SF 72: Indian School Education Program
2007 General Session

Sponsor: Select Committee on Tribal Relations

SF 72 allowed continued state funding for the school at St. Stephens near Riverton, on the Wind River Indian Reservation, for the next school year. It required contractual arrangements between the State of Wyoming and the joint business councils of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Indian Tribes to provide educational programs that address conditions of unemployment, poverty and lack of adequate job skills on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The bill provided an appropriation of just over $1 million from the general fund to the governor’s office to fund the contracted programs from July 2007 through June 2008. Under SF 72, the governor was directed to include funding for these programs in future biennial budget requests.

The Senate passed SF 72, 24-5 (1 excused), and the House unanimously passed the bill with one legislator excused.

The votes listed below are the Senate and House third reading (final passage) votes. A YES vote means the legislator supported continued state funding for St. Stephens School, while a NO vote means the legislator did not support the state funding as specified in this bill.

LINK TO ENROLLED SEA0091