HB0029 Trapping licenses-nonresident reciprocal licenses.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about how many nonresidents will be affected by these changes.

Clarifying Nonresident Trapping Licenses

This act clarifies that nonresidents can obtain a trapping license in Wyoming only if their home state issues licenses to Wyoming residents for the same species of animals.

What This Bill Does

Amends existing law to require nonresidents to provide proof from their home state showing reciprocity in trapping licenses before obtaining a Wyoming trapping license.

Necessitates the game and fish department to create rules for implementing this act.

Makes certain sections of the act effective immediately upon becoming law, while others take effect on July 1, 2026.

Who It Names or Affects

Nonresident individuals who want to trap animals in Wyoming.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department responsible for issuing trapping licenses.

Terms To Know

Reciprocity

A mutual exchange of privileges or rights between two states, such as allowing residents from one state to obtain a license in another under similar conditions.

Rulemaking

The process by which government agencies create and amend rules that have the force of law.

Limits and Unknowns

It is unclear how many nonresidents will be affected by these changes.

The specific details of the new rules to implement this act are not yet known as they need to be created by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

This bill did not pass in its current session.

Bill History

2026-02-23 House

H COW:H Did not consider for COW

2026-02-12 House

H Placed on General File

2026-02-12 House

H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0

2026-02-10 House

H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture 42-19-1-0-0

2026-01-09 House

H Received for Introduction

2026-01-05 LSO

Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

26LSO-0271
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0271
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0029

Trapping licenses-nonresident reciprocal licenses.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Davis, Schmid and Strock and Senator(s) Boner, Crago and Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; clarifying reciprocal requirements for a nonresident trapping license; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 23
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2
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303(a) is amended to read:

23
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2
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303.

Trapping licenses; tagging; traps and snares; penalty; confiscation; inspection; interference with trapping.

(a)

Any person may, in the discretion of the department upon application and the payment of the proper fee, receive a license to trap any furbearing animal. The department shall issue a trapping license to a nonresident
only
if
his state issues licenses to Wyoming residents to trap the same species for which residents of that state may be licensed to trap in that state. Any nonresident applying for a Wyoming trapping license shall furnish
all of the following are met
:

(i)

A notarized affidavit stating the applicant's legal address including his
The species applied for can be lawfully trapped in the applicant's
state of residence;
and

(ii)

A copy of the most current statutes or rules and regulations of the applicant's state of residence which show that the state issues nonresident trapping licenses which authorize Wyoming residents to trap the same species for which residents of that
The applicant's
state
may be licensed to trap in that state
issues nonresident trapping licenses that authorize Wyoming residents to trap the same species that residents of that state may be licensed to trap;
.

(iii)

The applicant furnishes all of the following to the department:

(A)

A notarized affidavit stating the applicant's legal address, including the applicant's state of residence;

(B)

A copy of the most current statutes or rules and regulations of the applicant's state of residence that show that the applicant's state issues nonresident trapping licenses that authorize Wyoming residents to trap the same species for which residents of that state may be licensed to trap in that state.

Section 2.

The game and fish department shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a)

Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2026
.

(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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