Lawmakers deliver property tax reform

Rep. Dalton Banks, R-Cowley, said the Wyoming legislature’s budget session that concluded last week produced “some good compromises” on legislation that will be helpful to his constituents and the state’s residents.
“We never get everything we want — that’s to be expected — but I think it turned out fairly well,” he said in an interview Monday.
Lawmakers went down to the wire on the state budget, with final approval coming Friday afternoon just hours before the end of the session.  “Tumultuous” was the word used by Albert Sommers and Ogden Driskill, leaders of the House and Senate respectively, to describe the budget year in a joint statement.
They touted the eventual agreement as “a conservative, balanced budget,” highlighting investments that include funding for nursing homes, preschool for developmentally disabled children, and home services for senior centers.