Wyoming Legislature

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers have shot down a bill that called for studying the possibility of creating a state currency to prepare for the possible collapse of the national government

Read More|Comment

Repeat drunk drivers could face stiffer sentences under a proposal working its way through the State Capitol

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming House and Senate have passed parallel budget bills spelling out their respective visions of how to fund state government over the next two years.

Both bills call for roughly $3

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a bill that continues education reform efforts in Wyoming's public schools.

Senate File 57 was approved on a 26-4 vote Monday. It now heads to the state House for consideration.

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming House of Representatives has approved a bill that would require some state welfare recipients to undergo drug testing.

By a vote of 37-to-23 on Monday, the House gave its final approval to the bill

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill to require drug testing for some state welfare recipients has received preliminary approval in the Wyoming House of Representatives.

The House endorsed a bill sponsored by Rep

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A legislative committee has declined to advance a bill that would have put up $15 million to buy land near Laramie to protect the city's aquifer.

The Senate Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee declined to vote on the bill after hearing a lengthy presentation from Laramie city officials and others mainly in favor of the funding

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would give localities the option of approving sixth-penny sales tax money to pay for road work.

Democratic Rep. James Byrd, of Cheyenne, sponsored the legislation that would allow the specific-purpose tax to be used for the major maintenance, renovation or reconstruction of specific sections of public roads

Read More|Comment

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Developments on the eighth day of the Budget Session of the Wyoming Legislature, Wed., Feb. 22, 2012:

BUDGET: Both the House and the Senate finished their first readings of the $3.2-billion budget

Read More|Comment