Wyoming Education Trust Modernization Act

Enumerated powers · passes

State action managing its own permanent school trust lands granted by Congress at statehood under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (Property Clause) and the Wyoming Act of Admission. Administration of state trust funds for schools is within reserved state powers under the Tenth Amendment, not a federal enumerated-power question. No federal overreach.

Bill of Rights · passes

No provision restricts speech, religion, arms, searches, trial rights, or other Bill of Rights protections. The bill concerns management of a state trust fund for public schools and does not authorize surveillance, censorship, disarmament, or punishment. No First through Tenth Amendment right is infringed.

Individual liberty · passes

The bill restricts no personal conduct regarding person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs how the state invests and spends its own trust fund earnings. No individual liberty requires government justification here because no liberty is burdened.

Decentralization · passes

Managing a statewide permanent school trust requires centralized state fiduciary management; individuals, families, or single counties cannot administer a multi-generational endowment. The bill keeps decision-making at the state level, does not transfer power to the federal government, and increases state flexibility consistent with the Tenth Amendment reservation of powers.

Due process and takings · passes

No deprivation of life, liberty, or property without notice and hearing under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and no taking under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. The bill changes investment/use rules for earnings already held in trust for schools; it does not confiscate private property or divert trust corpus to non-trust purposes.