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Wyoming's Legislative Session begins Monday, February 9th, 2026. This is an even year which means it is a budget session. The priority is to work and pass the budget bill which appropriates funds to the various departments of the Wyoming State Government. The state operates on a biennial budget (two-year cycle). During a budget session other bill topics are required to receive two-thirds vote from either chamber, as a way to discourage distraction from the constitutional duty of the Wyoming Legislature.
It is valuable to be aware of the guidance given by our state constitution, such as:
Article 1, Section 19 - Appropriations for sectarian or religious societies or institutions prohibited.
No money of the state shall ever be given or appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or institution.
Article 3, Section 34 - General appropriation bills; other appropriations.
The general appropriation bills shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the state, interest on the public debt, and for public schools. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.
Article 3, Section 35 - Money expended only on appropriation.
Except for interest on public debt, money shall be paid out of the treasury only on appropriations made by the legislature, and in no case otherwise than upon warrant drawn by the proper officer in pursuance of law.
Article 3, Section 36 - Prohibited appropriations.
No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.
Article 4, Section 9 - Veto of items of appropriations.
The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items or part or parts of any bill making appropriations of money or property embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items and part or parts disapproved shall be void unless enacted in the following manner: If the legislature be in session he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the item or items or part or parts thereof disapproved, together with his objections thereto, and the items or parts objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and each item or part shall then take the same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the executive veto.
