HB0099 • 2025

Access to public lands-corner crossing.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing an exception to the offenses of criminal trespass and game-and-fish trespass regarding incidental contact associated with crossing two (2) adjacent parcels as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Crime Land

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor: Representative Provenza
Last action: 2025-02-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide a detailed summary or digest text for this bill.

Allowing People to Cross Adjacent Lands Without Trespassing

The bill creates an exception for people who accidentally touch or cross over private land while moving between two parcels of land that share a common corner, as long as they are legally allowed to be on both pieces of land.

What This Bill Does

Adds a new rule saying you don't commit criminal trespass if you accidentally touch another person's property while going from one piece of land to an adjacent parcel.
Exempts people from game-and-fish trespass laws when they accidentally cross private land while moving between two parcels that share a corner and are both places the person is allowed to be.

Who It Names or Affects

People who legally access adjacent parcels of land
Landowners whose property is crossed accidentally

Terms To Know

Criminal Trespass: The act of entering or staying on someone else's property without permission, which can be a crime.
Game-and-Fish Trespass: A specific type of trespassing related to hunting, fishing, or collecting wildlife on private land without permission.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction.
It only applies when a person is moving between two parcels that share a common corner and are both places the person has legal access to.

Bill History

2025-02-03 House
H Did not Consider for Introduction
2025-01-02 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-02 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0513
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0513
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2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0099

Access to public lands-corner crossing.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Provenza, Andrew, Campbell, E, Larson, JT and Wharff and Senator(s) Jones, Rothfuss and Schuler

A BILL

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AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing an exception to the offenses of criminal trespass and game-and-fish trespass regarding incidental contact associated with crossing two (2) adjacent parcels as specified; 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. 6
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303 by creating a new subsection (d) and 23
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305(b) are amended to read:

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303.

Criminal trespass; penalties; exception.

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For purposes of this section, a person does not commit criminal trespass if the person incidentally passes through the airspace or touches the land or premises of another person while the person is traveling from one (1) parcel of land that the person is authorized to access to another parcel of land that shares a common corner with or is immediately connected to the first parcel and that the person is authorized to access.

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Hunting from highway; entering enclosed property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited; exception.

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No person shall enter upon, travel through or return across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23
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202(a)(v). For purposes of this subsection
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"travel through or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.
For purposes of this subsection, a person does not commit trespass under this subsection if the person incidentally passes through the airspace or touches the land or premises of another person while the person is traveling from one (1) parcel of land that the person is authorized to access to another parcel of land that shares a common corner with or is immediately connected to the first parcel and that the person is authorized to access.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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