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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming creates energy dominance fund for fossil fuel and mineral projects
Last action · March 7, 2026: Assigned Chapter Number 107Sponsors: Bo Biteman and 13 others
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What This Bill Does
Wyoming establishes the Wyoming Energy Dominance Fund, administered by the Wyoming Energy Authority, to provide grants and loans for non-renewable and critical mineral energy projects starting July 1, 2026. The measure prohibits funding wind or solar energy projects, sets strict matching fund requirements for grants, and establishes a sunset date of December 31, 2028.
Energy developers, researchers, and local industries can access state financial backing for coal, oil, gas, and mineral projects, while revenue distributions are redirected away from permanent and school trust funds toward the new energy fund beginning in 2027.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Energy Project Applicants
Applicants seeking state grants or loans must comply with matching fund rules, feasibility business cases, quarterly reporting, and project audits.
Wyoming Energy Authority
The authority is responsible for administering the fund, accepting applications, issuing grants and loans, and notifying legislative committees prior to expenditures.
Public School Foundation Program Account
The account receives modified severance tax revenue distributions starting in fiscal years 2027 and 2028.
Key Facts
- Creates the Wyoming energy dominance fund to be administered by the Wyoming energy authority.
- Provides continuous appropriation for grants and loans targeting coal innovation, natural gas, enhanced oil recovery, pipeline infrastructure, uranium processing, and grid innovations, while explicitly excluding wind and solar energy projects.
- Requires grant applicants to secure non-state matching funds on at least a one-to-one ratio, prohibiting in-kind contributions and prior capital spent from qualifying as match money.
- Establishes loan terms that require full project cost demonstration, adequate collateralization, a maximum duration of ten years, and an interest rate equal to the effective federal funds rate minus one percent (with a zero percent floor).
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- Mandates that loan origination or guarantee fees be not less than one percent of the loan amount.
- Requires grant and loan recipients to report expenditures quarterly and furnish a comprehensive report with a cumulative financial audit at the end of the term.
- Modifies severance tax revenue distributions so that funds are deposited into the Wyoming energy dominance fund and the public school foundation program account starting in fiscal years 2027 and 2028.
- Requires the Wyoming energy authority to notify legislative bodies at least thirty days prior to expending monies derived from the fund.
- Repeals the fund statute on December 31, 2028, with unexpended funds reverting to the permanent Wyoming mineral trust fund reserve account.
- Sets an effective date of July 1, 2026 for the act.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of energy projects are eligible for funding from the new fund?
What are the matching fund requirements for receiving a grant?
What happens to unspent money in the fund when it expires?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
24 actions- Mar 7, 2026Governor Signed SEA No. 0069
- Mar 7, 2026Assigned Chapter Number 107
- Mar 6, 2026SenateS Received for Concurrence
- Mar 6, 2026SenateS Concur:Passed 27-2-2-0-0
- Mar 6, 2026Assigned Number SEA No. 0069
- Mar 6, 2026SenateS President Signed SEA No. 0069
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- Mar 6, 2026HouseH Speaker Signed SEA No. 0069
- Mar 5, 2026HouseH 3rd Reading:Passed 44-16-2-0-0
- Mar 4, 2026HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
- Mar 3, 2026HouseH COW:Passed
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 5-2-0-0-0
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH Placed on General File
- Feb 27, 2026HouseH09 - Minerals:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
- Feb 27, 2026HouseH09 - Minerals:Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations
- Feb 24, 2026HouseH Received for Introduction
- Feb 24, 2026HouseH Introduced and Referred to H09 - Minerals
- Feb 23, 2026SenateS 3rd Reading:Passed 29-2-0-0-0
- Feb 20, 2026SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 19, 2026SenateS COW:Passed
- Feb 16, 2026SenateS02 - Appropriations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
- Feb 16, 2026SenateS Placed on General File
- Feb 12, 2026SenateS Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations 31-0-0-0-0
- Feb 11, 2026Bill Number Assigned
- Feb 11, 2026SenateS Received for Introduction
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Severance Tax Diversion
The bill temporarily redirects severance tax revenue allocations away from permanent trust and school funds toward the newly created energy dominance fund and public school foundation account.
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- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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