County attorneys-state payment.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0653

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0295

County attorneys-state payment.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hinckley and Senator(s) Cooper

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to county and prosecuting attorneys; providing for state payment of a portion of county and prosecuting attorney salaries as specified; providing an appropriation; 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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107(f) is amended to read:

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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.

(f)

The state will pay
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) or
fifty percent (50%) of the salary of the
full-time
county and prosecuting attorney
, whichever is less,
per year, to each qualifying county
. In counties with a population greater than nine thousand (9,000) the state will pay fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) or

and
fifty percent (50%) of the salary of
a full-time
each
assistant to the county and prosecuting attorney
, whichever is less,
per year, for each assistant
per ten thousand (10,000) population over nine thousand (9,000)
to each qualifying county
. The state shall also pay
three thousand dollars ($3,000.00)
ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00)
for expenses of the office of county and prosecuting attorney for each
full-time
county and prosecuting attorney and each
full-time
assistant authorized by this act. Payments under this section shall be made annually on or before June 30.

Section 2.
There is appropriated one million four hundred eighty-four thousand dollars ($1,484,000.00) from the general fund to the county and prosecuting attorneys program to fund the state portion of salaries and expenses of county and prosecuting attorneys and assistant county and prosecuting attorneys as provided in this act.

Section 3.
This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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