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2 | HB0001 | General Government Appropriations -2. | A bill to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2028 | House See Mirror Bill SF0001 3/2/2026 | All areas | Funds state-sponsored programs | Appropriations | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | HB0006 | Unemployment Insurance Coverage Period and Reporting. | A bill relating to labor and employment; reducing the maximum amount of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing and amending definitions; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | This bill contains an appropriation of $18,000 from the GENERAL FUND to the Department of Workforce Services. This appropriation is effective immediately. | Employment | Reduces the maximum amount of unemployment benefits a person can receive. | Labor | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | HB0007 | SNAP benefits waiver request. | A bill relating to welfare; requiring the director of the department of family services to request a waiver under the supplemental nutrition assistance program as specified; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | The Department of Family Services will be asked to provide their estimate of the administrative fiscal impact prior to the first committee meeting held to consider the bill. | Community Living, Quality Assurance | Not later than July 1, 2026, the director of the department of family services shall request a waiver from the United States department of agriculture to exclude accessory foods from the definition of eligible foods under SNAP. These foods include snack food and drinks as well as conidements, salt and pepper. | Labor | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | HB0009 | Grooming of children-offenses and amendments. | This bill would establish the criminal offense of grooming of a minor for a sexual offense. The bill specifies penalties for this new offense depending on the age of the actor and the victim and would require the actor who commits this offense to register as a sex offender. | Assigned Chapter Number 41 3/5/2026 | The fiscal impact to the judicial system is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. | Quality assurance, Community Living, Health | Would create definitions and detail penalties for child grooming and sexual abuse. | Judiciary | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | HB0010 | Sexually explicit materials in libraries-requirements. | This bill would establish requirements for public libraries and school libraries to limit access to sexually explicit materials for minors by requiring public and school libraries to ensure that no sexually explicit materials are cataloged, located, or stored in the children's section of the library. The bill would require each library to establish a process by which residents can challenge the inclusion, placement, or presence of any sexually explicit material in the children's library. Failure to establish the challenge process by August 1, 2026 would result in a $500 civil penalty for each day that the library fails to develop and implement the challenge process. The bill would also provide a civil cause of action against any library violating the requirements of this act. | Senate Committee of the Whole Reconsideration Motion Failed by Roll Call 3/4/26 | The fiscal impact to the judicial system is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. | Quality Assurance, Community Living, Health | Would prohibit sexually explicit materials from the children's sections in school and public libraries and also create a way that the public can challenge whether or not a book should be removed. | Judiciary | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | HB0023 | Participation in 6-12 activities. | This bill would require Wyoming school districts to allow all students in grades 6 through 12 who are not enrolled in the district to participate in cocurricular and extracurricular activities. The changes would take effect starting in the 2026-2027 school year. | Assigned Chapter Number 45 3/6/26 | The fiscal impact is indeterminable. | Education | Children from home and private schools would be allowed to participate in public school activities. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | HB0024 | Review of charter school applications. | The bill eliminates the 30-day deadline for charter school authorizers to notify applicants about the completeness of their applications and the 60-day deadline for conducting public hearings on those applications. It also extends the timeframe for authorizers to approve or deny applications from 90 days to 120 days. This legislation will apply to all charter school applications submitted on or after the act's effective date. The act would take effect immediately upon becoming law. | Assigned Chapter Number 32 3/5/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Education | Would extend deadlines for processing charter school applications. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | HB0025 | Wyoming's tomorrow scholarship program amendments. | This bill would remove the continuous enrollment requirement for maintaining scholarship eligibility for Wyoming's Tomorrow Scholarship Program, effective July 1, 2026. | Assigned Chapter Number 31 3/5/26 | The fiscal impact is indeterminable. | Education | Would make it possible to keep the scholarship even if a person does not go to school continuously until graduation. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | HB0040 | Suicide prevention. | A bill relating to education; requiring suicide prevention education; and providing for an effective date. | House Failed Introduction. 2/10/26 | Health, Education, Community Living | Anti-suicide education in schools | Representative(s) Harshman, Byron, Clouston, Sherwood, Winter and Wylie and Senator(s) Anderson, Barlow, Cooper, Gierau, Landen, Rothfuss and Schuler | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | HB0048 | Pen and paper ballots. | This bill requires Wyoming counties to use pen and paper ballots as the default method for marking ballots in all in-person elections. Electronic ballot marking devices may be used for voters with disabilities, provided these devices meet federal accessibility standards and are not used as the default method for marking ballots in any county. The county clerk may utilize voting machines or electronic voting systems at any bond election and may prescribe the form of the ballot, the duties of election officials, and other reasonable regulations pertaining thereto. The political subdivision holding the bond election shall pay the actual costs of the election or an equitably proportioned share of a concurrent election, as determined by the county clerk. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Quality Assurance-Voting Access | Electronic ballot marking devices shall comply with all federal accessibility requirements, including under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P.L. 107‑252. "Disability" has the meaning stated in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | HB0049 | Ballot drop boxes prohibition. | This bill prohibits the use of drop boxes for collecting absentee ballots in elections. County clerks, election staff, public employees, and election officials are barred from establishing or using drop boxes for this purpose, and individuals are prohibited from delivering absentee ballots through drop boxes. If an absentee ballot is delivered through a drop box in violation of this rule, the county clerk may notify the voter that their ballot is spoiled. The bill defines a "drop box" as any receptacle designed to receive absentee ballots or other documents in a way that bypasses mail or hand delivery. | House Failed Introduciton. 2/9/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Quality Assurance-Voting Access | If passed, drop boxes could no longer be used for absentee ballots. | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | HB0050 | Ballot harvesting prohibition | This draft bill outlines rules for delivering ballots to the county clerk. It prohibits anyone from delivering a ballot unless they are the voter, an immediate family member of the voter, or an authorized employee of a residential care facility where the voter resides. Residential care employees or caregivers may deliver absentee ballots for up to five voters per election, but they must file an affidavit with the county clerk affirming that they are authorized to deliver the absentee ballots. If a ballot is delivered in violation of these rules, it will not be counted, and the county clerk must attempt to notify the voter. The county clerk must also send all affidavits related to absentee ballot delivery to the secretary of state within 30 days after the election. The bill provides a felony offense for any person who delivers a ballot in violation of the law. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | The fiscal impact to the judicial system is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. | Quality Assurance-Voting Access | Would restrict who can deliver abstentee ballots including for those in residential care. | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | HB0053 | Poll watchers-polling station oberservation | The bill draft outlines rules for poll watchers during elections. County chairman of each political party with a candidate on the ballot shall certify volunteer poll watchers before elections. Poll watchers must belong to the political party they represent, reside in the county, and follow specific guidelines, including observing voter turnout and election processes without interfering or engaging in electioneering. Poll watchers may observe setup and shutdown procedures at polling places and must be allowed to watch all activities without obstruction. Poll watchers shall be provided chairs but shall not be restricted to a chair. The chief judge can remove poll watchers for violations, and replacements can be designated by the county party chairman. Poll watchers may be required to wear identification badges provided by the county clerk. The secretary of state is authorized to establish rules to ensure poll watchers can fulfill their duties. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Quality Assurance-Voting Access | If passed, poll watchers will be at polling stations to observe elections. | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | HB0055 | Woming Homestead Opportunity Program. | AN ACT relating to state lands; establishing the Wyoming Homestead Opportunity Program; making legislative findings; providing for the establishment and disposal of lots to eligible purchasers as specified; prohibiting ownership of lots by business entities; requiring the use of lots for single-family residential purposes; providing for reversion of lots; requiring rulemaking; requiring reports; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date. | House did not Consider for Introduction 2/13/26 | $250,000 to the Office of State Land and Investments for a study on this program. | Housing | More lots for single-family residential purposes. | Representative Wasserburger | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | HB0057 | Increase of Hathaway scholarship awards. | The bill proposes to increase the award amounts for Wyoming's Hathaway scholarship program. Specifically, the Hathaway opportunity and provisional opportunity scholarships would rise from $840 to $1,180 per semester, the performance scholarship from $1,260 to $1,770, and the honor scholarship from $1,680 to $2,360. Additionally, the bill raises the maximum annual award for unmet financial need in provisional opportunity scholarships and need-based scholarships from $1,575 to $2,120. These changes are set to take effect on July 1, 2026. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | NON-ADMINISTRATIVE IMPACT Anticipated Expenditure increase HATHAWAY SCHOLARSHIP EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT $200,000 (FY2027) $200,000 (FY2028) $200,000 (FY2029) | Education | Increases Hathaway Scholarship Award amounts. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | HB0065 | K-12 public school discipline | This bill would require Wyoming school district boards of trustees to adopt rules or policies for student discipline in K-12 schools. It establishes guidelines for disciplinary measures, including removal of disruptive students, alternative classroom placement, in-school suspension, and potential suspension or expulsion. The bill mandates parental notification and involvement in disciplinary actions and requires annual reporting of major disciplinary actions to the Department of Education and the Joint Education Interim Committee. School districts must provide professional development for staff on implementing discipline policies and ensure teachers are protected from negative employment actions when following these policies. The bill also includes provisions for reporting suspected violent crimes on school property and ensuring school safety. School districts must adopt the required policies by August 1, 2026, and the act would take effect immediately upon becoming law. | House Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | The Department of Education indicates this bill may create an indeterminable expenditure increase for student activity transportation costs reimbursed under W.S. 21-13-320 for students in grades six (6) through twelve (12) not enrolled in the school district that participate in activities offered by the school district. | Education | Guidelines for discipline would be established for school discipline as well as supporting/training the reporting school staff member. Also specifies when parents will be reported to. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | HB0080 | Identification cards-renewal for care facility residents. | A bill 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. | Assigned Chapter Number 90 3/7/26 | No fiscal or personnel impact. | Community living | Reduces the burden of ID card renewal for those in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. | Representative Jarvis Co-Sponsorors: Representatives: Clouston, Connolly, Harshman, Nicholas, Senator Schuler | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | HB0101 | Guardianship Protections. | A bill relating to guardianship; requiring a guardian to make monthly in‑person monitoring of the guardian's ward; providing for reasonable fees and expenses of a guardian; requiring reporting to the court of the in‑person monitoring; requiring a guardian or conservator to notify specified entities of the guardian or conservator's appointment; and providing for an effective date. | House No Report Prior to Committee of the Whole Cutoff 2/20/26 | The fiscal impact to the judicial system is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. | Community Living, Quality Assurance | Affects those in guardianships. | Representative(s) Styvar, Angelos, Chestek, Clouston and Erickson and Senator(s) Brennan, Hutchings and Nethercott | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | HB0107 | Local Government Distributions. | AN ACT relating to local government funding; continuously distributing a portion of the state sales and use taxes collected and accrued each fiscal year for cities, towns and counties; creating a statutory funding formula; providing legislative intent; and providing for an effective date. | Assigned Chapter Number 40 3/5/26 | Anticipated revenue decrease of $52,100,000 in FY2027, $53,700,000 in FY2028, and $55,400,000 in FY2029 | Community Living, Quality Assurance | Affects services in counties, cities and towns. | Appropriations | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | HB0118 | Residential property tax replacement. | AN ACT relating to taxation and revenue; providing for the valuation of residential property; providing a sales and use tax to provide funding to local governments due to the decrease in revenue from the valuation of residential property; providing an exemption to the additional sales and use tax as specified; creating an account; providing for distribution of the sales and use tax; making conforming amendments; making the act contingent on passage of a constitutional amendment; and providing for effective dates. | House Did not Consider for Introduction 2/13/26 | Anticipated $118,200,00 FY27, $488,100,000 FY28, $502,800,000 FY29 | Community Living, Quality Assurance | Affects both property taxes and increases the amount of sales and use tax in Wyoming. | Appropriations | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | HB0122 | Wyoming rural health transformation program. | A bill relating to the federal rural health transformation program funds; establishing the Wyoming rural health transformation program; creating an advisory committee; creating a perpetuity fund; authorizing investments as specified; creating an expenditure account; continuously appropriating an annually required distribution; providing for governance, fiscal controls, accountability and reporting requirements; authorizing expenditures, initiatives, grants and awards; providing for deposits and appropriations; requiring rulemaking; directing studies; and providing for an effective date. | Assigned Chapter Number 61 3/6/26 | $205,004,743 FY26, $205,004,743 FY 28, $205,004,743 FY28 | Health | Federal grant funding for various health related projects. | Appropriations | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | HB0123 | Education savings accounts. | A bill relating to education; authorizing education savings accounts; creating the Wyoming education savings account expenditure account; providing for a transfer of funds to the Wyoming education savings accounts expenditure account; providing for the use and administration of education savings accounts for education; specifying duties of the state superintendent of public instruction; providing rulemaking authority; making conforming amendments; providing appropriations; authorizing full-time positions; repealing provisions; providing a contingent effective date pending certification by the governor of actions of the Wyoming supreme court; and providing for an effective date. | House Failed Introduction 2/10/26 | This bill contains an appropriation of $40,000,000 from the GENERAL FUND to the EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT created by this bill. | Education | If passed, would allow the legislature to provide a valuation of residential property for purposes of taxation. | Representative(s) Clouston, Andrew, Davis and Larson, JT and Senator(s) Boner | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | HB0142 | Literact assessment and intervention. | A bill relating to literacy screening assessment and intervention; providing requirements for screening assessments, evidence based interventions and evidence based core literacy instruction for specified grade levels; requiring schools and school districts to submit improvement plans; requiring specific skills for literacy proficiency used in data collection; requiring school districts to maintain records; requiring professional development; requiring school districts to employ or consult with persons with literacy endorsements as specified; specifying additional duties for the Wyoming professional teaching standards board; repealing the reading assessment and intervention program; requiring reporting; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for effective dates. | House Failed Introduction 2/11/26 | This bill has administrative impact that appears to increase duties or responsibilities of one or more state agencies and may impact agency spending or staffing requirements. As introduced, the bill does not modify any state agency budget or current personnel authorizations. | Education | Places requirements on school districts to help reduce illiteracy. | Representative(s) Jarvis, Brown, L, Clouston, Erickson, Posey and Williams and Senator(s) Anderson and Crago | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | HB0179 | Hospital pricing transparency. | A bill relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to list prices for medical items and services as specified; requiring the department of health to monitor and enforce the provisions of this act; requiring transparency regarding prescription drug pricing as specified; providing penalties; prohibiting collection actions as specified; requiring recommendations for proposed legislation; requiring reports; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates. | House Failed Introduction 2/13/26 | The fiscal or personnel impact is not determinable due to insufficient time to complete the fiscal note process. | Health | Makes privcing for hospital items and services available before procedures. | Representative(s) Singh, Rodriguez-Williams and Wasserburger and Senator(s) Biteman | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | HJ0004 | Residential property tax value-constitutional amendment. | A JOINT RESOLUTION amending the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for valuation of residential property for purposes of taxation and to make conforming changes to related constitutional provisions. | House Failed Introduction 2/9/26 | The Secretary of State's Office will experience an estimated expenditure increase of approximately $113,000 for this resolution in FY27 for statutory publication costs. This estimate is based on anticipated publication costs for resolutions of this type of $17,500 for introductory lines plus $1,975 for each line of text in the proposed resolution and proposed ballot language. | Community living, Quality Assurance | Revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | SF0001 | General Government Appropriations. | A bill to make appropriations for the fiscal biennium commencing July 1, 2026 2 and ending June 30, 2028 | Assigned Chapter Number 44 3/9/2026 | Appropriations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | SF0010 | Contracts for holding and treating mentally ill detainees. | This bill would authorize the Department of Health to designate county detention facilities as qualified to detain, examine, and provide care for accused persons awaiting an examination to determine their mental competency to continue with criminal proceedings. This bill would authorize the Department of Health to enter into contracts with counties for this purpose. This bill would amend the definition of "facility" to include county jails subject to such contracts for holding and examining these accused persons. | Assigned Chapter Number 67 3/6/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Health | Jails would be able to house individuals awaiting a mental compentency evalution. | Judiciary | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | SF0014 | Literacy position for K-3 reading program. | The bill allocates a total of $540,000 from the public school foundation program account to the Department of Education for the 2027-2028 fiscal biennium. This includes $240,000 to hire one full-time employee to assist school districts with the K-3 reading assessment intervention program, limited to $120,000 per fiscal year. Additionally, $300,000 is designated for contractual services to support the literacy position, capped at $150,000 per fiscal year. The Department of Education must report on the expenditure of these funds to the Joint Education Interim Committee by October 1 of each year. | Assigned Chapter Number 53 3/6/26 | This bill contains an appropriation of $540,000 from the PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION PROGRAM ACCOUNT to the Department of Education. This bill contains an authorization of one (1) full-time position. | Education | Would allocate money to support a K-3 a reading assessment intervention program. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
30 | SF0029 | Elections-acceptable identification revisions | The bill outlines acceptable forms of voter identification for in-person voting at polling places. The bill specifies that the identification must include a photograph, be unexpired, and presented in its original form. The bill also repeals school identification cards and Medicaid and Medicare insurance cards as forms of acceptable identification. | Senate Failed Introduction. 2/9/26 | No Fiscal or Personnel Impact. | Quality Assurance-Voting Access | If passed school IDs, Medicare and Medicaid cards could no longer be used a forms of ID for voting. | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | SF0032 | 911 funding. | This bill directs the Wyoming Department of Transportation to study the transition to a next-generation 911 system, focusing on governance, operations, costs, and efficiencies. The study must be completed and reported to the Joint Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee by September 1, 2027. The department is also authorized to provide grants to local governing bodies to address funding shortfalls for operating current 911 systems, with applications for grants opening by July 1, 2026. | Assigned to Chapter Number 16 2/27/26 | The bill appropriates $3.75 million from the legislative stabilization reserve account for these purposes, with $3 million allocated for grants and $750,000 for the study. Fiscal note to be debated. | Quality Assurance, Community Services, Health | If passed the 911 system will be studied. Funding will also be provided for shortfalls. | Corporations | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | SF0036 | Hathaway lump sum merit scholarship. | This bill would amend the Hathaway scholarship program in Wyoming, altering eligibility requirements and award conditions. It removes the requirements for satisfactory academic progress, continuous enrollment, and minimum credit hours for recipients. The calculation of scholarship amounts will be revised, and the timing of awards will be adjusted to allow recipients to choose when to use the total scholarship amount. The bill also repeals certain outdated provisions and ensures that students who received scholarships prior to the bill's effective date will continue under the previous rules. The act would take effect on July 1, 2026. | House Committee of the Whole Failed 2/23/26 | Anticipated Expenditure: FY2027 $14,700,000 FY2028 $10,500,000 FY 2029 $6,000,000. | Education | Would make it possible to choose when to receive the full scholarship amount. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | SF0047 | Increase of Hathaway scholarship awards. | AN ACT relating to increasing the Hathaway scholarship program awards; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date. | Assigned to Chapter Number 7 2/27/2026 | $6,800,000 FY27, $7,000,000 FY28, $7,300,000 FY29 | Education | Increase the amount of money students receive through the Hathaway scholarship. | Education | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | SF0057 | Transparency in hospital service pricing. | A bill relating to public health and safety; requiring hospitals to list prices for medical items and services as specified; requiring the department of health to monitor and enforce the provisions of this act; providing penalties; providing definitions; requiring recommendations for future legislation; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for effective dates. | Assigned Chapter Number 78 3/7/26 | The fiscal impact, in the form of a revenue increase from civil penalties, is indeterminable due to an unknown number of cases. | Health, Community Living, Quality Assurance | Pricing for medical services would be publicly listed. | Senator(s) Brennan, Boner, Dockstader, Landen, Love, Nethercott and Scott and Representative(s) Clouston, Davis, Filer and Geringer | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | SF0059 | K-12 language and literacy program. | The bill repeals the K-3 reading assessment and intervention program and establishes the Wyoming Language and Literacy Program to improve language and literacy skills for students from kindergarten through grade 12. It requires school districts to adopt comprehensive language and literacy plans that include evidence-based instruction, universal and dyslexia screening, diagnostic assessments, and individualized reading plans for students with reading difficulties or at risk for poor reading outcomes. The bill would also require school districts to report specified findings to the department no later than August 15. Additionally, the bill mandates professional development for educators, parental notification of student progress, and summer literacy camps or extended supports for districts with low reading proficiency rates. The state superintendent of public instruction is tasked with identifying approved screeners, assessments, instructional materials, and professional development requirements, as well as monitoring district compliance. Teachers must demonstrate literacy competency for licensure or renewal, and a reading specialist endorsement will be created. The bill also authorizes the creation of a literacy division within the Department of Education to oversee the program. The act is effective July 1, 2026. | Assigned Chapter Number 66 3/6/26 | Education | The Literacy Program would be extended to cover grades K-12. | Education | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | SF0064 | Investment in Wyoming housing. | A bill relating to community development; creating the Wyoming housing revolving loan program; providing legislative findings; providing for loans for housing projects; specifying terms and conditions for loans; creating an account; providing for the appropriation of funds; requiring reports; requiring rulemaking; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date. | Senate Failed Introduction 2/10/26 | On July 1, 2026, this bill transfers $30,000,000, or as much thereof is available, from the Strategic Investments and Projects Account (SIPA)to the proposed Wyoming Housing Revolving Loan Account (Account). | Housing | providing funds to increase housing. | Senator(s) Brennan, Gierau and Landen and Representative(s) Campbell, E, Connolly, Harshman, Larson, JT, Sherwood and Thayer | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | SF0106 | Welfare Fraud Prevention Act Amendments. | A bill relating to welfare; amending the intervals at which the department of health 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. | Assigned Chapter Number 106 3/7/26 | No fiscal or personnel impact. | Health, Community Living, Quality Assurance | Makes retro eligibility change to two months in Medicaid and requires running reports on eligibility factors for SNAP and Medicaid on a monthly basis. | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | SF0122 | Medical necessity standard-timeline amendments | AN ACT relating to the insurance code; amending the number of days a health insurer has to determine the medical necessity of a health care service; amending the number of days an independent review organization has to make an external review determination regarding medical necessity of a health care service; and providing for an effective date. | House Died in Committee 3/3/26 | No fiscal or personnel impact. | Health | Reduces the amount of time insurance companies have to determine medical necessity for a procedure from 45 days down to 21 days. | Senator(s) Dockstader and Brennan and Representative(s) Erickson | |||||||||||||||||||
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