HB212 creates standing committees on federal review. These committees would review all federal actions — including “all new and existing federal laws, resolutions, rules, regulations, decrees, orders, mandates, executive orders and any other federal dictate having the force and effect of law” — to assess their constitutionality and effect on Wyoming state sovereignty, including past rules and laws.
The Wyoming State House rejected HB212 on February 6, 2023 by a vote of 27 to 35. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and every state is bound by oath to support it. Ultimately, states have a duty to nullify any infringements by the federal government. Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress specific powers, and if Congress exceeds those limited powers, then states are obligated to not comply.