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Appropriations committee requests bill drafts to expand "smokebuster" capacity and create a state wildland suppression module
Summary
The Joint Appropriations Committee asked staff on Oct. 31 to draft bills to add two inmate module leader positions to the Smokebuster program and to create one 12-person wildland fire suppression module, as part of broader efforts to expand statewide ground capacity.
The Joint Appropriations Committee on Oct. 31 asked legislative staff to prepare multiple bill drafts aimed at expanding Wyoming's ground suppression capacity.
Representative John Smith (requesting the draft on behalf of the committee) asked LSO to draft a bill to divert 5.6% of the statewide 4% sales-and-use tax (the so-called Madden distribution) to the Office of State Lands and Investments for distribution to cities, towns and counties under the existing distribution formula; committee staff recorded the request for legislative drafting.
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