TORRINGTON – Governor Mark Gordon has signed and enacted three bills passed during a special session of the Wyoming Legislature held earlier this month.
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TORRINGTON – Governor Mark Gordon has signed and enacted three bills passed during a special session of the Wyoming Legislature held earlier this month.
The bills spell out the ways Wyoming will spend $1.25 billion in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds. The bills also created an eviction prevention program and created three relief programs for small and large businesses.
“I want to say I was very proud of our legislature for dealing with very difficult issues, very difficult bills in a very challenging kind of an environment under enormous amounts of scrutiny and stress,” Gordon said during a press conference Wednesday. “They actually did their work very well and I’m very happy with the bills that we’ve gotten.”
Senate File 1001 gives Gordon the ability to spend the CARES Act funds through three allotments. The first will be $450 million, which is available immediately for COVID-19 response. The funds are to be used to cover expenses incurred by cities and towns during the pandemic, assist health care providers with their emergency response and improve the state’s capacity to provide mental health services in the wake of the pandemic, as well as other needs across the states. The bill is written broadly, Gordon said, to ensure all problem areas can be covered.
“This bill provides flexibility for us to respond to the needs of our state’s residents,” Gordon said. “I’ve been calling around for the last few weeks to get the particulars of what citizens want and need.”