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Committee defeats bill for fourth study on WRC and Pioneer Home

WORLAND — A bill to seek yet another study on the Wyoming Pioneer Home in Thermopolis and the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin failed in the Appropriations Committee Friday.

Sen. Wyatt Agar (R-Thermopolis) reported Friday afternoon that the bill failed on a 1-11 vote with only one legislator supporting another study. “This would have been the fourth commissioned study,” Agar said.

He noted that...