Supplemental budget requests-limitations.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0463

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0180

Supplemental budget requests-limitations.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Jaggi, Burkhart, Davison, Gingery, Kroeker, Loucks and Petroff and Senator(s) Case, Dockstader and Driskill

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
state budgets; limiting supplemental budget requests as specified;
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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1013(d) by creating a new
paragraph
(v) and
by
renumbering (v) as (vi) is amended to read:

9
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2
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1013.

State budget; distribution of copies to legislators; copies and reports of authorizations.

(d)

In addition to the items contained in subsection (a) of this section and notwithstanding any other recommendations made by the governor, the state budget
shall also include the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the ensuing two (2) years, or if a supplemental budget request, the remainder of the budget period, subject to the following:

(v)

Any
recommendations in a supplemental budget request
from the governor or state agencies
shall be limited to amendments to the budget as follows:

(A)

Necessary reductions occasioned by state revenue forecast shortfalls;

(B)

Allocations necessitated by human or natural disasters;

(C)

Allocations necessitated by emergencies as
certified by the governor;

(D)

For the governor's recommendations, i
ncreased allocations
for unexpected forecast balances;

(E)

Recommendations regarding increas
es or decreases to savings; and

(F)

Necessary personnel adjustments.

(v)
(vi)

Nothing in this subsection prevents the governor from recommending an additional, alternative budget without the limitations specified in this subsection.

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.

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