Wyoming legislation · 2026 Budget Session
Wyoming SF40: State lands-designation of community-valued land.
Status: Failed, February 10, 2026
AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing a process by which the environmental quality council may designate lands as lands with significant community value; specifying required considerations for the board of land commissioners when considering lands with significant community value; specifying duties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
What the bill says
An act relating to environmental quality; establishing a process by which the environmental quality council may designate lands as lands with significant community value; specifying required considerations for the board of land commissioners when considering lands with significant community value; specifying duties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
From the introduced text, January 12, 2026:
AN ACT relating to environmental quality; establishing a process by which the environmental quality council may designate lands as lands with significant community value; specifying required considerations for the board of land commissioners when considering lands with significant community value; specifying duties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. W.S. 35-11-112(a) by creating a new paragraph (vii) and 36-2-101 are amended to read: SF0040 2026 STATE OF WYOMING 26LSO-0085 35-11-112. Powers and duties of the environmental quality council. (a) The council shall act as the hearing examiner for the department and shall hear and determine all cases or issues arising under the laws, rules, regulations, standards or orders issued or administered by the department or its air quality, land quality, solid and hazardous waste management or water quality divisions. At the council's request the office of administrative hearings may provide a hearing officer for any rulemaking or contested case hearing before the council, and the hearing officer may provide recommendations on procedural matters when requested by the council. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, including this section, the council shall have no authority to promulgate rules or to hear or determine any case or issue arising under the laws, rules, regulations, standards or …
Sponsors
- Campbell, Elissa (R, H56)
- Kenneth Clouston (R, H32)
- Harshman, Steve (R, H37)
- Anderson, Jim (R, S28)
- Cooper, Ed (R, S20)
- Crum, Gary (R, S10)
- Landen, Bill (R, S27) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : S Failed Introduction 19-11-1-0-0
- : S Received for Introduction
- : Bill Number Assigned
Votes
- S Failed Introduction 19-11-1-0-0 (February 10, 2026): 19 yea, 11 nay, failed
Subjects: State lands-designation of community-valued land.
Common questions
- What is SF40?
- SF40 is a bill in the Wyoming Legislature (2026 Budget Session): State lands-designation of community-valued land.
- What does SF40 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to environmental quality; establishing a process by which the environmental quality council may designate lands as lands with significant community value; specifying required considerations for the board of land commissioners when considering lands with significant community value; specifying duties; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
- What is the status of SF40?
- Failed as of February 10, 2026. Latest action: S Failed Introduction 19-11-1-0-0 (February 10, 2026).
- Who sponsored SF40?
- Landen, Bill (R, S27), with 6 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SF40?
- On the Wyoming Legislature website: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2026/SF0040
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