State per diem rate.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0300
Numbered
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0098

State per diem rate.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Zwonitzer, Dn. and Senator(s) Burns

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the legislature; increasing the legislative per diem rate as specified; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 28
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5
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101(b) is amended to read:

28
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5
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101.

Schedule of compensation, per diem and travel expenses.

(b)

The amount to be received by each member of the legislature for expenses shall be
one hundred nine dollars ($109.00)
one hundred twenty-nine dollars ($129.00)

per day.

Section
2
.

(a)

There is appropriated from the general fund to
the legislative service office
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00)
to supplement legislative per diem for the period
beginning
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

(b)

Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, there is appropriated from the general fund to the state auditor
ten thousand
dollars ($
10,000
.00) for the period
beginning
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, to be distributed as necessary to
supplement per diem for any state board, commission, council, authority or other state entity whose per diem rate is based upon the amount of per diem paid to state legislators.

(c)

For employees of any state board, commission, council, authority or other state entity
whose per diem rate is based upon the amount of per diem paid to state legislators, but whose per diem is paid from nongeneral fund sources, there is appropriated from those accounts and funds the amounts necessary to provide payment of the
increases in per diem authorized under this act for the period
beginning
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

Section
3
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

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END)

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