Career technical education equipment grants amendments.

Plain English Breakdown

The official bill summary does not provide details on how additional funds will be allocated or if there are limits on the number of grants awarded each year, leaving these points as unknowns.

Career Technical Education Equipment Grants Changes

This law increases the maximum grant amount for career and technical education equipment from $50,000 to $75,000 per year and reduces the required time frame for spending funds from five years to two years.

What This Bill Does

• Increases the maximum grant award for K-12 public school districts' career and technical education equipment grants from $50,000 to $75,000 per year.
• Reduces the required time frame for spending funds allocated by the Education Resource Block Grant Model from five years to two years.

Who It Names or Affects

• K-12 public school districts in Wyoming.
• The Department of Education, which administers these grants.

Terms To Know

Career and technical education

Education that prepares students for careers by providing them with the skills needed to enter specific career fields.

Grant

Money given by a government or organization to support an activity or organization in need of funding.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how additional funds will be allocated for the increased grant amounts.
• It is unclear if there are any limits on the number of grants that can be awarded each year.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 25LSO-0365

Bill No.:

HB0017

Effective:

7/1/2025

LSO No.:

25LSO-0365

Enrolled Act No.:

HEA No. 0021

Chapter No.:

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Prime Sponsor:

Joint Education Interim Committee

Catch Title:

Career technical education equipment grants amendments.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

Modification of a career and technical education equipment grant.

Summary/Major Elements:

This bill modifies a grant available to K-12 public school districts for career and technical education equipment grants.

More specifically, this bill increases the maximum grant available to school districts from fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to seventy‑five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) and reduces the years school districts are required to expend funds allocated by the Education Resource Block Grant Model for supplies, materials, and equipment for career and technical education programs from five (5) years to two (2) years.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

25LSO-0365

ORIGINAL House

Bill No
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HB0017

ENROLLED ACT NO. 21,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 General Session

AN ACT relating to career technical education equipment grants for K-12 public school districts; increasing the maximum grant award; reducing the years required to expend funds for grant eligibility; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 21
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337(b)(intro) and (c) is amended to read:

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337.

Career and technical education equipment grants; application; criteria; limitations.

(b)

A grant awarded under this section shall be for a period of two (2) years and shall not exceed
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00)
seventy
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five thousand dollars ($75,000.00)
per year. Applications for a grant under this section shall be submitted on a form and in a manner specified by rule of the department, shall be filed with the department on or before June 30 to secure a grant during the immediately succeeding school year and shall at a minimum include:

(c)

Not later than August 15 of the applicable school year and following review of applications submitted under this section, the department shall notify applicant districts of its grant awards and shall provide each applicant district a written statement of the reasons for approving or denying the application. No award shall be given to a district unless it has expended, or will expend with the award of the grant requested under this section, the entire amount generated under W.S. 21
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309(m)(v)(D) for supplies, materials and equipment for career and technical education programs utilizing expenditure data from the immediately preceding
five (5)
two (2)
school years from the date of application and amounts from the special reserve fund created under W.S. 21
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504 for supplies, materials and equipment for career and technical education programs.

Further,
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reference shall be given to districts that have not received a grant under this section in the immediately preceding five (5) school years from the date of application. If an application is approved, the department shall award the grant from amounts made available by legislative appropriation from the public school foundation program account for purposes of this section.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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