Wyoming legislation · 2026 Budget Session
Wyoming SF106: Welfare Fraud Prevention Act Amendments.
Status: Signed into law, March 7, 2026
AN ACT relating to welfare; amending the intervals at which the department of health and department of family services shall determine specified information of an applicant for or recipient of public welfare and assistance; making conforming amendments; amending the requirements for public welfare and assistance qualification and participation; establishing citizen, noncitizen and qualified alien eligibility for public welfare and assistance; requiring the reporting of illegal alien status; requiring specified hospitals to collect citizenship status information; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
What the bill says
An act relating to welfare; amending the intervals at which the department of health and department of family services shall determine specified information of an applicant for or recipient of public welfare and assistance; making conforming amendments; amending the requirements for public welfare and assistance qualification and participation; establishing citizen, noncitizen and qualified alien eligibility for public welfare and assistance; requiring the reporting of illegal alien status; requiring specified hospitals to collect citizenship status information; requiring rulemaking…
From the enrolled text, March 6, 2026:
AN ACT relating to welfare; amending the intervals at which the department of health and department of family services shall determine specified information of an applicant for or recipient of public welfare and assistance; making conforming amendments; amending the requirements for public welfare and assistance qualification and participation; establishing citizen, noncitizen and qualified alien eligibility for public welfare and assistance; requiring the reporting of illegal alien status; requiring specified hospitals to collect citizenship status information; requiring rulemaking; requiring reporting; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date. Section 1. W.S. 42-2-115, 42-10-108 through 42-10-110, 42-10-201 and 42-12-101 through 42-12-106 are created to read: 42-2-115. Supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility recertification frequency. (a) The department shall assign certification periods of not greater than four (4) months to households that include an able bodied adult without dependents and other households whose circumstances are determined by the department to be unstable, unless otherwise prohibited under federal law for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. (b) The department shall assign certification periods of one (1) or two (2) months to households that the department determines will become ineligible for the ORIGINAL SENATE ENGROSSED FILE NO. SF0106 ENROLLED ACT NO. 68, SENATE SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 2026 BUDGET SESSION supplemental nutrition assistance program in the near future, unless otherwise prohibited under …