wyoming senate

Governor Gordon celebrated the opening of Wyoming's first skilled nursing facility for Veterans on Thursday, participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly-constructed Veterans Home of Wyoming.

The vote to remove Bouchard from committee assignments was 19-10 in favor with one absent.

The no votes in Friday's Senate vote were Senators Case, Gireau, Pappas and Rothfus, The other 26 members of the body all voted for the measure.

Grant Larson was born in Provo, Utah, in 1933.

The has already passed the Wyoming House and now moves onto the Senate, where a similar bill was defeated last year on a tie vote.

The bill, which is sponsored by Sen. Bo Biteman (R-Sheridan County), was assigned to the Senate Labor Committee.

Only two senators, both Democrats, voted for the bill.

The bill, which has already passed the Wyoming House, faces a third and decisive vote in the Wyoming Senate on Monday.

Legislative staff estimate about 3,200 people currently enrolled in Medicaid could be subject to the bill's requirements.

Six Republicans and four Democrats are seeking their parties' nominations for Wyoming governor.