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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming Bill Requires Voter Approval and Four-Year Limits for Specific Recreational and Educational Mill Levies
Last action · February 13, 2026: H Did not Consider for IntroductionSponsors: Chip Neiman and 8 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Wyoming House Bill 58 requires voter approval at general elections for imposing or continuing local mill levies for recreational facilities, , and special school taxes. The bill sets a four-year term limit for these tax levies and requires them to expire by December 31, 2028, unless renewed by voters.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
qualified electors
Qualified electors must vote on propositions to impose or continue specified recreational and educational mill levies.
school districts
School districts must submit tax levy propositions to voters at general elections and pay an equally proportioned share of election costs.
community college districts
Community college districts participating in boards of cooperative educational services are subject to mill levy caps, public hearing rules, and voter approval mandates.
Key Facts
- Recreational facility tax levies imposed by a school district or county commissioners cannot exceed one mill on the assessed valuation and require majority voter approval at a general election.
- The term for approved recreational and special school tax levies is four years, and continuation requires submitting the proposition at the second general election following initial approval and every four years thereafter.
- Special school district taxes for boards of cooperative educational services require majority voter approval at a general election, capped at one-half mill on the assessed value of member districts.
- Member school districts are responsible for election costs for cooperative educational services tax propositions, paying an equally proportioned share determined by the county clerk.
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- Community college district special levies for boards of cooperative educational services are capped at one-half mill, cannot exceed two years without voter approval, and combined levies cannot exceed two mills.
- Any existing tax levy imposed under W.S. 18-9-201(b), 21-20-109(a), or 21-20-110(h) prior to the act's effective date expires on December 31, 2028, or on the date a proposition is submitted to electors, whichever occurs first.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 13, 2026HouseH Did not Consider for Introduction
- Jan 28, 2026HouseH Received for Introduction
- Jan 23, 2026Bill Number Assigned
Version history
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Elimination of Non-Voted Mill Levies
The bill shifts several categories of local educational and recreational mill levies from board-approved mechanisms to mandatory voter-approved ballot measures.
Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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