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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming regulates kratom sales, bans sales to minors, and appropriates funds for compliance testing
Last action · March 6, 2026: Assigned Chapter Number 68Sponsors: Bill Landen and 8 others
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What This Bill Does
Wyoming establishes new regulations for kratom products, prohibiting sales to individuals under twenty-one, banning or candy-like products, and requiring clear package labeling starting July 1, 2026. The act authorizes the Department of Health and local law enforcement to conduct compliance checks using underage participants and appropriates general funds for enforcement and product testing.
Retailers face misdemeanor penalties, fines up to one thousand dollars, or business injunctions for repeat violations, while state agencies receive over three hundred thousand dollars total in appropriations for testing and compliance oversight.
- Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia whose leaves contain compounds that can have psychotropic and stimulant-like effects. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Kratom retailers
Retailers must verify customer age, alter product displays to prevent youth access, include specific warning labels, and face misdemeanor penalties, fines, or sales injunctions for noncompliance.
Department of Health
The department serves as the lead agency for compliance, coordinates local enforcement efforts, develops inspection strategies, and receives a specific general fund appropriation.
Department of Agriculture
The department is authorized a new full-time employee, receives funding for equipment, and is responsible for testing kratom products.
Key Facts
- Prohibits selling, distributing, or offering kratom products to individuals under twenty-one years of age.
- Bans kratom products that are adulterated, combustible, intended for vaporization, or shaped like candy, humans, animals, or fruit to prevent appeal to children.
- Limits 7-hydroxymitragynine in the alkaloid fraction to no more than two percent of the total alkaloid composition.
- Mandates specific package labels disclosing ingredients, warnings regarding use by pregnant or breastfeeding individuals, and recommended serving amounts.
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- Establishes violations as a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year imprisonment, a fine of up to one thousand dollars, or both.
- Authorizes the Department of Health and district attorneys to petition for an injunction prohibiting kratom sales at retail establishments with three or more violations within a two-year period for up to one hundred eighty days.
- Provides an affirmative defense for retailers who reasonably relied on a photo identification showing a purchaser was over twenty-one.
- Exempts retailers from fines for a first offense within a twenty-four month period if they maintain a written policy against underage sales, train employees, require ID checks, and enforce disciplinary sanctions.
- Designates the Department of Health as the lead agency to coordinate compliance inspections and contract with local law enforcement or entities to conduct unannounced underage compliance checks.
- Appropriates one hundred fifteen thousand dollars from the general fund to the Department of Health from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2028, for implementation.
- Authorizes one full-time employee position at the Department of Agriculture and appropriates one hundred ninety-seven thousand five hundred forty dollars for salary and benefits from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2028.
- Appropriates twenty-four thousand dollars from the general fund to the Department of Agriculture for equipment to test kratom products.
- Sets the general effective date of the act as July 1, 2026, with rulemaking provisions taking effect immediately upon enactment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum age to purchase kratom products under this law?
What happens if a retail establishment repeatedly violates the kratom regulations?
Are retailers penalized on their very first underage sales offense if they have compliance policies?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
25 actions- Mar 6, 2026Governor Signed SEA No. 0044
- Mar 6, 2026Assigned Chapter Number 68
- Mar 4, 2026SenateS Concur:Passed 30-1-0-0-0
- Mar 4, 2026Assigned Number SEA No. 0044
- Mar 4, 2026SenateS President Signed SEA No. 0044
- Mar 4, 2026HouseH Speaker Signed SEA No. 0044
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- Mar 3, 2026HouseH 3rd Reading:Passed 57-0-5-0-0
- Mar 3, 2026SenateS Received for Concurrence
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 27, 2026HouseH COW:Passed
- Feb 26, 2026HouseH02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
- Feb 26, 2026HouseH Placed on General File
- Feb 25, 2026HouseH01 - Judiciary:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-0-2-0-0
- Feb 25, 2026House:Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations
- Feb 24, 2026HouseH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary
- Feb 23, 2026SenateS 3rd Reading:Passed 29-2-0-0-0
- Feb 23, 2026HouseH Received for Introduction
- Feb 20, 2026SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 19, 2026SenateRecalled from Committee Pursuant to Senate Rule 5-5: 29-2-0-0-0
- Feb 19, 2026SenateS COW:Passed
- Feb 17, 2026SenateS01 - Judiciary:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0
- Feb 17, 2026Senate:Rerefer to S02 - Appropriations
- Feb 10, 2026SenateS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary 29-1-1-0-0
- Jan 29, 2026SenateS Received for Introduction
- Jan 28, 2026Bill Number Assigned
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Agency Appropriations for Implementation
The bill allocates distinct funding pools to both the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture for testing equipment, personnel, and compliance oversight.
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