Busy Day On Thursday for the 2012 Wyoming Legislature

Busy day on Thursday for the 2012 Wyoming Legislature with several items on the agenda. The House voted to consider a bill that would require people applying for certain welfare programs to pass a drug test. The House approved, for the second time, a bill to set new legislative districts. The also voted to approve, for the second time, a bill that would repeal the gas tax credit for producers of ethanol. They gave preliminary approval to a ball that would allow the state game commission to allow baiting of game animals such as deer to allow hunters to kill them when they congregate in towns and other places. A bill that would have required high schools to pay the cost of any remedial college classes required by their former students who receive money under the state's Hathaway scholarship program was declined. The House also voted not to consider a bill that would have authorized tribal police and officers with the BIA to enforce state traffic laws against non-Indians. And that bill that would have prohibited sex offenders from residing near child care facilities was withdrawn by its sponsor.