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HB0227 • 2025
Executive order-time limitations.
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing an expiration date for executive orders as specified; specifying applicability; 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
- Representative Angelos
- Last action
- 2025-03-03
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2025
Plain English Breakdown
The bill summary does not provide specific details about how existing orders will be handled before July 1, 2025.
Setting Expiration Dates for Executive Orders
The bill sets a rule that executive orders issued by the previous governor of Wyoming will expire thirty days after they leave office, unless a new governor extends them.
What This Bill Does
- Creates a law stating that executive orders from the previous governor end thirty days after they leave office.
- Makes this rule apply to all executive orders in effect or issued on or after July 1, 2025.
Who It Names or Affects
- Governors of Wyoming
- State agencies and departments that follow executive orders
Terms To Know
- Executive Order
- A directive issued by the governor to manage state operations or policies.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify what happens if a new governor does not extend an executive order.
- It is unclear how existing orders will be handled before July 1, 2025.
- This bill was marked as inactive and did not pass into law.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes an executive order's expiration rule, making it clear that orders from a previous governor will end 30 days after their term ends.
- Removes language about 'the' elected official and replaces it with 'a newly elected' official to clarify the context of new elections.
- Eliminates specific wording related to committee amendments, simplifying the text.
- Inserts a new rule stating that executive orders from the previous governor will expire 30 days after their term ends.
- The amendment's impact on current or future executive orders is not fully detailed in the provided text.
HB0227HW001
Committee of the Whole • Representative Angelos
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment adds the phrase 'currently in effect or' after the word 'order' on page 2, line 6 of HB0227.
- Adds the phrase 'currently in effect or' to specify that only executive orders currently active are subject to certain provisions.
- The full impact and context of this amendment may be unclear without understanding how it interacts with other parts of HB0227.
HB0227HS001
Standing Committee • House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivis
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment removes certain conditions that would cause executive orders to expire earlier.
- Removes the phrase 'at the end of the' from page 1, line 14.
- Deletes the words 'governor's term or' from page 2, line 1.
- Eliminates the phrase ', whichever is sooner' from page 2, line 2.
- The exact impact of these deletions on when executive orders expire is not fully explained in the amendment text.
Bill History
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2025-03-03
Senate
S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
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2025-02-28
Senate
S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
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2025-02-14
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary
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2025-02-05
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2025-02-05
House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 60-0-2-0-0
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2025-02-04
House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
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2025-02-03
House
H COW:Passed
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2025-01-29
House
H Placed on General File
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2025-01-29
House
H07 - Corporations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
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2025-01-21
House
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
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2025-01-17
House
H Received for Introduction
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2025-01-16
LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Current Bill Text
Read the full stored bill text
25LSO-0537
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0537
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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0227
Executive order-time limitations.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Angelos, Clouston, Haroldson, Lawley, Rodriguez-Williams and Tarver and Senator(s) Barlow, Boner and Smith, D
A BILL
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AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing an expiration date for executive orders as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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Executive orders; expiration.
Unless a newly elected governor issues an executive order extending a lawfully issued executive order, executive orders issued by the previous governor of this state shall expire thirty (30) days after the previous governor leaves office. No executive order shall be effective for longer than thirty (30) days after the governor who issued the order leaves office.
Section 2.
This act applies to any executive order currently in effect or issued on or after July 1, 2025.
Section 3.
This act is effective July 1, 2025
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