Wyoming Senate


The Wyoming Senate is the upper house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 31 Senators in the Senate, representing an equal number of constituencies across Wyoming, each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senate meets at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne.
Members of the Senate serve four-year terms without term limits. Term limits were declared unconstitutional by the Wyoming Supreme Court in 2004, overturning a decade-old law that had restricted Senators to three terms.
Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Wyoming Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions, boards, or justices to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Composition of the Senate

Leadership

, along with Arizona, Maine, and Oregon, is one of the four U.S. states to have abolished the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, a position which for most upper houses of state legislatures and indeed for the U.S. Congress is at least the nominal head of the legislative body. Instead, a separate position of Senate President is in place, removed from the Wyoming executive branch.
The current Senate President is Republican Party|Republican] Bo Biteman of District 21.
PositionNamePartyPartyDistrict
President of the SenateBo BitemanRepublicanWyoming's [21st State Senate district | 21]
Senate Vice PresidentTim SalazarRepublicanWyoming's [26th State Senate district|26]
Majority LeaderTara NethercottRepublicanWyoming's [4th State Senate district|4]
Minority LeaderMike GierauDemocraticWyoming's [17th State Senate district|17]
Minority WhipChris RothfussDemocraticWyoming's [9th State Senate district|9]

Members of the Wyoming Senate

Current committees and members

Judiciary

Appropriations

Revenue

Education

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Labor, Health & Social Services

Journal

Rules & Procedure

History

Women in the Senate

Past composition of the Senate

Recent composition

Historical composition