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Revenue Committee advances constitutional amendment clarifying taxation, spending and school‑funding formula
Summary
The Senate Revenue Committee approved Senate Joint Resolution 10 as amended to reserve taxation and spending authority to the legislative and executive departments and to require the legislature to provide a school‑funding formula that is subject to judicial review while making the appropriation amount not subject to judicial review.
The Senate Revenue Committee at a Revenue Committee meeting (date not specified) advanced Senate Joint Resolution 10 after approving an amendment that clarified the amendment's wording and the branches referenced.
Senator Dan Larson, sponsor of SJR10, told the committee the joint resolution would amend the Wyoming Constitution to specify that the power of taxation and spending is reserved to the people and to the legislative department and executive department, and would require the legislature to provide a formula for funding public schools. Under the proposed language discussed in committee, the formula itself would be subject to judicial review but the legislature's appropriated amount to fund the…
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