---
type: "Bill"
title: "School finance-court ordered placement."
description: "AN ACT relating to school finance; specifying when a school district may count children under court ordered placement among its average daily membership; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wy"
legislature: "Wyoming Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 139"
citation: "Wyoming HB 139 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "Connolly", "Landen", "Northrup", "Paxton", "Rothfuss"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-13T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7615bd02-4813-4ec5-96c1-78fbf3c71ff8"
source_url: "http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2017/Digest/HB0139.pdf"
source_hash: "c5716d471cfce254122fdfd1ea06619719e044a75caa1f7871c8a12f6f99055b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wy"]
---

# Wyoming HB 139 (2017) — School finance-court ordered placement.

AN ACT relating to school finance; specifying when a school district may count children under court ordered placement among its average daily membership; and providing for an effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2017/Introduced/HB0139.pdf)
2. **HEA0054** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2017/Enroll/HB0139.pdf)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- H04 – Education:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- Concur:Passed 60-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- 3rd Reading:Passed 60-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- S04 - Education:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- Connolly — primary (person)
- Landen — primary (person)
- Northrup — primary (person)
- Paxton — primary (person)
- Rothfuss — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-13T07:00:00+00:00** Bill Number Assigned
- **2017-01-16T07:00:00+00:00** Received for Introduction
- **2017-01-17T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred to H04 – Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** H04 – Education:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-24T07:00:00+00:00** Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-25T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on General File
- **2017-01-27T07:00:00+00:00** COW:Passed
- **2017-01-30T07:00:00+00:00** 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** 3rd Reading:Passed 60-0-0-0-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** Received for Introduction
- **2017-02-01T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** S04 - Education:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-10T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on General File
- **2017-02-15T07:00:00+00:00** COW:Passed
- **2017-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** 2nd Reading:Passed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** 3rd Reading:Passed 30-0-0-0-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Received for Concurrence
- **2017-02-22T07:00:00+00:00** Concur:Passed 60-0-0-0-0
- **2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00** Assigned Number HEA No. 0054
- **2017-02-24T07:00:00+00:00** Speaker Signed HEA No. 0054
- **2017-02-27T07:00:00+00:00** President Signed HEA No. 0054
- **2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed HEA No. 0054 `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-06T07:00:00+00:00** Assigned Chapter Number

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7615bd02-4813-4ec5-96c1-78fbf3c71ff8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wyoming legislature records).