HB0134 • 2026

Disclosure of filtered legislator emails.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring the legislative service office to direct email correspondence to a legislators email inbox if requested after verification that the correspondence does not pose a security threat; 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 Bear
Last action: 2026-02-11
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2026

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass and was introduced but failed on February 11, 2026. The effective date mentioned in the candidate explanation is incorrect as it does not apply since the bill did not pass.

Disclosure of Filtered Legislators' Emails

The bill requires the Legislative Service Office to move emails from a legislator's filtered folder back into their inbox if requested and verified as safe.

What This Bill Does

Requires the Legislative Service Office (LSO) to confirm whether an email sent to a legislator was moved by the legislature’s system to a folder other than the main inbox.
Allows someone whose email was filtered out of a legislator's main inbox to ask the LSO to move their emails back into the inbox.
Ensures that after verifying the safety of the email addresses, the LSO must move current and future emails from those addresses to the legislator's inbox within two business days unless it poses an actual security threat.

Who It Names or Affects

Legislators who receive filtered emails.
People whose emails are filtered out of legislators' inboxes and want them back.
The Legislative Service Office responsible for managing these requests.

Terms To Know

Legislative Service Office (LSO): An office that supports the Wyoming Legislature with administrative tasks, including email management.
Filtered emails: Emails moved by the legislature’s system to a folder other than the main inbox due to spam or security reasons.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was introduced but failed on February 11, 2026.
It only applies to emails filtered without user intervention through general system rules like spam filters.

Bill History

2026-02-11 House
H Failed Introduction 32-27-3-0-0
2026-02-10 House
H Received for Introduction
2026-02-09 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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26LSO-0291
2026
STATE OF WYOMING
26LSO-0291
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0134

Disclosure of filtered legislator emails.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Bear, Allemand, Andrew, Heiner, Locke, Lucas, Neiman, Ottman, Pendergraft, Rodriguez-Williams, Smith, Wasserburger and Webb and Senator(s) Boner, French, Ide, Kolb, Laursen, D, McKeown and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

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

(e)

Upon request, the legislative service office shall confirm whether the requestor's email communications to a legislator were filtered by the legislature's email system to a folder other than the legislator's inbox.

If the requestor's email communications were filtered to a folder other than a legislator's inbox by the legislature's email system, the person may request that the legislative service office direct all current and future email communications from the requestor's identified email addresses to a legislator's inbox. The legislative service office shall, after verification of the email addresses ensure the requestor's current and future email communications are directed to a legislator's inbox within two (2) business days of receipt of the request unless the delivery of the email communications pose an actual, articulable security threat to the legislature's email system. This subsection shall only apply to email communications that were filtered by the legislature's email system without intervention of the end
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user through spam, security or other system
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wide filtering.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)

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