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2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local lawmakers voted during the legislative session on important issues like healthcare, education, and taxes to find out.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact us all.
Updates
“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS
The Legislature’s Joint Labor Health Committee has historically failed to find solutions to Wyoming’s inadequate maternal healthcare. They will try again this year.
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What the *%^# is “recalibration” (and why does it matter for Wyoming’s public schools)?
You’re going to be hearing a lot about this term, “recalibration.” It’s a process that the Legislature has to go through every five years to determine how much funding our public schools need to educate students.
It’s also the process the Freedom Caucus plans to use to defund our schools to complete their plan of tearing down public education.
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Unite to Protect Medicaid in Wyoming
For the first time in half a century the Wyoming Legislature, under Freedom Caucus leadership, failed their constitutional duty to pass a state budget. These are just some of the programs and agencies that will go unfunded as a result.
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Senate Education Committee backs meager measure to promote state-supported early childhood education
Wyoming is one of the few states that doesn’t fund early childhood education. A proposed bill won’t change that—but it at least moves us in the right direction.
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Back-door Bebout reassigns public school defunding bill to a friendlier committee
Senate President Eli Bebout (R-Riverton) on Monday reassigned a proposed Wyoming State Constitutional amendment that would defund public education after he realized the committee to which he initially assigned it might not pass the measure. Bebout is a co-sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 4, which would amend the state constitution […]
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Two criminal justice reform bills sail through the House, as they have in years past. Will they die in the Senate, as they have in years past?
A pair of positive, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals passed House Judiciary Committee this week. But “tough on crime” lawmakers are lurking in the senate, ready to kill any bill that doesn’t keep our prisons overflowing with inmates.
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