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SF0077

Bill No.:
SF0077
Drafter:

DKG

LSO No.:
12LSO-0224
Effective Date:
March
15, 2012

Enrolled Act No.:
SEA0047

Chapter No.:
CH0094

Prime Sponsor:
Senator
Case

Catch Title:
Expenditure of public funds and government
competition.

Subject:
Expansion of the public finance
website to include complaints regarding government competing against the
private sector.

Summary/Major Elements:

Previous legislation established a public
finance website administered by the department of administration and
information to track expenditure of public funds.

This act expands that website to provide a
process for lodging concerns regarding competition by state and local government
entities with the private sector.

The act specifies requirements
for the website and adds to an existing annual report requirement from the
department of information concerning the number of complaints lodged, the
entities against whom complaints were lodged, and for state entities any action
taken in response to the complaints lodged.

Comments:

Report Required department of administration and information to include
in its annual report to the joint appropriations committee information
concerning complaints regarding government competition.

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE

NO.
0077

ENROLLED ACT NO. 47, SENATE

SIXTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2012 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to
the
administration of government;
modifying the public finance website to
provid
e
a process for lodging concerns
regarding
competition by government entities with the private sector;
providing definitions; making conforming amendments;
amending
report
ing requirement
; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 9
‑
2
‑
1035(a)(iv)
,
by creating a new paragraph (v
i
)
and by
renumbering (v
i
) as (vi
i
)
and 9
‑
2
‑
1036(a), (b)(intro), (vi), (vii), by creating a new paragraph (viii),
(c)(intro), (f) and (g)

are

amended
to read:

9
‑
2
‑
1035.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(iv)

"Participating state entity"
or "state entity"

means the state of Wyoming government including the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government and any department, division, agency, board, commission or other instrumentality of those branches
. For purposes of W.S. 9
‑
2
‑
1036(b)(viii), "state entity" shall also include the University of Wyoming
;

(v
i
)

"Local government
entity" means any county, municipality, joint powers board or special district of Wyoming;

(vi
)
(vi
i
)

"This act" means W.S. 9
‑
2
‑
1035 through 9
‑
2
‑
1037.

9
‑
2
‑
1036.

Wyoming public finance
and expenditure of funds
website.

(a)

There is created the Wyoming public finance
and expenditure of funds

website to be administered by the department.

(b)

The purpose of the Wyoming public finance
and expenditure of funds

website is to:

(vi)

Be directly accessible via a link from the main page of the official state website;

and

(vii)

Include other links, features or functions that will assist the public in obtaining and reviewing public financial information
;
.

and

(viii)

A
llow Wyoming citizens to lodge concerns relating to Wyoming state or local government entities
expending funds in a manner which the citizen believes
unfairly compet
es
with the private sector in providing commercial activities. At a minimum
,

in implementing this paragraph,
the
website
shall include:

(
A
)

A link entitled "government competition concerns"
which contains
a means for a citizen
to
lodge a concern with governmental competition including:

(I
)

The entity involved;

(
II
)

The activity involved;

(
III
)

Whether the concern is a result of a specific instance or ongoing activity;

(
IV
)

The effect of the competition on the citizen's commercial activity, if applicable;

(
V
)

A means to contact the citizen for further information, if necessary.

(
B
)

A
ccess
to all information submitted pursuant to this
paragraph, including access to summary data
.

(c)

The department shall
:

be:

(f)

Not later than January 1, 2010, the website shall be operational and permit access to the public financial information of participating state entities.

Not later than June 30, 2012 the website shall incorporate features implementing the provisions of paragraph (b)(viii) of this section.

(g)

The state chief information officer shall provide an annual report to the committee on all initiatives, projects and expenditures under this act.

Beginning July 1, 2013, the
annual report shall include
:

(i)

The number of concerns with unfair competition received;

(ii)

For each government entity subject to a lodged concern, the number of concerns lodged and number of citizens lodging concerns;

(iii)

For e
ach state entity which is the subject of a concern, a summary of the complain
t and any action the entity reports to the
department t
hat
was
t
aken
in response to the complaint.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(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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