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HB0065 • 2025

Executive orders repository.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; providing a process for publishing and maintaining executive orders; providing a definition; requiring previously issued executive orders be published and maintained on the secretary of state website; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Corporations
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status as inactive means it did not move forward in its current session and may need to be reintroduced in a future session.

Executive Orders Repository

The bill requires the secretary of state to publish and maintain all executive orders issued by governors on a public website.

What This Bill Does

  • Defines an 'executive order' as a proclamation or order made by the governor under constitutional or statutory authority, excluding certain types of proclamations like those calling for special legislative sessions or elections.
  • Requires the secretary of state to publish all executive orders on their official website and keep them available to the public.
  • Specifies that previously issued executive orders must be located and published online as soon as reasonably practicable after this law takes effect.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The governor, who issues executive orders.
  • The secretary of state, responsible for publishing and maintaining these documents.
  • The general public, who can access the executive orders on the secretary of state's website.

Terms To Know

executive order
A proclamation or order made by the governor under constitutional or statutory authority to implement laws, excluding certain types like those calling for special legislative sessions or elections.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how long previously issued executive orders must be kept online.
  • It is unclear if there are any penalties for failing to comply with the requirements of this act.
  • This bill was marked as inactive, meaning it did not move forward in its current session.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 House

    H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4

  2. 2025-02-07 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2025-01-30 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  4. 2025-01-02 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2024-12-20 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0009
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0009
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0065

Executive orders repository.

Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; providing a process for publishing and maintaining executive orders; providing a definition; requiring previously issued executive orders be published and maintained on the secretary of state website; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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302(a)(ii) and 9
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303(d) by creating a new paragraph (iii) are amended to read:

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302.

Powers and duties; custodian of public records; preservation of executive orders and proclamations of governor; removal of public documents prohibited; exceptions.

(a)

The secretary of state is the custodian of, and shall preserve:

(ii)

All
executive orders issued by a governor,
proclamations of the governor proclaiming the effectiveness of constitutional amendments, corporate revocations and any other proclamation designated as a permanent record by the governor. The secretary of state shall preserve all other proclamations of the governor for one (1) year and then deliver them to the department of state parks and cultural resources for destruction or preservation as it deems desirable
. As used in this paragraph, "executive order" means a proclamation or order executed by the governor pursuant to constitutional or statutory authority to implement any provision of law
;
provided "executive order" does not include:

(A)

A proclamation issued by the governor calling a special session of the legislature;

(B)

A proclamation issued pursuant to chapter 4 of title 8 of the Wyoming statutes;

(C)

Any proclamation calling for an election or the convening of a state convention pursuant to W.S. 22
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201;

(D)

A proclamation of the adoption of a constitutional amendment.

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303.

Powers and duties; affixing seal to and countersigning commissions and documents; certified copies of acts; file of commissions and appointments; publication of documents.

(d)

The secretary of state shall make the following documents available to the public by publishing the documents on the secretary of state's official website:

(iii)

All executive orders, as defined in W.S. 9
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302(a)(ii), issued by a governor.

Section 2
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Any executive order previously issued by a Wyoming governor prior to the effective date of this act that can be reasonably located shall be published on the secretary of state's official website as soon as reasonably practicable in accordance with this act. The requirements of this section shall include executive orders that have expired.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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