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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming allocates $237.9 million for major school maintenance and funds facility projects under HB 105
Last action · March 5, 2026: Assigned Chapter Number 39
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What This Bill Does
Wyoming enacts HB 105 to provide comprehensive appropriations for K-12 school buildings, major maintenance payments, charter school leases, and a new school facility safety and security grant program for the 2026-2028 biennium. The measure funds major maintenance, component-level projects, design, construction, and demolition across multiple school districts, taking effect immediately upon becoming law.
School districts across the state receive hundreds of millions of dollars for physical infrastructure, maintenance, and security enhancements, directly impacting local capital budgets and facility timelines.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
School districts
School districts receive funding allocations for major maintenance, facility design, construction, demolition, charter school leases, and safety and security grants.
School Facilities Commission
The commission receives appropriations to manage school facility projects, establish prioritized safety remedy lists, and submit supplemental budget requests.
State Construction Department
The department administers major maintenance payments, reviews grant applications, and submits annual deployment and expenditure reports to legislative committees and the governor.
Key Facts
- Appropriates $237,865,123.00 from the public school foundation program account to the state construction department for major maintenance payments to school districts.
- Allocates $31,661,322.00 for component-level major maintenance projects across various school districts.
- Appropriates $6,332,928.00 for charter school lease expenses for school years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028.
- Provides $1,792,976.00 for future charter school leasing obligations.
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- Allocates $52,125.00 for modular buildings and leases.
- Appropriates $15,739,855.00 for the design of school building and facility projects.
- Allocates $77,359,731.00 for the construction of school building and facility projects.
- Provides $2,620,670.00 for school demolition projects.
- Allocates $7,642,895.00 for unanticipated costs associated with design, major maintenance, construction, and demolition projects.
- Appropriates $7,420,000.00 to supplement previous appropriations for the construction and demolition of a transportation facility ancillary building in Campbell County School District #1.
- Establishes a $2,000,000.00 safety and security grant program for the design of security vestibules, vehicle barricades, and approved school district safety remedies.
- Requires the state construction department to report at least once each year on project deployment to the select committee on school facilities, the joint appropriations committee, and the governor.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
22 actions- Mar 5, 2026Governor Signed HEA No. 0010
- Mar 5, 2026Assigned Chapter Number 39
- Mar 2, 2026HouseH Speaker Signed HEA No. 0010
- Mar 2, 2026SenateS President Signed HEA No. 0010
- Feb 27, 2026HouseH Concur:Passed 55-0-5-2-0
- Feb 27, 2026Assigned Number HEA No. 0010
Show 16 earlier actions
- Feb 26, 2026SenateS 3rd Reading:Passed 25-4-1-0-1
- Feb 26, 2026HouseH Received for Concurrence
- Feb 25, 2026SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 24, 2026SenateS COW:Passed
- Feb 23, 2026SenateS02 - Appropriations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
- Feb 23, 2026SenateS Placed on General File
- Feb 17, 2026SenateS Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations
- Feb 16, 2026SenateS Received for Introduction
- Feb 13, 2026HouseH 3rd Reading:Passed 61-0-1-0-0
- Feb 12, 2026HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
- Feb 11, 2026HouseH COW:Passed
- Feb 10, 2026HouseH02 - Appropriations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
- Feb 10, 2026HouseH Placed on General File
- Feb 9, 2026HouseH Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations 59-3-0-0-0
- Feb 6, 2026HouseH Received for Introduction
- Feb 5, 2026Bill Number Assigned
Version history
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Supplemental Capital Funding
The bill includes specific provisions supplementing prior appropriations for Campbell county school district #1 under 2025 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 118.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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