HB0259 • 2013

State elected officials-board votes and chairmanship.

AN ACT relating to boards and commissions; establishing the governor as chairman as specified; requiring recorded votes on final actions; and providing for an effective date.

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Representative Harshman
Last action: 2013-03-14
Official status: enrolled
Effective date: 7/1/2013

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HB0259HW001

Committee of the Whole • ZWONITZ,DN

Withdrawn

Plain English: Withdrawn Committee of the Whole by ZWONITZ,DN

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Bill History

2013-03-14 LSO
Assigned Chapter Number
2013-03-13 Governor
Governor Signed HEA No. 0097
2013-02-26 Senate
S President Signed HEA No. 0097
2013-02-25 House
H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0097
2013-02-25 LSO
Assigned Number HEA0097
2013-02-25 Senate
S Passed 3rd Reading
2013-02-22 Senate
S Passed 2nd Reading
2013-02-21 Senate
S Passed CoW
2013-02-19 Senate
S Placed on General File
2013-02-19 Senate
S07 Recommended Do Pass
2013-02-07 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S07
2013-02-07 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2013-02-06 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2013-02-05 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2013-02-04 House
H Passed CoW
2013-01-31 House
H Placed on General File
2013-01-31 House
H07 Recommended Do Pass
2013-01-29 House
H Introduced and Referred to H07
2013-01-28 House
H Received for Introduction
2013-01-28 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

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

Bill No.:
HB0259
Drafter:

IDS

LSO No.:
13LSO-0572
Effective Date:

7/1/2013

Enrolled Act No.:

HEA0097

Chapter No.:
CH0184

Prime Sponsor:
Representative Harshman

Catch Title:
State elected officials-board votes and chairmanship.

Subject:
Requires
recorded votes of boards where the five statewide elected officials are
members.

Summary/Major
Elements:

This legislation clarifies that the Governor is the
chairman of the State Building Commission. This clarification makes the
Governors position on the State Building Commission consistent with his
position on the Office of State Lands and Investments and the Board of Land
Commissioners.

The legislation also requires a recorded vote on all
matters constituting final action by the State Building Commission, the State
Loan and Investment Board and the Board of Land Commissioners.

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE
BILL

NO.
0259

ENROLLED ACT NO. 97, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2013 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
boards and commissions; establishing the governor as chairman as specified; requiring recorded votes on final actions;
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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5
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101(a), 11
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34
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105
(b)(vii) and
36
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2
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104
are amended to read:

9
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5
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101.

State building commission; composition; general powers and duties; conflicts of interest
.

(a)

The five (5) elected state officers constitute the state building commission.

The governor shall be chairman of the commission, but in his absence from any meeting, one (1) of the members may act as chairman, and shall preside at
the
meeting. All votes taken to decide the commission's final action on any matter shall be recorded.

11
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34
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105.

Chief executive officer; powers and duties
.

(b)

The director of the office of state lands and investments shall:

(vii)

Keep a record of the proceedings of the board and such books and records as are necessary for the conduct of the business of his office
including a written record of all votes taken to decide the board's final action on any matter
;

36
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2
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104.

Meetings; rules, regulations and forms of procedure; records
.

The board shall hold such regular and special meetings as it may prescribe and consider necessary for the proper transaction of the business before it. All meetings and transactions incident to the duties of the board, together with all protests, contests or other proceedings before it, shall be regulated by such reasonable rules, regulations and forms of procedure as may from time to time be prescribed by the board; and such rules, regulations and forms of procedure shall bear the same relation to proceedings pending before the board, and have the same legal force and effect, upon all parties to such proceedings, as the Code of Civil Procedure bears and has to civil actions and the parties thereto in the courts of this state. The board shall cause proper records of its meetings and other proceedings to be kept in suitable books, and shall preserve all important documents and papers pertaining to the lands of the state and business of the board.
All votes taken to decide the
board's
final action on any matter shall be recorded.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk