The Wyoming Senate passed its supplemental budget on Friday, which came in $35 million less than what Gov. Mark Gordon had proposed but $160 million more than the version that came out of the Joint Appropriations Committee.
Budget discussions were still ongoing in the House late Friday evening.
A Wyoming Legislative committee killed a broad anti-obscenity bill on Friday. Republican Rep. Tom Kelly said lawmakers shouldn't lose sight of the real problem of sexually-graphic books in school library sections, but the solution isn't to advance a “sweeping and almost vindictive law."
A Wyoming immigration bill that would levy state-level felony charges against people who harbor or transport illegal immigrants kept its $1 million price tag Friday, when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved it.
A Wyoming legislative committee advanced a bill on Friday that legal experts say would give Wyoming the toughest laws in the country to prevent the filing of frivolous defamation lawsuits.
Casper Republican Rep. J.R. Riggins, elected to the legislature in November, spent one week on the job before open heart surgery. He hopes to return the last week of the session.
The House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee advanced a bill on Friday that would provide more public notices for voting machine tests and stricter laws for how these machines are tested in preparation of an election.
In a brief moment of levity, the House sang happy birthday for Rep. Trey Sherwood, D-Laramie late Friday night.
