Identification cards-renewal for care facility residents.

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Renewal of ID Cards for Care Facility Residents

This law allows full-time residents of nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities to renew their identification cards by mail, with certain limitations.

What This Bill Does

• Allows full-time residents of nursing care or assisted living facilities to renew their ID cards without going in person.
• Requires these residents to submit an application, fee, notarized statement from the facility, and any needed documents for changes.
• Limits renewal by mail if someone has done it twice in 16 years unless their photo is less than 16 years old.
• Doesn't allow renewing ID cards with changed personal information through the mail.
• Requires the Department of Transportation to make rules about how this law works.

Who It Names or Affects

• Residents of nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities
• The Wyoming Department of Transportation

Terms To Know

Nursing Care Facility

A place where people who need help with daily activities live, as defined by state law.

Assisted Living Facility

A community that provides personal care services to residents who cannot manage on their own but do not require nursing home care.

Limits and Unknowns

• People can only renew ID cards by mail twice in 16 years unless the photo is recent.
• The law does not apply if someone needs to change personal information on their card.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 26LSO-0160

Bill No.:

HB0080

Effective:

Multiple Dates

LSO No.:

26LSO-0160

Enrolled Act No.:

HEA No. 0031

Chapter No.:

90

Prime Sponsor:

Jarvis

Catch Title:

Identification cards-renewal for care facility residents.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

Authorizing the renewal of identification cards by care facility residents without appearing in person.

Summary/Major Elements:

Current law provides requirements for the renewal of identification cards. Generally, persons must appear in person to renew an identification card.

This act provides that persons living in nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities may renew their identification cards by mail.

For residents of nursing care and assisted living facilities to renew identification cards by mail, the person must be a full-time resident of the facility; submit an application, fee, and notarized statement of eligible facility residency; and furnish all documentary evidence necessary to verify any material change to information listed on the identification card.

No person living in a nursing care or assisted living facility is authorized to renew an identification card by mail if the person has renewed the card by mail two (2) times in the last sixteen (16) years, unless the photograph on the identification card was taken more recently than sixteen (16) years ago.

If a person is changing material identifying information on the identification card, the person cannot renew the card by mail.

The act requires the Department of Transportation to promulgate rules to implement this act.

Comments:

This act has a split effective date. The provisions authorizing rulemaking are effective immediately; the remaining provisions of this act are effective on July 1, 2026.
The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

26LSO-0160

ORIGINAL House

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Bill No
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HB0080

ENROLLED ACT NO. 31,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2026 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to identification cards; authorizing the renewal of identification cards by residents of nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities without appearing in person as specified; specifying limitations on the renewal of identification cards; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 31
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103(d) and by creating a new subsection (e) is amended to read:

31
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103.

Expiration; records; new cards; renewal by persons living in care facilities.

(d)

The division shall send a notification for an identification card to the last known address of every eligible registrant, or notify by electronic means if the eligible registrant has consented to receive notices electronically, within one hundred twenty (120) days prior to expiration of the registrant's identification card. The notification shall conspicuously advise registrants of the requirement that in person voters present acceptable identification immediately before voting at the polling place or absentee polling place and that an identification card is a form of acceptable identification.
The notice shall also state that persons living in nursing care facilities and assisted living facilities may renew the identification card by mail in accordance with subsection (e) of this section.
Every identification card is renewable upon application and payment of the required fee. As used in this section, "last known address" means the address, email address or other electronic contact information, as applicable according to the sending method, on file with the division.

(e)

A person who is a resident of a nursing home or assisted living facility may renew an identification card issued under this article without appearing in person, subject to all of the following:

(i)

The person renewing the identification card:

(A)

Is a full
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time resident of a nursing care facility as defined by W.S. 35
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901(a)(xvi) or an assisted living facility as defined by W.S. 35
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2
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901(a)(xxii);

(B)

Submits an application, the required fee and a notarized attestation as part of the application from an administrator or manager of the nursing care facility or assisted living facility that the person is a full
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time resident of the facility;

(C)

Furnishes all documentary evidence necessary to verify any material change to information listed on the original identification card.

(ii)

No person shall be authorized to renew an identification card under this subsection if the person has renewed the card under this subsection two (2) times in the last sixteen (16) years unless the person's most recent photograph taken by the department of transportation is not more than sixteen (16) years old on the date of renewal;

(iii)

No person shall renew an identification card under this subsection if the person is changing any of the personal identifying information on the identification card in accordance with W.S. 31
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103(c).

Section 2.

The Wyoming department of transportation shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3
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(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is 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.

(b)

Section 1 of this act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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