'Massive' hit looms; lawmakers eye special sessions

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Wyoming lawmakers are preparing to convene multiple special legislative sessions in the months ahead toallocate emergency federal funding and otherwise address what Gov. Mark Gordon (R) warned will be aneconomic shock."We know it's going to be significant. Massive is the way I'd tend to look at it," Gordon told the Legislature'sManagement Council in a video conference meeting yesterday.The Wyoming Legislature hasn't met in a special session since 2004. But the allocation of $1.25 billion in federalcoronavirus-related assistance under the federal CARES Act will require one.Committee members discussed a special session as short as one day, followed by a longer and more involvedsession sometime this summer.A short special session in the weeks ahead could address immediate matters related to the funding "not unlike anairdrop of foodstuffs to a starving relief effort," Senate President Drew Perkins, a Republican from Casper, told thecommittee.