The Wyoming Legislature passed amendments Tuesday morning that could save Teton County schools from deep cuts. House Bill 61 deals with the quinquennial recalibration of the school funding model, and it originally proposed cutting $100 million from schools around the state for the next fiscal year. However the House Education Committee narrowly passed an amendment that would increase the sales tax by 1% when the rainy day fund dips below $650 million, eventually raising around $164 million each year for schools. That would decrease the proposed cuts to $22 million. Without the increased state revenue, school funding is projected to face a roughly $300 million shortfall each of the next three years. Although the original bill would infuse schools with cash from the rainy day fund for a couple of years, it also makes massive cuts to cover the shortfall.