State budget development.

ORIGINAL
Senate
File No
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SF0141

ENROLLED ACT NO. 88,

SENATE

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2015 General Session

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; specifying accounts from which state budget recommendations may be directed; specifying statutory budget reserve amounts apply to supplemental and emergency budgets; specifying that agency budget requests and other resources shall be utilized to interpret and implement provisions of the appropriations bill as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S.
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2
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10
1
2(e), 9
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2
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1013(d)(ii) and 28
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1
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113
by creating a
new
subsection (d)
are amended to read:

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2
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1012
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Duties of budget division; transmittal of standard budget and manual; return of completed exception and expanded budgets; submission to governor; disposition of excess general fund appropriations; submission of selected budget info
rmation to joint appropriations interim
committee.

(e)

In preparing the overall state budget for distribution to the legislature,
including any supplemental or emergency changes
to the budget
,
the governor shall recommend to the legislature that not less than five percent (5%) of estimated general fund receipts for the next biennial budget period shall be appropriated from the general fund to the budget reserve account within the earmarked fund. This appropriation shall be in addition to any fund balance within the budget reserve account. At the end of each biennial budget period, general fund appropriations for the biennium in excess of expenditures including encumbrances during the biennium, as identified by the state auditor in accordance with the provisions of
W.S. 9
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2
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1008 and 9
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4
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207, shall be transferred into the budget reserve account. All funds in the budget reserve account shall be invested by the state treasurer and earnings therefrom shall be credited into the general fund. Appropriations to the account shall not lapse at the end of any fiscal period. Expenditures from the budget reserve account shall be by legislative appropriation only.

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2
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1013
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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:

(ii)

The total recommended appropriations under this subsection for any two (2) fiscal year budget period shall not exceed the total estimated revenues for that two (2) year period. The total estimated revenues computed under this paragraph shall not include increases in existing revenue sources which would be available to the state only after enactment of legislation in addition to existing law, but shall include the unencumbered balances in all
other

accounts in all other expendable funds subject to this section
, and as further provided herein
, as those funds are identified in accordance with standards promulgated by the governmental accounting standards board, but specifically excluding pension funds, nonexpendable trust funds, debt service funds and intragovernmental funds, that would be available for that budget period
. Funds within the permanent Wyoming mineral trust fund
reserve account created under W.S. 9
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4
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719(b), the common school permanent fund reserve account created under W.S. 9
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4
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719(f) or funds within five percent (5%) of estimated general fund receipts for the next bienni
um
to be appropriated to the budget reserve account as required by W.S. 9
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2
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1012(e) shall not be included in total estimated revenues computed under this paragraph
;

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1
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113
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Joint meetings of legislative standing committees; introduction and passage of budget bill.

(d)

T
o the extent not inconsistent with any
enacted
law
or clear expression of legislative intent to the contrary
,
each agency
'
s budget request as recommended by the governor
to the joint appropriations
interim

committee
,
any other budgetary explanatory material submit
ted to the joint appropriations
interim

committee by the governor
and the budget hearings before the joint appropriations interim committee
shall guide the interpretation and implementation of appropriations
and related language
contained within the general appropriations bill or bills
appropriating funds
to be expended for
the operation of a state agency, including
programs
, purposes
and number of employees specified within each agency
.

Section
2
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This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the
Senate
.

Chief Clerk

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