TEACHER TENURE — The Wyoming Senate amended a teacher tenure bill to specify that teachers would receive four-year contracts after an initial three-year probationary period. The bill needs one more hearing in the Senate.
ABORTION INFORMATION — The Wyoming House gave preliminary approval to a bill to require Wyoming doctors to inform women seeking an abortion that they could view an ultrasound image of their fetus before the procedure. The bill would also require women to wait 24 hours for the procedure.
FUNERAL PROTESTS — The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would extend the zone in which protests are banned at funerals or memorial services from 100 yards to 300 yards.
WIND TAXATION — The House for the second time passed a bill that would triple the electrical generation tax on wind farms while cutting the sales tax developers pay on turbines and other equipment.
PATRIOTISM — The House for the second time passed a bill that would require display of the American flag in public school classrooms and specify that any student who wouldn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance would have to step out of the room.
EXCESS MONEY — The House shot down a resolution that called for state government to rebate any money in excess of the amount needed for current operations of state government back to the citizens.
HUMAN REMAINS — The House for the second time approved a bill that would allow the use of human remains in the training of dogs that search for missing people.
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