Amendments to agency plans and new program review-2.

ORIGINAL
Senate
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SF0068

ENROLLED ACT NO. 51,

SENATE

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2018 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to state agency planning; modifying legislative review requirements; repealing provisions related to major program reports by the legislative service office; 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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115(a)(ii)(intro),
(A)
,
(D)(V)
,
by creating a new subdivision (VI), (f) and by renumbering (f) as (g)
is amended to read:

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115
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Submission of state agency plans to legislature; contents; purposes.

(a)

To assist the legislature in its deliberations, every state agency shall:

(ii)

As required by the governor or by the legislature
in a budget bill or other enactment
by law
, develop a multi
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year plan to accomplish and further the goals and objectives defined in W.S. 28
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116(a). The plan development shall include an opportunity for public review and comment. The plan shall be submitted to the governor for his approval. The plan shall:

(A)

Include performance measures that provide methods and criteria to measure the agency's performance in conducting its activities and in achieving its goals and objectives. The methods and criteria shall comply with standards developed by the governmental accounting standards board. Performance measures shall be developed by the agency
and reviewed by the legislative management audit committee
and audited by the department of audit
;

(D)

Include sufficient information for evaluation of the following:

(V)

Whether the methods, rules and policies employed by the agency to implement a program, function or activity are cost
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effective, efficient and consistent with law and impose a minimum of regulatory burden
;
.

(VI)

The results and outcomes associated with the program, function or activity from the previous plan.

(f)

The plan required under W.S. 28
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115(a)(ii) may be reviewed by the management audit committee of the legislature and shall be reviewed by the management a
udit committee if:

(
i
)

Required by the management council of the legislature; or

(ii)

Otherwise required by law.

(f)
(g)

For purposes of this section and W.S. 28
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116, "state agency" means:

(
i
)

Each separate department in the executive branch of government created under the authority of the Wyoming Government Reorganization Act of 1989, W.S. 9
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1701 et seq.;

(
ii)

Offices of the five (5) elected state officials and the attorney general; and

(iii)

Each agency designated as a separate operating agency under W.S. 9
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1704(d).

Section 2
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W.S. 28
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115(e) is repealed.

Section 3
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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)

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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