Wyoming Legislature

The legislature's Joint Appropriation's Committee generally has endorsed Governor Mead's recommdations for employee pay raises and increasing funding for local governments.

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The Legislature's Management Council met Friday in Cheyenne. It endorsed drafting a bill to create a supercommittee that would come up with legislation for a special session later this year if necessary.

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She says that while Laramie County, like every other county, does receive a certain amount of state money "we take care of ourselves here".

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A panel of Wyoming lawmakers says the state should designate money to county governments in the state if Congress cuts a longstanding program that compensates them for lost tax revenue on federal lands.

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A Rock Springs lawmaker says he wants to see Senate File 104 repealed and says he intends to do something about it. The University of Wyoming's branch campus in Casper has a new name.

Stock says that while on one hand he feels Wyoming schools in many ways are "funded entirely adequately", there has not been an external cost adjustment in four years.

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Rep. Lubnau suggested the committee set the report and the investigation aside until after the session, and focus our efforts on the issues of the session.

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A Wyoming lawmaker is pushing a bill to allow use of the firing squad to execute condemned state inmates if constitutional problems or other issues prevent the use of lethal injection. Registration is now open for a comprehensive grant training program

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Murphy says Laramie County is one of the few counties that has voted in support of local funding for such a project recently.

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The mayor says the proposal is in step with Mead's belief that "strong local governments make for a strong state", adding that he agrees with that view.

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