Votes at a glance: enrolled acts signed and committee approvals from Feb. 20 House session

Cheyenne — During the Feb. 20 session the Wyoming House signed enrolled acts, and the Committee of the Whole or floor votes moved several bills forward with limited floor debate. Below are the recorded formal outcomes and short summaries from the transcript.

Enrolled acts signed by the presiding officer: - House Enrolled Joint Resolution No. 1 (original HJR 1): Requests Congress amend Wyoming’s Act of Admission to allow "earnings" from the permanent school fund to be expended for common schools in Wyoming. (Speaker recorded: "I have so signed.") - House Enrolled Act No. 22 (original HB 132): Motor vehicle permits authorizing annual permits for hauling prefabricated buildings, forest products and related items. (Speaker recorded: "I have so signed. Congratulations, Representative Smith.")

Committee-of-the-Whole or floor results recorded in the transcript: - Senate File 114 (Missing persons reporting): A second-reading committee amendment adding language for law enforcement to seek a recent photograph, cellular telephone information and to "evaluate the potential benefit" of notifying news media/social media was adopted. (Moved by Chairman Washington.) - Senate File 110 (Crossing guards): Committee of the Whole recommended SF110 do pass; amendment adds crossing guards and volunteers acting on behalf of school districts into the Governmental Claims Act immunity framework to reduce liability barriers to school crossing-guard programs. (Mover: Representative Brown; committee recommendation adopted.) - Senate File 137 (School finance cash reserves): Committee recommended SF137 do pass; the bill extends an elevated district cash-reserve cap from 06/30/2026 to 06/30/2028 to continue a 30% allowance created for COVID-era federal aid. (Mover: Representative Andrew; committee recommendation adopted.)

How these items may affect communities: - The enrolled resolution about school-fund "earnings" would require federal action and reflects a statutory/constitutional funding technicality; the transcript records the House signing the enrolled resolution for transmittal. - The SF114 amendment adds photo and cellular data to the missing-persons reporting checklist and encourages primary jurisdictions to consider news and social media notification; sponsors called the language protocol-oriented rather than mandatory. - The SF110 change aims to reduce liability barriers to volunteering as crossing guards by explicitly extending immunity protections to crossing guards and volunteers acting for school districts; sponsors said standard school insurance did not reliably address crossings off school property. - The cash-reserves extension in SF137 keeps districts’ temporary 30% reserve allowance in place for two more years to account for federal funds and pandemic-era accounting.

Recorded votes and tallies (from transcript): - Enrolled acts: signing recorded; no roll-call tallies in transcript. - Amendment to SF72 (earlier in the session): one amendment failed on a 27–27 division; other amendments had mixed outcomes as reported in the bill-specific debate. (See the SF72 article for full floor-discussion details.)

These items were handled largely by voice votes, divisions, or committee recommendations recorded in the transcript; several measures were advanced with committee or floor amendments and will return for further consideration or final readings per regular process.