Supplemental budget bill voting requirement.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0474
Numbered
2.1

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0089

Supplemental budget bill voting requirement.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Meier and Peterson and Representative(s) Burkhart, Jaggi, Miller and Piiparinen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the legislature; requiring a two-thirds vote on each section of the supplemental budget bill or bills; providing for a majority vote for the supplemental budget bill to pass each house of the legislature; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 28
‑
1
‑
113 by creating a subsection (d) is amended to read:

28
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1
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113
.

Joint meetings of legislative standing committees; introduction and passage of budget bill.

(d)

E
ach section
or portion of
a section of a supplemental budget bill, including any amendments to a section or portion of a section,
shall
be vot
ed upon separately
and shall receive
an
affirmative vote of
two
‑
thirds (2/3)
of all the members of
the house of origin
to be included in the supplemental
budget bill considered
by the
house of origin
.

A supplemental budget bill shall pass the house
of origin
upon a majority vote of all the membe
rs voting separately.
A joint conference committee report on a mirror supplemental budget bill shall require a vote of the majority of the members of both houses voting separately for concurrence. For the purpose of this subsection, a section of the bill means a separately numbered section
with a supplemental budget request or change
dealing with an agency’s budget or a complete, separate numbered section. A portion of a section means a separately listed
line
with a supplemental budget request or change
item within that section.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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