---
type: "Bill"
title: "State land lease preference amendments."
description: "2025/Summaries/HB0061.pdf"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wy"
legislature: "Wyoming Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Wyoming HB 61 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Banks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-12-18T21:23:07+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T01:09:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2bf35c6-aa52-4b41-acb7-c406c1dcaa9c"
source_url: "https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0061"
source_hash: "3da0b214a5ec4ab30fa686d80ac072d29ab477739aa4d6d353174d347fc47969"
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 61 (2025) — State land lease preference amendments.

2025/Summaries/HB0061.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/HB0061.pdf)
2. **Amendment HB0061HS001 (Standing Committee) - House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water (Adopted)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Amends/HB0061HS001.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://wyoleg.gov/2025/Enroll/HB0061.pdf)

## Votes

- H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- S 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-0-0-1 — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- H 3rd Reading:Passed 60-0-2-0-0 — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0 — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Banks — primary (person)
- Crago — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Erickson — cosponsor (person)
- French — cosponsor (person)
- Ide — cosponsor (person)
- Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Steinmetz — cosponsor (person)
- Winter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-25T01:09:13+00:00** Assigned Chapter Number 36 `became-law`
- **2025-02-25T01:08:47+00:00** Governor Signed HEA No. 0008 `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-19T17:33:43+00:00** S President Signed HEA No. 0008
- **2025-02-19T00:49:13+00:00** H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0008
- **2025-02-18T19:34:32+00:00** Assigned Number HEA No. 0008
- **2025-02-18T18:09:05+00:00** S 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-0-0-1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-14T18:27:44+00:00** S 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13T23:23:53+00:00** S COW:Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11T17:21:02+00:00** S Placed on General File
- **2025-02-11T17:20:54+00:00** S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T19:25:25+00:00** S Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31T14:57:14+00:00** S Received for Introduction `filing`
- **2025-01-30T18:02:58+00:00** H 3rd Reading:Passed 60-0-2-0-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-29T18:12:02+00:00** H 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29T01:31:08+00:00** H COW:Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-24T00:51:12+00:00** H Placed on General File
- **2025-01-24T00:51:06+00:00** H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-20T17:52:02+00:00** H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-02T19:44:24+00:00** H Received for Introduction `filing`
- **2024-12-18T21:23:07+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/f2bf35c6-aa52-4b41-acb7-c406c1dcaa9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wyoming legislature records).