), court-supervised treatment and mental health (SF160), protection of petroglyphs/pictographs (SF91), definitions of health care in law (SF125) and bank/digital asset depository rules (SF95). Each was read and the presiding officer said, “I have so signed.”
- Concurrence votes on House bills with Senate amendments (roll-call results announced on the floor):
- Message 478 — House Bill 164 (medical prescriptions for off-label purposes): concurrence adopted, 54 aye, 7 no, 1 excused.
- Message 476 — House Bill 32 (as amended; sponsor explained clarifying language on data separation and protections): concurrence adopted, 52 aye, 10 no.
- Message 483 — House Bill 133 (sanctuary cities/counties/state prohibition, amended to remove criminal penalties and leave civil remedies): concurrence adopted, 56 aye, 6 no.
- Message 484 — House Bill 137 (revisors bill; technical edits and clarifications across multiple bills): concurrence adopted, 62 aye (no opposing tally announced beyond the roll call stated 62 aye).
- Message 487 — House Bill 259 (supplemental K–12 school facilities appropriations #2): concurrence adopted, 62 aye. The sponsor and appropriations chair explained the bill includes planning funds plus a $20 million “shovel-ready” allotment and that a large portion of construction funding is not effective until July 1, 2026.

Floor discussion highlights:
- Representatives and committee chairs briefly explained the Senate amendments that prompted the concurrence votes and, when relevant, clarified technical fixes (for example, removing an unintended reference to an employer in HB164 and narrowing language in HB32 to protect persons born with certain medically recognized conditions).
- On the K–12 supplemental (HB259), sponsors said the bill restores earlier funding levels and adds $20 million to get projects started; however, a large portion of funding was placed to become effective July 1, 2026, so construction departments will not control most funds until the next biennium.

What the House did not decide today:
- Several items were placed into conference or referred for further action by conferees (the House named conferees for a matter originating in the Senate on Senate File 34).

Ending note: After the enrolled acts and concurrence votes, the House recessed for a whole-house caucus and scheduled reconvening and lunch; formal roll-call tallies and the chief clerk's readings served as the record of decisions taken on the floor.

Votes and formal actions reported above are drawn from the House floor proceedings on March 5, 2025, as read by the clerk and announced by the presiding officer.","On March 5, 2025, the Wyoming House moved through a slate of enrolled acts (signed by the House), voted to concur with several Senate amendments to House bills and approved a major supplemental K–12 funding measure; a separate veto-override attempt on a bond-election bill failed later in the day.","actionData","errors"]

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House fails to override governor’s veto of bond-election bill after extended floor debate

Wyoming House signs dozens of enrolled acts, concurs with Senate amendments on several bills