Wyoming Property Tax Petition Falls A Little Short

The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office has been pouring through petition signatures for the “People’s Initiative to Limit Property Tax in Wyoming through a Homeowner’s Property Exemption.”

You can imagine what a tedious task that has to be.

Those signatures were submitted to the Secretary's office on May 30th.

Secretary Of State Chuck Gray commented that there were not quite enough names to get the job done.

“did not quite reach the required statewide threshold of required signatures,” Gray said that it “did achieve the required number of signatures by county.”

29,730 signatures are required by Wyoming law.

28,700 were turned in.

However, he gave the working group that had been busy collecting these signatures a lot of credit.

“While its first submittal has come up short of the number of signatures required at the state level, I want to note that in merely seven months of circulation, the Committee’s work on this petition has been extraordinary,” wrote Gray.

“As this circulation period does not end until April 13, 2025 (although the threshold likely will change after the 2024 General Election), there is still plenty of time for a second submittal prior to the end of the circulation period.”

The last couple of Wyoming legislative sessions have seen several bills offering property tax reform and relief.

Some bills were signed into law by the Governor.

However, folks across Wyoming are still not satisfied that a proper solution has been found.

“Property tax reduction is a very important issue facing our state,” wrote Gray.

“The people’s right to propose and enact laws by initiative to address fundamental issues, such as property tax limits, is pivotal.

Although the Committee’s first submittal was slightly short of the statewide requirement, there is still time to supplement the first submission.”