The hustle

To get a bill passed, lawmakers hustle during snippets of free time during the session, trying to raise support and awareness of bills.

“You build support and coalitions for it,” said Bebout, the Riverton lawmaker who had the second most number of bills become law. “You just talk to people the issue affects.

"The other thing you need to do is figure out who is going to be opposed to it and why. Sometimes what you need to do, and I’ve done it in the past, you look out there and if people have problems with the bill, you work out your differences before the bill gets too far along.”

Sometimes, a bill will pass one house, only to be killed in the other house. Bebout tries to anticipate that by working out those differences beforehand.

Richard Garrett, who lobbies for the Lander-based Wyoming Outdoor Council, has had plenty of conversations with Bebout.