US state regulation
Wyoming
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Wyoming - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- 17/100
- Strictness score
- 1
- Regulations tracked
- 1
- Enacted into law
- 1/5
- Categories regulated
The verdict
Wyoming is a minimal-regulation state - 1 enacted regulation across 1 of 5 tracked policy areas, scoring 17/100 for regulatory strictness, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 17/100
- strictness score (vs peers)
- 1
- regulations enacted
- 1/5
- policy areas regulated
- Employment & Worker Protection
- most-active policy area
Strictness is a 0–100 composite of regulatory breadth and the enacted share; see methodology for how it is derived.
Regulatory Snapshot: Wyoming
Wyoming currently tracks 1 regulation in the PlainRegWatch database, of which 1 is enacted and 0 remain pending before the state legislature. The state's composite strictness score sits at 17/100, classifying Wyoming as a minimal-regulation state compared to its peers. Regulatory activity spans 1 of 5 policy categories covered by PlainRegWatch, with Employment & Worker Protection representing the most active area (1 enacted rule).
The earliest tracked Wyoming enactment dates to 2009, with the most recent documented enactment in 2009 - a window of 0 years of legislative activity. Across the 50-state fleet, Wyoming contributes to a national total that PlainRegWatch maintains across categories such as AI Regulation, Data Privacy, Employment & Worker Protection, Food Chemical Bans and more, each with distinct compliance obligations.
Compliance teams monitoring Wyoming should treat the 1-enacted / 0-pending split as a leading indicator: pending bills in this state often signal the shape of future regulation in neighboring jurisdictions with similar strictness scores. For the authoritative statutory text of any Wyoming regulation listed below, follow the source link on its detail page, PlainRegWatch links every entry to the official state legislative record.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What this means for Wyoming
Wyoming's regulatory activity is concentrated in employment & worker protection - the area to watch for compliance.
- Employment & Worker Protection is Wyoming's most-regulated area (1 enacted rule). Compare states
- Wyoming regulates across 1 of 5 tracked policy areas, with 0 bills still pending.
- See how Wyoming ranks against other states on regulatory strictness and volume. View rankings
Figures reflect regulations currently tracked from official Wyoming legislative records; coverage expands as new laws are enacted.
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Wyoming state-rule registry · 2009 State regulatory data aggregated from official state filings; status (enacted/pending/proposed) reflects latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Every figure on PlainRegWatch is rendered directly from state source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal and state source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.