Joint Appropriations Committee

The legislature as a whole will go to work next month.

The Medicaid expansion bill will need a two-thirds vote in both houses to be considered in the 2020 Legislature's budget session.

The council will solicit bids from airlines and negotiate a contract to provide daily flights to a major airport hub from Wyoming communities that join.

Gov. Matt Mead will unveil his proposed budget on Dec. 1, and present it to the Joint Appropriations Committee on Dec. 4, he said.

A Wyoming legislative committee voted 7 to 5 on Wednesday to reject Governor Matt Mead's budget request for Medicaid expansion. "I want to ask my good colleagues on the Joint Appropriations Committee, 'What are you doing?'" said House Minority Leader Mary Throne, D-Cheyenne...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming lawmakers are considering spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to help preserve historic documents and artifacts. State Parks and Cultural Resources has requested nearly $500,000 for the final stage of setting up a new electronic archive system...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - University of Wyoming football coach Craig Bohl stepped onto the political field Thursday when he testified before a legislative committee about the needs of UW athletics. Bohl told the Joint Appropriations Committee that money for recruiting, nutrition and other programs is important for UW to be competitive in sports and to help its student-athletes succeed in both their sp

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Members of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee are scheduled to wrap up their work on Gov. Matt Mead's budget recommendations. Rep. Rosie Berger, R-Big Horn, says she expects the committee will finish its work by the end of Friday...

A co-chairman of the Joint Appropriations Committee questioned University of Wyoming officials about their budget request for pay raises. The committee is reviewing budgets of UW and other government agencies and programs ahead of next month's legislative budget session...

Wyoming's governor took questions from the media on Thursday in another press conference for the state's chief executive.