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HB0037 • 2014
AN ACT relating to revision of inadvertent errors; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; correcting obsolete references; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
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Standing Committee • H12
Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by H12
3rd reading • NICHOLAS,P
Plain English: Adopted 3rd reading by NICHOLAS,P
Standing Committee • ROSS
Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by ROSS
Assigned Chapter Number
Governor Signed HEA0055
S President Signed HEA No. 0055
H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0055
Assigned Number HEA0055
H Did Concur
H Received for Concurrence
S Passed 3rd Reading
Amendment Adopted
S Laid Back Without Prejudice
S Laid Back Without Prejudice
S Pursuant to SR 12-11 3rd reading action rescinded.
S Passed 3rd Reading
S Passed 2nd Reading
S Passed CoW
S Amendments Adopted
Amendment Adopted
S Placed on General File
S12 Recommended Amend and Do Pass
S Introduced and Referred to S12
S Received for Introduction
H Passed 3rd Reading
H Passed 2nd Reading
H Passed CoW
H Amendments Adopted
Amendment Adopted
H Placed on General File
H12 Recommended Amend and Do Pass
H Introduced and Referred to H12
H Received for Introduction
Bill Number Assigned
Bill No.: <billno> Drafter: <drafterinit> Bill No.: HB0037 Drafter: JWL LSO No.: 14LSO-0094 Effective Date: Immediate Enrolled Act No.: HEA0055 Chapter No.: CH0079 Prime Sponsor: Management Council Catch Title: Revisors bill. Subject: Corrections of inadvertent errors and omissions in past legislation. Summary/Major Elements: This bill makes technical corrections to current statutes which are incorrect due to changes in statutory citations at the state and federal levels. It also corrects current laws (including legislation enacted earlier in this session) containing errors which were clear oversights or omissions.
WORKING DRAFT ORIGINAL HOUSE BILL NO. 0037 ENROLLED ACT NO. 55, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIXTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 2014 BUDGET SESSION AN ACT relating to revision of inadvertent errors; correcting statutory references and language resulting from inadvertent errors and omissions in previously adopted legislation; correcting obsolete references; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. W.S. 1 ‑ 37 ‑ 101, 21 ‑ 3 ‑ 110(a)(x)(B), 21 ‑ 13 ‑ 101(a)(v), 27 ‑ 1 ‑ 102, 27 ‑ 1 ‑ 103, 28 ‑ 8 ‑ 105(b)(iii), 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1010, 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1036(b)(intro) , 40-14-213(a)(iii), 40-14-311(a)(iv) and 41 ‑ 10 ‑ 101(b) are amended to read: 1 ‑ 37 ‑ 101. Short title . "This act" means W.S. 1 ‑ 37 ‑ 101 through 1 ‑ 37 ‑ 114 1 ‑ 37 ‑ 115 and may be cited as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act. 21 ‑ 3 ‑ 110. Duties of boards of trustees. (a) The board of trustees in each school district shall: (x) Subject to review by the school facilities department under W.S. 21 ‑ 15 ‑ 115 for any project involving state capital construction assistance, fix the site of each school building and facility considering the needs of the people of each portion of the district. If the district enters into an agreement to lease buildings and facilities owned by the district and the buildings and facilities are included within the statewide database maintained by the school facilities department under W.S. 21 ‑ 15 ‑ 123(f)(iv), the district shall, except as provided under W.S. 21 ‑ 15 ‑ 109(c)(i)(A)(II) and (III) and (B), ensure the lease agreement requires sufficient payment from the lessee to cover expenses necessary to adequately maintain the facility or building in accordance with statewide adequacy standards prescribed by the commission. If the district enters into an agreement to lease buildings and facilities under which the district is the lessee and the building is to be used for the provision of the required educational program within the district, the lease agreement shall require the lessor to adequately maintain the buildings and facilities in accordance with standards prescribed by the commission. The district shall be reimbursed for the lease payment if the square footage of the leased facility is not included within the district's total square footage for purposes of major maintenance computations under W.S. 21 ‑ 15 ‑ 109, subject to the following: (B) If the lease payment is for facilities leased to the district by a state institution which meets state adequacy standards prescribed by rule and regulation of the commission, the amount of the lease reimbursement paid by the school facilities department shall not include the amount received by the institution from the state for major building and facility repair and replacement costs attributable to the facility, as computed by the construction management section program within the general services division of the department of administration and information. 21 ‑ 13 ‑ 101. Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: (v) "Foundation program" means the level of funding which is to be made available to each district under this article so that each district is able to comply with the state uniform educational program standards imposed under W.S. 21 ‑ 9 ‑ 101 and 21 ‑ 9 ‑ 102 and the uniform state student content and performance standards prescribed by the state board of education under W.S. 21 ‑ 2 ‑ 304(a)(v) 21 ‑ 2 ‑ 304(a)(iii) ; 27 ‑ 1 ‑ 102. Doors at public places to open outward; handrails on stairs; enforcement. All doors leading into or to any manufacturing establishment, mills, workshops, offices, bakeries, laundries, stores, hotels, theaters, halls, or other buildings in which people are employed, shall be so constructed as to open outward, when practicable, and shall not be locked, bolted or fastened so as to prevent free egress during working hours. Proper and substantial handrails shall be provided on all stairways in manufacturing establishments, mills, workshops, offices, bakeries, laundries, stores, hotels, theaters, halls, and other buildings where people are employed or rooms are rented to the public. And h e T he department of workforce services shall have authority to enforce by due process of law, the provisions of this section, and other laws relating to fire escapes. 27 ‑ 1 ‑ 103. Safety devices on elevators and machinery. The openings of all hoistways, hatchways, elevators, well holes and stairways in manufacturing establishments, mills, workshops, bakeries, laundries, stores, hotels, theaters, halls, or any other kind of establishment where labor is employed, or machinery used, shall be protected by trapdoors, hatches, fences, automatic gates or other safeguards, and all due diligence shall be used to keep all such means of protection closed, except when it is necessary to have the same open for use when practicable. All machinery, in use in any mercantile, manufacturing, or any other establishment whatsoever where labor is employed, shall be equipped, with proper shifters for throwing on or off pulleys, loose pulleys and other such safeguards as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner of labor department of workforce services for the proper safeguard of life and limb. 28 ‑ 8 ‑ 105. Duties of director and staff; prefiling bills; fiscal notes. (b) Bills or files, resolutions or memorials may be prefiled by any person who will be a member of the next session of the legislature after the general election and prior to the convening of a regular session of the legislature. They shall be submitted to the director in such form as is in accordance with the most recent rules and practices. Each submittal shall bear the signature of the authorized person submitting it and shall be approved as to form by the director. A bill, file, resolution, or memorial is prefiled when written approval by the sponsor is received by the legislative service office. Promptly upon receipt of the draft of the bill or file, resolution or memorial to be prefiled, the office shall: (iii) Forward to each requesting legislator and legislator-elect of the pending legislative session and to each county clerk printed copies of each item of prefiled legislation, resolution and memorial so prefiled. 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1010. Board of pharmacy designated agency to administer registration. The Wyoming state board of pharmacy in addition to any other duties imposed upon it by law is hereby designated as the agency to administer the registration of the manufacture, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances as hereinafter provided in this act. The board shall register certified animal euthanasia technicians as provided by W.S. 33 ‑ 20 ‑ 223(b) 33 ‑ 30 ‑ 223(b) , for the limited purposes of purchasing, possessing and administering drugs labeled by the manufacturer for the purpose of euthanizing animals, excluding Schedule I drugs as defined in W.S. 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1013 and 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1014, and performing the duties and powers of a certified animal euthanasia technician. 35 ‑ 7 ‑ 1036. Distribution to person under 18; drug free school zones. (b) Any person who is convicted of any of the following listed offenses with regard to a controlled substance listed in Schedules I through IV shall have the penalties specified in this subsection imposed as part of the sentence and in addition to any other penalties authorized by law, if that offense was committed within any school bus as defined in W.S. 31 ‑ 7 ‑ 102(a)(xix) 31 ‑ 7 ‑ 102(a)(xl) or within the boundaries of or within five hundred (500) feet of the boundaries of real property used by a school district primarily for the education of any student in any grade from kindergarten through twelfth grade: 40 ‑ 14 ‑ 213. Additional charges. (a) In addition to the credit service charge permitted by this part, a seller may contract for and receive the following additional charges in connection with a consumer credit sale: (iii) Charges excluded from the credit service charge by the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act or by rule adopted by the administrator. 40 ‑ 14 ‑ 311. Additional charges. (a) In addition to the loan finance charge permitted by this article, a lender may contract for and receive the following additional charges in connection with a consumer loan: (iv) Charges excluded from the loan finance charge by the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act or by rule adopted by the administrator. 41 ‑ 10 ‑ 101. Definitions. (b) For purposes of this act and application of the Special District Elections Act of 1994 to this act, the term "electors" or "voters" include qualified electors as defined in W.S. 22 ‑ 29 ‑ 104(a)(iv) 22 ‑ 29 ‑ 104(a)(v) and landowners as defined in W.S. 22 ‑ 29 ‑ 104(a)(ii). Section 2 . Any other act adopted by the Wyoming legislature during the same session in which this act is adopted shall be given precedence and shall prevail over the amendments in this act to the extent that such acts are in conflict with this act . Section 3 . 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 ori ginated in the House. Chief Clerk 1