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Votes at a glance: Key Wyoming Senate floor actions on Jan. 21, 2025
Summary
Roll-call tallies and outcomes from the Jan. 21 Wyoming Senate session, including final passage votes and committee actions recorded on the floor.
The Wyoming Senate recorded several final votes and committee actions on Jan. 21. Key outcomes on bills taken up during the floor session are listed below.
- Senate File 4 (State Park peace officers: definition and scope): Passed the Senate on 3rd reading, recorded as 21 ayes, 8 noes, 2 excused. The Senate adopted a cleanup 3rd-reading amendment clarifying when parks officers may pursue law violators and intervene when observing felonies.
- Senate File 6 (Residential property — removal of unlawful occupants): Passed the Senate on 3rd reading, recorded as 27 ayes, 2 noes, 2 excused.
- Senate File 11 (Use of fraudulent documents to wrongfully possess property): Passed the Senate on 3rd reading; the clerk recorded the affirmative result and reported the bill has passed with 2 excused.
- Senate File 25 (Electronic lien and title systems): After adoption of a Nethercott amendment removing a prohibition on vendors passing fees to customers, the Senate passed the bill on final reading, recorded as 28 ayes, 1 no, 2 excused.
- Senate File 40 (Zoning protest petition changes): The Senate rejected a broad amendment listing specific facility exceptions, adopted a narrower amendment requiring "more than 1" signer for certain protests, and passed Senate File 40 on final reading, recorded as 29 ayes, 2 excused.
- Senate File 36 (Music therapy — use of title): Committee of the Whole reported the bill favorably; a committee amendment narrowed the protected title to board-certified music therapists. The Committee of the Whole vote on the floor required a division and the motion carried.
These items were recorded during roll-call and committee-report proceedings on the Senate floor Jan. 21. For bills that passed final reading, subsequent steps follow the Legislature's transmittal and reconciliation processes.
