February 2007 - Posts
As many of you know, I have been working on getting through the legislature a tough new law regarding sex offenses. I wrote the bill in the Summer of 2005 and tried to get it through the legislature in the 2006 session. The bill made it through the House
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The Wolf Bill was sort of brought back to life yesterday, but it failed on a 0-9 vote by the House Travel, Wildlife, and Recreation Committee. As you may know, the State of Wyoming promulgated their Wolf Management Plan back in 2004. The original plan
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Yesterday on 2nd reading of the Budget Bill I attempted to raise the funding for the Wildlife Funding and was unsuccessful. Tomorrow is 3rd reading and I have been working throughout the day to gain the votes to get the increased funding done on Friday.
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SF 104 Sex Offenses has passed the Wyoming House of Representatives in Committee of the Whole this morning. It now moves on to 2nd reading tomorrow and potentially 3rd reading on Monday. The bill has already passed the Senate. I managed the bill on the
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House Bill 258 DUI Testing passed out of Senate Transportation today. I am a co-sponsor of the bill and testified on it's behalf in committee today. This bill was endorsed by the Governor's Council on Impaired Driving. Wyoming's present DUI law states
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HB 36 Rape Shield Law was killed this morning in Senate Judiciary. The vote was 4-1. Senator Decaria, a co-sponsor, was the only yes vote. I appreciate everyone that emailed and called in support of the bill. I may bring it again next year, but it is
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A bill I sponsored HB 36 Rape Shield Law shall be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee in the morning. The Casper Star Tribune ran a nice editorial today supporting my rape shield law (HB 36). The link is below. http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/02/06/editorial/editorial/4bde6c4b2009ca2d8725727a00032336.txt
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Today was one of the busiest days of the 2007 Wyoming Legislative Session. It is the last day for bills to get off of General File in the House of Origin. So if your bill did not make it out today, then it is dead. We started an hour early this morning
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Groundhog Day. Or more appropriately for Wyoming, Lander Lil Day. HB 217 Seat Belt violations failed by a close vote. I was a co-sponsor of the bill. Wyoming presently requires that seat belts shall be used. However, it is not a primary offense, but rather
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This morning I was excused by the Speaker for the morning session, so that I could attend on the Speaker's behalf, the Project Safe Child meeting hosted by the U.S. Attorney for Wyoming, Matt Mead. Project Safe Child is a project being run by the Department
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Well, we had to take a little break from the blog while the Planet Jackson Hole was revising their website. But now it looks like everything has been updated, so we can start posting again. A few things have happened since we left the net a few weeks
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