Game and fish-funding.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

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NO.
0003

ENROLLED ACT NO. 2, SENATE

FIFTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2008 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to
game and fish; providing for budget
ing
for programs for management of sensitive
and nongame
species; providing for a report;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.
W.S. 9
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2
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1002(a)(iii), 9
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2
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1010(a)(iii)
and
23
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1
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502
(a) and by creating a new subsection (d)
are amended to read:

9
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2
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1002.

Definitions; powers generally; duties of governor; provisions construed; cooperation with legislature and judiciary; divisions enumerated.

(a)

As used in this act:

(iii)

"Entity" means any governmental unit, special district, corporation, partnership or person which will receive a legislative appropriation, directly or indirectly, excluding the legislature, the judiciary and the Wyoming department of transportation, game and fish department

except as provided in W.S. 23
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1
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502(d)
, counties, municipalities and school districts;

9
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2
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1010.

Duties of budget division; biennial budgets and appropriations.

(a)

The department through the budget division shall:

(iii)

Consult with each entity which will require a legislative appropriation either directly or indirectly, excluding the Wyoming highway
department
and
the
game and fish
departments

department except as provided in W.S. 23
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1
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502(d)
, in submitting budget estimates or requests for funds, or for instituting, recording and reporting all financial and budget transactions of the state.

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1
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502.

Financial policy; budget; fiscal year; debts.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, t
he commission shall govern its financial policies, subject to the written approval of its budgets by the governor. The commission shall fix the budgets for the operation and maintenance of the department and its divisions for each fiscal year at its first stated meeting of each fiscal year, and shall submit its budget estimates for the following fiscal year as provided by W.S. 9
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2
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1012.

(d)

The commission shall prepare a separate budget
requesting general funds to implement and maintain its
sensitive species
and nongame program
s
and shall submit that budget for
review, recommendation and
approval as provided in W.S. 9
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2
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1010 through 9
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2
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1014.1.
Any funds appropriated by the legislature which are specified for
th
ese
program
s
shall be retained in a separate account, expended only for such management and notwithstanding any other provision of law shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose. In managing for sensitive species
and nongame programs
the commission shall not be limited to amounts appropriated by the legislature pursuant to this
sub
section. The commission shall prepare a separate accounting of the expenses incurred in each fiscal year for the operation and maintenance of programs
funded through legislative appropriation
and shall include the accounting in its annual report.

Section
2
.
Th
is act is effective July 1, 2008
.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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