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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0235
Career technical education equipment and supplies.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Andrew, Bear, Campbell, K,
Erickson, Lawley, Neiman, Strock, Williams
and Wylie and Senator(s) Boner, Brennan,
Crum, Driskill, Hicks, Kolb and Scott
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to public school finance; modifying
2 resources provided through the education resource block
3 grant model for career technical education equipment and
4 supplies; requiring resources generated for career
5 technical education supplies, materials and equipment be
6 expended as specified; creating a categorical grant for
7 career technical education supplies, materials and
8 equipment; making conforming amendments; making technical
9 corrections; repealing provisions; appropriating funds; and
10 providing for an effective date.
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14. W.S. 21-13-338 is created to read: 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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5 (a) Commencing with school year 2026-2027, to augment
6 amounts within the education resource block grant model
7 available to districts for career and technical education
8 programs, the department of education shall distribute
9 career and technical education supplies, materials and
10 equipment funding in accordance with this section.
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12 (b) Each school district shall report the number of
13 full-time equivalent (FTE) career and technical education
14 teachers within a school from the prior school year, as
15 computed in accordance with guidelines prescribed by the
16 department, who are providing career and technical
17 education instruction in grades nine (9) through twelve
18 (12) and except as provided under W.S. 21-2-202(a)(xxvii),
19 certified by the Wyoming professional teaching standards
20 board to provide instruction at the high school level for
21 career and technical education courses comprising career
22 and technical education programs. Nothing in this
23 subsection shall require a district to employ teachers 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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1 certified for high school career and technical education
2 instruction on a full-time basis or to require teachers to
3 teach only high school career and technical education
4 courses on a full-time basis.
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6 (c) Amounts distributed to each school district for
7 career and technical education supplies, materials and
8 equipment funding under this section shall be calculated as
9 follows:
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11 (i) Except as provided in paragraph (ii) of this
12 subsection, the product of each school's FTE career and
13 technical education teachers reported under subsection (b)
14 of this section multiplied by fourteen thousand one hundred
15 eighty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents ($14,184.68);
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17 (ii) If a school's FTE career and technical
18 education teachers reported in subsection (b) of this
19 section is less than two (2), the amount of funding for the
20 school's career and technical education supplies, materials
21 and equipment funding shall be equal to twenty-eight
22 thousand three hundred sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six
23 cents ($28,369.36); 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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2 (iii) The department shall further adjust the
3 amounts for career and technical education supplies,
4 materials and equipment funding in paragraphs (i) and (ii)
5 of this subsection by any external cost adjustment enacted
6 by the legislature for the educational materials
7 category of the educational resource block grant model.
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9 (d) Not later than October 15 of the applicable
10 school year and following review of reports submitted under
11 this section, the department shall notify districts of
12 distributions. The department shall pay each school
13 district not later than February 15 of the applicable
14 school year.
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16 (e) Each district shall report to the department on
17 the expenditure of amounts distributed under this section
18 and shall provide other information as required by rule of
19 the department. Amounts distributed under this section
20 shall only be expended on supplies, materials and equipment
21 for career and technical education programs.
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5HB02351 (f) The department of education shall promulgate
2 rules necessary to carry out this section.
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4 (g) As used in this section, "career and technical
5 education program" shall be as specified in W.S.
6 21-13-309(m)(v)(D)(II).
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8W.S. 21-12-105(b), 21-13-101(a)(v) and
9 (xvii) and 21-13-337(a) and (c) are amended to read:
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15 (b) Any amount awarded to a district under this
16 section shall be in addition to and not be considered in
17 determining the school foundation program amount under the
18 education resource block grant model pursuant to W.S.
19 21-13-309
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21. A grant awarded under this section shall be for
22 a period of two (2) years and shall not exceed one hundred
23 fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) for the first year of 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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1 demonstration project planning, and not more than two
2 hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for project
3 implementation in year two (2) of the project
4 grant. Thereafter, state assistance for the project shall
5 be limited to funds distributed to the district within its
6 foundation program amount as determined under the education
7 resource block grant model
8. Any school district receiving funds under
9 W.S. 21-13-337 for career and technical supplies, materials
10 and equipment shall be ineligible to receive a grant under
11 this section for the period the district receives funds
12 under W.S. 21-13-337.
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16 (a) As used in this chapter:
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18 (v) "Foundation program" means the level of
19 funding which is to be made available to each district
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21 comply with the state uniform educational program standards
22 imposed under W.S. 21-9-101 and 21-9-102 and the uniform
23 state student content and performance standards prescribed 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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1 by the state board of education under W.S.
2 21-2-304(a)(iii);
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4 (xvii) "Attachment A" to
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7 consists of an enumeration of model
8 components as enacted into law, summarizing and executing
9 recommendations contained within the 2010 cost of education
10 study, as modified by the legislature, and is hereby
11 incorporated into this chapter by this reference;
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16 (a) A school district may apply to the state
17 department of education for state assistance to fund the
18 purchase of supplies, materials and equipment for a new or
19 existing career and technical education program in the
20 district. Amounts awarded under this section shall be in
21 addition to and shall not be considered in determining the
22 school foundation program amount under the education
23 resource block grant model pursuant to W.S. 21-13-309 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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3. Any school district receiving funds under
4 W.S. 21-12-105 for a career and technical education
5 demonstration project grant shall be ineligible to receive
6 funds under this section for the period the district
7 receives funds under W.S. 21-12-105.
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9 (c) Not later than August 15 of the applicable school
10 year and following review of applications submitted under
11 this section, the department shall notify applicant
12 districts of its grant awards and shall provide each
13 applicant district a written statement of the reasons for
14 approving or denying the application. No award shall be
15 given to a district unless it has expended, or will expend
16 with the award of the grant requested under this section,
17 the entire amount generated under W.S. 21-13-309(m)(v)(D)
18 for supplies, materials and
19 equipment for career and technical education programs
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1 five (5) school years from the date of application and
2 amounts from the special reserve fund created under W.S.
3 21-13-504 for supplies, materials and equipment for career
4 and technical education programs. reference shall
5 be given to districts that have not received a grant under
6 this section in the immediately preceding five (5) school
7 years from the date of application. If an application is
8 approved, the department shall award the grant from amounts
9 made available by legislative appropriation from the public
10 school foundation program account for purposes of this
11 section.
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132011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185,
14 ATTACHMENT "A"(b)(xxv), as amended by 2017 Wyoming Session
15 Laws, Chapter 205, Section 3 is amended to read:
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17 ATTACHMENT "A"
18 ATTACHMENT "A" CONTAINS AN ENUMERATION OF
19 EDUCATION RESOURCE BLOCK GRANT MODEL COMPONENTS
20 SUMMARIZING AND EXECUTING RECOMMENDATIONS
21 CONTAINED IN THE 2010 COST OF EDUCATION STUDY AS
22 FOLLOWS:
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10HB02351 (b) Notwithstanding components specified in the 2010
2 cost of education study accepted by the legislature, the
3 Wyoming education resource block grant model components and
4 the resourcing for those components, as enacted by the
5 legislature, shall be as follows:
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7 (xxv) Vocational Career and technical education:
8 0.29 times FTE vocational career and technical education
9 ADM.
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15W.S. 21-13-309(m)(v)(D)(III) is repealed.
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172011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185,
18 ATTACHMENT "A"(a)(iii)(D), as amended by 2012 Wyoming
19 Session Laws, Chapter 99, Section 3 is repealed.
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21There is appropriated four million nine
22 hundred ninety thousand six hundred thirtyone dollars
23 ($4,990,631.00) from the public school foundation program 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-0685
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1 account to the department of education-
2 career and technical education supplies, equipment and
3 replacement payments to school districts made necessary by
4 the amendments enacted in this act. This appropriation
5 shall be for the period beginning July 1, 2025 and ending
6 June 30, 2026. This appropriation shall not be transferred
7 or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended,
8 unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall
9 revert as provided by law on June 30, 2026. It is the
10 intent of the legislature that this appropriation be
11 included in the standard budget for the department of
12 education-school finance for the immediately succeeding
13 fiscal biennium.
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15This act is effective July 1, 2025
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