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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Removing otters as protected animals."
+description: "2025/Summaries/HB0045.pdf"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wy"
+legislature: "Wyoming Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 45"
+citation: "Wyoming HB 45 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Byron"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-12-16T20:56:19+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-02-24T22:33:06+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8deee986-4be8-4a86-86db-f1b4011a9ce7"
+source_url: "https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0045"
+source_hash: "cd93abff025e622ceb7c14669af52e1afd4f4983fee25be8bd9bf44a500227a7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wy"]
+---
+
+# Wyoming HB 45 (2025) — Removing otters as protected animals.
+
+2025/Summaries/HB0045.pdf
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Introduced/HB0045.pdf)
+2. **Amendment HB0045SS001 (Standing Committee) - Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural R (Failed)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Amends/HB0045SS001.pdf)
+3. **Amendment HB0045SW001 (Committee of the Whole) - Senator Boner (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Amends/HB0045SW001.pdf)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Enroll/HB0045.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- S 3rd Reading:Passed 22-9-0-0-0 — **22–9** (pass) · upper
+- H06 - Travel:Recommend Do Pass 6-2-1-0-0 — **6–2** (pass) · lower
+- H Concur:Passed 53-7-2-0-0 — **53–7** (pass) · lower
+- S06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- H 3rd Reading:Passed 52-8-2-0-0 — **52–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Byron — primary (person)
+- Banks — cosponsor (person)
+- Crago — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Dockstader — cosponsor (person)
+- Driskill — cosponsor (person)
+- Haroldson — cosponsor (person)
+- Landen — cosponsor (person)
+- Schmid — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Winter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-24T22:33:06+00:00** Assigned Chapter Number 10 `became-law`
+- **2025-02-24T22:32:47+00:00** Governor Signed HEA No. 0015 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-02-20T17:53:21+00:00** S President Signed HEA No. 0015
+- **2025-02-20T17:24:45+00:00** H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0015
+- **2025-02-19T01:36:17+00:00** Assigned Number HEA No. 0015
+- **2025-02-19T00:33:04+00:00** H Concur:Passed 53-7-2-0-0
+- **2025-02-18T20:55:11+00:00** H Received for Concurrence
+- **2025-02-18T18:08:38+00:00** S 3rd Reading:Passed 22-9-0-0-0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-14T18:34:36+00:00** S 3rd Reading:Laid Back
+- **2025-02-13T17:26:26+00:00** S 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-12T22:33:29+00:00** S COW:Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-11T21:28:54+00:00** S Placed on General File
+- **2025-02-11T21:28:48+00:00** S06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-10T19:27:30+00:00** S Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21T19:00:56+00:00** S Received for Introduction `filing`
+- **2025-01-21T18:04:49+00:00** H 3rd Reading:Passed 52-8-2-0-0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-20T18:04:14+00:00** H 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-17T21:22:26+00:00** H COW:Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-01-16T22:59:37+00:00** H Placed on General File
+- **2025-01-16T22:59:30+00:00** H06 - Travel:Recommend Do Pass 6-2-1-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-01-14T22:25:34+00:00** H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-02T19:38:09+00:00** H Received for Introduction `filing`
+- **2024-12-16T20:56:19+00:00** Bill Number Assigned `reading-1`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8deee986-4be8-4a86-86db-f1b4011a9ce7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wyoming legislature records).
+