Management council membership.

2018
STATE OF WYOMING
18LSO-0502
Numbered
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0187

Management council membership.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Steinmetz, Allen, Biteman, Clem, Greear, Halverson, Hunt, Jennings, Laursen, Lindholm, Lone, Miller, Pownall, Salazar and Winters and Senator(s) Bebout and Meier

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to management council membership; amending a provision relating to the selection of a member at large; 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. 28
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8
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102
(a)
is amended to read:

28
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8
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102
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Management council; membership; vacancies; meetings; rules and regulations; quorum; officers.

(a)

Activities of the office shall be directed by a management council composed of the president, vice
president, majority and minority floor leaders or their respective designees of the senate, plus two (2) senators selected at large not more than one (1) of which shall be from the same political party as the president; and the speaker, speaker pro tempore, majority and minority floor leaders or their respective designees of the house plus two (2) representatives selected at large, not more than one (1) of which shall be from the same political party as the speaker. The two (2) senators selected at large shall be selected by caucus of the two (2) major political parties in the senate, meeting separately, and the

two
(2) representatives selected at large shall be selected by caucus of the two (2) major political parties of the house, meeting separately. These twelve (12) members shall select one (1) additional member at large from t
he house of which the chairman of the management council is not a member.
Beginning January 1, 2019, t
he member at large shall not be from the same party as the chairman of the management council

if the membership of the other major party constitutes more than thirty percent (30%) of the membership of the house of which the chairman is not a member
. Chairmanship of the management council shall be
rotated between the house and senate after each two (2) year session so that the chairman shall not be from the same house as the chairman who served for the preceding legislative term. The members of the management council shall be the legislative representatives in directing the day
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to
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day functions of the office and the entire membership of the legislature shall have the ultimate control and supervision over policy of the office.

Section 2
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This act is effective
July 1, 2018
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(END)

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