HB0050 • 2025

Disclosure of sensitive information-law enforcement.

AN ACT relating to administration of the government; authorizing the office of homeland security to access criminal identification and intelligence information as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Judiciary
Last action: 2025-01-21
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass, so there is no official text to confirm specific details about security measures or other provisions.

Law Enforcement Access to Sensitive Information

The bill would allow the Office of Homeland Security to access criminal identification and intelligence information under certain conditions.

What This Bill Does

Adds the Office of Homeland Security to a list of agencies that can access criminal identification and intelligence information.
Specifies that each agency with this information must take reasonable security precautions to prevent unauthorized access.

Who It Names or Affects

The Office of Homeland Security
Law enforcement agencies

Terms To Know

Criminal identification information: Information about people who have been involved in criminal activities.
Intelligence information: Data collected to understand and prevent crimes or threats.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass, so the changes it proposes will not become law.
It is unclear how exactly each agency's security measures will be determined.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

HB0050HS001

Standing Committee • House Judiciary Committee

Adopted

Plain English: The amendment changes how the bill becomes effective, making it take effect immediately after completing the legal requirements for becoming a law.

Changes the timing of when the bill takes effect to be immediate upon completion of all necessary acts as required by Wyoming's constitution.

The amendment does not provide details on what specific 'acts necessary for a bill to become law' are, so it is unclear exactly how soon after passing the bill will take effect.

Bill History

2025-01-21 House
H COW:Failed 21-36-5-0-0
2025-01-20 House
H Placed on General File
2025-01-20 House
H01 - Judiciary:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-2-0-0-0
2025-01-17 House
H Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary
2025-01-02 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-12-17 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0123
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0123
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2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0050

Disclosure of sensitive information-law enforcement.

Sponsored by: Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

A BILL

for

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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627(c) is amended to read:

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Authority to compile, disseminate and exchange information; immunity; access to information limited; security precautions.

(c)

Access to criminal identification and intelligence information is available to law enforcement agencies, the state board of parole and department of corrections as provided by W.S. 7
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401 through 7
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the office of homeland security for the purposes provided by W.S. 19
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any agency designated for the purpose provided by W.S. 14
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227 and the department of family services. Each agency which has that information shall take reasonable security precautions to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to it in accordance with rules and procedures established by the division. The rules and procedures may be varied between agencies, depending upon the division's determination of the agency's use of the criminal identification and intelligence information and the adequacy of the agency's security of the information provided by the division under this section.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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