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HJ0012 • 2009

Education-judicial review.

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to modify standards for judicial review relating to education funding.

Education
Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Teeters
Last action
2009-03-02
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2009-03-02 House

    H Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 4-3(c)

  2. 2009-01-21 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H01; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2009-01-20 House

    H Received for Introduction

  4. 2009-01-19 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0589

HOUSE
JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.
HJ0012

Education-judicial review
.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Teeters, Buchanan, Childers, Cohee,
Edmonds
, Landon, McOmie and Quarberg and Senator(s) Coe and Scott

A BILL

for

A
JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to modify standards for judicial review relating to education funding.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
,
two-thirds of all the members of the two houses, voting separately, concurring therein:

Section 1.

The following proposal to amend Wyoming Constitution, Article 7, Section 9 is proposed for submission to the electors of the State of
Wyoming
at the next general election for approval or rejection to become valid as a part of the Constitution if ratified by a majority of the electors at the election:

Article 7, Section 9.

Taxation for schools.

(a)

The legislature shall make such further provision by taxation or otherwise, as with the income arising from the general school fund will create and maintain a thorough and efficient system of public schools, adequate to the proper instruction of all youth of the state, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, free of charge; and in view of such provision so made, the legislature shall require that every child of sufficient physical and mental ability shall attend a public school during the period between six and eighteen years for a time equivalent to three years, unless educated by other means.

(b)

To ensure the system for funding public schools is equitable to the students and taxpayers of the several school districts, the courts shall have the power, upon receipt of a properly brought action, to review the formula for funding the public schools enacted by the legislature. The courts shall use a rational basis standard of review. The legislature shall fund the public schools at a level which in its judgment is proper and adequate.

Section 2.

That the Secretary of State shall endorse the following statement on the proposed amendment:

This amendment would make it clear that the courts have the power to review the school finance formula enacted by the legislature to ensure that it is rational and equitable. It instructs the legislature to fund the public schools at a level which in
its
judgment is proper and adequate.

(END)

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