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25LSO-0220
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0220
Numbered
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0142
Supplemental K-12 school facilities appropriations.
Sponsored by: Select Committee on School Facilities
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to school building and facility projects; providing for supplemental appropriations for the period commencing July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026; specifying conditions for expenditures; reappropriating funds; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
.
2024 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 118, Section 2, Section 027 is amended to read:
Section 027. STATE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT
PROGRAM
Operations
1,929,954
5,082,079
S5
7,012,033
School Facilities Div.
180,337,954
S5
180,337,954
183,225,575 S5
183,225,575
Construction Management
1,610,806
1,610,806
TOTALS
3,540,760
0
185,420,033
188,960,793
188,307,654
191,848,414
AUTHORIZED EMPLOYEES
Full Time
29
Part Time
0
TOTAL
29
Section 2.
2024 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 118, Section 313(f), (j)(iv)(intro), (v), (vii), (viii), (xii) and by creating a new subsection (k) is amended to read:
[SCHOOL CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION]
Section 313.
(f)
An estimated schedule for deploying projects funded by amounts appropriated under subsection (j) of this section, as adopted by the school facilities commission and as contained within the 2025-2026 biennial budget
, inclusive of the supplemental budget request,
submitted by the commission under W.S. 21-15-119, and further refined by the budget submitted by the governor's office, shall be used by the state construction department to the extent practicable to guide expenditure of appropriated funds, subject to restrictions contained in W.S. 21-15-119(c). The estimated schedule shall be based upon information, processes, events and expenditures and shall not be binding upon the state construction department or the school facilities commission.
(j)
The following amounts are appropriated from the school foundation program account to the school facilities commission for the following purposes:
(iv)
For construction of the following school building and facility projects,
two hundred forty-one million three hundred seventy-four thousand thirteen dollars ($241,374,013.00)
four hundred two million forty-five thousand eight hundred forty-one dollars ($402,045,841.00)
:
School
Priority
District
Project
09-01
Laramie #1
Elementary School #2
09-02
Niobrara #1
High School Voc. Ag./
Transportation Facility
09-03
Goshen #1
Elementary/Middle/High School
Renovation
09-04
Campbell #1
Elementary School
09-05
Campbell #1
High School
Legislature
Teton #1
High School
Legislature
Sweetwater #1
High School
(v)
For the following component level major maintenance projects,
twenty-five million one hundred fifty-six thousand five hundred one dollars ($25,156,501.00)
fifty-four million nine hundred eighty-nine thousand two hundred seventeen dollars ($54,989,217.00)
:
School
Priority
District
Project
10-01
Uinta #1
Middle School
10-02
Teton #1
High School Voc. Building
10-03
Converse #2
Junior High/High School
10-04
Carbon #2
Middle/High School
10-05
Hot Springs #1
High School
10-06
Fremont #38
Elementary/High
School/Transportation Buildings
10-07
Sublette #1
Administrative Building/High
School
10-08
Converse #1
Middle School
10-09
Platte #1
Elementary School
10-10
Sublette #1
Administrative Building/High
School
10-11
Sublette #1
High School
10-12
Converse #1
High School
10-13
Sublette #9
Elementary School
10-14
Campbell #1
Elementary School
10-15
Platte #1
High School
10-16
Sheridan #2
High School
10-17
Uinta #1
Middle School
10-18
Fremont #14
High School
10-19
Hot Springs #1
Elementary School
10-20
Johnson #1
K-12 School
10-21
Converse #1
Elementary School
10-22
Big Horn #3
Elementary School
10-23
Converse #2
Intermediate School
10-24
Uinta #6
Intermediate School
10-25
Goshen #1
High School
10-26
Platte #1
Elementary School
10-27
Sheridan #2
Elementary School
(vii)
For construction of the following ancillary building projects,
twenty-seven million two hundred ninety-four thousand six hundred eighty-four dollars ($27,294,684.00)
forty million eight hundred twenty-six thousand one hundred eighty-eight dollars ($40,826,188.00)
:
School
Priority
District
Project
11-01.02
Lincoln #2
Transportation Facility
11-02.02
Crook #1
Transportation Facility
11-03.02
Platte #1
Transportation Facility
11-04
Campbell #1
Transportation Facility
(viii)
For demolition of a middle school in Platte county school district #1
, a high school and a transportation facility in Campbell county school district #1
and an elementary school in Albany county school district #1,
two million six hundred thirty-four thousand six hundred ninety-eight dollars ($2,634,698.00)
nine million eight hundred ninety-one thousand two hundred forty-six dollars ($9,891,246.00)
. Any disposition or demolition of buildings or facilities shall be subject to commission approval and included in the district's facility plan to ensure the disposition or demolition protects the financial interest of the state and is in the public interest as required under W.S. 21-15-123(f)(vi);
(xii)
For unanticipated costs associated with the projects funded under paragraphs (j)(iii) through (xi) of this subsection,
ten million four hundred thirty-six thousand eight hundred eighty-six dollars ($10,436,886.00)
twenty-three million one hundred fourteen thousand four hundred forty-two dollars ($23,114,442.00)
.
(k)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the unexpended, obligated monies appropriated from the school capital construction account to the school facilities commission under 2023 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 94, Section 313(j)(xiii), up to thirteen million four hundred thousand dollars ($13,400,000.00), or as much thereof as is available, shall not revert upon completion of the projects pursuant to 2023 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 94, Section 313(d), and are hereby reappropriated to the school facilities commission to supplement previous appropriations for inflationary costs associated with projects approved by the commission and funded by the legislature. The original scope and design of the projects for which these funds are expended shall not be modified as a result of the expenditure of the funds reappropriated under this subsection. This reappropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose. The commission shall report the expenditure of funds reappropriated under this subsection as required under subsection (h) of this section.
Section 3
.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become a law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution
.
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