Lawley, Martha

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Martha Lawley has served in House District 27 as a WY Representative for Big Horn and Washakie Counties from Jan 2023 to the present.  She has received a positive score for Representation and Integrity, and a negative score for Constitutional Competence and therefore has been ranked as Limited Trust.

She is up for reelection in 2024.

“I’m not saying I’m going to necessarily be able to meet everyone’s expectations in that, but I want to be responsive.” Lawley said both the state and U.S. constitutions begin with the phrase “We the people” and it is important for people to understand they have a role to play. She said when she is in Cheyenne at the Legislature she will not have a lot of time to do a lot of research for her constituents but they can help her and themselves by doing the research on the legislative website, wyoleg.gov.

From https://www.wyodaily.com/story/2022/12/15/news/lawley-finding-her-own-way-following-in-greears-footsteps/13842.html

Overall Lawley earns a (+) for Representation.

Attendance

It appears that Lawley missed 2 votes in 2023 General Session:

• 2/15/23 – Concurrence vote on HB86;
• 2/22/23 – Education Committee vote on SF83.

Public Conduct

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

Sponsorship History

In 2023 Lawley has been the primary sponsor of 1 bill, and co-sponsored 22 bills.  Favored sponsorship topics appear to be education; protection of children/students; law enforcement; property taxes.  For more see her legislative webpage.

Committee Assignments

2023-House Education
2023-House Minerals, Business & Economic Development
2023-Department of Family Services Advisory Council
2023-CSG West – Education

Lawley scored a (–) for Constitutional Competence with an average of 52.78% on the constitutional issues listed below.  Constitutional issue categories that have a “N/A” grade, refer to specific bills that  did not have the opportunity to vote on.

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 Lawley, she receives a (+) for Integrity.

Employment/Income

According to Lawley’s legislative webpage, she is a retired attorney.  According to Lawley’s 2023 State Elected Officials Financial Disclosure available at Wyofile, she reports income from:

• Social Security Administration
• “Security or interest earnings”

Memberships/Civic Organizations

None Found

Campaign Contributions

The table below shows all campaign contributions reported by the WY Secretary of State for “Lawley for Wyoming”.

In 2022 Lawley received 6 contributions that total $2,576.95.  Of the 6 donations, 0 were from PACs.

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.)

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