State engagement in pipeline works.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0166

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.
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State engagement in pipeline works.

Sponsored by:
Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee

A BILL

for

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend the Wyoming Constitution to authorize the state to engage in works of internal improvement for pipelines

and related facilities, including the purchase of pipeline capacity, without submitting the question of the state's authority to engage in such works to a vote of the people.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
,
two-thirds of all the members of the two houses, voting separately, concurring therein:

Section 1.

The following proposal to create Wyoming
Constitution,
Article 16, Section 14
is proposed
for submission to the electors of the State of
Wyoming
at the next general election for approval or rejection to become valid as a part of the Constitution if ratified by a majority of the electors at the election:

Article 16, Section 1
4
.

Construction and improvement of
pi
pelines

and related facilities.

The provisions of section 6 of article 16 of this constitution prohibiting the state from engaging in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds
(2/3)
vote

of the people shall not apply to or affect
,
the construction
,

improvement
, facilitation, financing and ownership
of p
ipelines and related facilities
that are

inside the state of Wyoming and may extend into other states,

including the purchase of capacity in such pipelines,
for
crude
oil, natural gas, coal
, coa
l by-products
and a
ssociated natural resource
s

as may be designated
and defined
by the
l
egislature
. T
he
l
egislature shall have power to provide for the construction and improvement of such pipelines

and facilities
and to purchase capacity in such pipelines,
in whole or in part by the state, either directly or by extending aid to its political subdivisions or to any public corporation legally organized for such purposes.

Section 2.

That the Secretary of State shall endorse the following statement on the proposed amendment:

Generally the Wyoming Constitution pursuant to Article 16, Section 6 prohibits the state from engaging in works of internal improvement
without submitting the question o
f
engag
ing
in those
activities
to
a vote and those activities being authorized by a
two-thirds (
2/3
)
vote of the people. Pursuant to previous constitutional amendments, the state has been authorized to engage in works of internal improvements for public roads and highways, for conservation and utilization of water and for certain airport improvements, without submitting the issue to a vote.
The passage of this amendment will give the legislature of the State of Wyoming the power to engage
directly in, or by financing, the
construction
,
improvement
, facilitation and ownership
of pipelines

and related facilities
that are inside the state of Wyoming and may extend into other states,
including the purchase of capacity in pipelines

without submitting the issue to a vote.

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