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HB0045 • 2005

County officers' salaries.

AN ACT relating to counties; increasing salary ranges of certain county officers as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Walsh
Last action
2005-03-02
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
7/1/2005

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Bill History

  1. 2005-03-02 LSO

    Assigned Chapter Number - 162

  2. 2005-03-02 Governor

    Governor Signed HEA0101

  3. 2005-02-28 Senate

    S President Signed HEA No. 0101

  4. 2005-02-28 House

    H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0101

  5. 2005-02-25 LSO

    Assigned Number HEA0101

  6. 2005-02-25 Senate

    S Passed 3rd Reading

  7. 2005-02-24 Senate

    S Passed 2nd Reading

  8. 2005-02-23 Senate

    S Passed CoW

  9. 2005-02-17 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  10. 2005-02-17 Senate

    S07 Recommended Do Pass

  11. 2005-02-10 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S07

  12. 2005-01-31 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  13. 2005-01-31 House

    H Passed 3rd Reading

  14. 2005-01-28 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  15. 2005-01-27 House

    H Passed CoW

  16. 2005-01-25 House

    H Placed on General File

  17. 2005-01-25 House

    H07 Recommended Do Pass

  18. 2005-01-12 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07

  19. 2005-01-11 House

    H Received for Introduction

  20. 2004-12-20 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

2005 General Session Summary for HB0045

Bill
No.:
HB0045
Drafter:

DKG

LSO
No.:
05LSO-0035
Effective Date:

7/1/2005

Enrolled
Act No.:
HEA0101

Chapter
No.:
162

Prime
Sponsor:
Representative Walsh

Catch
Title:
County officers' salaries.

Subject:
Ranges of
county officer's salaries.

Summary/Major
Elements:

Increases the ranges of county officer salaries as follows:

o

County assessor,
part-time county attorney, county clerk, clerk of district court, county
sheriff and county treasurer ranges are increased from $10,000 to $60,000, to
$10,000 to $75,000;

o

The range for full-time
county attorneys is increased from $35,000 to $70,000, to $35,000 to $85,000;

The range increases are effective January 1, 2007
.

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0045

ENROLLED ACT NO. 101, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FIFTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2005 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to counties; increasing salary ranges of certain county officers as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 18
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3
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107(a) is amended to read:

18
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3
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107.

Annual salaries of certain officers; additional compensation prohibited; exception as to traveling and other expenses; compensation of county commissioner; appointment and salaries of deputies, clerks, stenographers and other assistants.

(a)

From and after January 1, 1979,
County officers shall be paid as follows:

(i)

T
he county assessor, part-time county and prosecuting attorneys, part-time county attorneys, county clerk, clerk of district court, county sheriff and county treasurer in their respective counties shall receive
not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
as annual salaries
:
.

(A)

From and after
January 1, 1983, the specified county officers shall receive an annual salary of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00). Full-time county and prosecuting attorneys shall receive not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) and not more than forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000.00) as annual salaries. From and after January 1, 1995, the specified full-time county officers shall receive an annual salary not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). Full-time county attorneys shall receive not less than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) nor more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) as annual salaries. Full-time county and

prosecuting attorneys shall receive not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) as annual salaries. From and after
January 1, 1999,
the specified full-time county officers shall receive an annual salary
not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00)
;
.

(B)

From and after January 1, 2007, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00).

(ii)

Full-time county attorneys
shall receive not less than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) nor more than seventy thousand dollars ($70,000.00) as annual salaries.
and f
ull-time county and prosecuting attorneys shall receive
as annual salaries:

(A)

From and after January 1, 1999,
not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than seventy thousand dollars ($70,000.00)
;
as annual salaries.

(B)

From and after January 1, 2007, not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000.00).

(iii)

Salaries shall be paid in equal monthly installments. The board of county commissioners of each county shall meet not later than June 1, 1978, and on or before the same date each four (4) years thereafter, for the purpose of setting salaries, which shall not be changed during the term of each official for whom a salary is determined.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2005.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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