Wyoming schools can use more investment money from old land trusts.
S. 2273 — Wyoming Education Trust Modernization Act · Filed by Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 14, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes a law from 1890. It controls how Wyoming schools get money from land trusts. It replaces the word 'interest' with 'earnings' in three parts. Schools may now get capital gains and other investment returns. They could not use these before.
Who it affects
Wyoming public schools and school districts get the change. Students benefit because schools may have more money.
One thing to notice
The bill changes how old investment rules work. Schools may get more money, but it depends on investments.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jul 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Dec 2, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held”
- Dec 17, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
- Sep 30, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $660,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 14 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Cynthia Lummis, who sponsored the bill, received $550,692 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Gaming Association — $660,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- land trusts — Land and money set aside to help schools. Money comes from the land.
- earnings — Money made from investments. This includes interest, capital gains, and other returns.
- capital gains — Money made when you sell an investment for more than you paid.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (543 characters) on Aug 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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