Structural Deficits Present a Challenging Outlook for Wyoming’s K-12 Education Funding

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Structural Deficits Present a Challenging Outlook for Wyoming’s K-12 Education Funding

Falling Mineral, Energy Production and Prices Have Created Unsustainable Revenue Shortfalls that Will Require Increased Revenue, Spending Reductions or a Combination to Solve

(Cheyenne, WY) – Wyoming’s K-12 Education (School Foundation Program (SFP) and School Capital Construction Account (SCCA)) are facing a $300 million annual structural deficit. This shortfall owes to rapidly declining coal and natural gas production and prices, which have reduced the State’s funding sources and diminished school district property tax collections.

 

Wyoming funds its schools like most states—with property taxes. Wyoming is blessed in that minerals pay 50% of our property taxes, allowing Wyoming residents, old and new, to enjoy the fifth-lowest property taxes in the country.  

 

House Bill Seeks to Stop Organ Transplant Discrimination for Individuals with Disabilities

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Contact: Representative Art Washut (R-HD36)

Art.washut@wyoleg.gov

House Bill Seeks to Stop Organ Transplant Discrimination for Individuals with Disabilities

House Bill 111 Would Ensure Greater Equality in Access to Life-Saving Medical Services

(Cheyenne, WY) – The Wyoming House of Representatives is considering legislation that would prohibit deprioritizing individuals with disabilities to receive organ transplants and related procedures. House Bill 111, Access to Anatomical Gifts and Organ Transplants, was introduced by Representative Art Washut (R-HD36).
 
“This bill is in direct response to the experiences of families across the nation, whose loved ones have been moved down on organ transplant lists or denied altogether because of a disability,” said Representative Washut. “Access to life-saving medical services should never be incumbent on person’s physical or mental circumstances. House Bill 111 will bring greater fairness and equality to our health care system.”
 

Wyoming Republican Lawmakers Demonstrate Commitment to Preserving the Value of Life with ‘Precious Feet Fridays’

 

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February 2, 2021
Contact: Representative Mark Baker (HD60)
mark.baker@wyoleg.gov | (307) 371-5113

 

Wyoming Republican Lawmakers Demonstrate Commitment to Preserving the Value of Life with ‘Precious Feet Fridays’

 

(Cheyenne, WY) — On the heels of National Sanctity of Human Life Day, a group of Wyoming Republican lawmakers resumed Precious Feet Fridays, a weekly show of support for the right to life of every unborn child.
 
“There is no greater calling than to uphold the precious value of human life,” said Representative John Bear (HD31). “The Wyoming Constitution expressly states, ‘In their inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal.’ We believe those innate rights begin at conception and, accordingly, that we have a responsibility to defend the sanctity of life, beginning in the womb.”