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Karen Lynn Hutchings

Karen Lynn Hutchings

State Senator
SD-005
Republican
B
83%
Freedom Score
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Session Voting Records

Reports

2025-2026 Sessions

Wyoming: Senate
Score: 75

Second Amendment Protection Act

Would prohibit state and local officials from enforcing certain federal gun-control laws, rules, or executive orders that violate the right to keep and bear arms.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: No
SF0101 Rejected 12 to 18 on 3/11/2026

Public Unions

Would prohibit public employers from using payroll deductions to collect union-related or political payments and require public-employee unions to annually disclose membership, revenue, spending, and political or lobbying expenditures.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
HB0178 Passed 21 to 10 on 3/5/2026

Human Heartbeat Act

Prohibits abortions once a preborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
HB0126 Passed 27 to 4 on 3/4/2026

School-building Funding

Provides major state funding for K-12 public-school buildings and facilities.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: Yes
HB0105 Passed 25 to 4 on 2/26/2026

Con-Con

Would apply to Congress under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to call a convention for proposing constitutional amendments.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No
SJ0005 Passed 19 to 12 on 2/24/2026

Wyoming-Ireland Trade Commission

Would have created a Wyoming-Ireland Trade Commission.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No
SF0126 Passed 24 to 7 on 2/20/2026

Proof of Life for the Preborn

Requires a pregnant woman to receive an ultrasound that allows her to "view the fetal heart motion or hear the heartbeat of the unborn baby" no later than 48-hours before a chemical abortion.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
HB64 Roll Call 1506086

Expanding "Education Savings Accounts"

Appropriates $30 million for "education savings accounts" in FY 2025 and increases the annual "scholarship award" to $7,000 for all K-12 students.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: Yes Annual cost per household: -$606.00
HB199 Roll Call 1501902

Prohibiting Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens

Specifies that driver's licenses issued to "unauthorized aliens" are invalid in Wyoming.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
HB116 Roll Call 1497435

Wyoming Gold Act

Directs the state to hold at least $10 million in "specie and specie legal tender" and to study methods to "begin accepting gold and silver as a payment medium."
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
SF96 Roll Call 1493519

Federal Campaign Finance Amendment

Would request that Congress propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution permitting the states and the federal government to "establish reasonable limits on the spending of money to influence elections."
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No
SJ8 Roll Call 1485987

Article V Convention

Would apply to Congress to call a "convention of the states" under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No
SJ1 Roll Call 1475266
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