HB0193 • 2025

Real property-severance of pore space-notice.

AN ACT relating to property; requiring notice of the severance of the pore space in conveyances of real property and disclosure statements; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Energy

Inactive

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

Sponsor: Representative Brown, L
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not provide details on enforcement mechanisms for non-compliance.

Notice for Real Property Pore Space

The bill requires sellers to inform buyers if the pore space beneath real property has been separated from surface ownership when selling land.

What This Bill Does

Adds a requirement that sellers must tell potential buyers if the pore space beneath the land is separate from the surface rights when selling vacant land.
Requires all conveyances of real property to include information about whether the pore space is included or excluded in the sale.

Who It Names or Affects

Sellers and buyers of real property in Wyoming

Terms To Know

Pore Space: The empty spaces within soil or rock that can hold fluids like water or gas.
Surface Ownership: Ownership of the land above ground, including buildings and structures on it.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if a seller fails to provide this information.
It is unclear how existing property sales will be affected by these new requirements.
The bill was marked as inactive in the current session, meaning it did not pass.

Bill History

2025-03-03 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2025-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-20 House
H Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals
2025-01-16 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-15 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0574
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0574
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0193

Real property-severance of pore space-notice.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Brown, L, Banks, Heiner and Larsen, L and Senator(s) Barlow and Boner

A BILL

for

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

Section 1
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W.S. 34
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151(a)(vi) and by creating a new paragraph (ix) and 34
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152(b) are amended to read:

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151.

Property disclosure statement.

(a)

Unless disclosure is waived as provided in subsection (b) of this section, every seller of vacant land shall provide to any prospective buyer a property disclosure statement that includes, but is not limited to, the following information:

(vi)

The availability of fire protection services;
and

(ix)

If ownership interest in the pore space has been severed.

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152.

Ownership of pore space underlying surfaces.

(b)

A conveyance of the surface ownership of real property shall be a conveyance of the pore space in all strata below the surface of such real property unless the ownership interest in such pore space previously has been severed from the surface ownership or is explicitly excluded in the conveyance.
All conveyances of the surface ownership of real property shall include notice whether the ownership interest in the pore space is or is not included in the conveyance.

The ownership of pore space in strata may be conveyed in the manner provided by law for the transfer of mineral interests in real property.

No agreement conveying mineral or other interests underlying the surface shall act to convey ownership of any pore space in the stratum unless the agreement explicitly conveys that ownership interest.

Section 2
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This act shall apply to all conveyances of real property on and after July 1, 2025.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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