State employee work week.

WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0286

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0205

State employee work week.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s)
Edmonds
, Carson, Millin and Shepperson and Senator(s) Esquibel, F. and Ross

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the administration of government; providing for a pilot study of a four day work week for state employees as specified; providing for a report;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

Upon the direction of the governor,
and notwithstanding W.S. 27
‑
5
‑
101(a),
the department of administration and information shall conduct a pilot project during selected months of 2009 and 2010 in which state employees in a selected office area or areas shall work four
(4)
ten
(10)
hour days per week rather than five
(5)
eight
(8)
hour days per week. The director of the department shall report on the results of the pilot project to the governor and the legislature by November 1, 2010. The report shall include findings on the energy savings which resulted from the pilot project as well as estimates of the energy savings which would result from statewide
implementation
of a state employee four
(4)
day ten
(10)

hour
s per day
work week.
The report shall include the director's findings on the extent to which a state employee four
(4)
day ten
(10)
hours per day work week could reasonably be adopted statewide as well as findings on the effects of that work schedule on state employee morale and work efficiency.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2009.

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