CHEYENNE (AP) — Developments on the 22nd day of the 2011 General Session of the Wyoming Legislature, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011:
TEACHER ACCOUNTABILITY: The Senate approved two bills intended to bring more accountability to public schools. One bill would establish teacher evaluations based in part on student assessments. The other bill would set ways to measure student performance and progress.
WIND TAXATION — The House voted not to reconsider its defeat of a bill that would have tripled the electrical generation tax on wind farms while cutting the sales tax developers pay on turbines and other equipment.
GUNS: The House approved a bill that would specify employers can't ban employees from keeping guns in their locked vehicles at work. Also, a House committee heard testimony on a separate bill that would allow citizens to carry concealed guns without a permit. The House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee will take up the concealed-carry issue again on Friday.
ABORTION INFORMATION — The Wyoming House passed a bill that would require doctors to inform women seeking an abortion that they could view an ultrasound image of their fetus before the procedure. The bill would also impose a 24-hour waiting period on women seeking abortion and require that they receive information about the availability of birth control and about the health risks of pregnancy and childbirth. The bill now goes to the Senate.
NATURAL GAS VEHICLES: The House passed a bill that would create a pilot project for natural gas vehicles. It calls for building a natural gas filling station in Rawlins to serve state vehicles. It also calls for retrofitting some state vehicles to run on natural gas. The bill now goes to the Senate.
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