Supplemental budget requests-limitations.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0596
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0224

Supplemental budget requests-limitations.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Gray, Barlow, Edwards, Jennings and Piiparinen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to state budgets; limiting supplemental budget requests as specified; 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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2
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1013(d) by creating a new paragraph (
i
v) and by renumbering (
i
v)
through (vi)
as (v)
through (vii)
is amended to read:

9
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2
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1013
.

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:

(
i
v)

Any recommendations in a supplemental budget request from the governor or state agencies shall be limited to amendments to the budget as follows:

(A)

Necessary reductions occasioned by state revenue forecast shortfalls;

(B)

Unforeseen allocations necessitated by human or natural disasters that exceed funds available in the governor
'
s contingency and emergency accounts;

(C)

Recommendations regarding increas
es or decreases to savings; and

(D)

Necessary personnel adjustments that cannot be approved by the governor pursuant to W.S. 9
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2
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1005(b).

(iv)
(v)

As used in this subsection, "appropriations" include specific legislative authorization to expend state revenues contained in a budget bill that is enacted into law, an amount to be expended from an account which does not require additional specific legislative authorization, the transfer of funds from the budget reserve account to another account or a specific statutory distribution of a revenue source;

(v)
(vi)

For each submitted budget the governor shall:

(A)

Specify the exercise of any authority under W.S. 9
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2
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1014.2 in the current fiscal biennium;

(B)

Identify any structural budget deficit or budget shortfall he believes exists within the fiscal
biennium for which the budget is submitted or will exist within the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium;

(C)

Include recommendations for the amount of contingent appropriations which should be made or supplemented for the existing fiscal biennium and each of the two (2) immediately succeeding fiscal biennia. The governor shall not recommend a contingent appropriation from the legislative reserve account which would result in the total of all contingent appropriations in any fiscal year exceeding five percent (5%) of the balance of that account as of the first day of the fiscal year in which the recommendation is made.

(v
i
)
(v
i
i)

Nothing in this subsection prevents the governor from recommending an additional, alternative budget without the limitations specified in this subsection.

Section 2
.

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)

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