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HB0071 • 2026

No more pennies-rounding cash payments.

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; specifying rounding requirements for cash payments; specifying exclusions; specifying applicability; specifying duties of the director of the Wyoming department of agriculture; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

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

Sponsor
Representative Yin
Last action
2026-02-13
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2026

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material indicates that the bill did not pass and therefore has no effective date or further details on enforcement mechanisms.

No More Pennies-Rounding Cash Payments

This bill sets rules for rounding cash payments in Wyoming when pennies are not available and requires sellers to display signs about the rounding policy.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates a new law that allows sellers to round up or down cash sales amounts if they don't have exact change due to missing pennies.
  • Specifies how to round different ending cents: rounds down for 1, 2, 6, and 7 cents; rounds up for 3, 4, 8, and 9 cents; always rounds up for exactly 1 or 2 cents.
  • Requires sellers who use rounding to put up signs in their stores telling customers about the rounding policy.
  • Does not allow rounding for credit card, debit card, check payments, or exact cash payments.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Sellers and buyers of goods and services in Wyoming when making cash transactions.

Terms To Know

Rounding
Adjusting a number to the nearest convenient value, like rounding up or down to the nearest five cents.
Cash payment
Money paid in coins and bills instead of by credit card, check, or other methods.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass during its session.
  • It does not apply if federal law requires different rounding rules.
  • Details about how the Wyoming Department of Agriculture will enforce this are not clear from the text.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-13 House

    H Did not Consider for Introduction

  2. 2026-02-05 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2026-01-30 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
26LSO-0309
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0309
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0071

No more pennies-rounding cash payments.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Yin, Larson, JT, Wharff and Williams and Senator(s) Boner and Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to trade and commerce; specifying rounding requirements for cash payments; specifying exclusions; specifying applicability; specifying duties of the director of the Wyoming department of agriculture; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 40
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137 is created to read:

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Penny rounding; rounding requirements for cash payments; exclusions; applicability.

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if a person makes a sale in commerce and the purchaser offers to pay in cash, the final amount of the sale may be rounded if the seller cannot make exact change for the purchase due to the unavailability of pennies. Any rounding conducted under this subsection shall be as follows:

(i)

Except as provided in paragraph (iii) of this subsection, if the final amount of the sale ends in one cent ($0.01), two cents ($0.02), six cents ($0.06) or seven cents ($0.07), the amount of the sale shall be rounded down to the nearest five cents ($0.05);

(ii)

If the final amount of the sale ends in three cents ($0.03), four cents ($0.04), eight cents ($0.08) or nine cents ($0.09), the final amount of the sale shall be rounded up to the nearest five cents ($0.05);

(iii)

If the final amount of the sale is a total of exactly one cent ($0.01) or two cents ($0.02), the final amount of the sale shall be rounded up to five cents ($0.05);

(iv)

If the final amount of the sale ends in zero cents ($0.00) or five cents ($0.05), the final amount of the sale shall not be rounded.

(b)

The amount of any sales tax, use tax or any other tax applicable to the transaction shall be added to the amount of the sale before any rounding under this section to determine the final amount of the sale. No rounding of the final amount of the sale under this section shall affect the amount of tax due on the transaction.

(c)

If a seller operating out of a commercial premises that is open to the public is rounding transactions as provided in this section, the seller shall display a sign in the commercial premises indicating that cash payments that are not in exact change will be subject to rounding.

(d)

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, nothing in this section shall be construed to permit any rounding for purchases by credit, debit, check, cash paid in exact change or any other payment that is not a cash payment or that does not require change to be paid in cash. Supplemental nutrition assistance program purchases shall only be rounded to the extent necessary to comply with federal law.

(e)

This section shall not apply to the extent it conflicts with any rounding requirements that are enacted by federal law.

Section 2.

W.S. 40
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Definitions.

(b)

As used in this chapter:

(xxxi)

"This act" or "this chapter" means W.S. 40
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40
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40
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40
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Powers and duties of the director.

(a)

The director shall:

(xviii)

Verify advertised prices, price representations and point
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sale systems, as necessary to determine:

(A)

The accuracy of prices and computations
, including computations for rounding of cash transactions as provided by W.S. 40
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137,
and proper use of the equipment; and

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)

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