# Dan Laursen

Dan Laursen is a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate for district 19.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Wyoming Senate, district 19
- Serving since: 2019-01-07
- Current term: WY 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/982cdb50-2a81-47b4-97e8-cf80b92d1412

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/982cdb50-2a81-47b4-97e8-cf80b92d1412 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Laursen sits at −0.21 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 99% of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.21 (standard error 0.01), from 29 donors and 595 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 1.1% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WY 2025–26 session)

817 roll calls. Attendance 98.6% (Wyoming Senate 98.0%). Party unity 88% (77%). 148 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WY 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 7 bills: 7 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 73. 42.9% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Wyoming Senate 75.7%; rank 24 of 24).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SF 108: Election purity and hand count-2. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2026/SF108/
- SJ 8: School funding-legislative and executive authority. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2026/SJ8/
- SF 67: Wyoming state guard-amendments. (became law, 2026-03-06) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2026/SF67/
- SJ 10: Legislative and executive authority-taxation and spending. (in committee, 2025-02-11) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SJ10/
- SJ 5: Congressional term limits. (in committee, 2025-03-03) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SJ5/
- SF 129: Hospital employees-drug and alcohol testing. (in committee, 2025-03-03) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SF129/
- SF 86: Alternative teaching certificate. (became law, 2025-03-13) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SF86/
- SF 62: Sex-designated facilities and public schools. (became law, 2025-03-04) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SF62/
- SF 45: Wyoming state guard-amendments. (in committee, 2025-03-03) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2025/SF45/
- SF 106: Wyoming state guard-amendments. (in committee, 2024-02-24) https://openstates.org/wy/bills/2024/SF106/

## Campaign money (2022 cycle)

Itemized receipts $15.7K (State Senate Republicans median $34.5K). 80% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislators/2024/S/2006
- Campaign site: http://www.danlaursenwyo.com/
- X: https://x.com/dan_laursen
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanlaursenforSD19/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.m.laursen/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/representative-laursen-965ba0101/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/982cdb50-2a81-47b4-97e8-cf80b92d1412