A normal day at the legislature
Someone asked the other day, what my normal day is like during a legislative session.  Here is how today went.
 5:30 Run 20 minutes on treadmill
6:30 Arrive at Capitol
7:00 Chair Judiciary Committee (I sit as the House Judiciary Chairman and we began our day today at 7 a.m. hearing testimony on 4 bills dealing with Carbon Sequestration)
9:00 15 minute break
9:15 Resume Judiciary Committee hearing on Carbon Sequestration
10:00 Morning Session begins (The full House of Representatives comes into session beginning at 10 and usually goes for 2 …

Gingery Agrees with Governor’s Veto
This is the press release that went out earlier today:Â
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State Representative Keith Gingery of Jackson Hole, stated today that he agreed with Governor Dave Freudenthal’s veto of House Enrolled Act 89 (House Bill 262) Very Rare and Uncommon Areas.  Governor Freudenthal vetoed the bill yesterday, March 12, 2009.  Rep. Gingery had argued strongly against this bill while it was being debated in the Wyoming Legislature last month.  The bill would have added another layer of approval to designating areas in Wyoming as rare and uncommon areas.  …

2009 Wyoming Supplemental Budget
The 2009 Wyoming Legislative Session is over and as part of that session the Wyoming Legislature approved a supplemental budget for 2009-2010.  Wyoming works on a biennium budget, meaning that in every even year (2008 being the last budget session) we approve a $3.8 Billion budget for the upcoming two years (2009-2010).  However, we do come back in every odd year (2009) and do a supplemental budget for things we might have misestimated or emergencies we had not anticipated.Â
This year’s supplemental budget was for $164 million.  Of …

Alternative Energy Bills Die in Minerals Committee
I introduced two bills in the 2009 Wyoming Legislative Session that dealt with alternative energy.  Both bills died in the House Minerals Committee.Â
One was House Bill 28 which you can read at HB 28 Text
This bill would have provided a sales tax exemption for hybrids and for vehicles that run on natural gas or other alternative sources.  The bill also provided a property tax exemption if you installed alternative energy sources on your home (solar, geothermal, etc.)
I did a lot of research on this …

Teton County School Finances
$66.5 million was added by the 2009 Legislature to school operations funding for school year 2009-2010.  We add an inflationary adjustment every year (which we call the external cost adjustment (ECA)) and this year the external cost adjustment was 3.7% or $30.9 million statewide.  What this means is that Teton County School District #1 will get 3.7% more money than they did last year.  Specifically for Teton County this translates to $928,403.
Teton County will get in School Year (SY) 2009-2010 the amount of $35,017,855 and then with …