SF0045 • 2009

Improvement and service district directors.

AN ACT relating to improvement and service districts; providing for three or five directors; providing for staggered initial terms; providing for expansion and contraction of number of directors; providing for four year subsequent terms; and providing for an effective date.

Elections

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Senator Cooper
Last action: 2009-03-02
Official status: enrolled
Effective date: 7/1/2009

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SF0045H2001

2nd reading • MADDEN

Failed

Plain English: Failed 2nd reading by MADDEN

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SF0045HS001

Standing Committee • H07

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by H07

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Bill History

2009-03-02 LSO
Assigned Chapter Number - 86
2009-03-02 Governor
Governor Signed SEA No. 0039
2009-02-26 House
H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0039
2009-02-24 Senate
S President Signed SEA No. 0039
2009-02-24 LSO
Assigned Number SEA No. 0039
2009-02-24 Senate
S Did Concur
2009-02-24 Senate
S Received for Concurrence
2009-02-24 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2009-02-23 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2009-02-23 House
Amendment Failed
2009-02-20 House
H Passed CoW
2009-02-20 House
H Amendments Adopted
2009-02-20 House
Amendment Adopted
2009-02-17 House
H Placed on General File
2009-02-17 House
H07 Recommended Amend and Do Pass
2009-02-10 House
H Introduced and Referred to H07
2009-01-21 House
H Received for Introduction
2009-01-21 Senate
S Passed 3rd Reading
2009-01-20 Senate
S Passed 2nd Reading
2009-01-19 Senate
S Passed CoW
2009-01-19 Senate
S Placed on General File
2009-01-19 Senate
S09 Recommended Do Pass
2009-01-14 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S09
2009-01-13 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2008-12-22 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

Bill No.: <billno> Drafter: <drafterinit>

Bill No.:
SF0045
Drafter:

LGC

LSO No.:
09LSO-0258
Effective Date:

7/1/2009

Enrolled Act No.:
SEA0039

Chapter No.:
86

Prime Sponsor:
Senator
Cooper

Catch Title:
Improvement
and service district directors.

Subject:
Allowing improvement and service district to
increase and decrease the number of directors.

Summary/Major Elements:

The act allows an improvement
and service district to increase the number of directors from three to five
upon an election.

The act changes the initial
terms of members, setting those terms at two years and four years. Thereafter
terms are four years.

The act allows an improvement
and service district to decrease the number of directors from five to three
upon an election.

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE

NO.
0045

ENROLLED ACT NO. 39, SENATE

SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2009 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
improvement and service districts; providing for three
or
five directors; providing for staggered initial terms;
providing for expansion and contraction of number of directors;
providing for four year subsequent terms;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 18
‑
12
‑
113(a)
and by creating a new subsection (d)
is amended to read:

18
‑
12
‑
113.

District board of directors.

(a)

The district shall be managed and controlled by a board of directors consisting of three (3)
or
five (5)
members. The initial board shall consist of three (3)
or
five (5)
members elected at the organizational election.
One (1)

A simple majority of members
shall serve
for three (3)

an initial term of

two (2)
years
, one (1)
for

and
the remaining members
shall serve an initial term
of
four (4) years
and one (1) for five (5) years
after formation of the district and until their successors are elected and qualified at the regular scheduled subsequent director election as provided in W.S. 22
‑
29
‑
112.
Each year, commencing with the third anniversary of the first director election an election shall be held to elect a director to fill the vacancy resulting from expiration of the term of the director whose term expires at that time

Thereafter, members shall be elected for terms of
four
(
4
) years
.
A vacancy occurring on the board during the term of an original director or his successor shall be filled as provided in the Special District Elections Act of 1994.

(d)

Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, any
district
may increase
or decrease
the membership of its
board
from three (3) to five (5) members if a proposition for the
modification
is submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the
district
and a majority of those casting their ballots vote in favor of the increase
or decrease
. Additional offices created under this subsection shall be filled
as provided in W.S. 22
‑
29
‑
112(a).

At the election, not more than one (1)
member
shall be elected for a term of two (2) years, and the election ballots shall so state.

Each term shall otherwise be four (4) years.

A
vote to decrease membership shall be in the election preceding the election of three (3)
members
.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2009.

(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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