Disclosure of undelivered legislator emails.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about how many individuals will request removal or what constitutes a security threat.

Disclosure of Undelivered Legislator Emails

The bill requires the Legislative Service Office to publish a list of quarantined email domains and IP addresses during legislative sessions, allowing individuals to request removal from quarantine.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Legislative Service Office (LSO) to publish or update a list of all internet domain names and IP addresses being quarantined or prevented from delivering emails to legislators at least once per day on each legislative day during a session.
• Allows individuals whose email communications have been quarantined by the LSO to request that their current and future emails be removed from quarantine.
• Specifies that the LSO must remove requested items from quarantine within two days unless it poses an actual, articulable security threat.

Who It Names or Affects

• Legislators
• Individuals whose email communications are quarantined by the Legislative Service Office

Terms To Know

Quarantine

The process of blocking or isolating email domains or IP addresses to prevent them from delivering messages to legislators.

Internet Protocol Address (IP)

A unique numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass and was not considered for introduction.
• It is unclear how many individuals will request removal from quarantine or what security threats might prevent it.

Current Bill Text

25LSO-0787
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0787
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0338

Disclosure of undelivered legislator emails.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Webber, Brady, Guggenmos, Hoeft, McCann, Pendergraft, Wasserburger and Wharff

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring the legislative service office to publish a list of quarantined domain names and internet protocol addresses; providing for the release from quarantine of domain names and internet protocol addresses 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. 28
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105 by creating a new subsection (e) is amended to read:

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105.

Duties of director and staff; prefiling bills; fiscal notes.

(e)

Not less than one (1) time per day on each legislative day during a legislative session, the legislative service office shall publish or update a list of all internet domain names as defined in W.S. 41
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401(a)(vii) and internet protocol addresses that are being quarantined or prevented from delivering email to legislators in any way. Any person whose email communications to legislators have been quarantined by the legislative service office may contact the legislative service office to request that their current and future emails be removed from quarantine and delivered to legislators. The legislative service office shall remove requested domain names or internet protocol addresses from quarantine and allow delivery from the name or address within two (2) days of receipt of the request unless the release from quarantine or allowed delivery poses an actual, articulable security threat to the information technology systems of the state of Wyoming.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)

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