On March 7, the Wyoming House Appropriations Committee defeated SF 97 by a vote of 5-2. Current law lets voters switch parties on primary election day. The bill would have ended that practice. Voters who want to vote in a party primary would have been required to have joined the party approximately two months before the primary.

The bill could still have been brought up in the full House, but the deadline to do that was March 8, and the bill was not brought up.

If enacted, the bill would have had little effect on the Democratic primary, because the Democratic Party allows independent voters to vote in its primary.

It is somewhat surprising that the bill lost, because it had passed the Senate on February 25 by a vote of 18-12.