Heiner, Scott

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Scott Heiner has served in House District 18 as a WY Representative for Lincoln, Sweetwater and Uinta Counties from 2021 to the present.  He has received a positive score for all three categories of Representation, Competence and Integrity and therefore has been ranked as High Trust.

He is up for reelection in 2024.

The statement from President Ronald Reagan appropriately describes me: “You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”

From https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/elections/2020-primary-election-edition-house-district-18-republican-scott-heiner/article_41223be2-d1be-5f0f-ab45-57bc78b9f3cc.html

Overall Heiner earns a (+) for Representation.

Attendance

It appears that Heiner was present for every vote in 2023 General Session.

Public Conduct

Heiner appears to behave appropriately in public and to the public.

Sponsorship History

In 2023 Heiner was the primary sponsor of 3 bills, and co-sponsored 36 bills.  Favored sponsorship topics appear to be education; protection of children from progressive/Marxist agenda.

Committee Assignments

2023-Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee – Chairman
2023-House Minerals, Business & Economic Development
2023-CSG West – Energy & Environment

Heiner scored a (+) for Constitutional Competence with an average of 96.4% on the constitutional issues listed below.  Constitutional issue categories that have a “N/A” grade, refer to specific bills that Heiner did not have the opportunity to vote on.

It is relevant that Heiner cosponsored 2023 SF0114 – Constitutional instruction and examination requirements, but it failed before going to the House.

For more on the bills used to analyze these scores click here.  Special hat-tip goes out to Evidence Based Wyoming for use of their statistical tool to generate the following vote scores:

Conflicts

Because we have not found any conflicts of interest for Heiner, he receives a (+) for Integrity.

Employment/Income

According to both Heiner’s legislative webpage and his 2023 State Elected Officials Financial Disclosure available at Wyofile, Heiner does not report any employment.  He does report income from:

• “Any security or interest earnings”
• “Real estate, leases, royalties”

If Heiner is retired and receives a pension, we believe that information should be disclosed.

Memberships/Civic Organizations

None found.

Campaign Contributions

The table below shows all campaign contributions reported by the WY Secretary of State for Scott Heiner.

From 2016 to 2022 Heiner received 23 contributions that total approximately $14,105.  Of the 23 donations, approximately 13 were from PACs &/or campaign committees.  The total amount received from PACS &/or campaign committees was approximately $5,300, which is approximately 37% of all contributions received.

Noteworthy contributions are:

• $700 total from ESG compliant energy companies:
  • $500 from NextEra
  • $200 from Pacific Power/Rocky Mountain Power PAC

Click the arrows at the top of columns to sort the data by name, date, $ amount, etc.  (Data is publicly available records obtained from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Wyoming’s Campaign Finance Information System)