2025 Conflict Recusals
Wyoming Constitution Article 3, Section 46. Interested member shall not vote.
A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the legislature shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
A Conflict recusal is when a legislator recuses themselves from a vote because they have a conflict of interest as stated in the WY Constitutional provision above. The digest for every bill shows this Conflict category for every Roll Call vote, yet it is very seldom used. It looks like this:
Wyoming has a total of 93 legislators (62 in the House and 31 in the Senate). In 2025 General Session there was a total of 334 bills. 93 x 334= 31,062 potential occasions for a Conflict. And yet there were only 18 occasions when legislators recused themselves from one or more of 13 bills. That is absolutely stunning that there are so few acknowledged conflicts in a citizen legislature.
Additionally, many legislators have more than one occupation or source of income; many legislators have several business interests; many legislators serve on various non-profit boards, councils or commissions. Some of that also applies to their spouses, siblings and children. Yet there was an appallingly low amount of Conflict recusals for 2025 (and all past sessions).
Acknowledging a Conflict requires integrity because it is the personal choice a legislator makes when no one is paying attention – to vote or not. This is the primary reason we created an Integrity tab for every legislator’s page – we are paying attention, and we will call out Conflicts when we find them.
Below is the list of Conflict recusals we found by browsing every bill digest for all 2025 bills.
To every legislator who did acknowledge a Conflict – Thank You for your honesty with these bills. If any legislator finds we have overlooked a Conflict recusal, please contact us so we can update this list.
HB0010 Limited mining operations-amendments.
Cody Wylie
HB0061 – State land lease preference amendments.
Charles Scott
HB0121 – Hospital pricing transparency.
Gary Crum
HB0192 – Public utilities-wildfire mitigation and liability limits.
Tara Nethercott
HB0223 – Preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation.
JT Larson; Cody Wylie;
HJ0004 – Constitutional amendment-veterans property tax exemption.
Darin McCann; Lynn Hutchings;
SF0041 – Federal acts-legal actions authorized.
Tara Nethercott
SF0042 – Resort hotel liquor licenses.
Cale Case; Ogden Driskilll; Troy McKeown;
SF0050 – Insurance holding company regulations-amendments.
Christopher Knapp
SF0052 – Insurance amendments.
Christopher Knapp
SF0067 – Long-term homeowner tax exemption-revisions.
Larry Hicks; Wendy Schuler
SF0068 – Government owned lands.
Charles Scott
SF0185 – Governmental property-taxation and sale.
Charles Scott