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 not signed into law.

Disclosure of Filtered Legislators' Emails

The bill requires the legislative service office to redirect emails from a folder other than the legislator's inbox to their inbox if requested and verified as safe.

What This Bill Does

Requires the legislative service office to confirm whether an email was filtered by the legislature’s system.
Allows a person whose email was filtered to request it be redirected to the legislator’s inbox.
Ensures that after verifying the safety of the email addresses, the legislative service office must redirect emails within two business days unless there is a security threat.

Who It Names or Affects

Legislators and their offices
People who send emails to legislators

Terms To Know

legislative service office: The office that supports the Wyoming Legislature with administrative tasks.
filtered email: An email that has been moved to a folder other than the inbox by an automated system.

Limits and Unknowns

This bill did not pass and was not signed into law.
The bill only applies if emails were filtered automatically, without user intervention.

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:

28
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105.

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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